1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,600 The following programme contains strong language and adult humour. 2 00:00:04,640 --> 00:00:09,000 Please be aware that this programme features some discriminatory content. 3 00:00:34,640 --> 00:00:36,720 (SCOFFING AND SHUFFLING) 4 00:00:37,480 --> 00:00:38,480 Mm-mm... 5 00:00:38,520 --> 00:00:40,360 I'm gonna swap this water out. OK. 6 00:00:40,400 --> 00:00:41,720 What the fuck happened? 7 00:00:41,760 --> 00:00:44,040 Go ahead, enjoy your breakfast, don't worry. 8 00:00:44,080 --> 00:00:45,080 Don't mind me. 9 00:00:45,120 --> 00:00:46,560 Enjoy my breakfast?! 10 00:00:49,200 --> 00:00:50,200 Jesus Christ! 11 00:00:51,200 --> 00:00:53,680 I have eggs or cereal every morning. 12 00:00:54,360 --> 00:00:56,840 That's what keeps me a little overweight! 13 00:00:56,880 --> 00:00:59,240 (LAUGHING) 14 00:01:00,040 --> 00:01:02,040 Here, Pat, take this for a sec. 15 00:01:02,080 --> 00:01:03,280 Hold onto it forever. 16 00:01:05,480 --> 00:01:06,600 I think we're ready! 17 00:01:11,240 --> 00:01:15,360 (FUN MUSIC) 18 00:01:16,280 --> 00:01:18,360 You see, sir, we're not gunfighters... 19 00:01:20,200 --> 00:01:21,440 We're movie stars! 20 00:01:21,480 --> 00:01:24,720 He has this glint in his eye 21 00:01:24,760 --> 00:01:28,160 that makes you feel that there's a big brain in there 22 00:01:28,200 --> 00:01:30,800 and it's ready to say something really funny 23 00:01:30,840 --> 00:01:33,120 or sarcastic or edgy! 24 00:01:33,160 --> 00:01:34,479 Listen, it's Glory, right? 25 00:01:34,520 --> 00:01:37,160 You're a really nice girl and I'm a nice guy 26 00:01:37,200 --> 00:01:38,520 and you're very pretty. 27 00:01:38,560 --> 00:01:40,800 What do you say? Would you like to take a shower? 28 00:01:40,840 --> 00:01:42,800 He didn't really have a lot of boundaries. 29 00:01:42,840 --> 00:01:44,280 He was very, very free. 30 00:01:44,800 --> 00:01:47,160 Drink this... And it's off to bed. 31 00:01:47,200 --> 00:01:48,759 You should've been a doctor. 32 00:01:48,800 --> 00:01:50,680 OK, we'll play whatever you like! 33 00:01:50,720 --> 00:01:53,360 His random lines just pop into my head all the time! 34 00:01:53,400 --> 00:01:55,560 You take drugs, Danny? Every day! Good! 35 00:01:55,600 --> 00:01:59,280 We always had this chemistry... That was just always there. 36 00:01:59,320 --> 00:02:00,960 Would you like something to drink? 37 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:03,240 Helen, you want something? No, no, thank you. 38 00:02:03,280 --> 00:02:04,360 Uh, I'll have a Coke. 39 00:02:04,400 --> 00:02:05,680 Do you want that in the can? 40 00:02:07,200 --> 00:02:08,759 No, I'll have it right here! 41 00:02:08,800 --> 00:02:12,240 And now, for those of our viewers who may be Holsteins or Herefords... 42 00:02:12,280 --> 00:02:13,760 Our top story tonight... 43 00:02:15,520 --> 00:02:17,120 (MOOING) 44 00:02:17,880 --> 00:02:22,680 I immediately fell in love with that bumbling idiot doing Weekend Update! 45 00:02:22,720 --> 00:02:25,400 I'm talking about Chevy, not the character he played! 46 00:02:26,720 --> 00:02:29,720 I give you the Griswold family Christmas tree! 47 00:02:30,200 --> 00:02:33,040 (WHIPPING AND SHATTERING) 48 00:02:33,079 --> 00:02:35,800 I spent most days in between scenes in his trailer with him 49 00:02:35,840 --> 00:02:37,560 and his makeup artist Lee 50 00:02:37,600 --> 00:02:41,240 listening to the filthiest jokes I have ever heard in my life! 51 00:02:41,280 --> 00:02:43,200 Little kid in the fourth grade who says, 52 00:02:43,240 --> 00:02:45,880 "Hey, Dad, I've got the biggest dick in the fourth grade! 53 00:02:45,920 --> 00:02:47,320 Is that 'cause I'm Black?" 54 00:02:47,360 --> 00:02:48,960 "No, son, it's 'cause you're 19!" 55 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:50,640 I could see, you know, right away, 56 00:02:50,680 --> 00:02:54,160 this guy is simultaneously talented and VERY dangerous! 57 00:02:54,200 --> 00:02:55,960 He has this charisma... 58 00:02:56,520 --> 00:02:58,079 The asshole who you love! 59 00:02:58,120 --> 00:02:59,240 Can I say 'asshole'? 60 00:02:59,280 --> 00:03:00,640 (LAUGHING) 61 00:03:00,680 --> 00:03:03,320 A lot of people will, unfortunately! 