The actor has once again taken aim at his former NBC sitcom: “I didn’t want to be with those people.”
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/chevy-chase-slams-community-1235600779/
I’ve seen quotes from damn near everyone else on Community that has said Chevy is a bastard to work with. If this is his attitude about the show, I can see why they would say that.
Oh, not just Community! He’s been a huge prick his entire career.
Ugh. I can’t imagine what his Family Vacations must have been like.
Chevy will die not understanding that being a shithead is why this all happened to him.
The writers of Community had a fun little game. Someone puts forward a racist or otherwise offensive statement. The rest guess if this was something Pierce Hawthorn said (Chevy’s racist character on Community) or something Chevy said himself on set.
Decent article on how disliked and how much of an asshole Chevy Chase is.
My recollection from interviews is that Dan Harmon and the cast found Chevy just didn’t get the show at all when they were making it. A huge amount of Community’s humour is a mix of meta humour and pop culture references. In the same way that Pierce claimed to never understand what Abed was talking about, Chevy didn’t understand most of what Community was on about - his frame of reference for what is funny hadn’t moved on in decades.
Even though he’s famously a dick, when he says he didn’t think Community was funny, he might actually be telling the truth - not just being petty.
That’s totally fine. As much as I love the show, I appreciate it’s not for everyone. It relies on a lot of pop culture knowledge and awareness of tropes and memes. It’s perfectly reasonable that he doesn’t get it. I wouldn’t be surprised if Jonathan Banks didn’t get some of the jokes either.
But JB isn’t an asshole, he’s a very grateful and sweet man, so the problem was definitely Chevy.
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Community ended almost a decade ago.
So I suspect what’s happening, is that they’re finally making a community movie, but Chase likely wasn’t invited to join the cast.
In his recent interview with The Hollywood Report, Harmon said that he didn’t even know if Chase was legally allowed to come back for the movie.
Context: he was fired for using a slur on set
Sorry to link to reddit, but the hobby drama about this man is wild. I’d call him a bitter old man if he wasn’t already this much of an asshole in the 70s.
I had no idea that American Dad episode was a parody of a real roast. That makes it even better lol.
That beast of a comment by Donald Glover. He is perceptive and also very nice. Love him
His approach to discourse is admirable. He’s woke, which I’m not a fan of, but he’s respectful and has so much empathy for people who disagree with him that one can’t help but respect and admire that.
Genius level comment. Anyone who says something like this really just binge watches Fox News and has no idea what words mean.
Turn off fox news and go outside
no u
I hate Fox News. Newsnation is where it’s at if you MUST watch the mainstream media but most corporate media sucks to be honest.
What does woke mean?
What is a woman?
Do you only speak in riddles or something? What the fuck does woke mean lol
I’m surprised you’ve never heard of wokeness before, it’s pretty prominent in America. Do you live in America?
Its not really what he was saying, but he could have had a point. The shows writers really did kind of have it out for him (with good reason as stated everywhere else), and as a result they didn’t give him very much to work with. Even his use of the N word was directed at the writers, saying something like “pretty soon they’ll just have me call Donald N----r”. Its really a vicious cycle, because it’s hard to write good jokes for a person you dislike as much as the writers did chevy. And then Chevy gets even shittier to you because you constantly give him the worst lines.
They did seem to kind of lose focus on Pierce as time went time on. In the beginning he was a rich out of touch guy, but would give good advice every now and then still or a word of wisdom from his age. But then, the same thing happened to Britta, who got dumber as the show went on, and Chang, who got crazier as the show went on. It might just be a result of the same Flanderization.
That ain’t it, fam. The Dungeons and Dragons episode was a riot, due in part because they made Chevy’s character so nasty.
“You appear in the forest naked. You will die of exposure in fourteen turns.”
McHale: “I wait fifteen turns.”Pierce was a good character with some great moments. That doesn’t mean that Chevy isn’t an asshole.
Chevy does have a history of tense racial interactions.
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I know he’s a dick but that show is terrible.
I’ll agree that Community hasn’t had a single good episode in the last 8 years, but before that it was great.
I tried the first episode and the attempts at comedy were not great
It’s still a sitcom at its core. If you don’t like sitcoms, you won’t like Community most likely.
I mean, the pilot is one of the weaker episodes in the series. They hadn’t quite figured out what they wanted to do with the characters.
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Historically the pilot episode is always the golden standard of a show, of course. In fact you really only need to see the cold open of any pilot and you’ll fully understand everything that the show will be about.
It would have been funnier without him.
And indeed, was funnier when he left.
No, I think that his ignorance and hateable nature made the show funnier
This coming from a man who knows “not funny enough” all too well.
Projection by Chevy Chase