Dana Carvey's Son Dex Is DEAD To Me!

That's awful. Dana put his career on hold to raise his sons

R1 - mmm....that's what he says. It's not like there were so many offers after SNL.

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

Looked very douchebro-ey.

[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.

[quote] Dana Carvey's Son Dex Is DEAD To Me!

Well isn't that SPECIAL??!!!!

Nepo Necro Baby.

[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?

Why is it being called an accidental overdose when he locked himself in the bathroom?

Chet Hanks is next.

What an ignorant piece of shit you are, r5.

This is shaping up to be another classy DL farewell.

Most people lock the door behind them when they do drugs

You know this how, R2? Do tell.

Named after the sugar ‘Dextrose’

Rick Moranis also dropped out of show biz to raise his kids. It happens.

I’m hating DL right now.

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.

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.

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.

Dana is such a sweet guy, I have genuine sympathy for him.

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.

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.

This is sad - Dana seems like a decent, family-oriented guy. RIP Dex.

[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.

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.

*sorry not toddlers but around the age of 5 or 6 I think.

[quote] According to Hader and Armisen, that Californians skit from SNL is based on him

Sirry-ezly?

Sorry Dana, that's terrible news.

[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.

[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?

Dana is a nice guy who has been done dirty by a few of his coworkers

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?

[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.”

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.

That wasn't mocking, r34.

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.

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.

[quote] That wasn't mocking, [R34].

Who said it was?

Wow, this is unbelievably devastating for a parent. On a separate note. I can't believe Dana Carvey is almost 70.

Dana posted a thank you today.

A thank you to DL?

What drugs did he take? Dana is saying it was accidental.

Probably powder drugs that are now littered with fentanyl

Musty priapism, forsaken dog

Anyone remembers Lyle, the effeminate heterosexual skits? That stuff wouldn't fly today

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.

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…

I only made it halfway through. Not offensive, just not funny.