62 00:03:03,360 --> 00:03:07,200 Chevy Chase, has he worn out his welcome in the entertainment world? 63 00:03:07,240 --> 00:03:09,840 Yeah, he might've been nasty to other people but he... 64 00:03:09,880 --> 00:03:11,240 He and I were like that! 65 00:03:11,280 --> 00:03:13,040 I was always kinda hopin' in my heart, 66 00:03:13,080 --> 00:03:14,880 it was like, "They don't get this guy!" 67 00:03:14,920 --> 00:03:17,120 And when I met him I understood perfectly 68 00:03:17,160 --> 00:03:20,000 that everything I'd ever read was probably true! 69 00:03:20,040 --> 00:03:21,800 Maybe you wanna come at me for a while. 70 00:03:21,840 --> 00:03:24,280 I will, Chevy... No, no, come on, let's do it now! 71 00:03:24,320 --> 00:03:26,840 No, come on, let's talk about my married life! 72 00:03:26,880 --> 00:03:29,800 I want you... No, come on, man! What about my shirt? Like it? 73 00:03:29,840 --> 00:03:31,720 Look, they're coming back! Quiet down! 74 00:03:31,760 --> 00:03:32,760 I'm talking, OK? 75 00:03:32,800 --> 00:03:33,800 You like my shirt? 76 00:03:33,840 --> 00:03:37,160 Fuck you, fuckhead, OK? How's that? Put that on tape! 77 00:03:37,840 --> 00:03:42,440 I don't think he consciously wants to be an asshole. 78 00:03:42,480 --> 00:03:45,640 I think what the asshole version of him... 79 00:03:45,680 --> 00:03:50,520 Is somebody who is desperate for something he either lost 80 00:03:50,560 --> 00:03:52,160 or doesn't have 81 00:03:52,200 --> 00:03:53,600 or just getting old... 82 00:03:55,880 --> 00:03:58,840 I'm just trying to figure you out. 83 00:03:58,880 --> 00:03:59,880 No shit! 84 00:04:04,960 --> 00:04:06,600 It's not gonna be easy for you! 85 00:04:06,640 --> 00:04:08,200 Why is it not gonna be easy? 86 00:04:09,440 --> 00:04:11,600 Uh, you're not bright enough! 87 00:04:11,640 --> 00:04:13,120 How's that? 88 00:04:13,160 --> 00:04:14,160 Whoa! 89 00:04:14,200 --> 00:04:15,200 Well, you asked! 90 00:04:15,240 --> 00:04:17,800 I know you're not gonna put that on the air and I hope not 91 00:04:17,839 --> 00:04:22,680 but my answer is I'm complex and I'm deep 92 00:04:22,720 --> 00:04:24,720 and I can be hurt easily 93 00:04:24,760 --> 00:04:29,640 and I react spontaneously to people who want to figure me out, 94 00:04:29,680 --> 00:04:30,680 as it were. 95 00:04:30,720 --> 00:04:36,080 Uh, as somebody who will hold up my guard. 96 00:04:36,440 --> 00:04:39,480 I'm not gonna let anybody figure me out, per se. 97 00:04:40,480 --> 00:04:43,240 # STEELY DAN: My Old School 98 00:04:48,520 --> 00:04:53,760 # I remember the 35 sweet goodbyes 99 00:04:56,320 --> 00:05:00,400 I first met Chevy in the dining commons at Bard. 100 00:05:00,440 --> 00:05:04,080 I noticed that there was this buffoon at the table 101 00:05:04,120 --> 00:05:07,000 that would do very peculiar things. 102 00:05:07,040 --> 00:05:11,400 Reach for the salt and knock over a water onto somebody's lap. 103 00:05:11,440 --> 00:05:14,560 # To find you with the workin' girls in the county jail 104 00:05:16,040 --> 00:05:19,120 Chevy often fell down flights of stairs 105 00:05:19,160 --> 00:05:21,240 and it wasn't by accident! 106 00:05:22,360 --> 00:05:25,960 # To my old school! # 107 00:05:27,280 --> 00:05:29,640 Don Fagen and Walter Becker, 108 00:05:29,680 --> 00:05:33,480 we had a group in college called the Very Bad Jazz Band. 109 00:05:33,520 --> 00:05:35,400 I was a drummer at the time. 110 00:05:35,440 --> 00:05:40,640 As we emerged from college, it was called Steely Dan. 111 00:05:40,680 --> 00:05:42,560 I really knew jazz. 112 00:05:42,600 --> 00:05:45,159 And I know what a great drummer is, you know, 113 00:05:45,200 --> 00:05:47,159 and I said, "Go get a good drummer!" 114 00:05:47,200 --> 00:05:48,600 And I left! 115 00:05:51,560 --> 00:05:54,840 Blythe Danner, that was my first real love, 116 00:05:54,880 --> 00:05:56,520 was Blythe. 117 00:05:56,560 --> 00:05:57,960 She's a great woman 118 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:01,400 and, uh, I'll always think highly of her. 119 00:06:02,800 --> 00:06:07,280 Blythe and Chevy had different paths post-college. 120 00:06:07,320 --> 00:06:10,160 Blythe is a very skilled actress 121 00:06:10,200 --> 00:06:13,360 and Blythe's career took off almost immediately. 