Just a week after going viral with a hilarious open bit on last week’s Saturday Night Live, Dana Carvey admits the bit wasn’t planned.
Carvey, 69, returned to SNL as President Joe Biden during the cold open of the Oct. 5 episode, where Kamala Harris (Maya Rudolph) and Doug Emhoff (Andy Sandberg) were watching the vice presidential debate.
At one point, Biden arrives unannounced and, toward the end of the clip, waves his arms while holding an ice cream cone and smears some ice cream on her face.
Rudolph played it to perfection, casually licking the ice cream off his face while trying not to break character, just before the cold open ended.
Now the comedian – who previously impersonated President George Bush during his tenure on SNL – admitted on his Superfly podcast that part was not planned.
Just a week after going viral with a hilarious open bit on last week’s Saturday Night Live, Dana Carvey admits the bit wasn’t planned.
At one point, Biden arrives unannounced and, toward the end of the clip, waves his arms while holding an ice cream cone and smears some ice cream on her face.
Rudolph played it to perfection, casually licking the ice cream off his face while trying not to break character, just before the cold open ended.
“The ice cream cone was not planned,” Carvey admitted during Friday’s new episode of the podcast he hosts with fellow SNL alum David Spade.
‘I asked the prop master to give me an ice cream just to get through the costume parade. And then at the air show, she gave me a much bigger one and I didn’t ask her,’ he said.
‘He was right to make a gesture. I thought, “Here’s ice cream, big bite. Here’s Maya’s face,” Carvey admitted.
‘And I didn’t want to hurt her, but I just… I thought about it and I did it in two seconds. So that’s to put an end to all the rumors and all the conversations,’ he clarified.
Carvey also admitted on the podcast that the response to his Joe Biden impersonation has changed lately.
He said there’s a more “playful and fun” response now, but when Biden was still seeking re-election before dropping out of the race, he said, “it was a hot oven.”
The comedian also admitted that he didn’t want to be too disrespectful to Biden, but he wanted his impersonation to be funny.
“The main thing is that he makes me laugh and I’m definitely doing things that he doesn’t do.” Doesn’t smash ice cream in your face. Know?’ said.
“The ice cream cone was not planned,” Carvey admitted during Friday’s new episode of the podcast he hosts with fellow SNL alum David Spade.
‘I asked the prop master to give me an ice cream just to get through the costume parade. And then at the air show, she gave me a much bigger one and I didn’t ask her,’ he said.
‘He was right to make a gesture. I thought, “Here’s ice cream, big bite. Here’s Maya’s face,” Carvey admitted.
Carvey also admitted on the podcast that the response to his Joe Biden impersonation has changed lately.
Carvey joined the cast of Saturday Night Live in 1986, leading a new cast of virtual unknowns that would include future SNL mainstays Phil Hartman, Jan Hooks, Victoria Jackson and Kevin Nealon.
‘He doesn’t say, “I can’t believe it’s not butter.” I’m doing what I did to the first Bush,’ Carvey admitted.
Carvey joined the cast of Saturday Night Live in 1986, leading a new cast of virtual unknowns that would include future SNL mainstays Phil Hartman, Jan Hooks, Victoria Jackson and Kevin Nealon.
The comedian debuted a character that would help define his career that year: Church Lady, as well as his impersonation of then-Vice President George HW Bush.
He starred on the show until 1993, although he would return to the show intermittently as a surprise guest over the years.