Dana Carvey: Full Unedited Interview With Stephen Colbert

[Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Oh gentlemen ladies and gentlemen as you are you are so lucky to be here tonight because thanks everybody because my first guest is one of the funniest people I have ever had the pleasure to call my boss please welcome Dana Carvey [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] thank you hey gosh that's the same you'd be here so happy I'm still talking in that other voice I got John Bolton yeah I'm worried about him welcome Bolton Bo yeah keep him dog ain't rollin bull hi cook him up they don't let better let but I'm just feeding from the energy curve or like what do you see what do you see somebody like John Bolton appeared on the national scene do you go what a lovely character like you like let me Adam well you know we took some liberties I mean the mustache was great but mostly when he's on he's got the news talk Wow we week and he says crazy things but he acts very calm I believe it's a wonderful thing when a nuclear weapon gets out of its tight silo and has a throbbing aggressive trajectory toward another country and you're like whoa I'm so you know I think there are many countries we have to be worried about in terms of threats Canada France Norway Hawaii Hawaii well they could become a nation state and develop nukes so but what I'm always looking for is the exaggeration point sure when you're going from that and then you're kind of a little like that well that's a me when I work for you on the Dan Department show you said don't worry if it sounds like the Nelson never worry and you always found a hook can you do you're angry Gregory Peck for the people over 50 sure I'll try we we through so many things that Steven you came in as a sketch player and a writer yeah but not you didn't fancy yourself I did write it not do him but you nailed Geraldo Rivera oh well funny you should bring that up because because I remember I remember yes we was at the during the OJ which are in the OJ yeah a trial yeah this was going on as I did Kate Kate okay you did Kato Kaelin yeah and the funny thing was is that so so the Dana Carvey show was in winter into spring of 2019 96 basically it was a show that went shoe and it was gone and then there were cactus what kind of a kind of a legend errors row up there it was you as Robert Smigel it was louis c.k with Steve Carell it was me even Colbert Charlie Kaufman understand topless Robert Carlock who who created 30 rock with no warning either Morgan amazing group yeah and three key and so we're the the Carvey the the which McCall the OJ trial what's going on so we I find out the neck the night before the I like hey Dana can't Anna can't find a hook for Geraldo you do it well I thought I was I was doing Kato which was basically Garth was a little bit more energy so this is me as Geraldo and you hey Kato my friends I heard a thump thump and then OJ was sweating that was I remember what yeah yeah you you you had a live well thank you but I have to I have to thank you for hiring for me for that show because I can draw a direct line from you hiring me for that show and being right here well is all all job absolutely true I like to think that's true I don't fancy myself a talent scout but we did look at 300 people and pretty soon over time we kept looking at the two Steve's I think I nicknamed it even though it was did Steve and Steve Carrell and Stephen Colbert when you guys were really unknown I mean nobody's no we could not we could not get arrested but without sighs Talent yeah so that crazy talents mean Carell yes show yes this was that was waiters who were nauseated by food right well we did a lot of presentational comedy so the chyron would come up and say and now presenting waiters who are nauseate by food germans who say nice germans who say nice things get skinheads from maine ginn heads for men do you remember skin it's romaine it can't air and we can't even really talk about it any further but just use your imagination it's the Petrich phone voice because i used to go around doing Petrich fob flaky fresh things yeah and I thought it'd be funny to have that guy be a skinhead exactly and then you came in with this crazy word to kill a mockingbirds vibe yeah remember you would look up and just like at the ceiling and just come right here what was your hook hook ah yeah yeah that was it what do you carve and I hate stick to beat Spaniards they say peep why why were we can't I knew I knew when they weren't trying to rein us in it didn't seem right I said you're understating they said don't know and I thought you know they're you know you know when the show's lost faith they're like should we do anything different taming down Oh No do whatever you want now this was ABC had bought Disney not that long before right we were an insane late-night show in prime time after home-improvement which was the friendliest fans artists like a puppy yeah except a puppy filled with marshmallows yes exactly and and the very first just for people who've forgotten because it's legendary at this point a very first catch we had Bill Clinton breastfeeding the these puppies and and of course if you're going to have Bill Clinton with multiple teeth right down his chest she it's very important that they what well that they lactate yes the actual milk right there were puppeteers behind you with bulbs of men yes right we just didn't know we banked the sketch of months before and then it was a big like should we start with that or all of her stone covers the Revolutionary War yes where I play that Banderas it did Smigel played out Pacino is George Washington right oh yeah we've gotta get some