Chevy Chase C/D?

The bit with the tequila most of all.

Everything else = dud

I love him in Fletch, and Clark Giswold holds fond memories for me, being my first introduction to that sub-genre of 'America isn't like Europe really'. I also like him in Spies Like Us. I suspect he's a bit lame, but he makes me laugh, and what more can I ask of the guy?

Turning down the lead role in American Beauty- also classic.

Turning down the lead role in American Beauty to instead do F-grade straight to video kids flicks = insane.

Please explain. How can something as important as Steely Dan be associated (in any kind of positive way) with something as worthless as Chevy Chase?

All ears here, waiting to learn.

vacation films were amusing intermittently when abt 13 but cmon

the SNL stuff was before my time so cannot judge

sidenote - he went to my college and was asked to leave, or in terms of our quaker code, separated from the community coz he was seen as way too unserious and not funny enuf (this was years apart so i aint claiming intimate knowledge)

guy is pretty LOL in community

The problem with CC is his range as an actor is so limited that you cannot watch many of his films before you notice there's never anything new there to keep you engaged.

This puts him in squarely with a lot of other one-note comedians, like Abbott and Costello, who just kept banging away at the same vein of ore, and never moved more than a foot or two from what put the butter on their bread.

Kids don't care about this sameness. They like it. But, as an adult, I find CC ultimately tedious.

"one-note comedians, like Abbott and Costello"

doesn't matter a damn if the note is funny. but don't lump A&C in with the Chev. (I'm sure you'd call Burns & Allen one-note too)

dud dud dud dud dud

― Matos W.K. (M Matos)

He was good in Caddyshack, tho.

everybody was good in caddyshack. ted knight should have won an oscar for that performance.

Chevy Chase strikes me as being an insufferable, smug prick ala Richard Dreyfuss. That said, thanks to it being one of the few movies my family owned, "Funny Farm" was one of my favorite flicks as a kid. Not knowing what testicles were made his whole Rocky Mountain oyster fest baffling.

everybody was good in caddyshack. ted knight should have won an oscar for that performance.

OTM. Ted Knight's best work.

I don't like him on Community at all, but he isn't quite as annoying as I usually find him.

oh come on he's great. earnoculars!

Fletch is classic.
Having to see his bloated face in an obnoxious cell phone commercial during the playoffs - not classic

When I get home, I'll see if the high point of his non-"Caddyshack" career is on youtube...

the high point of his non-"Caddyshack" career is on youtube

You mean a pratfall or goofy sneer on SNL?

you dingalings, Ted Baxter IS Ted Knight's career

What about The Mary Tyler Moore Show?

lol at "you dingalings."

Ted Baxter is soooooooooo 1970s. Judge Elihu Smails rocks.

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e393/djbjkxua/caddyshack.jpg

Chevy Chase did have a great line in Caddyshack:

Judge Smails: You know, you should play with Dr. Beeper and myself. I mean, he's been club champion for three years running and I'm no slouch myself.

Ty Webb: Don't sell yourself short Judge, you're a tremendous slouch.

"by height"

OK, here it is (I hope):

www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMMZGLPecyw

Damn. (I think)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMMZGLPecyw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzYasBs4w4w

I started reading a Dave Wiegel article on the media, and, the internet being what it is, clicked through to this photo on Wikipedia shortly after. It's from 1976, taken "at the private party after the premiere of the movie A Star is Born, on the third floor of Dillon's Disco."

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e3/Chevy_Chase_1976.jpg

I tried to find a "Photos That Sum Up the Creepy, Coked-Out Decadence of the Bicentennial Moment" thread, but no luck.

ilx broadly otm about this smug cokevacuum

The problem with CC is his range as an actor is so limited that you cannot watch many of his films before you notice there's never anything new there to keep you engaged.

