What can we are saying about Chevy Chase on his 81st birthday that we haven’t already said before?
Right here’s the excellent news: We don’t need to say it. After many years of burning down each bridge in sight, it was no drawback to seek out 81 burns to gentle the candles on his cake. Beneath is a birthday portrait of the person of the hour, courtesy of the co-workers, administrators and different unfortunates who’ve labored with Chase over time.
Will Ferrell
“The worst (SNL) host was Chevy Chase.”
(Live From New York: The Complete Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live)
Buck Henry
“I believed Chevy shouldn’t have left (SNL). I believed it was actually silly.”
(Live From New York: The Complete Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live)
John Carpenter
Director Kevin Smith
“Chevy went on to assert he invented each humorous factor that ever occurred within the historical past of not simply comedy, but additionally the recognized world.”
(Silent Bob Speaks)
‘SNL’ Author Alan Zweibel
“There had come some extent within the first season the place Chevy wasn’t writing for the present as a lot as he was writing for Chevy.”
(Live From New York: The Complete Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live)
Paul Mooney
“Chevy Chase was the doll-baby … the darling of the discotheque with straight tooth, and Richard (Pryor) wished to knock them out.”
(Becoming Richard Pryor)
Richard Belzer
“When Chevy was just a little boy, he used to masturbate loads. And someday, his father caught him masturbating and stated, ‘You retain doing that, and sometime you’re going to be starring in Fletch Lives.’”
(Comedy Central Roast of Chevy Chase)
Amy Heckerling, Director of ‘Nationwide Lampoon’s European Trip’
“There have been occasions when Chevy didn’t present up. He was not a contented camper. And neither was I.”
(Flavorwire)
Extra Amy Heckerling
“I couldn’t go on the set until I knew I had in my hand a bodily ticket to New York, in order that I may simply go at any time. I needed to maintain it in my hand so I knew that I had a approach out.”
Invoice Murray
“Medium expertise.”
(Saturday Night: A Backstage History of Saturday Night Live)
Anne Beatts Quoting Michael O’Donoghue
“Someday you’ll be a B-movie star.”
(Live From New York: The Complete Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live)
‘Leisure Weekly’ Evaluate of ‘The Chevy Chase Present’
“Vomit, nose-picking, belches, gerbil-filled underpants — does Chevy Chase have your consideration but?”
Pete Davidson
“He’s a fucking douchebag. Fuck Chevy Chase. I hate that dude. He’s only a genuinely unhealthy, racist individual.”
(Deadline)
Donald Glover
“I simply noticed Chevy as preventing time — an artist needs to be okay together with his reign being over.”
(The New Yorker)
Roger Ebert’s Evaluate of ‘Cops and Robbersons’
“The Chevy Chase character, is a very painful case. I don’t know how you can put this every other approach, so I’ll be forthright: When you met Norman Robberson in on a regular basis life, you’ll assume, after speaking to him for a minute or two, that he was mentally retarded.”
(RogerEbert.com)
Johnny Carson
“He couldn’t ad-lib a fart at a bean-eating contest.”
(Tom Shales at RogerEbert.com)
Tom Davis
“I feel all of us bought just a little uninterested in the Fall of the Week loads prior to America did.”
(Saturday Night: A Backstage History of Saturday Night Live)
Stephen Colbert
“Who am I to assault Chevy Chase? I don’t know Chevy Chase. I’ve by no means met Mr. Chase. Really, I’m uncomfortable calling him Chevy. The one factor I consider once I take a look at this man is, ‘There however for the grace of God, go I.’”
(Comedy Central Roast of Chevy Chase)
Dick Ebersol
“Lorne felt completely betrayed when Chevy left (SNL).”
(Live From New York: The Complete Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live)
Lorne Michaels
“John (Belushi) was thought-about the actual deal in Hollywood and Chevy was — properly, you recognize.”
(Live From New York: The Complete Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live)
“As a potential talk-show host, Chevy Chase introduced too little expertise and an excessive amount of ego.”
‘SNL’ Forged Member Terry Sweeney
“To us, Chevy was like a god. And we had been excited to work with him. And when he bought there, he was a monster.”
(Live From New York: The Complete Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live)
Extra Terry Sweeney
“He acted horribly to me. He acted horribly to everybody.”
Joel McHale on a Chase-less ‘Group’ film
“It actually is sort of a household reunion however with out a-holes.”
(The Wrap)
Yvette Nicole Brown
“Perhaps he comes from a era the place he may say issues like that and nobody would ever say something again to him.”
(The Daily Beast)
Alison Brie
“At a sure level you’ve bought to only giggle it off, as a result of Chevy’s Chevy.”
(The Daily Beast)
Extra Donald Glover
“I do know there’s a human in there someplace — he’s nearly too human.”
(Hollywood Reporter)
Greg Giraldo
“Chevy is a comedy icon, and dwelling proof that you would really snort the funniness proper out of your self.”
(Comedy Central Roast of Chevy Chase)
Unnamed ‘SNL’ Author
“He wasn’t actually assured in any respect — that was his act.”