122 00:06:13,400 --> 00:06:17,720 Meanwhile, Chevy did not take off immediately. 123 00:06:17,760 --> 00:06:20,960 The man's name was Cornelius Crane Chase. 124 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:23,200 Now, that kind of implies money. 125 00:06:23,240 --> 00:06:25,800 But he sure had no money when I knew him. 126 00:06:26,920 --> 00:06:30,320 I grew up in New York City in a wine family. 127 00:06:30,360 --> 00:06:33,640 My father started a store called Sherry Lehmann. 128 00:06:33,680 --> 00:06:35,560 My father loved Chevy. 129 00:06:35,600 --> 00:06:37,920 When Chevy applied to Sherry Lehmann, 130 00:06:37,960 --> 00:06:39,200 his application... 131 00:06:39,240 --> 00:06:41,960 He just makes fun of the questions. 132 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:43,560 "Have you committed any crimes?" 133 00:06:43,600 --> 00:06:46,120 "No, because crime doesn't pay." 134 00:06:46,159 --> 00:06:51,120 # ROD STEWART: Every Picture Tells A Story 135 00:06:51,159 --> 00:06:52,920 I drove a specific truck, 136 00:06:52,960 --> 00:06:56,480 delivering wines from Sherry Lehmann Wines and Liquors. 137 00:06:59,240 --> 00:07:01,320 My brother Peter has been friends with Chevy 138 00:07:01,360 --> 00:07:04,000 since they went to Bard College together. 139 00:07:04,040 --> 00:07:06,680 # Daddy said, "Son, you'd better see the world!" 140 00:07:06,720 --> 00:07:08,280 I remember when he would visit, 141 00:07:08,320 --> 00:07:11,560 if I spent eight hours with him I would be laughing for eight hours! 142 00:07:12,360 --> 00:07:15,280 Our great-grandfather passed away 143 00:07:15,320 --> 00:07:19,200 and left an inheritance of, you know... 144 00:07:19,240 --> 00:07:20,640 I mean, eight grand. 145 00:07:20,680 --> 00:07:22,600 And Chevy took the whole amount 146 00:07:22,640 --> 00:07:25,240 and went and bought a used Rolls-Royce. 147 00:07:25,280 --> 00:07:26,880 Played big-wig in that. 148 00:07:30,240 --> 00:07:32,320 He met a girl named Susan 149 00:07:32,360 --> 00:07:34,200 and they did get married. 150 00:07:34,240 --> 00:07:37,400 And that lasted for a while. 151 00:07:37,440 --> 00:07:39,880 You've been married three times. 152 00:07:39,920 --> 00:07:41,720 Jacqueline was the first. 153 00:07:41,760 --> 00:07:46,159 I thought there was someone before? Oh, that's right... Susan! 154 00:07:48,360 --> 00:07:49,440 How could I forget? 155 00:07:50,280 --> 00:07:51,280 'Cause I want to? 156 00:07:51,320 --> 00:07:54,040 No, Susan and I were married for about four years. 157 00:07:54,920 --> 00:07:55,920 # Woo! 158 00:07:55,960 --> 00:07:58,760 # Was knocked down by a human stampede 159 00:07:59,760 --> 00:08:03,280 # Got arrested for incitin' a peaceful riot 160 00:08:03,320 --> 00:08:04,800 (HONKING) 161 00:08:04,840 --> 00:08:06,760 New York was filthy, dirty 162 00:08:06,800 --> 00:08:09,240 and there wasn't much prosperity 163 00:08:09,280 --> 00:08:12,000 in the mere fact that we could live on Madison Avenue 164 00:08:12,040 --> 00:08:13,680 and Chevy on Lexington. 165 00:08:13,720 --> 00:08:15,480 It's just impossible now. 166 00:08:17,720 --> 00:08:19,560 His apartment was just horrible. 167 00:08:19,600 --> 00:08:21,560 There were cockroaches everywhere. 168 00:08:21,600 --> 00:08:22,760 # Gettin' enough... 169 00:08:26,360 --> 00:08:29,960 At that age, somehow we felt like we owned New York! 170 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:32,880 # Oh, my dear, I'd better get out of here 171 00:08:34,840 --> 00:08:37,720 # 'Fore the Vatican don't give no sanction 172 00:08:37,760 --> 00:08:40,440 # I wasn't ready for that, no, no... # 173 00:08:45,640 --> 00:08:47,240 One day, I was walking home 174 00:08:47,280 --> 00:08:49,440 and I bumped into Chris Guest. 175 00:08:49,480 --> 00:08:52,120 He said, "We're forming a humour and music group... 176 00:08:52,160 --> 00:08:55,360 And the National Lampoon Lemmings is producing it. 177 00:08:55,400 --> 00:09:00,560 Wondered if you knew anyone funny who could also perform with an instrument?" 