This Friday, March 12 marks the 25th anniversary of the short-lived but much-loved comedy series “The Dana Carvey Show” created by Saturday Night Live veteran Dana Carvey. The legendary show premiered on ABC in the spring of 1996, and 25 years later, found its home on Crackle. All eight episodes, including one that was never aired, are currently available to stream for free.
Carvey stars in and writes this sketch comedy show in which a company of recurring performers tape before a live audience in New York City. The show features some of comedy’s greatest minds, before they were household names, including Steve Carell (The Office), Stephen Colbert (The Colbert Report), Charlie Kaufman (Being John Malkovich), Robert Smigel (Triumph the Insult Comic Dog), Jon Glaser (writer, Inside Amy Schumer), Robert Carlock (30 Rock and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt co-creator), and Dino Stamatopoulos (writer, Late Night with Conan O’Brien).
Only lasting a few episodes, “The Dana Carvey Show” ran for seven of its 10 intended episodes before being pulled for content considered controversial at the time. Although it didn’t air for long, the show maintains a loyal following all these years later.
Stream “The Dana Carvey Show” for free at crackle.com/watch/231.
Crackle Plus linear and VOD networks are available in the U.S. and can be accessed on up to 29 devices and services including Amazon FireTV, RokuTV, Apple TV, Smart TVs (Samsung, LG, Vizio), gaming consoles (PS4 and XBoxOne), Plex, iOS and Android mobile devices and on desktops at Crackle.com. Crackle is also available in approximately 500,000 hotel rooms in the Marriott Bonvoy chain.
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James Gilmore Backus was born on February 25, 1913, in Cleveland, Ohio. Among his most famous roles were Thurston Howell III on the 1960s sitcom Gilligan's Island, the father of James Dean's character in Rebel Without a Cause, the voice of the nearsighted cartoon character Mr. Magoo, the rich Hubert Updike III on the radio version of The Alan Young Show, and Joan Davis' character's husband (a domestic court judge) on TV's I Married Joan. He also starred in his own show of one season, The Jim Backus Show, also known as Hot Off the Wire.
An avid golfer, Backus made the 36-hole cut at the 1964 Bing Crosby Pro-Am tournament. He was inducted to the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960.
Backus died of pneumonia in Los Angeles on July 3, 1989, he was 76.
