Actually, I have. I saw him in St. Louis, Missouri at the Fox Theater sometime around 1990. I haven’t seen a worse stand up performance by an “A-list” comedian ever. The “Katherine Hepburn is like a car with a starter problem” bit stands out as memorably awful, and much of the rest of it was a rehash of shit everyone had seen elsewhere.
I don’t know where anamnesis gets off calling me a troll for posting my opinions. Really, I could tell you that I thought “So I Married an Axe Murderer” was hilarious and inspired, that “Wayne’s World” (the first) was great and the second one tailed off, that he added a lot to the Shrek character, that the Austin Powers movies were hilarious (my wife and I saw the third one in the theater in Ottawa, Canada and laughed til we cried, along with the rest of the audience, throughout (although the misadventures with silhouettes bit is a bit tired)…
…and I could go through the list of Dana Carvey films…
…and list my opinions about different things that Will Ferrell and Ben Stiller have done…
…but would that make my opinion more convincing to you?
My original thought was that it was kind of one of those ironic names, like calling a tall guy “Shorty” or a fat guy “Slim.”
In thinking more about that time, I remember seeing Dennis Miller at the Fox sometime right around that time, and I remember thinking how starkly contrasting the two performances were (this was back when Dennis Miller was funny). My cheeks and the back of my head hurt from laughing so hard at Dennis Miller. In contrast, I was bored at the Dana Carvey show, and remember feeling sorry for him as he sweated and bombed and did the same old shtick. I’ve got no animus towards him, really, I just think he sucks as a comedic performer.
I saw Jerry Seinfeld at Northeast Missouri State University just a little while before his show debuted, and he had me rolling and had my cheeks sore at the end. Maybe I just expected more from Dana Carvey, but even Robert Klein (who I also saw in rural Missouri) was funnier.
Actually, there was some clever stuff, like the ‘Fun’ song at the beginning which had some rapidfire rhyming. But overall, there wasn’t much Seussian about it, no.
Yes, it was a Myers vehicle. I happen to really like Myers and this movie is entirely watchable for me. It really isn’t a kid’s movie, though, precisely because of the stuff he injected into it (the dirty hoe joke was just dead unnecessary, even if it was delivered well). Interestingly, though, in Mtgman’s link it’s suggested that Cat in the Hat was Myers’ punishment for pulling out of the Sprockets project. I don’t know whether the movie would have gotten made without him, though.
Well, I didn’t expect to like Snow Dogs, but it gets points for responsible use of Nichelle Nichols; and emergency canine dentistry, which is at least a novel climactic element.
Ahem. Mike Myers. I** loved** So I Married an Axe Murderer. I only watched one Austin Powers. Too too much for me, & the later stuff looked pretty vomitworthy.
Ike commented, and I want to re-iterate, we don’t want members calling other members “trolls,” not anywhere on the Straight Dope Message Boards.
But I’ll go further: anamnesis, your entire post (#39) in this thread is a personal insult aimed at another member. That is NOT permitted in this forum. You want to insult another member, you go to the Pit. In this forum, we maintain dignified and polite (well, reasonably so) conversation: no personal insults.
My original thought was that it was kind of one of those ironic names, like calling a tall guy “Shorty” or a fat guy “Slim.”