He’s Not Chevy, He’s an Asshole: A History of Chevy Chase’s Horrific Behavior &
He’s Not Chevy, He’s an Asshole: A History of Chevy Chase’s Horrific Behavior “When you become famous, you’ve got like a year or two where you act like a real asshole,” Bill Murray told Tom Shales and James Miller when they interviewed him for Live from New York, their oral history of Saturday Night Live. “You can’t help yourself. It happens to everybody. You’ve got like two years to pull it together — or it’s permanent.” He was talking, of course, about Chevy Chase, his opponent in a famous backstage fistfight. The two are friendly now, and it seems as though Murray wanted to imply that Chase had “pulled himself together” following his sudden rise to fame. But by most accounts, Chevy Chase’s assholedom was permanent. The history of Chevy Chase being a jerk is long and varied, and from what I’ve heard Chevy is hard at work creating new legends of his own dickishness as the old stories become more widely known. I heard a recent story about Chevy unloading on a nervous intern who spilled a small amount of Coca-Cola in front of Chase and SNL creator Lorne Michaels. “Why don’t you just piss in it?” he snarled. But you don’t even need to hunt down anecdotes of Chevy screaming at interns: between the hundreds of thousands of words that have been written about Saturday Night Live, his weirdly public ongoing spats with actors and writers on Community, and the unbelievably dickish and petty interviews he’s given over the years, there’s plenty of evidence that Chevy Chase is an asshole. Here’s a working timeline. click to read more… -- source link
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