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Carmel Magazine, Winter-Spring 2019

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C A R M E L M A G A Z I N E • W I N T E R 2 0 1 9 146 Party On! D a n a C a r ve y H e a d l i n e s C o m i c s fo r K i d s B Y B R E T T W I L B U R S CH-WING." "WE'RE NOT WORTHY! WE SUCK!" "PARTY ON WAYNE. PARTY ON GARTH." ACTOR AND COMEDIAN DANA C ARVEY LAUNCHED C ATCH- PHRASES AND CHARACTERS THAT THE POPULAR CULTURE OF THE '80S AND '90S EAGERLY EMBRACED. HIS "SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE" CHARACTER CHURCH LADY OF THE FICTIONAL SHOW "CHURCH CHAT" C APTIVATED AUDIENCES WITH HER DIS- GUST OF EARTHLY PLEASURES AND HER GLEEFUL SHAMING OF THE MANY "SINNERS" SHE JUDGED AS BEING INFLUENCED BY SATAN. C ARVEY EXPLAINS THAT IN HIS EARLY DAYS OF OPENING FOR BANDS IN SAN FRANCISCO, HE WAS JUST TRYING TO "HAVE AN ACT THAT KILLED AND KEPT ME FROM UNEMPLOYMENT." THE "SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE" STAR TOOK HIS "WAYNE'S WORLD" SKETCH WITH MIKE MYERS INTO TWO FILMS, WHERE HE STARRED AS GARTH ALGAR, AN ULTRA-NERDY BUT LOVABLE CHARACTER FOND OF HEAVY METAL, WHICH HE BASED ON HIS BROTHER BRAD. C ARVEY PLAYED GARTH WITH SUCH A FUNNY JAW CLENCH THAT HE DEVELOPED TMJ. (HE TOLD HIS DENTIST NOT TO TREAT IT. "DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH MONEY THIS IS MAKING ME?" HE JOKED.) H IS IMPRESSIONS OF PRESIDENT GEORGE H. W. BUSH, PRESIDENT GEORGE W. B USH AND PRESIDENTIAL C ANDIDATE ROSS PEROT REMAIN IN THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF ANYONE WHO LIVED THROUGH THAT TIME PERIOD, AND HIS CURRENT CHARAC- TERIZATIONS OF PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP ARE GENTLY HILARIOUS. "

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