Dana Carvey: Straight White Male, 60 (TV Special 2016)

Dana Carvey: Straight White Male, 60: Directed by Marcus Raboy. With Dana Carvey, Dex Carvey, Thomas Carvey. Emmy-winning comedy legend Dana Carvey returns to the stage with a routine that blends pitch-perfect impressions of big personalities with so-true-it-hurts stories about being a dad of millennials, the joys of aging, and pharmaceuticals.

“Starting with possible one of the worst cold opens Iu0026#39;ve ever seen in a standup show, Dana Carvey launches directly into impressions of political figures. While he did at least ridicule all sides of the political spectrum in equal measure, he very much played the u0026quot;hereu0026#39;s what you want to hearu0026quot; card.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eImpression comedy can be great in small doses, but a standup routine so littered with them, especially when theyu0026#39;re bad, can be painful to watch. His transitions between bits bordered on the quality of his open. It seems he just wrote a list of a dozen people he can do a mediocre impression of and went through them in sequence with no adjoining material.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe general sentiment from other reviewers seems to be that Dana has other strong material, and this was just one of his bad days. In that case, you may find it worth a watch. But if this is your first time encountering Dana, Iu0026#39;d recommend avoiding this special.”