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Chevy Chase Has said he was “hurt” at not being given a speaking role in it Saturday night Live 50th anniversary celebration.
three hour special SNL50: Anniversary Special Aired on NBC in February.
Chase was an original snl Cast member and is credited with co-creating the popular and long-running Weekend Update segment, which he was the first to host.
As People According to the report, Chase revealed in a new CNN Films documentary, I’m Chevy Chase and you’re notThat he was surprised he wasn’t included more.
“Well, it was actually kind of disturbing,” he said in the film. “This is probably the first time I’m saying this. But I was hoping I would have been on stage with all the other actors. When Garrett [Morris] and laraine [Newman] When I went on stage there, I was curious why I didn’t go. Nobody asked me. Why was I left aside?”
In reference to the Weekend Update segment of the anniversary show, he said: “Why was Bill Murray there and why wasn’t I? I don’t have an answer to that.”
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Chase revealed that he told the show’s creator Lorne Michaels about his disappointment: “I mentioned it to Lorne once in a text and then took it back. I said, ‘Okay, I take it back, idiot.’ But it’s not that silly. Someone has made a very bad mistake there. I don’t know who it was, but someone made a mistake. They should have put me on that platform. Hurt.”
Elsewhere in the documentary, Chase’s wife Jenny said that producers “had told Chevy up until the day there were two bits, they were going back and forth… and then, all of a sudden, ‘No, there’s no bit.'”
Explaining the decision not to include Chase, Michaels said there were “a few versions” of Weekend Update, but they ultimately came up with a version that did not include him. Michaels added: “Somebody even warned that I don’t want to mention his name that, as you know, Chevy was not that focused.”
Martin Short also explained in the documentary that after “50 years of artists” it was inevitable that many of the cast would miss screen time, including other notable figures such as Billy Crystal. Short said there were simply “too many people to fill.”
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I’m Chevy Chase and you’re not It is scheduled to air on CNN on January 1.
earlier this year, Chase’s National Lampoon’s Holidays Co-star Anthony Michael Hall claimed Chase made fun of him snl The star was playing his on-screen father.