Dana Carvey shares joke he wished he said on “SNL” as Joe Biden after Lady Gaga quip 'didn't land'

Carvey thinks a Joaquin Phoenix pun is funnier than Lady Gaga gibberish.

One of Dana Carvey's latest Joe Biden jokes on Saturday Night Live involving Lady Gaga didn't go over as well as he'd hoped — but he's since come up with a better one involving the singer's recent costar Joaquin Phoenix.

The sketch show alum, who has returned to play the president on the last four episodes of SNL, said he's since thought up a funnier quip than the one he ended up using in the cold open sketch. "So I do the little Biden piece as part of the Bret Baier interrogating Maya-Kamala," Carvey explained on his Fly on the Wall podcast. "And he's kind of confused. He starts talking about the Joker movie, but they don't know it."

Rosalind O'Connor/NBC/getty; Presley Ann/Getty Dana Carvey as Joe Biden on 'Saturday Night Live,' Lady Gaga

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Dana Carvey as Joe Biden on 'Saturday Night Live,' Lady Gaga

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In the sketch, Baier (Alec Baldwin) plays an out-of-context clip of Carvey's Biden that sounds like he's dissing Kamala Harris (Maya Rudolph). "Folks, we have other problems on our hands," he says in the sketch. "Four years ago, it was amazing. It was the guy you wanted. But now they got this girl, and people are going, 'What's she doing here?'"

Harris quickly jumps in to clarify that Biden is actually confused about Joker: Folie à Deux, not her candidacy. "And why's she singin'?" Biden asks in the next segment of the clip. "What's a Folie à Deux? What's a ga ga ga ga goo ga? What is it? Come on! No Joker. No joke."

The Wayne's World star explained his creative process on his podcast. "I went, who's the lady gagaga? You know, whatever," he said. "I did that. Didn't land." The comedian came up with a better joke after the fact involving the Joker sequel's other star: "I thought later, I should have said, 'And who's Whackin Phoenix? Who the hell is he? Whackin Phoenix would have got a big laugh.'"

Gregg DeGuire/WireImage Dana Carvey in 2019

Gregg DeGuire/WireImage

Dana Carvey in 2019

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Earlier in the podcast, Carvey discussed his brief appearance as Biden in the pre-recorded TikTok sketch from the same episode. "They go, 'Will you come over as Biden and be in this thing?' he recalled. "Then I find out everybody's in it and it's a TikTok thing. And I'm just bouncing around as Biden. Now that morning, I didn't think I'd be going in. So I did the stairs at my hotel, 420 stairs, all out. You heard me. Because I like to feel that. And then they put me on this vibrating platform and I didn't have to act. My legs were shaking."

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Carvey also shared that he may make a future cameo without the other performers' knowledge. "I might do this on the live show — sneak up behind Colin Jost and Michael Che [on "Weekend Update," like literally on a combat mission, and then just come up into the frame, look at them like that, and then just go back down," he said. "They don't even know it. They get a big laugh, they don't know it. Then I crawl back down."

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Watch the full Fly on the Wall ep above.