Did y'all ever watch the Dana Carvey Show?

That promo with the Diet Mug Root Beer thing was hilarious and awesome.

I haven't seen it in many years, but it was hilarious.

I thought Carvey couldn't fail because he was so great on SNL. Just the wrong audience and time slot maybe.

I remember watching it and the first episode contained Carvey being declared the Taco Bell Whore Of The Week.

The main other bit I remember was Skinheads From Maine, though a bunch of Smigel stuff that ended up on SNL later got a start there.

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That doc was really good btw

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I was a teenager during the the show's "run" and I only remember Dana and some of the skits. When I was watching the Too Funny to Fail I had no idea that so many influential comedy writers and performers were part of production, pretty much all unknown at the time. Dana Carvery as the Face, Louis CK as the head writer, Steve Carrell and Stephen Colbert pulling double duty. Bob Odenkirk. Jay Glaser. Dino. Greg Daniels. God Damn!

I feel similarly about The State. So much talent, both at the time and in the future, for unknowns.

I remember discovery channel after dark and skinheads from maine. He kept chnaging sponsors trying to stay on the air. I think the last one was the szechuan dynasty dana carvey show. (restaurant in NYC). ABC dicked him around - only like 6 episodes

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Dana Carvery as the Face, Louis CK as the head writer, Steve Carrell and Stephen Colbert pulling double duty. Bob Odenkirk. Jay Glaser. Dino. Greg Daniels. God Damn!

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You forgot Robert Smigel as well. It's probably the most loaded comedy staff ever outside of the SNL peak runs in the 70s and early 90s.

I was a huge fan of this show when I was a kid. I remember the Bill Clinton skit vividly. I had one other friend who watched it and he couldn't believe the Clinton thing was aired in TV. That 's how tame primetime was then. They didn't know what the hell to do with the show.

I was basically the white Chappelle's Show... Only 10 years before Chappelle's Show and broadcast on fricking ABC right after Home Improvement... Which was probably one of the most prudish, conservative, kid friendly audiences on TV at the time.

The only other sketch I always remembered was the drive thru guys. LINK

Little did in know at the time the Carrell would be a bigger than Carvey at some point. Crazy how loaded that entire staff was.