This puts him in squarely with a lot of other one-note comedians, like Abbott and Costello, who just kept banging away at the same vein of ore, and never moved more than a foot or two from what put the butter on their bread.

this is really unfair to bud and lou, who were always awesome at what they did and WAY out of the league of someone like chase.

Chase was hired by SNL as a writer; he serendipitously became a star mostly bcz he was a conventionally handsome guy who could do silly and filthy (by the standards of the era) things. He certainly made plenty of bad choices, but the waste of his talent is about as much in the Hollywood Eats Its Own column as with his substance-abuse issues/ talent limits. He's a funny guy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIxK-_rjXqE

written by Michael O'Donoghue

"Right after I stopped doing cocaine, I turned into a giant garden slug and, for the life of me, I don’t know why.

"Hi, I’m Chevy Chase. Have you noticed that, in the years since I left Saturday Night Live, my eyes have actually gotten smaller and closer together so they now look like little pig eyes? Why? Again, I don’t have a clue. As I was saying to Alan King the other day at the Alan King Celebrity Tennis Tournament, ‘Alan, I need more money. What I can’t fit in my wallet, I’ll eat or I’ll shove up my ass, but I must have more!’ And when I looked in the mirror, my eyes were the size of Roosevelt dimes and had moved another inch closer to my nose. ‘What is going on here?!?’ I exclaimed to my new wife, who looks like my old wife except she’s new.

"Still, the fans showed up for my last movie – The Giant Garden Slug’s European Vacation – a movie any man would be proud of, particularly if that man was Cantinflas. There’s much more I can say but I have a twenty lodged in my lower colon and it’s just driving me crazy. My next film is called The Giant Garden Slug Blows Eddie Murphy While John Candy Watches and it opens tomorrow at Red Carpet Theaters everywhere. Don’t miss it."

http://dennisperrin.blogspot.com/2015/02/a-censored-snl-moment.html

Watched a bizarre old SNL the other day with Chevy hosting remotely from LA via a TV in the NYC studio. I don't have my SNL tomes to hand, anyone remember the story behind that? He's awful and unfunny throughout btw.

what year, approximately?

hmm, early-mid 80s

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/lifestyle/chevy-chase-cant-change

Kind of weird feature where the writer suggests Chevy has changed while his every interview answer suggests Chevy has most definitely not changed

def one of those revives where you're disappointed it's not for rip purposes

Chevy seems to be suffering from mental illness imo although not one I'm familiar with

I don't wish he was dead but I do wish he'd realise he's really fucking racist

def one of those revives where you're disappointed it's not for rip purposes

― 🧛🏻‍♂️ F A T 🧛🏻‍♂️ D R A C U L A 🧛🏻‍♂️ (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 20 September 2018 12:26 (one hour ago)

you should really consider posting less

i know it's a corny question, but how does one get 'round the WaPo paywall?

you should really consider posting less

believe me i do

i know it's a corny question, but how does one get 'round the WaPo paywall?

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incognito window in chrome works

i use a javascript blocker in firefox ("noscript") which works for me.

“That means a whole generation of shitheads laughs at the worst f—— humor in the world”

man has a point

A dull and self-aggrandising one.

Yeah, criticisms of Saturday Night Live are a little hollow coming from the dude who starred in five(?) Vacation sequels, not to mention Community, which fucking sucked.

and also the first season of SNL really wasn't very funny (though he was)

community did not suck

Community was 834x funnier than anything else smug dickwad Chase has ever done in his life, apart from this interview

tbh some of the vacation sequels are funny

Only Christmas.

Community was unfunny tripe and between that and Rick & Morty, Dan Harmon should be drummed out of the culture before he does any more damage.

Never saw Community, but the reports of Harmon's retaliatory acts sound more appalling to me than Chevy's behind-the-scenes diva behaviour and tone-deaf humour.

Also:

just this past July, an essay in the London Telegraph that began with the line: “Bill Cosby is the most hated comedian in America. But if you were looking for a runner-up, Chevy Chase has to be in with a shout.”

