Just a week after going viral with a hilarious cold open 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 October 5 episode, where Kamala Harris (Maya Rudolph) and Doug Emhoff (Andy Sandberg) watched the vice presidential debate.
At one point, Biden arrives unannounced and near the end of the piece he waves his arms while holding an ice cream cone and smears some ice cream on her face.
Rudolph played it off perfectly, casually licking the ice cream off her 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 – relented Super fly podcast that the piece was not planned.
Just a week after going viral with a hilarious cold open on last week’s Saturday Night Live, Dana Carvey admits the bit wasn’t planned
At one point, Biden arrives unannounced and near the end of the piece he waves his arms while holding an ice cream cone and smears some ice cream on her face.
Rudolph played it off perfectly, nonchalantly licking the ice cream off her face while trying not to break character, just before the cold open ended
“The ice cream cone wasn’t planned,” Carvey admitted during Friday’s new episode of the podcast he hosts with another SNL alum, David Spade.
“I asked the prop master to give me an ice cream just to hold for the dress show. And then the air show, she gave me a much bigger one [one]and I didn’t ask him,” he said.
‘I was right, gesticulating a bit. I thought, ‘Here’s ice cream, big blob. Here’s Maya’s face,” Carvey admitted.
“And I didn’t want to hurt her, but I just thought about it and did it in two seconds. So that is to stop all the rumors and all the talk,” he clarified.
Carvey also admitted on the podcast that the reaction to his Joe Biden impersonation has changed lately.
He said there is a more “playful and fun” reaction 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 disrespect Biden too much, but he wanted his impersonation to be funny.
“The most important thing is that it makes me laugh, and I definitely do things that he doesn’t do. He doesn’t smash ice cream in faces. You know?’ he said.
“The ice cream cone wasn’t planned,” Carvey admitted during Friday’s new episode of the podcast he hosts with another SNL alum, David Spade
“I asked the prop master to give me an ice cream just to hold for the dress show. And then the air show, she gave me a much bigger one [one]and I didn’t ask him,” he said
‘I was right, gesticulating a bit. I thought, ‘Here’s ice cream, big blob. Here’s Maya’s face,” Carvey admitted.
Carvey also admitted on the podcast that the reaction 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, including 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 with the first Bush,” Carvey admitted.
Carvey joined the cast of Saturday Night Live in 1986, leading a new cast of virtual unknowns, including 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, plus his impersonation of then-Vice President George HW Bush.
He starred on the show through 1993, although he returned to the show intermittently in surprise guest spots over the years.