Dana Carvey Tells The Wild Story Of A Gun-Toting Mickey Rooney On 1982 Sitcom

Dana Carvey was just a few years away from breaking out on “Saturday Night Live” when he accepted the function of Mickey Rooney’s grandson on the 1982 NBC sitcom “One of many Boys.”

The sitcom, which additionally starred Nathan Lane, was canceled after 13 episodes, but it surely left Carvey with wild recollections of Rooney, whose Hollywood glory days had light. (Watch the video under.)

“Mickey was the craziest individual I’ve ever met,” Carvey mentioned on “Jimmy Kimmel Dwell” Wednesday. “I imply, he was sensible, however he had a .38 revolver and he’d wave it round.”

“They’re not gonna get me,” Rooney would say, based on Carvey. “They arrive for me, I’ll plug ’em!”

The “Wayne’s World” alum mentioned Rooney would stroll the hallways of Rockefeller Middle declaring that he was as soon as the “No. 1 star in the world.”

“You hear me … the world!”

After all, Carvey, whose impersonation of President George H. W. Bush was a spotlight of his 1986-93 tenure at “SNL,” did a dead-on impression of Rooney as he recounted the star’s antics.

The short-lived “One of many Boys” was filmed simply two flooring under “Saturday Night Live,” so Carvey would go to the set and watch Eddie Murphy and Joe Piscopo rehearse.

“I used to be considering, ’Rattling, I actually wanna stand up two flooring,’ and it took me six years,” Carvey mentioned.

Quick-forward to 9:20 for Carvey’s recollections of Rooney:

Rooney died in 2014 at age 93, having acted in additional than 300 motion pictures and TV exhibits.