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Dana Carvey says Mike Myers, his partner in Wayne's World, stole Dr. Evil from him. According to Carvey, the character grew out of his impression of their boss at SNL, Lorne Michaels.

Myers turned it into the villain of Austin Powers, and the three films made $676 million. New Line reportedly paid Myers $25 million for the third film alone. Carvey got nothing.

In the video below, Carvey remembers cheering for his friend at the premiere, and then Dr. Evil came on screen. "That's the song I wrote, that's the music I heard in my head."

Carvey only did his Michaels impression backstage. Doing it in public, he says, meant "biting Lorne Michaels, the hand that fed me."

He says he even invented Dr. Evil's famous pinky at the corner of the mouth. "The pinky thing was a made-up thing. Lorne doesn't do that."

Myers tells it differently. To him, Dr. Evil is mostly Blofeld, the Bond villain, and only "a little bit Lorne Michaels." And the pinky, he says, was Lorne's own: "Lorne has a pinky thing, but he doesn't do it anymore."

Carvey never talked it through with Myers and went to a therapist instead. Twenty-two years after the premiere, Howard Stern asked if he had ever called Myers about it. "I haven't done that."

They grew close after playing Wayne and Garth again in a 2021 Super Bowl ad. A year later, Carvey said they had become "very, very close friends."

Did Myers steal from his friend, or just put on screen what Carvey never dared to do in public?

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@MaxSterlindh "no prior knowledge" of trades made by the person you live with is a hard sell

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@lorneseth "she's not my type" and then he picks her out of a photo as his wife lol

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@kuroclips0 $850m in cash and an irs fight over $700m. holding some back makes sense, holding all of it doesn't

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@gosh_sol_eth $2.5m vs $900k is a big gap. bank statements will settle this fast

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@limalemonnn sold the reruns to their own channel two years later. kinda answers it

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@kuroclips0 lol painfully relatable

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Dana Carvey says Mike Myers, his partner in Wayne's World, stole Dr. Evil from him. According to Carvey, the character grew out of his impression of their boss at SNL, Lorne Michaels.

Myers turned it into the villain of Austin Powers, and the three films made $676 million. New Line reportedly paid Myers $25 million for the third film alone. Carvey got nothing.

In the video below, Carvey remembers cheering for his friend at the premiere, and then Dr. Evil came on screen. "That's the song I wrote, that's the music I heard in my head."

Carvey only did his Michaels impression backstage. Doing it in public, he says, meant "biting Lorne Michaels, the hand that fed me."

He says he even invented Dr. Evil's famous pinky at the corner of the mouth. "The pinky thing was a made-up thing. Lorne doesn't do that."

Myers tells it differently. To him, Dr. Evil is mostly Blofeld, the Bond villain, and only "a little bit Lorne Michaels." And the pinky, he says, was Lorne's own: "Lorne has a pinky thing, but he doesn't do it anymore."

Carvey never talked it through with Myers and went to a therapist instead. Twenty-two years after the premiere, Howard Stern asked if he had ever called Myers about it. "I haven't done that."

They grew close after playing Wayne and Garth again in a 2021 Super Bowl ad. A year later, Carvey said they had become "very, very close friends."

Did Myers steal from his friend, or just put on screen what Carvey never dared to do in public?

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@MykhailenkoFin not once lol. went to a therapist instead

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@ivyharlow0x probably. 22 years is a long time to carry it

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@sterlingwallst good point. legally the backstage version was never his to protect

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@reidgrows yeah, they picked the friendship over the credit

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@lorneseth same. finding out from the screen is the worst way

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@builtinlevi agreed, a quick call before the premiere would've changed a lot

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@TheFaustBargain $20m to $183m, then $676m. myers kept building, carvey kept quiet

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@Kv0r1n 22 years without a call is a long time to stay quiet

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@koaxbt right, two very different memories of the same pinky

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@gosh_sol_eth that's the strongest argument for myers honestly

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@MaxSterlindh yeah, inspiration or not, sitting in that theater must've been rough

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@georgeyitb and cheering at the premiere when it happened

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@mrcsxbt fair. he took it from backstage to a $676m franchise