Dana Carvey: Straight White Male, 60

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This is a great stand up comedy special. Dana Carvey is still hilarious all these years later with all new jokes and his impressions are still spot on. Wonderful!

Great stuff! A lot of material on trump and the clintons. The difference between america and italy. The virtues of capitalism. Carvey spends a while talking to the group that came in late. And why you shouldn't make fun of the ceo when you get invited to visit the company, dressed up as the church lady, from SNL. And another fun bit where john lennon and paul mccartney catch up on things. On imdb, the cast shows his sons, as "warmup", but I didn't see them on the netflix version. They may have been edited out for the one shown on netflix. A brief mention of wayne's world. All standup material written by carvey himself. Directed by marcus raboy. He directs a lot of standups, singers, and music videos. All great stuff.

I have a feeling the negative comments on here are due to hurt feelings of the Millennial generation. This is hands down one of the funniest skits I've seen George Carlin. Simply amazing.

Unbeatable stand-up. Dana is back in top form in this drop dead hilarious show full of tons of new material and fabulous impressions. Very current. For once a comedian who can talk about something other than sex, explicit discussion of intimate body parts, or gross bodily excretions, which seems to be the main material passing for comedy these days. I always loved Dana on SNL. This show has more funny, insightful material than I've ever seen from him. Absolute genius. Can't imagine why the imdb rating isn't a 10. I haven't laughed this much in a long while. Thanks, Dana!! 💓

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.

There was a time when I thought Dana Carvey was pretty funny but you couldn't prove it by this stand-up special. He had his moments but the idiosyncratic gestures and repetitious nature of his bits failed to impress for someone who's been on the scene for as long as he has been. At least when he skewered political figures it was fairly even handed, bashing Trump, the Clintons, Bush and Obama with equal abandon. However he did unmask his conservative bent by equating capitalism with the Apple Store, and Socialism as the DMV; that was a pretty apt comparison. And I suppose it comes with one's own demographics, but his taking it to Millennials as a helpless generation found some resonance with this viewer, but it just wasn't that funny. So if I were to advise on a recommendation for a future gig, I'd have to say give it a rest - it just wouldn't be prudent.

I don't know who the target audience is. I turned it off after 20 minutes

I must say I'm surprised by the negativity of the other reviews here. I found this to be a delight. When he started on trump I did think, Oh no this is going to be rubbish, but his take is just delightfully silly. Literally the only funny trump bit I've ever heard. I've watched it several times. It's that good. Possibly my favourite comedy special ever.

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.