pretty soldiers yeah we almost left with that we did credit Clinton teats and then they showed me the analytic we're at 16 million viewers three months later we're at 800,000 as you can see the minute-by-minute you can see the minute-by-minute yeah we lost 15 million people in two and a half minutes just wiped out our audience faster than Colombia you were just gone Steve never been on a TV show so you come in eager the next day how's the show going hey you came into her office and saying oh I'm so sorry I've ruined your career yes I did you said you guys should have been hired for SNL you'll ever work again I'll do my best to make sure what I don't say to you that if talent is a cake and your likability I said I've seen it happen to Mike Meyers Adam Sandler and I knew that you and Steve had all the ingredients I told you that to be successful hmm but I never thought you'd get this big a rare combination of a writer performer and likeable I knew I tell you I knew when we were scan --sold okay and I've told that everybody who's ever worked on a show who's trying to figure out whether the show's gonna last no it was me and Carell and a guy named Dina Stan with tapas is a wonderful writer and performer who we went over to the snack area where they have all the snack because they never want the writers to ever leave the building because you always have to be generating the irreal the trough exactly and so I went over and I opened up the snack drawer which is just packed yeah everything you know Twizzlers and skittles and chocolate chips and and and yeah and live chickens everything you possibly want and there was one Nature Valley granola bar that was it and Dino Dino who had worked more than we had said Oh work cancelled yeah they don't care if we leave or not but we made history man we sure did Thunder knows that the powers of be noble failures going broke yeah oh that was a documentary oh yeah documents Greenbaum yes was a Cornell film student all these documentaries got becoming possessed by this crazy blip of a show and Tom's people always wondered about the show because it had such an incredible group of people on it and they're just evaporated in just a hail of blood and a hail of stardom actually so it's sort of a unique story and so Hulu it's on Hulu it's funny to fail to be to fail the life and death of the Dana Carvey show yes but they're getting the inside scoop right now and we were going downtown deep oh yeah this is even deeper than you'll get oh yeah you're not gonna get a snack bar story on the dough I want to share with you I did really need the job I want I was a desperate man I was unemployed my wife was unemployed we just had a baby I was living in Chicago I didn't I didn't get no safety now what I was gonna do scary then I heard a guy named a Dave Koechner who you guys probably know he's a wonderful comic character wammy from the the Ron Burgundy moon right and he said to me we're doing a set and let's go Shoob is in Chicago and he said uh uh Robert Smigel the executor producer right he's looking for you and like what does that mean looking for me he knows where I live whatever mold made about you and so you you guys allow me to send a tape from Chicago I remember the tape yeah yeah I have a little clip here I was really desperate for a job desperation like sent me a sketch or something I wasn't I didn't know what to do with that I did a couple of characters yeah and then I had my daughter with me who at the time was three months old and and I didn't know what to do so I just started using her as a puppet yeah and I was so desperate I was so desperate that I just went with my actual feelings yes and tried to make comedy out of my desperation this is the audition tape the Dana saw of me I promised myself I wouldn't do with this it's not fair and I don't know how we're gonna feed her clothes or give her what you know what we got why do I have I am actor what my brothers are lawyers two story story oh you know it's it was a very specific choice it's a very it's it's hard to do a good cry like real but make it funny so we could we see just a dash of that right now why cuz normally I do see where I'm trying to hold back I just want now everything I do seems like Garth right now in the water Bellevue 40 50 60 they know I just want to go over a couple of sketches yes we did these these two sketches you can actually find on Hulu now but they were never broadcast right yeah we bang some that they did that we shot and then they canceled it yes okay this was one this was uh this was this week with David Brinkley right on the great American scream machine which was shot out at Great America here in New Jersey yes comedy acting on a roller coaster one take with a camera on the front so cuts sub-freezing in which roller coaster tracks can get sticky yeah which I knew and I didn't tell you guys that's the scared guy was it Carell Michael and the boat well and it was the morning early morning on a Saturday before they that's crowds just going upside down and yeah yeah I was I think we're doing impressions your George Will I'm David Brinkley and here we go with me as usual or George Will Sam Donaldson and Cokie Roberts cannon on the David I think it's unfair to criticize the message because you don't like the message this is not like the first baseman not liking oh my god [Applause] but look at Brinkley what we do for comedy never broadcast never he never made it to air he never made it to air no ever got a dinner yeah then okay what uh so many choice I'm so exhausted just remembering especially we tried so round and around yeah we did every did multiple takes of that and you throw up is george'll I had I had a