Comedian Dana Carvey has revealed the joke he told that made Bill Gates walk out on him.
Appearing alongside Bill Maher on his show ‘Real Time’, the 69-year-old recalled performing as his character The Church Lady for the Microsoft co-founder.
The Wayne’s World actor said: ‘They asked me to do a skit with Bill Gates as the church lady. I said I do not sell out that character.
‘Then they told me what they are going to pay me and I said I’ll get the b****** dress on right now.
‘I’m in this giant arena and they are so intense about Bill Gates, he is like their god. We have cue cards, I’m in the dress, he is there being Bill Gates.
‘It wasn’t on the script, I turn to him and said, “Well, well, well. We like ourselves don’t we. Apparently, we made a deal with the devil”.’
He adds, still in character,: ‘The devil said we can have $100 billion dollars, but we’d have to go through life looking like a turtle”.’
Maher’s audience erupts in laughter, causing Carvey to turn and ask: ‘What, you feel he looks like a turtle? It was a joke.’ He added: ‘Then, he walked off.’
Appearing alongside Bill Maher on his show ‘Real Time’, the 69-year-old recalled performing as his character The Church Lady for the Microsoft co-founder
Maher and his audience erupted in laughter at the joke
The Saturday Night Live alumni also revealed on the show that he is currently ‘working on’ his impression of Elon Musk.
Carvey was replaced recently by his Wayne’s World costar Mike Myers on SNL as the Tesla CEO and X owner.
He had originally taken up the role of portraying the billionaire after Trump won last year’s election.
The real Musk had posted on his platform X criticizing Carvey’s portrayal of him at the time, writing: ‘Dana Carvey, just sounds like Dana Carvey.’
Giving his impression of Musk alongside Maher, Carvey said: ‘We got to go to Mars, because we can’t sustain life on planet Earth.
‘We gotta go to Mars, it’s just gonna be really cool, OK? Mhm, mhm, mhm.’
He then switched to an impersonation of Trump, joking: ‘What he said. He’s a smart cookie, he’s a tough cookie, he’s a Cookie Monster.
‘This one, he’s smart. Everybody talks about it. He’s like Chips Ahoy.’
Nobody was off limits on the show on Friday, with Carvey also taking joy in impersonating Joe Biden, RFK Jr, JFK, Woody Allen and even Paul McCartney.
Carvey is seen here performing as The Church Lady for an SNL cold opening
Carvey said the joke upset Gates so much that he walked off the stage after agreeing to perform at an event
It comes after Maher revealed he would meet with President Trump at the White House after a decades-long feud.
Maher has long insulted the president over his entry into politics, with Trump filing a lawsuit in 2013 after Maher made comments that his father was an orangutan.
It appears that Kid Rock, a mutual acquaintance of the two, brokered the peace talks between the two.
Maher told fellow comic Andrew Schultz on an episode of his podcast Club Random set to debut Sunday that the meeting is happening.
‘Kid Rock was here a couple of weeks ago, and he said, “I want you to meet Trump.”
He said, “I’m gonna take you to the White House.” So, now we’re gonna do that,’ Maher said.