178 00:09:00,600 --> 00:09:01,600 So, I said, 179 00:09:01,640 --> 00:09:04,480 "Well, obviously, we went to Bard College together, 180 00:09:04,520 --> 00:09:05,520 the three of us, 181 00:09:05,560 --> 00:09:07,480 Chevy is an obvious choice." 182 00:09:07,520 --> 00:09:10,840 And he said, "Yeah, why don't you tell him to come and try out? 183 00:09:10,880 --> 00:09:13,840 But he's not my favourite person..." 184 00:09:13,880 --> 00:09:16,480 He was well-liked by many people 185 00:09:16,520 --> 00:09:19,160 but others didn't get his sense of humour 186 00:09:19,200 --> 00:09:21,200 and thought he was an asshole. 187 00:09:21,240 --> 00:09:24,000 And so, I went back to Chevy's 188 00:09:24,040 --> 00:09:26,680 and I told him and Chevy said, "I don't know." 189 00:09:26,720 --> 00:09:31,080 Susan said, "Get out of the bed and go do something! 190 00:09:31,120 --> 00:09:32,760 You're so lazy!" 191 00:09:34,240 --> 00:09:35,720 I used to say to Chevy, 192 00:09:35,760 --> 00:09:39,360 "You're not using your God-given talents!" 193 00:09:39,400 --> 00:09:41,840 So, Chevy went down and tried out 194 00:09:41,880 --> 00:09:43,360 and, next thing you know, 195 00:09:43,400 --> 00:09:45,880 National Lampoon Lemmings was formed 196 00:09:45,920 --> 00:09:47,880 and he was part of the troupe. 197 00:09:50,080 --> 00:09:54,440 # Whoa, Colorado's callin' me 198 00:09:54,480 --> 00:09:56,960 Hey, dude! (LAUGHTER) 199 00:09:57,000 --> 00:10:00,760 # From her glaciers and her canyons 200 00:10:00,800 --> 00:10:02,040 # And her Badlands... # 201 00:10:02,080 --> 00:10:04,480 I went every night because it was so funny! 202 00:10:07,840 --> 00:10:10,640 The first half of it was skits, 203 00:10:10,680 --> 00:10:14,240 the second-half was a lampooning of the Woodstock Concert. 204 00:10:14,280 --> 00:10:17,280 # Lonely at the bottom of the barrel! 205 00:10:17,320 --> 00:10:20,000 Chevy played piano, guitar, drums. 206 00:10:20,040 --> 00:10:22,840 # I got into arts and crafts, lady got into leather 207 00:10:23,640 --> 00:10:25,600 It was funny as heck to me. 208 00:10:26,200 --> 00:10:29,200 Our mother went, like, once and didn't go back! 209 00:10:29,240 --> 00:10:31,320 # Oh... # 210 00:10:31,360 --> 00:10:34,720 (APPLAUSE) 211 00:10:37,800 --> 00:10:39,440 No... Look at this baby! 212 00:10:41,200 --> 00:10:42,200 Look at that! 213 00:10:43,200 --> 00:10:44,200 Say hi! 214 00:10:45,120 --> 00:10:47,160 This is gonna be your audience later! 215 00:10:47,200 --> 00:10:48,200 (SMOOCHES) 216 00:10:48,240 --> 00:10:50,680 Oh, my goodness... 217 00:10:50,720 --> 00:10:52,720 Isn't this the best cat? 218 00:11:03,160 --> 00:11:05,080 My mother is very musical. 219 00:11:05,120 --> 00:11:06,560 She was a concert pianist. 220 00:11:07,520 --> 00:11:09,560 She didn't follow up on it... 221 00:11:09,600 --> 00:11:11,320 But I could hear her once in a while 222 00:11:11,360 --> 00:11:14,680 playing something like Debussy or Chopin or... 223 00:11:15,800 --> 00:11:17,320 They had a beautiful touch. 224 00:11:18,320 --> 00:11:20,920 Like, notes of, like, a string of pearls. 225 00:11:25,960 --> 00:11:29,960 I started playing the piano 'cause it was there, basically. 226 00:11:30,000 --> 00:11:31,000 Tinkling on it 227 00:11:31,040 --> 00:11:34,280 and taught myself over the last 50 years. 228 00:11:38,240 --> 00:11:41,160 I played by ear and I don't read music. 229 00:11:52,640 --> 00:11:55,360 My brother and I would listen to jazz a lot 230 00:11:55,400 --> 00:11:57,120 on a '78 record player. 231 00:11:58,240 --> 00:12:00,560 That's what sort of got me doing it, 232 00:12:00,600 --> 00:12:02,520 you know, playing jazz... 233 00:12:02,560 --> 00:12:05,600 It's improvisation, which is very close to acting. 234 00:12:13,440 --> 00:12:16,200 Mel Brooks once defined comedy as polite hostility. 235 00:12:16,920 --> 00:12:18,080 Once you lose that, 236 00:12:18,120 --> 00:12:19,880 once you limit yourself to saying... 237 00:12:19,920 --> 00:12:21,040 "Well, that's not funny 238 00:12:21,080 --> 00:12:23,680 or that can't be funny or you can't do jokes on that..." 239 00:12:23,720 --> 00:12:29,160 Then you've limited yourself to the point where you're ineffective as a comedian. 240 00:12:29,200 --> 00:12:30,280 Lorne Michaels, 241 00:12:30,320 --> 00:12:33,520 when he's given the job to develop a show for Saturday nights, 242 00:12:33,560 --> 00:12:34,840 he's got a blank slate. 