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Wayne's World was released in the United States on February 14, 1992, by Paramount Pictures. A critical and commercial success, it was the tenth-highest-grossing film of 1992 and remains the highest-grossing film based on a Saturday Night Live sketch .
Wayne's World: Directed by Penelope Spheeris. With Mike Myers, Dana Carvey, Rob Lowe, Tia Carrere. Two slacker friends try to promote their public-access cable show.
- (173K)
- Comedy, Music
- Penelope Spheeris
- 1992-02-14
[1] [2] The first "Wayne's World" sketch appeared in the 13th Saturday Night Live episode of the 1988–1989 season, on February 18, 1989. It evolved from a segment "Wayne's Power Minute" (1987) on the CBC Television series It's Only Rock & Roll, as the main character first appeared in that show.
Feb 14, 2017 · Flashback to the 1992 Wayne's World Premiere. See photos from the movie's premiere on its 25th anniversary
- Madeline Boardman
- WAYNE BEGAN LIFE ON A DIFFERENT SERIES ALTOGETHER. Though it’s Saturday Night Live that made Wayne Campbell a household name, the character—which Mike Myers began working on when he was still a teenager—began his on-screen life on Canadian television, first on the alternative video show City Limits and later on It’s Only Rock & Roll in 1987 in a sketch called “Wayne’s Power Minute.”
- DANA CARVEY BASED GARTH ON HIS BROTHER. Dana’s older brother, electronic engineer Brad Carvey, was the inspiration for Garth. “We both eat red licorice, and we both like video, and we both play the drums,” the elder Carvey told People Magazine in 1994 of the similarities between him and Garth.
- MADONNA WAS MIKE MYERS’ FIRST ON-SCREEN SMOOCH. Celebrity guests became a staple of "Wayne’s World," with Aerosmith and Madonna being two of the most memorable of them.
- RUMORS OF A RIFT BETWEEN MYERS AND CARVEY HAVE LONG CIRCULATED. From "Wayne’s World"’s SNL inception, rumors of a rift between Myers and Carvey have made the rounds in Hollywood, with many anonymous “insiders”—and a 2000 article in Vanity Fair—claiming that Myers didn’t want to be upstaged by Carvey, whose comedic profile was much higher when the sketch first began.
The movie, which follows Wayne and Garth when their cable access show gets picked up by a sleazy producer, played by Rob Lowe, turns 30 on Feb. 14. “These two guys just delighted in being...
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Feb 14, 2022 · Originally released on Feb. 14, 1992, and most recently re-released in a Blu-ray Steelbook edition, it brought Mike Myers and Dana Carvey’s lo-fi cable hosts Wayne Campbell and Garth Algar...
