Dana Carvey: Straight White Male, 60
Dana Carvey: Straight White Male, 60
| 04 November 2016 (USA)
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Emmy-winning comedian Dana Carvey blends pitch-perfect tales on big personalities with so-true-it-hurts stories from his life as a dad of millennials.

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tyboulder

I recently saw Dana Carvey on Seinfeld's car-and-coffee-themed talk show, and he was hilarious. I loved Carvey growing up so I decided to see what he'd done since. I found his 2008 standup act (the one with "Monkeys" in the title) and it blew me away. The level of intensity in that special is superhuman.Having caught up a bit, I decided to watch Straight White Male, 60. In this special he comes across with the energy you might expect from a normal adult, which is fine. I thought this routine was solid and his impersonations spot on.I'm neither here nor there when it comes to politics, and I'm a couple decades younger than Carvey, but his material was so well done that I was laughing with him from his point of view. That said, it's hard to understand why 20 percent of voters so far have given this special a "1."I don't know if it was Trump fans who were triggered by his (very well done) Trump impersonation, or if Millennials were triggered by the couple jabs he took at their generation- but either way, it was all light hearted- and more importantly, funny. If you can't laugh at yourself a little bit then standup might not be your thing. I don't know. But this special is definitely worth watching if you're a Dana Carvey fan, or just getting acquainted.

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Paul Magne Haakonsen

This was my first time to see Dana Carvey as a stand-up comedian.I must say that I found him to be funny. Dana Carvey sure has lots of energy and his material is good and well-thought through. It is nice that he does a mixture of current events and parodies.He is good at delivering the material and he feels very natural on the stage.However, this is hardly the type of show that you will watch a second time around, in my honest opinion. But if you haven't already seen "Dana Carvey: Straight White Male, 60", and if you enjoy stand-up comedy, then you definitely should take the time to sit down and watch it, if you have the chance.

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NikkoFranco

Dana is a great observer, and he can bring this onstage with such dynamo, before you know it your bones has been tickled to the max. Some like it hot, some like it structured, some like it as it is! For my husband and me who are dedicated Netflicians, Dana is still a delight. Maybe because we are baby boomers hence we can relate to his material , the way of millennials, their not so secret lives and yes, the obsession with selfies. There are a thousand more words to describe his special, but maybe for a night why not - don't take it too seriously - Dana is still one of the best impressions masters out there.

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mythicfox

I'll be honest, I couldn't finish this. I'm a huge Dana Carvey fan and while his comic timing is still there the material he's working with is garbage. First off, he starts right into the events surrounding the election, and maybe it's because I first saw it months later but I can't imagine people not just being so impossibly sick of hearing about Trump, Hillary, and Bernie. I know I am. And even if that weren't the case, most of that bit had already been heard almost verbatim on his appearances on talk shows over the year. Then, after that, he ostensibly goes into what it's like being a father with teenagers but it's just all the same old stereotypical digs and ripping on millennials... another subject that I (and I imagine/hope many others) am long past sick of hearing about. I just turned it off at that point.This is little more than a stand-up comedy version of the "Old Man Yells at Cloud" joke from the Simpsons, and it's such a shame to hear from someone as talented as Dana Carvey. As someone who still thinks his Critics' Choice show from 20 years ago is still brilliant, this is just depressing to watch.

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