243 00:12:35,600 --> 00:12:37,880 I'd spent my twenties in a television studio, 244 00:12:37,920 --> 00:12:40,480 so I was comfortable in that environment. 245 00:12:40,520 --> 00:12:42,200 We were... 246 00:12:42,240 --> 00:12:45,600 Just filled with possibility of what we could do and what we couldn't do. 247 00:12:45,640 --> 00:12:49,400 When I met with Lorne, he described this new show. 248 00:12:49,440 --> 00:12:51,760 It spun my head around. 249 00:12:51,800 --> 00:12:56,000 He said it would be live, be 11:30 to 1:00 on Saturday night... 250 00:12:56,040 --> 00:12:58,600 And I go, "What?! Who's gonna watch that?" 251 00:12:58,640 --> 00:12:59,880 You know, angry people! 252 00:12:59,920 --> 00:13:01,720 People who are not gettin' laid! 253 00:13:01,760 --> 00:13:02,760 I got a call... 254 00:13:02,800 --> 00:13:05,800 Lorne said, "Do you wanna start this show with me?" 255 00:13:07,480 --> 00:13:11,000 If you could try to look at me instead of looking directly into camera... 256 00:13:11,040 --> 00:13:12,120 It's hard for me. 257 00:13:12,160 --> 00:13:13,160 Why? 258 00:13:13,200 --> 00:13:16,760 Because I invented Weekend Update so I COULD look in the camera! 259 00:13:18,640 --> 00:13:20,080 Tell me about that. 260 00:13:25,560 --> 00:13:27,040 (LAUGHS) 261 00:13:27,080 --> 00:13:28,080 The fuck, man? 262 00:13:29,440 --> 00:13:30,880 What the fuckin' shit, man? 263 00:13:30,920 --> 00:13:32,160 (LAUGHTER) 264 00:13:32,200 --> 00:13:33,600 I wanted him to be a writer 265 00:13:33,640 --> 00:13:35,560 but he really wanted to be in the cast 266 00:13:35,600 --> 00:13:38,440 and I had room for only six people. 267 00:13:38,480 --> 00:13:41,120 We had our final reading of the first script 268 00:13:41,160 --> 00:13:43,360 with all of us around a big table 269 00:13:43,400 --> 00:13:45,240 and I did some reading. 270 00:13:45,280 --> 00:13:48,680 He was funny in what I would describe as the right kind of way 271 00:13:48,720 --> 00:13:50,760 and he had a level of confidence. 272 00:13:50,800 --> 00:13:53,760 I think he saw that, given the cast, 273 00:13:53,800 --> 00:13:56,960 that I could be the handsome one! 274 00:13:57,000 --> 00:13:59,840 Live from New York, it's Saturday night! 275 00:14:04,560 --> 00:14:06,920 I had heard of Chevy's reputation, 276 00:14:06,960 --> 00:14:09,080 what a spectacular physical comedian he was, 277 00:14:09,120 --> 00:14:10,320 how funny, how gifted... 278 00:14:10,360 --> 00:14:12,320 Just masterful physical comedy. 279 00:14:14,720 --> 00:14:17,280 What's wrong with expressing our patriotism? 280 00:14:17,320 --> 00:14:20,560 I'm proud to diaper my baby with the stars and stripes 281 00:14:20,600 --> 00:14:24,280 or to stroll on the boardwalk wearing an Old Glory leisure suit! 282 00:14:24,840 --> 00:14:28,080 Chevy winds up being the last one officially hired 283 00:14:28,120 --> 00:14:31,640 and, interesting point, does not sign a contract. 284 00:14:31,680 --> 00:14:35,720 ..so I can be reminded again and again and again... 285 00:14:35,760 --> 00:14:37,280 Gives him a sense of freedom. 286 00:14:37,320 --> 00:14:40,440 If you sign that contract, you're not going anywhere else. 287 00:14:40,480 --> 00:14:44,040 I refer to saliva disbursement difficulties 288 00:14:44,080 --> 00:14:47,440 or, as we are sometimes called, 'droolers'. 289 00:14:49,720 --> 00:14:52,120 We at the Droolers Anti-Defamation League 290 00:14:52,160 --> 00:14:54,920 are working to correct the negative image of droolers 291 00:14:54,960 --> 00:14:56,360 propagated by the media. 292 00:14:56,400 --> 00:14:58,720 When I saw Saturday Night Live, 293 00:14:58,760 --> 00:15:01,720 it absolutely blew my doors off 294 00:15:01,760 --> 00:15:04,160 and I set out to sign everyone on the show! 295 00:15:04,200 --> 00:15:06,600 No, New Shimmer is a dessert topping! 296 00:15:06,640 --> 00:15:10,200 It's a floor wax! It's a dessert topping! 297 00:15:10,240 --> 00:15:12,120 It's a floor wax, I'm tellin' you! 298 00:15:12,160 --> 00:15:13,880 It's a dessert topping, you cow! 299 00:15:13,920 --> 00:15:16,000 Hey, hey, hey, calm down, you two! 300 00:15:16,040 --> 00:15:18,560 New Shimmer's a floor wax AND a dessert topping! 