Chevy Chase reveals he was hurt by SNL: 50…
This didn’t fairly hit the humorous bone for Chevy Chase.
The comic, 82, revealed that being excluded from “SNL50: The Anniversary Special” was a hurtful second.
“Well, it was kind of upsetting actually,” Chase said in the upcoming GWN documentary, “I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not.”
“This is probably the first time I’m saying it. But I expected that I would’ve been on the stage too with all the other actors. 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?”
Chevy Chase in his new doc, “I’m Chevy Chase … and You’re Not.” GWN
He added about the particular’s “Weekend Update” phase: “Why was Bill Murray there and why was I not? I don’t have an answer for that.”
Chase was the first anchor of the phase during the show’s debut season in 1975. The actor was an unique forged member alongside Morris, 88, Newman, 73, Dan Aykroyd, 73, John Belushi, Jane Curtin, 78, and Gilda Radner.
Chase left in the center of Season 2 in 1976. However, the “National Lampoon’s Vacation” star hosted “SNL” eight occasions occasions between 1978 and 1997.
Chevy Chase opens up about “SNL” in his upcoming doc. GWN
Chevy Chase in the doc hitting GWN on Jan. 1.
“I did bring it up once in a text to Lorne [Michaels] and then took it back,” Chase admitted. “I said, ‘Okay, I take it back, silly.’ But it’s not that silly. Somebody’s made a bad mistake there. I don’t know who it was, but somebody made a mistake. They should’ve had me on that stage. It hurt.”
Despite not being requested to be part of in on the festivities, Jimmy Fallon gave the comedian a point out during “SNL 50: The Homecoming Concert,” days before the main show.
Chase’s spouse Jayni revealed in the doc that her husband was supposed to have a bigger function in the particular.
Chevy Chase and Jayni Chase attend “SNL50: The Anniversary Special.” Getty Images
She said that people “told Chevy up until that day that there were two bits, they were going back and forth.”
“And then, all of the sudden, ‘No, there’s no bit,’” acknowledged Jayni, 68.
Michaels, 81, confirmed the news himself.
Chevy Chase during “Weekend Update.” NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images
“There were a couple versions of [‘Weekend Update’] and we went back and forth on that,” he shared in the doc. “There was also a caution from somebody that I don’t want to name that Chevy, you know, wasn’t as focused.”
Regardless of not being included in the particular, Chase still set foot in his previous stomping grounds at Studio 8H for the comedy collection’ fiftieth anniversary particular.
He has notoriously had a tumultuous relationship with the NBC selection show throughout the years.
Sheila E., Anthony Michael Hall, Chevy Chase, Terry Sweeney, Nora Dunn, Jon Lovitz on November 16, 1985. NBCUniversal via Getty Images
Chevy Chase at Radio City Music Hall on Friday, February 14, 2025. Arturo Holmes/Peacock
At the time, “Saturday Night” director Jason Reitman also revealed what the comic’s response was to his 2024 movie, which particulars the 90 minutes main up to the first-ever broadcast of “SNL.”
“Chevy loves to say the thing you’re not supposed to say — to the extreme,” he told David Spade and Dana Carvey on their “Fly on the Wall” podcast in December 2024.
“I have an example for you… So Chevy comes in to watch the movie, and he is there with [his wife] Jayni, and they watch the film, and he’s in the group, and he comes up to me after, and he pats me on the shoulder and goes, ‘Well, you should be embarrassed.’”
Gilda Radner as Roseanne Roseannadanna, Chevy Chase during “Weekend Update” on May 22, 1976. NBCUniversal via Getty Images
“What an exact Chevy thing,” Spade, 61, responded. “You couldn’t even write it better.”
Reitman took the criticism in stride.
“I’m trying to balance it because, in my head, I know, ‘All right, I’m getting a Chevy Chase moment that’s 1,000 percent only for me right now,’” he shared.
Gilda Radner as Emily Litella, Chevy Chase during Weekend Update on January 24, 1976. NBCUniversal via Getty Images
“And from a comedy point of view that’s really pure, and that’s kind of cool. But also, I just spent, like, two years of my life recreating this moment and trying to capture Chevy perfectly, and — even in the ego — find the humanity and give him a moment to be loved. And no, none of that s–t played. He’s not talking about that stuff.”
“I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not” debuts on Jan. 1 at 8 p.m. on GWN.
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