Dana Carvey: Mickey Rooney would taunt me with wads of cash on set

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Mickey Rooney’s quirky behavior on set — more than 40 years later.The “Wayne’s World” actor, 68, dished regarding Rooney’s one-of-a-kind antics, during taping of the 1982 sitcom, on a recent episode of his podcast Fly on the Wall —including the way Rooney would wave stacks of cash in his face.“He was doing ‘Sugar Babies’ on Broadway getting $50,000 a week, and then the TV show, they were giving him $50,000 a week, and he’d been broke for decades,” Carvey told podcast co-host David Spade.

Carvey continued: “So he always carried like, $5,000 with him in cash and he’d put it under my face and go, ‘Think I can afford lunch?'”He then recalled that while the pair were filming their one-season TV show, the Andy Hardy actor was in his 60s.Despite his older age, Carvey recollected that Rooney seemed to possess a vigorous amount of vitality and spirit.The former “Saturday Night Live” cast member noted that Rooney would often tell him on set: “I was the number one star in the world.

You hear me? Bang. The world!”“That’s what he said every day, every 45 minutes, down the hallway, ‘number one star,'” he quipped. “Mickey was 62 when I worked with him, had an incredible amount of energy, and he was very, very bitter and he lived to 95. [Editor’s Note: Mickey Rooney died at age 93 in 2014.] So bitterness won’t kill you.” Rooney died in 2014.