301 00:15:19,520 --> 00:15:21,680 Automatically, he's markedly different. 302 00:15:21,720 --> 00:15:23,880 Chevy doesn't really care about being liked. 303 00:15:23,920 --> 00:15:26,720 You're doing very well so far. Everybody loves the show. 304 00:15:26,760 --> 00:15:27,800 The song was great. 305 00:15:27,840 --> 00:15:30,640 And, uh, all I can say is relax and take your shirt off. 306 00:15:30,680 --> 00:15:32,000 (LAUGHTER) 307 00:15:32,040 --> 00:15:35,400 All too soon, he's giving notes to his other cast members. 308 00:15:35,440 --> 00:15:38,280 Danny came up to my office, he said, "You gotta talk to Chase." 309 00:15:38,320 --> 00:15:39,320 And I said, "What?" 310 00:15:39,360 --> 00:15:42,400 He said, "He gave me notes on my Scottish accent!" 311 00:15:43,480 --> 00:15:46,480 That's not a great recipe for being one of the gang! 312 00:15:48,040 --> 00:15:50,480 Carol Burnett was the big show at the time. 313 00:15:51,120 --> 00:15:52,920 Won Emmy after Emmy. 314 00:15:52,960 --> 00:15:56,640 Chevy or Lorne would say, "If you come up with an idea..." 315 00:15:56,680 --> 00:15:58,000 The understanding was, 316 00:15:58,040 --> 00:16:01,720 "OK, Carol Burnett would do it this way, how are we gonna do it?" 317 00:16:01,760 --> 00:16:05,240 It's just a word association, I'll throw you out a few words. 318 00:16:05,280 --> 00:16:08,000 Anything that comes to your mind, just throw back at me, OK? 319 00:16:08,040 --> 00:16:10,960 Just kind of an arbitrary thing, like if I said dog you'd say... 320 00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:12,000 Tree. Tree. 321 00:16:12,040 --> 00:16:15,440 These little asides about drugs and sex and race 322 00:16:15,480 --> 00:16:17,800 and, you know, he sort of personified that... 323 00:16:17,840 --> 00:16:22,400 That dangerous quality Saturday Night Live had at the time. 324 00:16:23,120 --> 00:16:24,120 Negro. 325 00:16:25,320 --> 00:16:26,320 Whitey. 326 00:16:28,160 --> 00:16:29,160 Tar baby... 327 00:16:34,840 --> 00:16:36,120 What'd you say? 328 00:16:36,160 --> 00:16:38,400 Lorne had said from the very beginning, 329 00:16:38,440 --> 00:16:40,440 "Let's just make each other laugh 330 00:16:40,480 --> 00:16:43,040 and if we do that we'll put it on television." 331 00:16:43,080 --> 00:16:45,880 It was exciting and it was, uh, terrifying! 332 00:16:47,440 --> 00:16:49,680 Spear-chucker! White trash! 333 00:16:50,760 --> 00:16:52,400 Jungle bunny! Honky! 334 00:16:53,560 --> 00:16:55,720 Spade! Honky-honky! 335 00:16:58,880 --> 00:17:00,800 Nigger! Dead honky! 336 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:06,480 He became a writer for me. 337 00:17:06,520 --> 00:17:08,119 I never asked him to do it. 338 00:17:08,160 --> 00:17:11,319 He came in to say, "Hey, I'm gonna write for your ass!" 339 00:17:11,359 --> 00:17:13,839 And now as a public service to those of our viewers 340 00:17:13,880 --> 00:17:16,000 who have difficulty with their hearing, 341 00:17:16,040 --> 00:17:17,240 our top story tonight... 342 00:17:17,280 --> 00:17:18,280 OUR TOP STORY! 343 00:17:18,319 --> 00:17:21,359 President Ford is finally over that stubborn week-long cold. 344 00:17:21,400 --> 00:17:23,560 ..STUBBORN WEEK-LONG COLD! 345 00:17:23,599 --> 00:17:29,480 The news for the hard of hearing is a piece that he came up with which only he and I did. 346 00:17:29,520 --> 00:17:33,040 And now Weekend Update with Chevy Chase. 347 00:17:33,080 --> 00:17:34,080 No... 348 00:17:35,240 --> 00:17:36,920 I love it when you make noise! 349 00:17:38,720 --> 00:17:40,200 Remember when... Gotta go! 350 00:17:41,680 --> 00:17:44,680 Good evening, I'm Chevy Chase and you're not! 351 00:17:44,720 --> 00:17:47,160 His delivery, "I'm Chevy Chase and you're not!" 352 00:17:47,200 --> 00:17:50,280 You know, the arrogance of the WASP-y upper class, 353 00:17:50,320 --> 00:17:53,960 it worked perfectly for the acerbic tone of Update. 354 00:17:55,000 --> 00:17:57,600 Originally, he had a funny name for his character 355 00:17:57,640 --> 00:18:00,040 and I went, "No, just say your real name." 356 00:18:00,080 --> 00:18:01,960 Two weeks late, that could be emotion! 