Kevin Nealon on Dana Carvey & Jan Hooks
Kevin Nealon talks to Neal Brennan about getting SNL because he was friends with Dana Carvey, dating Jan Hooks, was a successful touring standup comic and had a funny audition. From the Blocks Podcast with Neal Brennan.
Full episode: https://youtu.be/E8HbLCUIf1I
Watch Neal Brennan: Crazy Good on Netflix:
https://www.netflix.com/title/81728557
Theme music by Electric Guest (unreleased).
Edited by Will Hagle (wthagle@gmail.com)
#podcast #snl #danacarvey #lornemichaels #kevinnealon #sketchcomedy #standupcomedy #comedy #janhooks #nealbrennan
@statzuno
April 29, 2026 at 4:52 pm
Nealon was great.
Just couldn't do the SNL news very well. Weird. Flubbed words often. Never felt comfortable. Then Norm stepped in.
@statzuno
April 29, 2026 at 4:52 pm
Jan Hooks was one of the top 3 SNL cast members ever. Number 1, really.
She had a great cast surrounding her, too. Especially Phil Hartman. Special group. Her Tammy Faye was freakin' hilarious.
@_SPREZZATURA_McGEE_
April 29, 2026 at 4:52 pm
weird dude.
@hotpenny
April 29, 2026 at 4:52 pm
George Miller
@Me-lj1rk
April 29, 2026 at 4:52 pm
smile neal
@revwillyg6450
April 29, 2026 at 4:52 pm
The weird year? More like the Weird Science year.
@batsnackattack
April 29, 2026 at 4:52 pm
You can see what Lorne Michaels was doing after the 'Weird Year' where it really was many talented people who seemingly had nothing in common with each other. So, yes, Dana, his buddy and the girlfriend are going to do better off the start and it did return the whole viewers' sense of seeing friends and family. It worked.
@PikesvilleAl
April 29, 2026 at 4:52 pm
Joe Piscopo did a Mr Subliminal skit first
@RedStickNotary
April 29, 2026 at 4:52 pm
Let the guest talk!
@savethezombies
April 29, 2026 at 4:52 pm
The Mumbling Transit Workers remains one of the best SNL sketches ever.
@josephpalumbo5039
April 29, 2026 at 4:52 pm
The interviewer is lousy
@sirB0nes
April 29, 2026 at 4:52 pm
What network exec would possibly make the choice to deliberately push Chris Farley and Adam Sandler off of SNL?? I always assumed they just moved on to bigger and better things, but the idea that the network was actively trying to get rid of them is unbelievable.
@lazerx1828
April 29, 2026 at 4:52 pm
Dana Carvey, a legend in his own mind. Still suffers, unfortunately and horribly, from Chevy Chase syndrome.
@MitchRuth
April 29, 2026 at 4:52 pm
I remember Jan Hooks on WTBS with Bill Tush… she was fantastic
@middleagenerd
April 29, 2026 at 4:52 pm
Hooks was such an underrated performers.
@Nvrgiveup15
April 29, 2026 at 4:52 pm
I find Lorne to be a complete ass and narcissist
@Nvrgiveup15
April 29, 2026 at 4:52 pm
Jan Hooks was amazing
@Nvrgiveup15
April 29, 2026 at 4:52 pm
Seth meyers sucks.
@danielrichwine2268
April 29, 2026 at 4:52 pm
One of the funniest bits I ever saw on that show was his, where he reviewed p** movies. Interested, interested, very interested, extremely interested, and then I suddenly lost interest.
@jonathanstow9272
April 29, 2026 at 4:52 pm
Why was there a closeup of Teri Gross at the beginning of the video?
@TemakiTom
April 29, 2026 at 4:52 pm
Here for Nealon.
@bodgertime
April 29, 2026 at 4:52 pm
Nelson’s artwork is awesome 😎, I mean, seriously, brougham
@jomamackdaddy
April 29, 2026 at 4:52 pm
Decent dude, shit replacement for Norm on update. Still seems bitter that he was not even in Norm's ballpark of funny, but towed the corporate line. He sold out, did what he was told, and resented Norm because he recognized real talent.
@cdnsilverdaddy
April 29, 2026 at 4:52 pm
SCTV and Mad TV were far superior
@johnmillerii7638
April 29, 2026 at 4:52 pm
Reminds me of the farting therapist on there all gonna laugh at you
@twiggypie2314
April 29, 2026 at 4:52 pm
Norm got pushed out for the Hillary Clinton jokes because she was ramping up to run for NY Senator unopposed.
@tmx63
April 29, 2026 at 4:52 pm
five seconds in…that creepy intro…that was enough. Jeezus, dude… adios.