Dana Carvey Had to Learn Jennifer Coolidge Impression Last Minute

Dana Carvey is revealing how he ended up enjoying a 100-year-old model of Jennifer Coolidge throughout a Saturday Evening Stay sketch final week.

The comic, who has been portraying Joe Biden since season 50 of the NBC sketch comedy present kicked off final month, just lately stated on Superfly, the spinoff sequence of his and David Spade’s Fly on the Wall podcast, that he has to be taught his impression of the beloved actress final minute.

“They threw it at me Thursday night time,” Carvey, who was initially a castmember on SNL from 1986 to 1993, stated. “They defined to me that the character was like a Snow White factor, that my Jennifer Coolidge had been trapped within the mirror for 100’s of years.”

The sketch titled “Maybelline” noticed Chloe Fineman‘s Jennifer Coolidge getting assist placing on “Maybelline Tremendous Keep Lengthy Put on Liquid Lip Coloration” from the Jennifer Coolidge reflection in her mirror, performed by host Ariana Grande. After which a 3rd Coolidge (Carvey) was revealed in one other mirror after Fineman asks, “Hey, I’m wondering what our lips appear like from the facet?”

“Thank God you opened the mirror,” Carvey stated. “I’ve been trapped in right here for years!”

On the podcast, the comic described the skit as “type of an acid-y, esoteric sketch.” He added, “I nonetheless don’t fairly perceive it, however that was enjoyable.”

He additionally shared that resulting from timing, “they needed to take away about 4 beats” between the costume rehearsal and the dwell present. “One was we eat corn. It was rather a lot wilder, it was wonderful. It was a non sequitur like, ‘Hey. Wow. Let’s eat some corn,’” Carvey stated in his Coolidge voice. “They abruptly have corn. ‘Can I’ve your corn?’”

Carvey additionally performed a video (under) for Spade that his former SNL co-star Jon Lovitz filmed backstage of him rehearsing his strains for the Jennifer Coolidge sketch.