Um...Roseanne? Louis CK??

does anyone hate Roseanne, vs thinking she's a mentally ill person who shouldn't be given credence?

most insecure men

going back to the 80s

does anyone hate Roseanne, vs thinking she's a mentally ill person who shouldn't be given credence?

I'm far more of the second category myself, but spend even a small amount of time online and you'll find plenty of vitriol.

except for extenuating circumstances, i mostly hate comedians for not being funny, like Jimmy Fallon, Will Ferrell, Chris Farley et al

You could definitely tell the writers of community fucking hated Chevy

The part of that article that was most surprising was that Chevy Chase was supposed to be good looking. He was always in the John Lithgow vein to me.

yeah, by the second and third seasons, in the classroom scenes they just started giving Pierce lines that Chevy had said IRL. Chevy then got upset about how un-self-aware and racist they were making Pierce.

I remember watching Fletch Lives and being mystified when the southern lawyer lady immediately wants to take him to bed, we assumed it was part of a murder plot except, well, she's the one that gets murdered not him so the logistics were tricky.

for a prestige profile the article never comes close to getting out of the shadow of chase's 50 documented years of being an asshole.

in 1975, Chase was a tall WASP with a dimpled chin, certainly a Hollywood Handsome Guy more than anyone on SNL.

I probably saw this movie when I was a kid, but I can't be sure. This trailer, though--what is up with the announcer? He sounds like he's either sneering at the audience or creepily hitting on us. Probably not the best tone to sell a kid's movie with (albeit a kid's movie with a blow job joke in the trailer).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W29-B47dcVA

voiceover guy sounds like he's aiming for a rod serling kinda vibe

The quotes from everyone in this story!

Chevy Chase responds to claims he's a jerk on set: “I don’t give a crap. I am who I am. And I like who I am. I don’t care...it’s part of me that I don’t care. And I’ve thought about that a lot. And I don’t know what to tell you, man. I just don’t care.” https://t.co/26IUE6j8A1

— Zack Sharf (@ZSharf) February 15, 2022

“I don’t give a crap. I am who I am. And I like who I am. I don’t care...it’s part of me that I don’t care. And I’ve thought about that a lot. And I don’t know what to tell you, man. I just don’t care.”

translation: hell, yes I'm a jerk

he is SUCH a legendary asshole (up there with like mike love and lenny dykstra) that you have to give him credit. he really leans into it. respect.

you do not, in fact have to hand it to him

80 today!

still a dick

celebrating it by listening to the latest WTF where SNL writer Alan Zweibel writes in to correct Chevy’s implication, in his interview last week, that Chevy was responsible for particular desk joke written by Zweibel.

Happy holidays:

https://variety.com/2024/film/news/chris-columbus-quit-christmas-vacation-chevy-chase-bad-behavior-1236257773/

“My first meeting with him, I sat down with him. It was just the two of us,” Columbus continued. “He had to know I was directing the movie. I talked about how I saw the movie, how I wanted to make the movie. He didn’t say anything. I went through about a half hour of talking. He didn’t say a word. And then he stops and he says—and this makes no sense to any human being on the planet, but I’m telling you. I probably have never told this story. Forty minutes into the meeting, he says, ‘Wait a second. You’re the director?’ And I said, ‘Yeah…I’m directing the film.’ And he said to me the most surreal, bizarre thing. I still haven’t been able to make any sense out of it. He said, ‘Oh, I thought you were a drummer.’ I said, ‘Uhh, okay. Let’s start talking about the film again.’ After about 30 seconds, he said, ‘I got to go.'”

Chris Columbo IS a famous drummer, so I know where Chase was coming from

Columbus actually got two scripts from Hughes to pick from. One was Home Alone, and the other was Reach the Rock, which became an underrated, barely-released film in 1998 with an incredible post-rock soundtrack

and Chase was a drummer himself.