357 00:18:04,240 --> 00:18:07,000 Don't worry about it, I'll take care of it, OK? 358 00:18:07,040 --> 00:18:09,440 OK, goodbye, Barbara... Margaret, I'm sorry! 359 00:18:12,200 --> 00:18:14,760 Good evening, I'm Chevy Chase and you're not! 360 00:18:14,800 --> 00:18:16,680 Lorne used to describe the ratings, 361 00:18:16,720 --> 00:18:20,880 that it would start and then would get a bump at Weekend Update. 362 00:18:20,920 --> 00:18:23,680 The president is seen here wearing a corsage 363 00:18:23,720 --> 00:18:26,680 given to him at an artificial limb-maker's convention. 364 00:18:27,320 --> 00:18:30,600 Chevy had this runway in Weekend Update. 365 00:18:30,640 --> 00:18:35,400 They created an environment where he could be himself. 366 00:18:36,840 --> 00:18:40,240 That's when he starts to really make a much larger impression. 367 00:18:46,520 --> 00:18:48,400 There was something that was so much... 368 00:18:48,440 --> 00:18:51,080 Just fun about all the things that he would do 369 00:18:51,120 --> 00:18:52,240 and he was fearless. 370 00:18:52,280 --> 00:18:53,280 Oh, hi! 371 00:18:53,320 --> 00:18:54,680 I'm Ronald Reagan! 372 00:18:56,000 --> 00:18:57,920 Oh, sure, I play the organ too! 373 00:18:59,080 --> 00:19:00,240 Saturday Night Live 374 00:19:00,280 --> 00:19:04,200 was sort of an extension of '60s counter-culture 375 00:19:04,240 --> 00:19:05,880 and recreational drugs... 376 00:19:05,920 --> 00:19:07,480 What can you say, they were... 377 00:19:07,520 --> 00:19:09,840 They were absolutely everywhere at that time! 378 00:19:11,200 --> 00:19:13,000 We started making money and... 379 00:19:13,040 --> 00:19:17,440 Tuesday became the late night on the show to write the scripts 380 00:19:17,480 --> 00:19:19,720 because read-through was on Wednesday 381 00:19:19,760 --> 00:19:21,000 and to help stay up 382 00:19:21,040 --> 00:19:23,920 as we made money people were doing drugs. 383 00:19:23,960 --> 00:19:26,240 (RINGS) 384 00:19:26,280 --> 00:19:27,280 Hello? 385 00:19:28,400 --> 00:19:31,120 Everybody was taking cocaine on the show. 386 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:34,800 You have a disposable income you never had and... 387 00:19:34,840 --> 00:19:38,560 The drug cocaine is not a friend of any personality, I don't think! 388 00:19:38,600 --> 00:19:41,040 You know, Gilda called it the devil's dandruff! 389 00:19:41,080 --> 00:19:43,840 I tried every powder and pill going. We all did back then. 390 00:19:43,880 --> 00:19:45,960 I didn't much like the coke, though. 391 00:19:46,960 --> 00:19:50,160 The person that they worried about the most was Chevy. 392 00:19:50,200 --> 00:19:53,480 He was doing a lot of drugs. 393 00:19:56,600 --> 00:19:59,640 Handling a lot of fame really fast, while on drugs 394 00:19:59,680 --> 00:20:03,160 when you don't have the strongest emotional foundation, 395 00:20:03,200 --> 00:20:06,960 that's a lot to stay balanced, 396 00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:11,160 to stay upright on your surfboard in such choppy surf! 397 00:20:11,200 --> 00:20:14,280 He was the one that people went nuts over. 398 00:20:14,960 --> 00:20:16,920 Gilda once told me that she went to Florida 399 00:20:16,960 --> 00:20:20,600 and her mother said, "Do you, like, really know him?" 400 00:20:20,640 --> 00:20:22,720 Feeling famous wasn't a big deal to me. 401 00:20:22,760 --> 00:20:24,800 I didn't care one way or the other, really. 402 00:20:24,840 --> 00:20:27,760 Let's start again so you say it in a complete sentence. 403 00:20:29,600 --> 00:20:30,600 You bitch! 404 00:20:31,320 --> 00:20:32,760 OK... 405 00:20:32,800 --> 00:20:34,000 I was on a bus. 406 00:20:34,680 --> 00:20:37,520 I looked up and there was a picture of me 407 00:20:37,560 --> 00:20:39,880 on the cover of New York Magazine 408 00:20:39,920 --> 00:20:42,680 and I realised that's it, I'm famous 409 00:20:42,720 --> 00:20:45,320 then I just looked around at everybody like this... 410 00:20:55,400 --> 00:20:57,680 We go to the Emmy Awards and... 411 00:20:57,720 --> 00:20:59,040 The nominees are... 412 00:20:59,080 --> 00:21:00,640 We were at the grownups table now. 413 00:21:00,680 --> 00:21:03,120 It was Carol Burnett. There's the old guard. 