This article shares some vital information about the American stand-up comedian Dana Carvey and his net worth.
Dana Thomas Carvey is an American stand-up comedian, actor, screenwriter, and producer. Carvey is best known for his seven seasons as a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live from 1986 to 1993, which earned him five consecutive Primetime Emmy Award nominations.
Carvey is also known for his film roles in comedies such as Tough Guys (1986), Opportunity Knocks (1990), Trapped in Paradise (1994), and The Master of Disguise (2002), as well as reprising his role of Garth Algar in the SNL spin-off film Wayne’s World (1992) and its sequel, Wayne’s World 2.
Early life of Dana Thomas
Carvey was born in Missoula, Montana, the fourth of five (with three older brothers and one younger sister) born to Billie Dahl, a schoolteacher, and William John (Bud) Carvey, a high school business teacher. Carvey is the brother of Brad Carvey, the engineer and designer of the video toaster. The character Garth Algar is loosely based on Brad. Carvey has English, German, Irish, Norwegian, and Swedish ancestry and was raised Lutheran.
In 1957, his family moved to Anderson, California, where his father got a teaching job. When he was three years old, his family moved to San Carlos, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area. He attended Tierra Linda Junior High in San Carlos, Carlmont High School in Belmont, California (where he was a member of the Central Coast Section champion cross country team), and the College of San Mateo in San Mateo, California, and received his bachelor’s degree in broadcast communications from San Francisco State University. In 1977, he won the San Francisco Stand-Up Comedy Competition.
Career of Dana Thomas
Carvey had a minor role in Halloween II in 1981 and co-starred in One of the Boys in 1982, a short-lived television sitcom that also starred Mickey Rooney, Nathan Lane, and Meg Ryan. In 1984, Carvey had a small role in Rob Reiner’s film This Is Spinal Tap, in which he played a mime with fellow comedian Billy Crystal (who tells him “Mime is money!”).
He appeared in the music video for the Greg Kihn song “Lucky” in 1985. He also appeared in the short-lived film-based action television series Blue Thunder. His big break came in 1986 when he co-starred opposite Kirk Douglas and Burt Lancaster in Tough Guys. As a lifelong Douglas fan, Carvey threw in an affectionate impression of his mentor while describing a hairy scene they did together on a moving train.
Carvey was a finalist for the hosting role on the Nickelodeon TV game show Double Dare. He ultimately withdrew his name from consideration after he was cast on Saturday Night Live. The job would go to Marc Summers.
In 1994, Carvey starred in the film Clean Slate. The following year, Carvey filmed his first HBO stand-up special, Critic’s Choice. The show featured Carvey doing many of his SNL impersonations, as well as making fun of the premium channel’s name, pronouncing it “hobo”.
He had to turn down a role in Bad Boys because he felt overwhelmed as a new father.
He reprised many of his SNL characters in 1996 for The Dana Carvey Show, a short-lived prime-time variety show on ABC. The show was most notable for launching Robert Smigel’s cartoon “The Ambiguously Gay Duo”, as well as the careers of Steve Carell and Stephen Colbert.
In 2002, he returned to film with the spy comedy The Master of Disguise. Released a week after former colleague Mike Myers’ successful film Austin Powers in Goldmember, most critics compared the movies and panned Carvey’s effort. However, the movie did manage about $40 million at the North American box office.
In March 2007, review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes ranked the film as the 18th worst-reviewed movie of the 2000s decade, with an approval rating of 1% based on 103 reviews. Comedian and former Mystery Science Theatre 3000 host Michael J. Nelson named the film the third-worst comedy ever made.
Carvey did not appear in a film again until 2011’s Jack and Jill. In 2004, he ranked number 90 on Comedy Central’s list of the 100 Greatest Stand-Ups of All Time.
What is the net worth of Dana Carvey?
Dana Carvey is an American actor and stand-up comedian who has a net worth of $20 million. Carvey made a name for himself throughout the 1980s and 1990s as one of the most prominent comedians in the entertainment industry.
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