Dana Carvey said Mickey Rooney was 'the craziest person he had ever met'
The two actors starred in a short-lived flop of an '80s sitcom.
Few remember the 1982 NBC sitcom One of the boys . With a former Hollywood veteran mickey rooney as a grandfather moves in with his grandson and his roommate in their off-campus college apartment, the series debuted as a mid-season replacement in January 1982 and aired for just 13 episodes. But Dana Carvey , who starred as Rooney's grandson alongside a young Nathan Lane and a pre- When Harry Met Sally Meg Ryan , has not forgotten what it was like to work with the babies in arms star. In an interview with jimmy kimmel last year the Saturday Night Live A former pupil recalled some of Rooney's wild and often alarming antics, proclaiming, "Mickey was the craziest person I've ever met." Read on to learn more about the old Hollywood star's behavior on the set of the sitcom.
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Carvey claimed that Rooney brought a gun to the set.
In a publicity interview with NBC News in 1981, Carvey and Lane were asked what it was like working with Rooney . Carvey described his co-star as "a very charming, down-to-earth guy", but Lane said, "He pulled a knife on me", before dutifully calling Rooney "the ultimate professional and who he is with very easy to work with."
But during an episode of 2022 The Jimmy Kimmel Show more than 40 years later, Carvey shared some filming stories this gave credence to Lane's initial comment, claiming the Hollywood legend complained nonstop about her days as Hollywood's biggest star and frequently pulled a gun out around her co-workers. "I mean, he was brilliant, but he had a .38 gun and he was waving it around," said the Wayne's World says the actor. Fitting into one of his signature impressions, Carvey impersonated Rooney, shouting, "They won't get me. If they come for me, I'll plug them." He added that Rooney walked the halls, frequently raving: "I was the number one star in the world. Can you hear me? Bang. [Sound of kisses.] World!"
In a podcast with Theo Von last year, Carvey recalled no more alleged .38-related antics . "He didn't like the script, he would pull it out and he would say, 'This script sucks!' - and he was waving that .38 all over the place," the actor said. He added that Rooney had also claimed that he intended to find the serial killer Juan Corona and "plug it full of holes".
He also said Rooney would throw his fortune in his face.
The gun wasn't the only unusual thing Rooney kept on him, according to Carvey. In an episode of fly on the wall , the podcast with which he co-hosts David Spade , Carvey said that Rooney would taunt him with the huge wads of cash earned from his resurgence doing a musical review on Broadway and then the sitcom. "He was doing sugar babies on Broadway he was getting $50,000 a week, and then on the TV show they were giving him $50,000 a week, and he had been broke for decades," Carvey recalled. "So he always had $5,000 on him. $ in cash and he put it under my face and said, "Do you think I can afford lunch?" » ae0fcc31ae342fd3a1346ebb1f342fcb
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Rooney apparently liked Lane.
Speaking to Kimmel, Carvey shared that the former child star clearly had a favorite among the show's two young comedians. "Mickey loved Nathan," he said. "I wasn't so sure of myself." On Von's podcast, Carvey said that behind their relationship was a faulty assumption on Rooney's part. "Mickey always thought I was gay," Carvey said. "He put his arm around Nathan, looked at me, and just said, 'I'm just glad we like the girls.'" Lane came out gay In the lawyer in 1999.)
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The careers of all its stars have survived One of the boys .
One of the boys did not attract viewers or critics and only aired for about four months. Meanwhile, the careers of Carvey, Lane and Rooney would all continue, relatively unscathed.
Rooney died of natural causes in 2014 at the age of 93. "Mickey was 62 when I worked with him, he had incredible energy, and he was very, very bitter and he lived to be 95," Carvey said in fly on the wall . (He was two years late; Rooney actually died aged 93 in 2014). "Then bitterness won't kill you."
Meanwhile, her time on the show would be an important stepping stone on Carvey's path to stardom. SNL and in the Wayne's World movies.
"I ended up working at Rockefeller Center, on the sixth floor, and on the eighth floor, I was Saturday Night Live ", he told Kimmel. "I would go up there on Thursdays and sit in the stands and watch Eddie Murphy and I would watch Joe Piscopo repeat. I thought, “I really, really want to go. It took me six years and then I found myself there. »
