Lane Maxwell
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Lane Maxwell (also known as "Lane Maxwell, professional psychic") is a recurring fictitious character portrayed by comedian Dana Carvey in American sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live.
[edit] Character
As described by his title, Lane is a psychic. He is featured in several different occasions for different reasons. He always wears a blue suit with black buttons and thick black framed glasses. He is rather sympathetic and is normally in a happy mood due to the fact that he is always as he describes it "two and one quarter steps ahead of everybody". He is the author of the fictitious autobiography I Knew You Were Gonna Buy This Book which is mentioned in all the sketches featuring him.
[edit] Appearances
Lane's first appearance was in a fictitious game show called "Quiz Masters" were he was in a question and answer game against a lady worker from the cracker jacks cookie company. When the game started he won by several points until he started predicting a "meteor" rather than the answers and his opponent starts winning, eventually a meteor falls on his opponent and kills her, making him the winner. He was later featured as a guest in the fictitious The Arsenio Hall Show parody The Carsenio Hall Show where an interview was made to him (this was the first crossover between recurring sketches in SNL history). He then received his very own talk show, which strangely ended when the creator of the show was accidentally killed by a falling skunk juggling shuriken's on a spotlight, leading the show to be cancelled.
[edit] Catchphrases
- I knew you were gonna say that!
- I'm always two and one quarter steps ahead of everybody.
