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I'm Chevy Chase, And You're Not (documentary)

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Did anyone catch this? It sounds like the director did a lot of work on this, and at 82 Chevy's still as arrogant and prickly as he ever was. The guy had a helluva run from the late '70s to late '80s. It's telling that for a guy who made as many bombs as he did, his hits made so much money & left such an imprint on pop culture (Ty, Clark, Dusty) that it feels like he had a lot more success. Still, it sounds like you'd be hard pressed to find a dozen people that actually like him & consider him a friend.

Edit. Looks like the next airing will be this Sunday at 7PM. Recording set.

8 minutes ago, GhostOfTomJoad said:

Did anyone catch this? It sounds like the director did a lot of work on this, and at 82 Chevy's still as arrogant and prickly as he ever was. The guy had a helluva run from the late '70s to late '80s. It's telling that for a guy who made as many bombs as he did, his hits made so much money & left such an imprint on pop culture (Ty, Clark, Dusty) that it feels like he had a lot more success. Still, it sounds like you'd be hard pressed to find a dozen people that actually like him & consider him a friend.

Edit. Looks like the next airing will be this Sunday at 7PM. Recording set.

Apparently they tried to get some folks from Community to be in the movie and talk about him. Not a single one said yes.

I know he's a prick, but holy shit he's got to be just a colossal asshat.

One of the all-time unapologetic assholes.

Although in recent years he's adopted a kind of "What, people thought I was an asshole? Why, I've never" thing that I don't think I buy. Unless he has dementia, which I guess is a real possibility.

I’m really good friends with an actor who’s about his age, and has been in the industry since the mid 1970s.

He talks about dickheads like Rob Schneider and Richard Dreyfass - and really fantastic people like Ben Stiller and Bryan Cranston.

While Hollywood is filled with assholes, which makes sense given a whole lot of insecure actor egos, he also said that Chevy Chase remains in his own league, and is sort of the GOAT in consistent assholeness.

1 hour ago, Chewbacca said:

Apparently they tried to get some folks from Community to be in the movie and talk about him. Not a single one said yes.

I know he's a prick, but holy shit he's got to be just a colossal asshat.

Most of the cast has remained quiet for various reasons. Jay Chandrasekhar (Super Troopers) who directed a lot of Community episodes, has publicly stated he was there when Chase quit/was fired and has talked about Chase’s meltdowns. I’m not sure if Jay was the one who fired him, more likely the show runners/producers, but he was pissed. He witnessed some of the bullshit directly, while some of it happened while he was elsewhere but then he was told immediately about it.

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I never saw it--and it only aired once on Comedy Central--but the Friar's Club Roast of him in 2002 was apparently so brutal with the roasters going at him so viciously and personally they changed the format later. They tried to get friends and former co-stars to attend, but almost none of them did. Steve Martin and Martin Short sent video tributes (where they joked they couldn't be there because they were filming a sequel to the Three Amigos...without him). Al Franken and Laraine Newman did attend and went heavy on his drug addiction and anti-semitism.

Franken:

“I think a serious contribution that Chevy has made to our society is to show people how to deal with a chemical dependency problem. I’m talking, of course, about Chevy’s heroic struggle against his addiction to ‘back pills.’ When Chevy Chase announced that he was going to the Betty Ford Clinic for his dependency on ‘back pills,’ it sent a message to America that addiction isn’t confined to illegal drugs like, say, cocaine. I remember at SNL, the guy who used to deliver Chevy’s ‘back pills.’ I think his name was Ronnie Sunshine.”

Newman:

Reading excerpts from her “diary”: “September 30, 1975. Dear diary, Wow, I don’t know if this show is going to work, but you couldn’t ask for a better group of people. Already Jane, Gilda and I feel like sisters. Danny is hilarious and has invited everyone up to his bar in Canada. Belushi’s a little gruff, but it’s obvious he’s a sweetheart. Chevy said to me and I quote, ‘You know, the Holocaust never really happened. It’s a lie perpetrated by the Jews, who own 80 percent of the wealth in this country.’ Then he tried to sell me coke. I didn’t buy any, partly because I didn’t have any money but mostly because he wanted me to use his dick as a straw.

“November 12, 1975. Dear diary, Something terrible happened to Chevy while doing a Gerald Ford sketch. He took a pratfall over a podium and injured his scrotum. I can imagine how painful hurting your scrotum is when you’re as big a dick as Chevy. 

“December 2, 1975. Dear diary, The show is being plagued with bad luck. Danny had a psychotic break, Belushi’s gone missing and Lorne had a polyp removed from his colon. The biopsy showed that the polyp was actually Chevy up Lorne’s ass.

“October 7, 1976. Dear diary, Chevy quit the show. He announced to us that he's leaving to pursue a dream he’s had since he was a little boy: To make movies and host the worst talk show in history. We wished him well. We knew he could do it.”

Stephen Colbert went off the top rope with this summary during the proceedings:

The only thing I think of when I look at this man is there but for the grace of God go I. Why would I tempt the comedy gods to strike me down like this?

A comedy lamprey, just sucking the joy out of everything I touch.

But for some of these people, [fame] went to their head ... but this man never forgot what got him wherever he thinks he is.

Before you attack him, think: There may come a day in your darkest hour when you are a shadow of your, albeit paper-thin self. And when that day comes, I hope that you are cheered up by something that Mr. Chase so famously said, "He's Chevy Chase and you're not." If that doesn't cheer you up, then I don't know what will.

Chevy was visibly upset & uncomfortable throughout the event, and reportedly broke down into a sobbing mess in the bar afterwards w/ Paul Shaffer.

Edited by GhostOfTomJoad

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