Dana Thomas Carvey was born on June 2, 1955 in Missoula, Montana to a Bud and Billie Carvey.
 In 1982 Dana was able to quit his job as a busboy when he moved to New York city and landed a role as "Adam Sheilds", Micky Roony's grandson and Nathan Lanes room mate in the NBC sitcome "One of the Boys". Fortunatly for Dana, "One of the Boys" was taped in the same studio as SNL, studio 8-h. This is first where Dana got to see the work of Joe Piscopo, Gilda Radner and Eddie Murphy. This is also where Dana was first introduced to Lorne Michaels, the producer of SNL. Unfortunately, OOTB didnt last very long. It was cancelled after only one season.That very same year, Dana married Paula Zwaggerman
inwhich he is still married to. In 1984, Dana landed a role as "Clinton JAFO Wonderlove" which was a tv series of the movie "Blue Thunder". Fortunatley for Dana, the same year Dana got yet another small role as "Baby Face" in the movie "Racing with the Moon" that starred Elizabeth Mongomery, Sean Penn and Nicholas Cage.In the same year, was a waiter alongside Billy Crystal in the hit comedy "It's a Spinal Tap".Things were really lightning up for Dana in 1986 when he had the chance of being on the cast of SNL. The choices came down to him and Jim Carrey. Guess who won? Because he won the laughter of the audience with his comedic wit and dead on impersinations, Lorne decided to pick ol' Dana as a cast member over Jim Carrey. Dana turned out to be a living legend on SNL, one of them, that is. Now that Dana was a famous star, he got more attention from directors. He played Richie Evans in the movie "Tough Guys", which starred Kirk Douglas and Burt Lancaster in 1986. During his years on SNL, One year later Dana got to play the "Right Ventrical" in the movie "Cranium Command". The movie was not a huge success but it recieved a lot of good reviews. In 1990 Dana recieved his firsted starring role in the movie " Oppertunity Knocks" in which Dana portrayed a con man by the name of " Eddie" but the movie was not a secsess and did not recieve very many good reviews. After the flop of "Oppertunity Knocks ", Dana stuck mainly to stand up when he wasn't busy dedicating himself to Saturday Night Live. Also, in 1990 Dana won an American Comedy Award for being t.v's " Funniest Supporting Male". Dana won the very same award again in 1991. Then in 1992, Mike Myers and Dana teamed up to make the hit comedy, Wayne's World, then in 1993 they struck back with a Wayne's World 2. Later on that year, Dana got to host the MTV music awards in which he got to play the drums onstage with the band U2. Also in 1993, Dana celebrated the birth of his second son, Thomas Carvey. The name Thomas came from Dana's own middle name, Thomas. It was in 1993 that Dana recieved his first Emmy Award for " Outsanding Individual Performance in a Varitey or Music Program". Dana has been nominated six times in all for an Emmy. Then, sadly, in 1993, Dana left the cast of SNL. In 1994 Dana got his second starring role as "Maurice L. Puoge" in "Clean Slate" where dana portrayes a police detective with a memory loss problem. The second movie Dana was in was "The Road to Wellville" where he played the son of George Kelloge (Anthony Hopkins), the third movie he made in 1994 was "Trapped in Paridise" where he played "Alvin Firpo" along side Jon Lovitz and Nicolas Cage. All those movies did well in the box offices. In 1995 Dana displayed his talent for stand up comedy in the hilarous, one hour HBO special "Critic's Choice".