Chevy Chase: Saturday Night Live’s Cruelest Host

To clarify the “a joke isn’t a joke unless everyone laughs” part, I’ll admit it was poorly worded. I was basically trying to say if someone plays a joke in someone and the main reaction is disgust and anger, then that’s not a joke. It’s just someone being a jerk. It’s like if in an office environment, someone just walks up to a coworker and dumps trash on their head. That’s just being rude. There’s no joke there. I hope that makes more sense. Also, I’m first, second, third, and all other places before, after, and in between!

It’s kinda funny to think that Chevy Chase was so perfectly cast for Pierce Hawthorne, not due to his acting talent but because they are almost the exact same person.

So basically, Chevy Chase isn’t that far off from his character in Community.

Chevy Chase, yet another celebrity who got away with their awful behavior because of nepotism and having the right connections in Hollywood.

Chevy straight up sucks. He told Chris Farley that he wouldnt be remembered like Belushi and that he was nowhere on his level and if he died of an overdose like Belushi did no one would care. You can argue that he was trying to help Chris Farley but regardless Chevy enjoyed being nasty to people and it infuriated me because Chris Farley was actually and literally the funniest guy and genuinely good and kind.

I really liked his character in Community, Pierce, because it was literally him. You could tell that the writers were going for that, which they actually confirmed in an interview lmaooo

I actually met a guy some years ago, who was at the taping of the very first episode of SNL. He then said he saw Chevy in the 90s, and said to him, "I was at the very first taping of SNL." And Chevy responded back not by saying "Wow, that's incredible," or "How did you enjoy the experience." But instead by saying "How did I look? Was I good?" Which told me everything I needed to know about this narcissist. And I've heard nothing but horrible anecdotes about him over the years. Nobody seems to have anything nice to say about him. As for the guy who was the first taping of SNL. I believe he's been to more tapings of SNL than anyone else. I actually met him while hanging outside of 30 Rock one day. He was on the standby line for SNL. He's been to so many tapings, that SNL hooks him up pretty good, and reserve a spot for him in the audience each week. He's a handicapped guy. He has difficulty walking. But he's beloved by the cast and crew. Despite having that hook up, he still hangs out in the standby line for SNL outside of 30 Rock. I haven't been to 30 Rock in years. And he was a pretty old guy when I met him. Hope he's doing well though.

Milton Berle: Bad jokes, banned Frank Zappa: Ad-libbed, banned Stephen Seagal: Horrid Seagalisms, banned Tom Green: Weird, banned Adrien Brody: Cringe behavior, banned Chevy Chase: Egomaniac, not a team player, abuse of cast members, sexual harrassment, never banned

"...the most uncomfortable thing I've ever seen. And I've seen Chevy Chase talk to an intern." Pete Davidson's best joke.

Milton Berle: Uses bad jokes. Michaels: BANNED! Chevy Chase: Harasses and assaults people. Michaels: You’re still a legend up here. I love Hollywood Logic.

"You slapped a co-worker!" "Yeah, the joke hasn't aged well" "It's only been 2 seconds, it's not comedy, it's bullying"

If you read about Chevy Chase's childhood, it almost seems as thouth his family followed step by step instructions on how to create a narcissist.

Also cruelest cast member, really. I think he is the one original cast member most of the alumni truly hated ... with reason.

The thing about the AIDS joke is that it isn't even a good joke. Take away all of the shock value and dark humor what is the base of the Joke? People who have AIDS lose weight rapidly, so we are going to bring this guy on, say he has AIDS, and he will lose weight during the show. I just don't see a punchline. Substitute any disease and it still just not even a joke. Would watching somebodys hair fallout after chemo be a joke? Would you yell to somebody with early stages of M.S. "Hey you know you won't be able to walk soon!" They are not jokes, just things that happen. Nothing is being subverted, there is no bigger statement, just an observation that everybody already knows about. You absolutely can make fun of AIDS, cancer, or anything else, but at least give me a punchline.

It’s no wonder how Chevy Chase has gotten a reputation of being difficult on set. Milton Berle, yes he was a perfectionist and wanted to have things his way, but the cast would feel bad for him in later years. As for Steven Seagal, he was a terrible Saturday Night Live host because he refused to tell a joke. He was rigid, and just wanted to be on the show for the sake of his new film at the time. But out of the hosts for SNL that have been discussed so far, Chevy Chase is easily the worst host. Being mean and rude to co-stars, even those he had worked with the longest, is not worth it.

Chevy Chase is the one actor in Hollywood I want to like so desperately! Between Community, the Vacation Flicks, Fletch, and the other products he’s created, he should be an absolute national treasure…but he just keeps putting his foot in his mouth, and inflates his ego to a point well past his own talents. This is why he’s currently doing DTV movies, a pariah of the entire SNL cast. Frankly, when they did the reunion show a few years back, I was astonished that he made a cameo.

I agree about edgy humor. To quote classic Family Guy “There’s edgy and there’s offensive”.

10:44 Zappa got banned for playing up the fact he was reading from cue cards and adlibbing (Michaels' major "no-no" - nothing gets you banned faster than intentionally going off script). It was Elvis Costello who switched playing a song mid-performance - an all time classic SNL moment.

Lol Murray really called Chase mid before mid was a thing

Anybody who knows his antics behind the scenes of the sitcom Community, and his n word filled tirades on set, believes every bit of this.