Word: carvey
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...faux-Mexican fast-food chain can take only so much agita. After watching the first of DANA CARVEY's comedy shows, the folks at Taco Bell, a division of Pepsi, decided not to sponsor any more. On The Taco Bell Dana Carvey Show, dancing tacos hailed Carvey as "our whore," and Princess Di was called a slut (twice). Hardly shocking for Carvey's regular audience, but this was prime time. Pizza Hut, another unit of Pepsi in line for top billing, also got cold feet. But the show drew big ratings, and ABC said it would be reined...
...Seinfeld, The Simpsons and News Radio. "The sensibility of SNL is all over TV now," says former staff writer Robert Smigel, one of four people who rejected offers from Michaels to take over as head writer. Smigel will instead be executive producer of a new sketch-comedy show Dana Carvey is doing...
TODD: I used to like Adam Sandler. I used to like Chris Farley. I was really rooting for them to be funny. But if "Airheads" is any indication, their movie careers are going to be about as successful as Dana Carvey's. Then again, I WAS able to at least stay awake during "Opportunity Knocks...
...movie has a summer-fun romantic-comedy script that just doesn't work. Why? The only humor is generated by Mike Meyers and he doesn't have Dana Carvey to save him. And Meyers' humor, while engaging, is completely separate from the movie itself, which leaves the film fractured and depressing...
...constituents from L.A.'s west side. But Ronald Reagan was himself a movie actor (and appointed an actor Ambassador to Mexico). George Bush began his term shilling for a Dan Ayckroyd movie produced by an old buddy, let Arnold Schwarzenegger play his running mate last year, and had Dana Carvey in for a White House sleepover on one of his last nights as President. Why has permissible Republican good-sport glamour become an invidious symptom of Clinton's slack, "What? Me worry?" presidency...