Chevy Chase on Letterman
06-06-07 | 10:23 AM
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Originally Posted by lucasorion
If I was going to make a list of celebrities who seem to be the most unhappy and have the biggest bug up their @$$, Chevy Chase might be at the top.
06-06-07 | 10:35 AM
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Chase has basically alienated everybody he's every known or worked with. Comedy Central did a roast of him a few years ago, and most of the roasters were young comics who hadn't even met him before.
06-06-07 | 11:17 AM
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Originally Posted by Tscott
No. What?
US comic actor Chevy Chase, who portrayed Gerald Ford as a klutz on the 1975-76 Saturday Night Live television shows, says he does not enjoy the renewed attention the ex-president's death brought him.
"I'm just a guy who made some fun of Gerald Ford in 1976 and I prefer to be left alone, really," the 63-year-old comedian told Reuters this week from a Colorado ski resort where he had been skiing with his daughter.
Chase, who has starred in many Hollywood film comedies and written for television shows, said he gets upset when people say that Ford "made" his career.
"The man who 'made my career' did not do 'Fletch,' did not do 'Caddyshack,' did not write for the 'Smothers Brothers' before he wrote for 'Saturday Night Live,' did not write for 12 years before that and win Writers Guild awards.
"It's that kind of thing that comes out in the press that perpetuates myths about me that are disgusting, that hurt my feelings, that hurt my family's feelings."
But since Ford's death at age 93 on Tuesday, Chase has declined interview requests from the nation's top newspapers and television news programs, which have repeatedly played excerpts of his old skits.
"He did not make my career," said Chase, who spoke to Reuters twice this week by telephone. "If anything, I took his career and put it in the dumper because I did not want him to be president of this country, that's the way it really should be written."
"I'm just a guy who made some fun of Gerald Ford in 1976 and I prefer to be left alone, really," the 63-year-old comedian told Reuters this week from a Colorado ski resort where he had been skiing with his daughter.
Chase, who has starred in many Hollywood film comedies and written for television shows, said he gets upset when people say that Ford "made" his career.
"The man who 'made my career' did not do 'Fletch,' did not do 'Caddyshack,' did not write for the 'Smothers Brothers' before he wrote for 'Saturday Night Live,' did not write for 12 years before that and win Writers Guild awards.
"It's that kind of thing that comes out in the press that perpetuates myths about me that are disgusting, that hurt my feelings, that hurt my family's feelings."
But since Ford's death at age 93 on Tuesday, Chase has declined interview requests from the nation's top newspapers and television news programs, which have repeatedly played excerpts of his old skits.
"He did not make my career," said Chase, who spoke to Reuters twice this week by telephone. "If anything, I took his career and put it in the dumper because I did not want him to be president of this country, that's the way it really should be written."
Originally Posted by wikipedia
"This guy in office is an uneducated, real lying schmuck... and we still couldn't beat him with a bore like Kerry." In the same speech he allegedly stunned the crowd at a People For the American Way benefit at the Kennedy Center, referring to the President as a "dumb fuck".
Several Bush detractors present at the event distanced themselves from Chase's comments, with Norman Lear remarking, "he'll live with it, I won't".
Several Bush detractors present at the event distanced themselves from Chase's comments, with Norman Lear remarking, "he'll live with it, I won't".
Oh, a tad.
06-06-07 | 12:08 PM
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I like the guy.
But maybe it's because I find him funny in the Vacation movies and both Fletch movies. Funny Farm, also.
I guess it's because I don't have to be his friend.
But maybe it's because I find him funny in the Vacation movies and both Fletch movies. Funny Farm, also.
I guess it's because I don't have to be his friend.
06-06-07 | 12:13 PM
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From: Philadelphia
Originally Posted by GeorgeP
From the first of the year, six days after Ford's death, to Reuters:
Chase also has been quoted as saying about George W. Bush,
Bitter? Chevy Chase?
Oh, a tad.
Chase also has been quoted as saying about George W. Bush,
Bitter? Chevy Chase?
Oh, a tad.
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06-06-07 | 12:57 PM
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Originally Posted by Groucho
Chase has basically alienated everybody he's every known or worked with. Comedy Central did a roast of him a few years ago, and most of the roasters were young comics who hadn't even met him before.
06-06-07 | 01:08 PM
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Originally Posted by GeorgeP
Chase also has been quoted as saying about George W. Bush...
06-06-07 | 01:34 PM
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Originally Posted by starseed1981
Isn't Chevy Chase the most hated member of the comedic entertainment field anyways?
I think that award goes to Carlos Mencia. Chevy is pretty irrelevant nowadays.
06-06-07 | 02:12 PM
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06-06-07 | 05:48 PM
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Originally Posted by Morf
Yeah, but how does that make Chase bitter again? Most Americans are saying (and have been saying) that about Bush for quite some time now.
If the old liberal whipping boy Norman Lear is distancing himself from your Bush-bashing, maybe you ought to rethink your comments. However accurate they were, they were very bitter in tone and in intent.
Chevy's apparently never been advised of a little thing called "take the high road" in his comments to the media. And no, he hasn't been funny since Christmas Vacation. At all.