Dana Carvey laughing it up at The Orleans

The Church Lady is probably disappointed that Tim Tebow isn't in the Super Bowl, but Dana Carvey will be here for the big weekend anyway.

Carvey does all his great characters and impressions onstage. It helped to have other people around him on "Saturday Night Live," but he manages to cover it solo.

"I do one-man sketches, basically. A one-man sketch, that's a new way to put it," he noted a few years back.

His recent stint at guest-hosting "Live! With Kelly" was cited as a bright-spot for the morning show that's losing ratings after the retirement of Regis Philbin. But if TV makes him an offer he can't refuse, it could derail a Las Vegas future he outlined in 2007:

"Someday I'd like to have a show there and live there when my kids are grown up," he said. "I would just live in the hotel and let my toenails grow long and drink my own urine. I'd have the whole top floor and slowly go mad. I would like to do (a show) where it's me, Carrot Top, Louie Anderson, George Wallace and Bobby Slayton. Kind of a quintet. Just call it, hmmm, 'The Wacky Dudes.'

"We'll open a casino called Sir Laughs A Lot and just do four shows nightly."

Contact reporter Mike Weatherford at mweatherford@ reviewjournal.com or 702-383-0288.