(Saturday Night: A Backstage History of Saturday Night Live)
One other Unnamed ‘SNL’ Author
“Inside two-thirds of the primary yr, it started to appear that Chevy was extra anxious about his subsequent chilly opening than about being a part of the workforce.”
(Saturday Night: A Backstage History of Saturday Night Live)
Howard Stern
“(Chevy Chase) had a popularity for being humorous. He left Saturday Night time Stay, he went to do films, and all of his films suck. All of them suck. Each film he does sucks.”
(The Things)
Author Tony Hendra After Chase Tried Out For — And Bought Forged In — ‘Nationwide Lampoon’s Lemmings’
“It was one of many worst comedic auditions I’d ever seen.”
(Going Too Far)
“Pierce Hawthorne (was) a personality that was as out-of-step and bigoted, sexist and homophobic as Chevy Chase has at occasions confirmed himself to be.”
Jane Curtin After Chase Kicked Her Off Weekend Replace
“You sit there and you’ve got items of your arm bitten off and you then go away.”
(Live From New York: The Complete Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live)
Director Chris Columbus
“To be fully sincere, Chevy handled me like grime.”
(Yahoo!)
Extra Joel McHale
“(Working with Chase) wasn’t enjoyable. I bought in hassle one time as a result of I injured him. I dislocated his shoulder.”
(A.V. Club)
Reggie Watts
“Chevy Chase was horrible. … He’s an asshole.”
(Cracked)
Tim Meadows
“When he was right here, it was like simply watching a automotive accident again and again simply watching him take care of folks.”
(Live From New York: The Complete Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live)
“(Chase) was a viciously efficient put-down artist, the type who may discover the one factor any person was delicate about — a pimple on the nostril, maybe — after which child about it, mercilessly.”
Al Franken
“Chevy is a good sport about it. Nobody laughed tougher than Chevy when the city of Chevy Chase, Maryland tried to alter its title to Not Humorous, Maryland.”
(Comedy Central Roast of Chevy Chase)
Gerald Ford, Disagreeing
“Mr. Chevy Chase, you’re a very, very humorous suburb.”
(Saturday Night: A Backstage History of Saturday Night Live)
Harold Ramis
“I take (Chevy) away from the set, however not up to now that everybody received’t hear us. That is my alternative. The entire crew can hear. I say, ‘You fucking asshole, everybody’s been out right here all day. The crew’s been out right here longer than you’ve got. They’ve been right here since six within the morning. We’re all drained, and we’re all scorching, so for those who can’t management your self, why don’t you…’ Blah, blah, blah. So the crew is able to applaud me.”
(Sick in the Head: Conversations About Life and Comedy)
Dan Aykroyd
“Chevy Chase — a comic with the entire charisma of the Hillside Strangler.”
(The New York Friars Club Book of Roasts)
‘Group’ Author Dino Stamatopoulos
“He has a popularity for being a dick. That popularity is earned.”
(WTF with Marc Maron)
Invoice Murray After Chase Left ‘SNL’
“Once you turn into well-known, you’ve bought like a yr or two the place you act like an actual asshole. You may’t assist your self. It occurs to everyone. You’ve bought like two years to drag it collectively — or it’s everlasting.”
(Live From New York: The Complete Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live)
John Carpenter, Director of ‘Memoirs of An Invisible Man’
“Burn in hell for all eternity.”
(Toronto Film Magazine)
John Carpenter, Nonetheless Mad
“I actually wished to give up the enterprise after that film.”
John Belushi, Pointing to a Image of Chase’s Fiancee
“Oh, you’ve got a type of too? You’ve bought the common one. I’ve bought the one with the donkey dick.”
(Saturday Night: A Backstage History of Saturday Night Live)
TV Critic Tom Shales
Chase appeared “just like the lone wealthy child on the neighborhood birthday celebration.”
(Saturday Night: A Backstage History of Saturday Night Live)
“To really perceive the tedium Chase has achieved, it’s important to catch him today, now that the present has settled right into a mind-deadening, Chevy-centric rut.”
“Chase by no means appeared something resembling snug. He all the time appeared as if he’d relatively be anyplace else however in your tv, and shortly, viewers got here to really feel the identical approach.”
“Chase confirmed that he lacks the graceful, quick-on-your-feet stand-up abilities of a lot of his contemporaries.”
“Chase’s Tuesday night time opening crackled throughout the airwaves like a determined 9-1-1 name for assist. There’s unhealthy, and there’s BAD!”
‘Vulture’ Evaluate of ‘The Chevy Chase Present’
“Chase gave the impression to be sending a message, whether or not he knew it or not, that he was giving up, and punished the viewers consequently.”
“Nervous and completely at sea, Chase tried every part, succeeded at nothing.”
Paul Shaffer
“What occurred to Chevy’s profession? I can reply that query in three grams.”
(Comedy Central Roast of Chevy Chase)
John Carpenter, Madder Than Ever
“He shall not be named who must be killed. No, no, no, that’s horrible. He must be set on fireplace.”
