Whatever happened to Dana Carvey? This: According to the “Saturday Night Live” alum, a doctor botched an open-heart surgery procedure on him in 1998, operating on the wrong artery. The 44-year-old comic testified to such today in San Francisco, taking the stand in his $7.5 million lawsuit against the surgeon.
Carvey filed the complaint in 1999. Today, he told jurors he remembers “just lying in my bed just sobbing” after being told of the mishap. Not to blame the patient or anything, but the doctor in question says Carvey had an “unusual anatomy.”
The onetime “Wayne’s World” wonder says the surgeon’s slip of the knife cost him six months of work. Until resurfacing recently for celebrity week of “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire,” Carvey fell off the map after the demise of his 1996 ABC sketch comedy show.
