Wayne's World

This article is about the SNL sketch. For the films based on the sketch, see Wayne's World (film) and Wayne's World 2. For other uses, see Wayne's World (disambiguation).

"Wayne's World" is a comedy franchise originally created by Mike Myers and developed with Dana Carvey. The sketches and films focus on Wayne Campbell (Myers) and Garth Algar (Carvey), co-hosts of a local public-access television program in Aurora, Illinois called Wayne's World.

The character of Wayne first appeared as an off-camera character on MuchMusic before evolving, in 1987, into an on-camera character in a segment titled "Wayne's Power Minute" on the CBC Television series It's Only Rock & Roll.

The segment further evolved into a recurring sketch on Saturday Night Live primarily from 1989 to 1994 (with additional segments in 2011 and 2015).

During their time on Saturday Night Live, Wayne's World spawned two films, Wayne's World (1992) and Wayne's World 2 (1993). The series also produced a VCR board game titled Wayne's World in 1992. Three video games (an adventure game and two platform games), all titled Wayne's World were released in 1993, variously for NES, Super NES, Sega Genesis, Game Boy and MS-DOS.

Several of the series' catchphrases have since entered the pop-culture lexicon.

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