He ultimately withdrew his name from consideration after he was cast on Saturday Night Live. As a lifelong Douglas fan, Carvey threw in an affectionate impression of his mentor, while describing a hairy scene they did together on a moving train.Ĭarvey was a finalist for the hosting role on the Nickelodeon TV game show Double Dare. His big break came in 1986, when he co-starred opposite Kirk Douglas and Burt Lancaster in Tough Guys.
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He also appeared in the short-lived film-based action television series Blue Thunder. He appeared in the music video for the Greg Kihn song "Lucky" in 1985. In 1984, Carvey had a small role in Rob Reiner's film This Is Spinal Tap, in which he played a mime, with fellow comedian Billy Crystal (who tells him "Mime is money!"). In 1977, he won the San Francisco Stand-Up Comedy Competition.Ĭarvey had a minor role in Halloween II in 1981, and co-starred in One of the Boys in 1982, a short-lived television sitcom that also starred Mickey Rooney, Nathan Lane, and Meg Ryan.
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 received his bachelor's degree in broadcast communications from San Francisco State University. When he was three years old, his family moved to San Carlos, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area. He received his first drum kit at an early age.
Carvey has English, German, Irish, Norwegian, and Swedish ancestry, and was raised Lutheran. The character Garth Algar is loosely based on Brad. Carvey is the brother of Brad Carvey, the engineer/designer of the Video Toaster. 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 Bud Carvey, a high school business teacher.
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