Very like Joker: Folie à Deux, Dana Carvey‘s newest joke fell a bit flat.
Because the Saturday Night Live alum continues his Season 50 run as President Joe Biden, Carvey mirrored on the most recent episode and a joke that “didn’t land” about Lady Gaga‘s efficiency within the acquired musical DC sequel.
“So I do the little Biden piece as a part of the Brett Baier interrogating Maya-Kamala. And he’s type of confused. He begins speaking in regards to the Joker film, however they don’t comprehend it,” mentioned Carvey on his Fly on the Wall podcast. “I went, who’s the girl gagaga? You realize, no matter. I did that. Didn’t land.”
Within the chilly open, Maya Rudolph and Alec Baldwin spoofed Kamala Harris‘ Fox News interview with Baier, throughout which he saved taking quotes out of context, together with certainly one of Carvey’s Biden talking passionately in regards to the sequel at a press convention.
“People, we now have different issues on our fingers. I’m being critical, come on,” he tells the digicam. “4 years in the past, it was superb. It was the man you needed. However now they bought this lady, and persons are going, ‘What’s she doing right here?’”
After Rudolph’s Harris factors out that Biden wasn’t speaking about her, however the musical Joker sequel, Baier performed the remainder of the clip. “And why’s she singin’? What’s a Folie à Deux? What’s a ga ga ga ga goo ga? What’s it? Come on! No Joker. No joke,” mused Carvey because the POTUS.
Carvey got here up with one other line after the very fact: “I believed later, I ought to have mentioned, ‘And who’s Whackin Phoenix? Who the hell is he? Whackin Phoenix would have gotten an enormous snort.’”
Following his 1986-’93 run on SNL, which earned him 5 Emmy nominations, Carvey has returned this season to painting Biden amid the 2024 presidential election, together with fellow alums Rudolph as Harris and Andy Samberg as Doug Emhoff. Jim Gaffigan has additionally joined the visitor lineup as Gov. Tim Walz.
