Does The Mouse have a sense of humor?

For Dana Carvey's sake, let's hope so. The former "Saturday Night Live" and "Wayne's World" star's new half-hour sketch-comedy series "The Taco Bell Dana Carvey Show," which debuted last Tuesday (9:30 p.m. ET, PT), was the first real test of ABC's programming latitude under the Disney regime. Carvey's show was a rousing blast of kamikaze satire, much of it in borderline-questionable taste, recalling "SNL" in its heyday.

Carvey largely targeted politics, both the presidential kind (the giggly opening bit featuring Carvey as a President Clinton so sensitive and nurturing, he's had himself genetically altered in order to be able to breastfeed) and the corporate variety. In his relentless flogging of the advertiser-driven TV biz, Carvey delivered prime time's funniest biting the-feeding-hand stuff since Michael Moore's short-lived NBC (and briefly, Fox) series "TV Nation."