This is Dana Carvey on rock stardom, as quoted in Rolling Stone:
“I think all of us at one time in our lives wanted to be a rock star. All you have to do is flare your nostrils and look like you’re about to vomit. Everything you say is suddenly very important. It doesn’t have to make any literal sense.”
Hence his “Saturday Night Live” classic “The Lady I Know,” better known as “Choppin’ Broccoli” — the exact type of absurd, no “literal sense” lyric of which Carvey speaks.
He first performed it in 1986 in the character of washout “Derek Stevens.” He brought it back on “The Tonight Show” Thursday.
Things haven’t changed much in 18 years. After all, terrible rock music is timeless.
