By Hannah Jane Farron
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
Dana Thomas Carvey (born June 2, 1955) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, podcaster, screenwriter and producer.
Carvey is best known for his seven seasons on Saturday Night Live, from 1986 to 1993, which earned him five consecutive Primetime Emmy Award nominations. He returned to the show during and immediately after the 2024 presidential election to impersonate outgoing US President Joe Biden as well as Trump advisor, businessman, and billionaire Elon Musk.
Carvey is also known for his film roles in comedies such as Moving (1988), Opportunity Knocks (1990), Trapped in Paradise (1994), and The Master of Disguise (2002), as well as reprising his role of Garth Algar in the SNL spin-off film Wayne’s World (1992) and its sequel Wayne’s World 2 (1993).
Carvey was born in Missoula, Montana, the fourth of five (with three older brothers and one younger sister) born to Billie Dahl, a schoolteacher, and William John (Bud) Carvey, a high school business teacher. He has some Irish ancestry. Carvey is the brother of Brad Carvey, the engineer/designer of the Video Toaster. The character Garth Algar is loosely based on Brad. Carvey was raised Lutheran.
In 1957, his family moved to Anderson, California, where his father got a teaching job. When he was three years old, his family moved to San Carlos, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area. He attended Tierra Linda Junior High in San Carlos, Carlmont High School in Belmont, California (where he was a member of the Central Coast Section champion cross country team), College of San Mateo in San Mateo, California, and earned his bachelor’s degree in broadcast communications from San Francisco State University. In 1977, he won the San Francisco Stand-Up Comedy Competition.
TODAY’S ALMANAC
Question of the Day
Advice of the Day
Home Hint of the Day
Word of the Day
Puzzle of the Day
Born
- Martha Washington (U.S. First Lady) –
- Thomas Hardy (writer) –
- Helen Louise Herron Taft (U.S. First Lady) –
- Clair Cameron Patterson (geochemist) –
- Jerry Mathers (actor) –
- Dana Carvey (comedian & actor) –
- Kyle Petty (NASCAR driver) –
- Wayne Brady (comedian & actor) –
- Wentworth Miller (actor) –
Died
- Andres Segovia (guitarist) –
- Sylvester Ritter (professional wrestler known as Junkyard Dog”“) –
- Flora Lewis (journalist) –
- Bo Diddley (musician) –
- Mel Ferrer (actor & director) –
- Chris Haney (inventor of Trivial Pursuit) –
- Kathryn Joosten (actress) –
- Richard Dawson (game show host) –
HISTORICAL EVENTS ON THIS DATE IN HISTORY
Events
- In Fort Wayne, Indiana, the first baseball game was played under electric lights at night –
- Grover Cleveland became the first president to marry in the White House –
- Congress granted citizenship to Native Americans born in the U.S. –
- Kraft’s Velveeta invented –
- Mariners’ Museum established in Newport News, Virginia –
- President FDR formally accepted the swimming pool addition to the White House –
- Elizabeth II crowned queen of England –
- US spacecraft Surveyor I made successful soft landing on the Moon and began to relay first close up pictures of the Moon –
- 13-year-old Anurag Kashyap correctly spelled “appoggiatura” to win National Scripps Spelling Bee –
- Actor Patrick Stewart was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace –
- At the White House, Sir Paul McCartney accepted the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song –
- Sukanya Roy won 84th Scripps National Spelling Bee with word cymotrichous”“ –
Weather
- Parts of the Midwest were visited by 65 tornadoes –
- Several tornadoes were sighted in northeastern Colorado as thunderstorms ripped through the area leaving golfball-size hail –
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