bag of pretend vomit and then before I'd go like that and go you know always delightful wonder why they didn't air it hmm and then and this was this is probably this this is another there's another piece we showed on a piece of tape yeah time for that but what is it maestro let's do this that's that guy's freaking tape the boss says show it so you're always when you're writing sketch when you're cutting sketch yeah you're all were like what you it's it's so hungry sketches so hungry you're constantly consuming premises yes all the time and and I was I was louis c.k was the head writer and I was sitting in Louie's office while you guys were working on a sketch about I don't know what Ross Perot probably Ross that again just a great sound yes how do you know named leaning around him I mean it's still fun John John Bolton out goes are there well before we go to that how do you how do you put up an impression together like do you go I want to sound like that guy because I've heard that you put people together like you come right I mean I don't try to be accurate but what I did do a Trump I started with the ashram but it's but it's an exaggerated when I started with Regis cuz i you know Trump has a rhythm I member Regis Reid I'm out of control anyway Galvez over there is bracing head you know can we just get a biscuit over here so I knew that that sort of a rhythm but I knew there was something else so I went to Brando Marlon Brando for you seniors and there's a bit of Trump Regis is over here and I moved back over and I had Donald Trump right here okay I'm not to judge it come take it son take it son and then I added I added recently out of boredom William Shatner I don't know what I'm doing let's go III just I'm still fascinated by a guy who talked like that you know yeah so said many people excuse me excuse me and that I can tell you many people so said excuse me many people I know a lot of people really ok ok ok up that and then I mean you know it's just rhythm at a certain level nothing like him but exactly exactly I've gotten used to it but if the bomb had said that stuff it would have scared the hell on me like he was we got those ok total cuz you know Obama wouldn't talk like that'd be like important point of fact port-au-prince there's not a lot a whole lot of indoor plumbing I knew one more sir little rocket man tiny tiny little rocket man okay the reason we calling you a little rocket man is because you're short of stature and you have a propensity to launch projectiles into the air and just that that's I'm not worthy no I'm not remember Regis Brando writing it all down shat all right no no that's the cake for you kids out there I want to show you my favorite of a favorite my favorite sketch that we did on your show I'm gonna say well ad this is what happened is that I saw this many or the story behind this is that I saw we were in the CBS broadcast Center even though was an ABC show yes a whole other story and I was watching I thought the news but in fact it was just the feed from the the CBS news desk where dan Rather was still the host of the anchor of the desk and and he was and he starts doing Ronald Reagan's obituary yes and so I run into the writers room where you guys are working on the Ross growth and I said hey Reagan died and you guys went oh okay thanks and get back to your sketch because yeah we were busy were busy okay and so then I go back to his office to go home god I gotta find out how he died and rather still there and he goes like it seemed different let me try it again and he just he's doing it was a little slightly different tone he's wearing yeah he's wearing seasonal neutral in case it's in as spring or fall he's just banquette obituary yeah I'm Reagan so I said to Robert like what if we did it for because he has to do it for what if he had to do every scenario instead of being general right what if it was incredibly specific yes and had to do every possible way that could die to be covered exactly exactly and so so we chose Ford who seemed less likely to die at the time and then and this is this is a there's a bite of the middle of Gerald Ford having to do every possible way again wasn't broadcast eventually was done on SNL yes we wasn't bright we did earnest no it killed for a sketch it's very quiet and sophisticated it just got huge laughs yeah I'm sorry what what are you saying Oh broke off oh and I I tried it out my Tom Brokaw so this is Tom Brokaw saying how Gerald Ford's died in the most specific ways cuz he has to say all of them Jim Gerald Ford dead today from an overdose of coke next stunning news from Michigan as former President Gerald Ford was chopped into little bits by the propeller of a commuter plane good all right we got it I know we got what no come on I was reading Gerald Ford isn't gonna be eaten by wolves Taft was really [Applause] tragedy today as former President Gerald Ford was eaten by wolves he was delicious what are your best sketchy thank you for this job thank you for sure ladies and gentlemen the movie is funny with the sound off - funny - fails on Hulu Dana Carvey everybody we'll be right back [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] you [Music]

Channel: The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

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Keywords: The Late Show, Late Show, Stephen Colbert, Steven Colbert, Colbert, celebrity, celeb, celebrities, late night, talk show, comedian, comedy, CBS, joke, jokes, funny, funny video, funny videos, humor, hollywood, famous, Dana Carvey, Web Extra, Entertainment, Nonrecurring, Evergreen, Interview

Id: oV4rF-0TILE

Length: 20min 23sec (1223 seconds)

Published: Thu Mar 29 2018