Dana Carvey discussed earlier this year on “The Howard Stern Show” the professional rivalry between himself and “Wayne’s World” and “Saturday Night Live” co-star, Mike Myers. Carvey actually quit “Wayne’s World” after reading the first script co-written by Myers when his role was diminished to that of a sidekick instead of a co-star. Their relationship got worse when Myers allegedly lifted Carvey’s impression of “SNL” creator Lorne Michaels for his Dr. Evil character in the “Austin Powers” franchise. But Carvey would reveal the duo has since buried the hatch. “We’ve come full circle since I talked to you last [2019]. We’ve become very very close friends,” Carvey told Stern. “The only good thing about getting old is you just, sort of get a little more wisdom, you get a little more perspective and you practice forgiveness for others and for yourself.”
The soundtrack of “Wayne’s World” reached No. 1 on the Billboard 200, and featured tracks from Alice Cooper, Jimi Hendrix and most famously, Queen, whose “Bohemian Rhapsody” was famously used during a headbanging car scene. Myers revealed earlier this week to director David O. Russell at the “Netflix Is a Joke Fest” that “Wayne’s World” producer and “SNL” head honcho Lorne Michaels actually wanted to use Guns N’ Roses for the iconic scene. “Lorne kept putting under [my office door] the Billboard Hot 100 and it was all Guns N’ Roses, Guns N’ Roses, Guns N’ Roses,” he said to Consequence, but he wasn’t swayed to change his mind, because “I love Guns N’ Roses. I don’t have a joke for Guns N’ Roses.” To Michaels’ credit, once Myers got him on board with “Bohemian Rhapsody,” “he talked to the studio on my behalf and made it happen. He was initially [against it], but then he became the greatest champion of it.”
Queen singer Freddie Mercury was a fan of the scene, too, and he saw an early cut of it just prior to his death in late 1991. Queen guitarist Brian May said: “I took it ’round to Freddie not long before he went,” May told Myers in a celebrity video panel in 2020. “[I] showed it to him, because you said you wanted to have that approval. And he loved it; he just laughed and laughed. He was very weak, but he just smiled and laughed. How wonderful is that?”
