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