The Dana Carvey Show

With Dana Carvey, Steve Carell, Stephen Colbert, Heather Morgan. Riffs on pop culture, politics and even the show's own sponsors.

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The show that Louis CK kept Jimmy Fallon off of was actually one of the forgotten jewels of sketch comedy history.

The Dana Carvey Show ran for eight episodes, seven of which originally aired on ABC in 1996. The short-lived sketch comedy helped launch the careers of Steve Carell and Stephen Colbert, while also introducing television audiences to The Ambiguously Gay Duo, which would later achieve fame on Saturday Night Live.

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Steve Carell, Dana Carvey, Stephen Colbert, and Louis CK on one show? It happened!

Steve Carell. Stephen Colbert. Louis C.K. Charlie Kaufman. Robert Smigel. Some of comedy's greatest minds got one of their biggest breaks on the short-lived but much-loved "The Dana Carvey Show." Fifteen years later, in this exclusive oral history, the players recount the brief but fertile life of a truly unusual show

The Dana Carvey Show is an American sketch comedy television show that aired on ABC during the spring of 1996. Dana Carvey was the host and principal player on the show while Louis C.K. served as head writer. The show's cast consists heavily of Saturday Night Live and Second City alumni including Carvey, Steve Carell, Bill Chott, Stephen Colbert, Elon Gold, Chris McKinney, Heather Morgan, Peggy Shay, Robert Smigel, and James Stephens III. The writing team also included Louis C.K, Charlie Kaufman, Jon Glaser, Dino Stamatopoulos, Spike Feresten, and Robert Carlock. In addition, Carvey and Smigel's former Saturday Night Live colleague Greg Daniels contributed material for the premiere episode.