Chevy Chase’s daughter, Caley Chase, says that the forged and crew of Group heckled Chevy throughout a wrap celebration for the present.
“My dad was tremendous excited to deliver me and my mother to the wrap celebration,” Caley, 40, remembers within the CNN documentary I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not. “We stroll in, [Community creator] Dan [Harmon], he had had some drinks. He had gotten the entire forged and crew to yell, ‘F*** you, Chevy!’ ‘F*** you, Chevy!’”
Caley continues, “I’m there, he’s displaying his daughter, like, ‘That is the present I did,’ and we stroll in to ‘F*** you, Chevy!’ That’s tough and imply.”
The NBC sitcom, which adopted the antics of a group school research group, premiered in 2009 and was canceled after 5 seasons. It was revived for a sixth and remaining season on the short-lived streaming platform Yahoo! Display screen in 2015.
Chevy, 82, performed Pierce Hawthorne and left the sequence in 2012 after utilizing the N-word on the set. Group director Jay Chandrasekhar, among the many speaking heads in I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not, says the incident occurred throughout a “blackface” hand puppet bit written for Chevy’s character. His costar, Yvette Nicole Brown, was witness to it.
“I do know that there was a historical past between [Chevy and Yvette] round race, and she or he acquired up and stormed out of there,” Chandrasekhar, 57, remembers within the doc. “Chevy storms off, so the producer is like, ‘We’d like Yvette within the scene, proper?’ I’m like, ‘Yeah, she’s within the subsequent scene.’ And he goes, ‘Properly, she gained’t come out until Chevy apologizes to her.’”
In accordance with Chandrasekhar, Chevy claimed he “didn’t say something” to offend Brown, 54, and when the director requested him to apologize, ‘[Chevy] goes, ‘For what?’”
After The Hollywood Reporter revealed a narrative concerning the episode, Chandrasekhar mentioned that Chevy got here “storming onto the set, and he goes, ‘Who f***ed me over?’ … My profession is ruined! I’m ruined!’ Like, it’s a full meltdown. ‘F*** all of you!’ And I’m like, ‘Alright, let’s shoot the scene.’ He by no means ended up coming again after that.”
Jean Baptiste Lacroix/WireImage Joel McHale revealed the campus of Greendale Group School generally broke out into chaos because of his contentious relationship with costar Chevy Chase. McHale, 52, and Chase, 80, appeared collectively on the NBC comedy for 5 seasons from 2009 to 2014, with issues generally escalating to real-life violence. On a latest episode […]
Chevy had clashed with Harmon, 52, throughout his time on the present, and months previous to Chevy’s departure, Harmon was dismissed as showrunner weeks after leaking an indignant voicemail from Chevy that circulated on-line. (Harmon returned to the Group author’s room in 2013.)
“I don’t know if we’re OK,” Chevy mentioned of his relationship with Harmon on the “WTF with Marc Maron” podcast in 2023. “I’ve by no means been not OK. He’s sort of a pisser. He’s indignant. He known as and mentioned he was sorry. I like him now.”
On the time, Brown reacted to his podcast interview by way of X, quipping, “He appears good.” She additionally replied to a fan who requested if she would ever handle her working dynamic with Chase, writing, “By no means have. Most likely by no means will.”
I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not premieres on CNN on January 1 at 8 p.m. ET.
