Dana Carvey’s ice cream snafu with Maya Rudolph was unplanned

Guess what? And by the way – that ice cream moment between Dana Carvey and Maya Rudolph last week Saturday Night Live The cold open manipulation of the vice presidential debate was entirely spontaneous.

I’m talking about a recent episode of Superfly On the podcast he co-hosts with David Spade, Carvey revealed that the panic in which he (as Joe Biden) threw ice in the face of Maya Rudolph (as Kamala Harris) was a spur-of-the-moment decision.

“The ice cream cone wasn’t planned,” Carvey said. “I asked the prop man to give me an ice cream cone just to keep for the dress show. And then the air show she gave me [a] much bigger [one]and I didn’t ask her.”

Near the end of the opening sketch of the Oct. 5 episode, Carvey’s Biden crashes the viewing party hosted by Rudolph’s Kamala Harris and Andy Samberg’s Doug Emhoff and ends up hurling a triple vanilla scoop of ice cream right into the actress’ face; She takes it calmly and tries not to laugh or break character.

“Live, I was quite gesticulating,” Carvey explained. “I thought, ‘Here’s ice, big lump. Here is Maya’s face.’ And I didn’t want to hurt her, but I just thought about it and did it in two seconds. “We want to put an end to all the rumors and all the talk.” He also wasn’t aware that he himself had a “big drop” in his mouth, he told Spade.

Later in the podcast, which featured this week’s host, comedian Nate Bargatze, Carvey said he wanted his Biden impression to be done “respectfully.” What started as a viral clip on his internet turned into a stint at his alma mater where he tried to “stay [the impression] funny.” The former SNL The star, who previously portrayed George HW Bush, described his Biden parody as a cross between the cartoon “Mr. Magoo” and the late comedian Tim Conway.

“The main thing is that it makes me laugh, and I definitely do things that he doesn’t do,” he said. “He doesn’t throw ice cream in your face. You know? He doesn’t say I can’t believe it’s not butter. I’m doing what I did with the first Bush.”