The Dana Carvey Show

The Dana Carvey Show was a half-hour sketch comedy television show on the U.S. television network ABC during the 1996 season. Dana Carvey was the host and principal player on the show as well as its head writer.

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Carvey recreated some of the characters that he developed on Saturday Night Live and parodied the news of the day, as well as the media, politics, commercialism, and other sketch comedy shows. The show's humor varied between crude and sophisticated, making it difficult to find a broad-based audience. Curiously, at about the same time, The Drew Carey Show was aired on ABC with about the same kind of comic tone, yet did much better in the ratings. However, Drew Carey's show was based on the sitcom, whereas Carvey's show was based on the sketch. Typically, prime-time sketch shows are not well received by network audiences, as numerous other such shows have failed.

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Saturday Night Live - Media - Politics - Commercialism - The Drew Carey Show

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