Chevy Chase is known for a great many things. Saturday Night Live, his work as Clark Griswold, the show Community, his reputation for being a jerk…and now the comedian is mad he wasn’t asked back for SNL 50. Ignoring the “why” that probably didn’t happen.
Chase is known for being hard to work with. And it started way back with Saturday Night Live. The women of the original SNL cast have shared their dislike of Chase and the cast of Community are not afraid of sharing stories of working with him on the show. And they were not positive ones. Meaning, if Chase can be left out of something, people probably want him to stay gone.
Which meant that fans weren’t exactly surprised that Chase didn’t end up on stage at the 50th anniversary celebration of the show he once starred on. But that didn’t mean he was happy about it. According to LateNighter, Chevy shared that he expected an invite and was upset when he was other stars from his season of the series.
“I expected that I would have been on that stage too, with all the other actors,” Chase said. “When Garrett [Morris] and Laraine [Newman] went on the stage there, I was curious as to why I didn’t. No one asked me to. Why was I left aside?” Lorne Michaels has said that he was going to be a part of “Weekend Update” segment on the show but then heard things about Chase and changed his mind.
Chase wasn’t happy with that decision. “I did bring it up once in a text to Lorne, and then took it back. I said, ‘OK, I take it back. It’s silly,'” he said. “But it’s not that silly. Somebody made a bad mistake there. I don’t know who it was, but somebody made a mistake. They should have had me on that stage. It hurt.”
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