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Too Funny to Fail: The Life & Death of The Dana Carvey Show (2017) is a English movie. Josh Greenbaum has directed this movie. Dana Carvey,Robert Smigel,Steve Carell,Stephen Colbert are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2017. Too Funny to Fail: The Life & Death of The Dana Carvey Show (2017) is considered one of the best Documentary movie in India and around the world.
Premiering on Hulu this fall, this feature length documentary from director Josh Greenbaum (Becoming Bond, The Short Game) will take a fresh and irreverent look at the successes and humorous missteps of a show that brought together an amazing slew of future comedy giants before they were household names. Featuring interviews with Dana Carvey, Robert Smigel, Steve Carell, Stephen Colbert, and more, the film will explore the creation of the show as the brainchild of two of Saturday Night Live's most beloved alumni, the twists and turns of its brief life on air, and its legacy-one of stellar careers, lasting relationships, and an affirmation that in art, risks are always worth taking.
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Too Funny to Fail: The Life & Death of The Dana Carvey Show (2017) Reviews
A surprisingly poignant and consistently hilarious look at an epic failure.
This is just so right up my alley...punk rock, subversive, hilarious, smart. Sure, it's a documentary, but it's easily one of the funniest movies of the year (Colbert and Carrell reacting to 90's ad that said, "a very special episode of Home Improvement, followed by the Diet Mug Root Beer Dana Carvey Show").
Really interesting Documentary
I had just finished one documentary and this was up next so I said "why not?" I barely remember this show, pretty sure I may have watched it once because he was the Church Lady after all. Someone on here complains about it being a "boys club", well YAH, look who the boys were. I had NO clue who the females were so why would they have much screen time when you are dealing with Dana Carey, Steve Carell, Stephen Colbert, and Bill Hader, who by the way got little screen time. I just enjoyed how the more they were pushed, the more they pushed back and how much of what they did in the 7 shows that aired in 96 would have caused such and uproar (not PC) today. I am glad I stumbled onto it.
Unlike the Show, Too Funny to Fail Overstays its Welcome
An oral history, with clips and highlights, of one of the 1990s' most notorious flops. Riding high as a celebrated Saturday Night Live alumni, fresh graduate Dana Carvey had his choice of suitors / collaborators / formats. His picks were spot-on for everything but the broadcast partner, as he drafted a staggering cast of pre-fame talent (Steve Carell, Stephen Colbert, Louis CK, Robert Smigel, even a few episodes with Bob Odenkirk) but then tossed the brilliantly absurd, counter-culture fruits of their labor to primetime ABC. Even before Disney purchased the network, this marriage was doomed. It's a fundamentally simple story, perhaps too scant for a full-length feature, and that leads this documentary to feel somewhat padded. There's lots of fun material - candid footage of the baby-faced soon-to-be superstars auditioning, goofing around in the writer's room, looking back fondly upon the experience - but too often relies on highlights from the show or awkward bits stolen from other, tangentially-related programs and films. As this was produced by Hulu, which just so happens to be the show's online home, you'd think the goal would be prodding unfamiliar viewers to move right on to a binge-watch, to judge the material for themselves. Instead, I felt like I'd already done so.
It's a man's world, isn't it.
So many talented writers, actors, show runners; so much mutual admiration; such fun being had by all. Two women on screen in this entire movie, only one of whom was interviewed, and briefly at that. I guess these comedy heroes didn't know funny women, or any who they thought were deserving of a big break on the Dana Carvey show. Or maybe it just wasn't as much fun working with female colleagues - is that it? I'd had quite enough of them congratulating one another - including Louis C.K. - on their subsequent careers by the end. Dispiriting.
annoying commentary
Why do they feel the need to interrupt every sketch with commentary....shut-up