Dana Carvey Says He is “Working On” Elon Musk Impression
As Dana Carvey appeared Friday on Actual Time with Invoice Maher, he introduced a couple of acquainted voices with him.
The Saturday Night time Dwell alum rapidly whipped out his impressions of Donald Trump and Elon Musk, noting that he’s “engaged on” the latter after Musk seemed to be postpone by the impersonation throughout a post-election SNL look in November.
“So, Trump’s there, and he’s received the tie, after which Elon is up there speaking, proper?” he defined. “And I don’t actually do it but, however I’m engaged on it.”
In his greatest Musk mumble, Carvey mentioned, “We received to go to Mars, as a result of we are able to’t maintain life on planet Earth. We gotta go to Mars, it’s simply gonna be actually cool, OK? Mhm, mhm, mhm.”
Pivoting to his Trump impression, the comic responded, “What he mentioned. He’s a wise cookie, he’s a tricky cookie, he’s a Cookie Monster. This one, he’s sensible. All people talks about it. He’s like Chips Ahoy.”
Dana Carvey as Elon Musk on ‘Saturday Night time Dwell’
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After Carvey debuted his Musk impression on SNL, Musk shared his criticism to his personal social platform the subsequent day. “They’re so mad that @realDonaldTrump gained,” he wrote in a single response on X, including in one other: “Dana Carvey simply seems like Dana Carvey.”
Musk additionally took purpose on the long-running NBC sketch comedy present. “SNL has been dying slowly for years, as they change into more and more out of contact with actuality,” he wrote.
In the meantime, Carvey was large enough to confess he didn’t nail the impression. “I can’t do Elon Musk very nicely,” he mentioned on his Superfly podcast. “However I can do one thing that sounds not like something. He has an unbelievable accent — South Africa by way of Canada, by way of Pennsylvania. It’s virtually like, it’s a little bit little bit of Australian in there, a little bit little bit of British, however he’s not completely that.”
No one was off limits throughout Carvey’s temporary sit-down with Maher as he additionally served impressions of Joe Biden, RFK Jr., JFK, Johnny Carson, Invoice Gates, Gollum, Woody Allen and Paul McCartney.