Alan Zweibel Once more
“I bear in mind Chevy coming again after one in all his specials and speaking about it or raving about it, you recognize, pleased with one thing he simply did, and I bear in mind Al Franken saying one thing like, ‘That’s good, Chevy, however we do a type of each week.’”
(Live From New York: The Complete Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live)
Roger Ebert’s Evaluate of ‘The Three Amigos’
“Chase hardly appears within the film in any respect.”
(RogerEbert.com)
Roger Ebert’s Evaluate of ‘Fletch Lives’
“When Chase bothers to truly play a personality, he will be very efficient. However generally he appears to be overlaying himself, enjoying indifferent in order that no person can blame him if the comedy doesn’t work.”
(RogerEbert.com)
Roger Ebert’s Evaluate of ‘Oh Heavenly Canine’
“Among the many nice, unrecorded conversations in Hollywood historical past, we should now embrace the one wherein Chevy Chase’s agent satisfied him that enjoying Benji can be the precise profession transfer.”
(RogerEbert.com)
Extra Jane Curtin
“John (Belushi) completely didn’t like being in sketches with ladies. He advised me ladies weren’t humorous. Really, Chevy stated it to me as properly.”
(Live From New York: The Complete Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live)
Marc Maron
“I heard you mentioning over there, ‘Who the hell are these guys? I’m being roasted by nobodies. How can or not it’s humorous?’ At the least I’m a no person on the starting of my profession.”
(Comedy Central Roast of Chevy Chase)
Harry Shearer
“Chevy was again because the host of the present. … Lorne assured the forged that ‘Chevy’s cleaned up.’ I discovered that wasn’t precisely true once I noticed the sweat on his forehead once we had been really doing the present on the air.”
(Live From New York: The Complete Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live)
Joel McHale on a ‘Group’ Reunion
“I don’t suppose he’s allowed to return.”
Extra Dan Aykroyd
“Chevy Chase is Hollywood’s foremost brownnoser and locker suck. For the lead position in Caddyshack, he blew Jon Peters’ pet pit bull. And although Peters had nothing to do with Fletch, Chevy went again and blew the identical canine as a result of he loved it a lot the primary time.”
(The New York Friars Club Book of Roasts)
Tony Hendra
“Chase was extra fascinated about being a star than in being a satirist.”
(Going Too Far)
Tim Meadows
“He had no qualm about telling you you’re an fool, however not simply saying it however exhibiting you, you recognize, treating folks actually unhealthy and being an actual smart-ass.”
(Live From New York: The Complete Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live)
Unnamed ‘SNL’ Author
“Chevy was a scumbag the way in which he left. Deceitful and dishonest about the entire thing. Chevy’s phrase meant nothing after some time.”
(Saturday Night: A Backstage History of Saturday Night Live)
Extra Al Franken
“I feel a critical contribution that Chevy has made to our society is to point out folks how you can take care of a chemical dependency drawback.”
(Comedy Central Roast of Chevy Chase)
Rob Huebel
“I went as much as him and I used to be like, ‘Chevy, I simply need to say I’m an enormous fan. ‘I’m Rob Huebel.’ And Chevy simply hauled off and slapped me throughout the face so onerous. I noticed purple. He made a joke, like, ‘Can’t you see I’m speaking to any person, child?’”
(Late Night with Seth Meyers)
Will Ferrell Once more
“I want we’d all gotten up and walked out of the room (when Chase abused SNL writers). It was simply unhealthy information.”
(Live From New York: The Complete Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live)
Extra Jane Curtin
“We thought we’d all shine. When Chevy turned the star, we felt damage, we felt unhealthy.”
(Saturday Night: A Backstage History of Saturday Night Live)
Donald Glover Once more
“Lena (Dunham) is utilizing the N-word extraordinarily liberal with me. Who does she suppose she is, Chevy Chase?” (He was joking concerning the Dunham half)
(New York Post)
Extra Reggie Watts
“He in all probability was higher when he was youthful, and I feel he would possibly even be on the spectrum. You recognize, spectrum blended with a whole lot of fame and success insulates you from figuring out points and bettering them. And so over time, it simply bought worse. He turned far more of a dick as he bought older.”
(Cracked)
Dino Stamatopoulos Once more
“I view him now as a confused previous man who can’t actually damage me in any approach. I perceive why the regulars on Group and the full-time writers hating him. If he wasted my time as a lot as a lot as he wasted their time, I’d hate him, too.”
(WTF with Marc Maron)
Michael O’Donoghue
“Hey, Chev, the way you doing? Let me search for your nostril. You bought Naugahyde up there?”
(Saturday Night: A Backstage History of Saturday Night Live)
Extra Howard Stern
“Lazy, fats and silly.”
(The Things)
Joel McHale One Final Time
“I used to be like, ‘Hello, I’m Joel.’ And (Chevy) was like, ‘Mmm-hmmm.’ As if to say, ‘You recognize who I’m.’”
Paul Shaffer
“Chevy, tonight it’s all about love. You made us giggle a lot, after which inexplicably stopped in about 1978.”
(Comedy Central Roast of Chevy Chase)
Dan Harmon
“Fuck you, Chevy.”