Dana Carvey, Maya Rudolph’s Ice Cream Moment on ‘SNL’ Was Unplanned

Dana Carvey won’t ever miss a chance to have a chaotic Saturday Evening Stay second.

The comic revealed on a current episode of the Superfly podcast, which he co-hosts with David Spade, that smashing an ice cream cone in Maya Rudolph‘s face throughout final week’s chilly open was fully unplanned.

“The ice cream cone was not deliberate,” Carvey mentioned. “I requested the prop grasp to offer me an ice cream simply to carry for the costume present. After which the air present, she gave me a a lot greater [one], and I didn’t ask her.”

Towards the top of the Oct. 5 episode’s opening sketch, which featured Carvey’s Joe Biden having fun with some ice cream subsequent to Rudolph’s Kamala Harris and Andy Samberg’s Doug Emhoff as they watched the vice presidential debate, Carvey smacks the ice cream into Rudolph’s face as she sits there seemingly shocked, making an attempt to carry again fun.

“I used to be proper kinda gesturing,” Carvey recalled off the split-second resolution. “I assumed, ‘Right here’s ice cream, massive gob. Right here’s Maya’s face.’ And I didn’t wanna harm her, however I simply — I considered it, and did it inside two seconds. In order that’s to place to relaxation all of the rumors and all of the discuss.”

Later within the podcast, Carvey mentioned he thinks there’s been a extra “playful and enjoyable” response to his Biden impression because the president dropped out of the 2024 presidential race towards Donald Trump, whereas “it was a sizzling oven” when he was working for reelection.

However total, Carvey by no means desires to return throughout as disrespecting Biden. He views his impersonation as simply exaggerating a number of the president’s distinctive qualities.

“The principle factor is it’s making me snicker, and I’m undoubtedly doing stuff that he doesn’t do,” the comic added. “He doesn’t smash ice lotions into faces. You already know? He doesn’t say, ‘I can’t imagine it’s not butter.’ I’m doing what I did to the primary Bush.”

Carvey was a castmember on SNL from 1986 to 1993, throughout which he performed a number of politicians, together with President George H.W. Bush. And now he’s again to play Biden in the course of the NBC present’s fiftieth season.