I didn't actually even know Dana Carvey had a son, but he's DEAD.
That's awful. Dana put his career on hold to raise his sons
by Anonymous | reply 1 | November 17, 2023 2:00 AM |
R1 - mmm....that's what he says. It's not like there were so many offers after SNL.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | November 17, 2023 2:01 AM |
He did tho. His kid looked at him and said "You were gone a long time dad" and it just crushed him and he retired
by Anonymous | reply 3 | November 17, 2023 2:03 AM |
Looked very douchebro-ey.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | November 17, 2023 2:04 AM |
[quote] Dana put his career on hold to raise his sons
Sounds like he did a piss-poor job of it, if one of them OD'ed.
He should have kept working.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | November 17, 2023 2:52 AM |
[quote] Dana Carvey's Son Dex Is DEAD To Me!
Well isn't that SPECIAL??!!!!
by Anonymous | reply 6 | November 17, 2023 2:54 AM |
Nepo Necro Baby.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | November 17, 2023 2:54 AM |
[quote]Dana put his career on hold to raise his sons
[quote]Sounds like he did a piss-poor job of it, if one of them OD'ed.
Is it your contention that everyone who’s used drugs had lousy parents?
by Anonymous | reply 8 | November 17, 2023 3:00 AM |
Why is it being called an accidental overdose when he locked himself in the bathroom?
by Anonymous | reply 9 | November 17, 2023 3:02 AM |
Chet Hanks is next.
by Anonymous | reply 10 | November 17, 2023 3:03 AM |
What an ignorant piece of shit you are, r5.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | November 17, 2023 3:10 AM |
This is shaping up to be another classy DL farewell.
by Anonymous | reply 12 | November 17, 2023 3:17 AM |
Most people lock the door behind them when they do drugs
by Anonymous | reply 13 | November 17, 2023 3:24 AM |
You know this how, R2? Do tell.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | November 17, 2023 3:37 AM |
Named after the sugar ‘Dextrose’
by Anonymous | reply 15 | November 17, 2023 4:07 AM |
Rick Moranis also dropped out of show biz to raise his kids. It happens.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | November 17, 2023 4:20 AM |
I’m hating DL right now.
by Anonymous | reply 17 | November 17, 2023 4:30 AM |
No matter the cause of death, losing a child is devastating for the parents and family. Have some compassion.
Also worth mentioning is the utter ignorance here regarding addiction. Again, show some compassion and do some research on addiction.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | November 17, 2023 4:30 AM |
I like Dana. His comedy isn’t always to my taste, but I like him as a person (at least as he expresses himself in his podcast.) This is very sad.
His kid probably never should have gone into comedy. He should have carved out his own niche. He was never going to match his father’s success.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | November 17, 2023 4:31 AM |
As far as I recall, Dana and family lived in the Bay Area and Santa Ynez. So, it appears they were trying to avoid raising their kids in LA. That would have been the smart thing to do.
Santa Ynez is FULL of drugs, though. I lived in that area for 5 years and the druggies were everywhere. I don’t know if his kids grew up there, though.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | November 17, 2023 4:36 AM |
Dana is such a sweet guy, I have genuine sympathy for him.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | November 17, 2023 5:59 AM |
A good friend lost his youngest teen son to drugs (likely taken as a refuge from homophobic bullying).
Derailed my friend’s life and practically destroyed his marriage.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | November 17, 2023 6:09 AM |
According to Hader and Armisen, that Californians skit from SNL is based on him. One of them heard him giving directions to his father with that accent.
by Anonymous | reply 23 | November 17, 2023 10:08 AM |
This is sad - Dana seems like a decent, family-oriented guy. RIP Dex.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | November 17, 2023 11:57 AM |
[quote] Rick Moranis also dropped out of show biz to raise his kids. It happens.
Rick’s wife died. Dana’s didn’t. Dana divorced his first wife and married #2 in 1983.
by Anonymous | reply 25 | November 17, 2023 3:10 PM |
I remember seeing a stand up he did when his boys were still toddlers. I don’t have any kids but the stuff he did on parenting and what it’s like raising two little boys was genuinely hilarious. Years later I saw a stand up he did where he talked about his kids who were now teenagers. Again so funny and not to sound cheesy but there was a genuine sweetness when he talked about them both times too.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | November 17, 2023 3:19 PM |
*sorry not toddlers but around the age of 5 or 6 I think.
by Anonymous | reply 27 | November 17, 2023 3:20 PM |
[quote] According to Hader and Armisen, that Californians skit from SNL is based on him
Sirry-ezly?
by Anonymous | reply 28 | November 17, 2023 3:21 PM |
Sorry Dana, that's terrible news.
by Anonymous | reply 29 | November 17, 2023 3:24 PM |
[quote] Dana divorced his first wife and married #2 in 1983.
