From the basement to the top ofDana Carvey's favoriteSaturday Night Livesketch rankings!
TheSNLlegend returned to Studio 8H for the latest edition ofSNL's new short-form seriesThe Rundown, and he named 1990's "Wayne's World," with special guest Aerosmith, as his personal pick for the No. 1 live sketch.
"They are party on,"he saidof Garth and Wayne, the iconic characters played by him andMike Myers. "They are just joy, fun. To me, the secret sauce was the so-called two losers in town, they live with their parents, they have no money, they have an AMC Pacer, and they're by far the happiest people in the town."
Carvey added, "You always want to get in a really big, funny sketch with your friends, where everything just flows and is landing."
Created by Myers and developed alongside Carvey, the duo debuted Wayne and Garth onSNLin 1990. The two rock-obsessed public access show hosts became so popular that they were given their own hit movie,1992'sWayne's World, followed by a 1993 sequel.
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"Just like any great comedy team, they are always trying to one-up each other,"Wayne's Worldfilm director Penelope Spheerispreviously told EW. "So Dana would come up with an idea and then Mike would build on it and it just kept evolving. I had to respect the fact that they really knew the characters."
"Mike Myers isWayne's World," Carvey declared onThe Rundown. "He built the house. He let me rent a room.... When you do it the first time, you just hope it works. He didn't have a lot of lines, but Mike told me that Garth worshiped Wayne. So I started really enjoying [Wayne's] little jokes."
Standing in front of theSNLrundown board also brought back memories for Carvey of how he began to master his famous impersonation ofSNLcreator Lorne Michaels.
"The way I learned to do Lorne would be, after the read through on Wednesday, and we'd have a ton of sketches we just read, 50 of them," he recalled. "And then Lorne would try to put them on the rundown for the show. Very frustrated, he said, [Lorne Michaels voice] 'Um... I still have no f---ing first act.'"
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