Former “Saturday Night Live” great Dana Carvey drew rave reviews for his mockery of Dr. Anthony Fauci, nailing the retired career bureaucrat’s New York accent perfectly in a hilarious impression of the man who was a fixture on cable and network media during the hellish years of the COVID pandemic.
Carvey, whose famous characters during his “SNL” run included the Church Lady, Garth Algar from Wayne’s World, and a drop-dead impression of 1992 presidential candidate Ross Perot, channeled the longtime head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases on a recent podcast with fellow late-night comedy alum David Spade.
“I miss COVID,” the comic sarcastically said, to which Spade replied, “I know! Dude, dude! You know when I knew there was trouble? When anyone that came to our country didn’t have to get a vaccine, and I go, ’If you’re telling me that I can’t go to work, but everyone coming in doesn’t have to get one, I go…'”
Funny, not so funny. https://t.co/2XuIjStHHH
— BPR based (@DumpstrFireNews) June 29, 2023
Carvey responded, “Well once we found out when Fauci said, ‘OK, I’m sorry, if you’ve had two boosters and two vaccines, you can get and give COVID to another guy who’s had five vaccines and four boosters,” sounding exactly like the elfin ex-NIAID chief.
“What’s the difference between a vaccine and booster?” Carvey asked in a normal voice before jumping back into Fauci mode to answer. “I don’t know, it’s just more vaccine but booster sounds better.”
“Anyway, a guy with 25 vaccines would get and give COVID to another guy with 25 vaccines. That’s why I’m introducing the daily COVID shot. Every day you get a shot. By the time you get to your car, you got no immunity, but it’s a beautiful 39 seconds,” he added in his gruff faux Fauci voice as Spade cracked up.
Twitter users reacted to the skewering of the elfin celebrity immunologist, one of the holiest of sacred cows for the mask-wearing authoritarian leftist COVID cult.
Dana. You nailed it. could you make this a regular thing for us? 🙂
— Erin Elizabeth Health Nut News (@unhealthytruth) June 29, 2023
Good stuff.
Reminds me when comedians were actually funny and not shills for sacred cows.— Albert Latham (@albert1776) June 28, 2023
Wow you guys can be brothers
— Tom Conlon (@travisschiffer) June 29, 2023
Dana Carvey still has it. Hilarious stuff.
— David Condon (@ucanreadgood) June 29, 2023
Humor can light the path.
— Greg Speed (@gregaspeed) June 28, 2023
Great to see mainstream comics getting into this space. We need hucksters like #Fauci to face some ridicule! Also helps people over to where they can accept they were misled on a lot of the #Covid19 and ##mRNA #Vaccine narrative!
— Karl Harrison (@KarlDHarrison) June 28, 2023
The world needs more of Carvey’s impressions!! They’re always spot on & reminds me of happier & simpler times in the world.
— DareW (@darewecan) June 28, 2023
I guess the tied is turning and now it isn’t career suicide to go against Fauci. Easy to say these things now when it no longer matters–would have been cooler 2-3 years ago.
— Jenny Logan (@chisholmfinance) June 28, 2023
Fauci retired in December, hanging up his lab coat after heading up the NIAID since Ronald Reagan’s first term, but he continues to be a media fixture.
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