His second wife is the mother of his children and they are still married. His first wife was his childhood sweetheart. Not terribly surprising they ended up divorcing.
by Anonymous | reply 30 | November 17, 2023 3:27 PM |
[quote]According to Hader and Armisen, that Californians skit from SNL is based on him
I can’t un-see that now. How is it that Dana never made a cameo in one of those sketches?
by Anonymous | reply 31 | November 17, 2023 3:45 PM |
Dana is a nice guy who has been done dirty by a few of his coworkers
by Anonymous | reply 32 | November 17, 2023 4:07 PM |
There’s a rumor that Mike Myers used Dana’s impression of Lorne Michaels for Dr. Evil, and never talked to Dana about it or acknowledged he was doing an impression of Dana’s impression. I think that may be one of the coworkers you’re referring to, R32?
by Anonymous | reply 33 | November 17, 2023 4:16 PM |
[quote] According to Hader and Armisen, that Californians skit from SNL is based on him
Armisen says he based his character on Dana Carvey doing an impersonation of his son.
As it turns out, Armisen has fellow SNL alum Dana Carvey mocking his own son to thank for the idea. He explained the sketch’s origin story on Carvey and David Spade’s podcast Fly on the Wall.
“I had seen Dana—I was with him and we did a stand-up show in San Francisco—and Dana was telling me about his son,” Armisen said. “And he’s just like, ‘It’s hard to be mad at him,’ because, I think he got pulled over or something. He does this impression of his son and he goes, ‘No, but, no, Dad, no, you don’t,’ you know? And, from that, as we were trying to do a California accent, as we’re writing the sketch, that kind of came up.”
by Anonymous | reply 34 | November 17, 2023 4:31 PM |
This is terrible and I can’t imagine how Dana must feel. I watched a Netflix stand up show he did where he discusses being a dad and that his son was a comedian and it was Dex that he was referring to.
by Anonymous | reply 35 | November 17, 2023 5:02 PM |
That wasn't mocking, r34.
by Anonymous | reply 36 | November 17, 2023 5:04 PM |
I thought the sketch came from the cast always sharing with each other routes to take to avoid heavy traffic when they are in LA. It became such a frequent topic of conversation that it became a joke that turned into a skit.
by Anonymous | reply 37 | November 17, 2023 5:05 PM |
Dana Carvey also took to social media to share photos of his son. One was captioned, "F*** the tabloids.This is my boy," and featured a picture of Dex Carvey smiling. Another showed a picture of father and son, with Dana Carvey writing, "Dex and me working together. What a joy."
Sad. Addiction sucks.
by Anonymous | reply 38 | November 17, 2023 5:51 PM |
[quote] That wasn't mocking, [R34].
Who said it was?
by Anonymous | reply 39 | November 17, 2023 8:14 PM |
Wow, this is unbelievably devastating for a parent. On a separate note. I can't believe Dana Carvey is almost 70.
by Anonymous | reply 40 | November 18, 2023 12:13 AM |
A thank you to DL?
by Anonymous | reply 42 | November 19, 2023 2:19 AM |
What drugs did he take? Dana is saying it was accidental.
by Anonymous | reply 43 | November 20, 2023 12:06 PM |
Probably powder drugs that are now littered with fentanyl
by Anonymous | reply 44 | November 20, 2023 12:43 PM |
Musty priapism, forsaken dog
by Anonymous | reply 45 | November 20, 2023 12:50 PM |
Anyone remembers Lyle, the effeminate heterosexual skits? That stuff wouldn't fly today
by Anonymous | reply 46 | November 20, 2023 12:53 PM |
It wouldn't be accepted by gay men, you mean R46. It would be "offensive" and "homophobic" because any time a man acts effeminate or flamboyant it's assumed it's making fun of gay men.
by Anonymous | reply 47 | November 20, 2023 9:00 PM |
R47, I am guessing that most gay men would enjoy it or dismiss it as harmless, depending on who was doing it and how it was being done.
The queers, however…
by Anonymous | reply 48 | November 20, 2023 10:54 PM |
I only made it halfway through. Not offensive, just not funny.
by Anonymous | reply 49 | November 21, 2023 12:17 AM |