414 00:21:03,160 --> 00:21:06,800 And here were these bunch of hooligans, you know, dressed in tuxedos. 415 00:21:06,840 --> 00:21:08,400 And the winner is... 416 00:21:08,440 --> 00:21:10,160 Chevy Chase! 417 00:21:10,200 --> 00:21:11,840 NBC's Saturday Night! 418 00:21:11,880 --> 00:21:15,800 (WARM MUSIC PLAYS) 419 00:21:25,120 --> 00:21:27,760 At the Emmys, we all won for writing 420 00:21:27,800 --> 00:21:30,240 and I won for best show 421 00:21:30,280 --> 00:21:31,720 and it was... 422 00:21:31,760 --> 00:21:33,160 Wow, you know? 423 00:21:33,200 --> 00:21:35,920 Uh, impossible not to get carried away! 424 00:21:35,960 --> 00:21:38,480 Needless to say, this is, uh... 425 00:21:38,520 --> 00:21:40,080 Totally expected on my part. 426 00:21:40,120 --> 00:21:41,640 (LAUGHTER) 427 00:21:41,680 --> 00:21:42,800 Uh... 428 00:21:46,160 --> 00:21:48,040 Jacqueline, she was beautiful. 429 00:21:48,080 --> 00:21:50,720 I would show her picture to Lorne and say... 430 00:21:50,760 --> 00:21:51,920 "Well, you know!" 431 00:21:51,960 --> 00:21:54,400 Lorne would say, "You don't love her!" 432 00:21:54,440 --> 00:21:56,520 "What do you mean? Look at her!" 433 00:21:58,160 --> 00:22:00,240 He fell in love with Jacqueline. 434 00:22:00,280 --> 00:22:03,800 That was a tactical error on many levels. 435 00:22:04,840 --> 00:22:07,560 Jacqueline wouldn't move to New York City 436 00:22:07,600 --> 00:22:09,200 and I wanted to be with her. 437 00:22:10,400 --> 00:22:12,280 There was those rumours that, you know, 438 00:22:12,320 --> 00:22:14,320 he was given an ultimatum by Jacqueline. 439 00:22:14,360 --> 00:22:16,840 OK, quiet on the floor, please! 440 00:22:16,880 --> 00:22:20,200 He said, "My girlfriend wants to live in LA." 441 00:22:21,080 --> 00:22:23,760 It spoke to people thinking he was disingenuous. 442 00:22:24,760 --> 00:22:27,280 You guys all went to LA for his wedding? 443 00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:30,280 Yeah, and I remember being on the plane, 444 00:22:30,320 --> 00:22:31,320 everyone... 445 00:22:31,360 --> 00:22:34,040 There was a lottery, we wrote down dates we thought... 446 00:22:34,080 --> 00:22:36,040 You know, the divorce would happen, OK? 447 00:22:36,080 --> 00:22:38,640 So, it was like, "Yeah, yeah, this is gonna last!" 448 00:22:38,680 --> 00:22:39,680 God... 449 00:22:39,720 --> 00:22:41,000 Um... (LAUGHS) 450 00:22:41,680 --> 00:22:42,680 I was just off. 451 00:22:42,720 --> 00:22:45,560 I don't think I really understood what I wanted. 452 00:22:45,600 --> 00:22:48,040 (CHEERING AND APPLAUSE) 453 00:22:49,600 --> 00:22:51,640 A birdy told Gilda and Gilda told me. 454 00:22:52,680 --> 00:22:55,200 That's how I found out that Chevy was leaving the show. 455 00:22:56,360 --> 00:22:58,200 It was shocking... 456 00:22:58,240 --> 00:22:59,960 We... We'd just started! 457 00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:04,520 We were just at the Emmys where all the grownups are first finding out what... 458 00:23:04,560 --> 00:23:06,840 Who we are and what we're doing! 459 00:23:06,880 --> 00:23:08,000 Why now? 460 00:23:09,480 --> 00:23:11,480 I never had any plans ever. 461 00:23:12,400 --> 00:23:16,320 Uh, I had agents who had plans. 462 00:23:16,360 --> 00:23:17,360 So, uh... 463 00:23:17,400 --> 00:23:19,400 And at the time I was hot 464 00:23:19,440 --> 00:23:22,600 so it wasn't too tough for the agents to see that. 465 00:23:24,200 --> 00:23:25,880 I said, "We're just beginning here. 466 00:23:25,920 --> 00:23:27,960 I think you're at the centre of it." 467 00:23:28,400 --> 00:23:30,160 But we were never gonna fight. 468 00:23:30,200 --> 00:23:32,120 Neither of us would've done that. 469 00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:37,400 The forces pulling him was money, power, and all of that 470 00:23:37,440 --> 00:23:40,000 and when Hollywood wants you they're pretty good at it. 471 00:23:42,680 --> 00:23:46,240 He used to say, "Jackie doesn't like me when I'm performing. 472 00:23:47,200 --> 00:23:48,920 I turn into somebody. 473 00:23:48,960 --> 00:23:53,160 My ego comes out and she doesn't like it. 474 00:23:53,200 --> 00:23:56,160 She would rather I just be a writer." 475 00:24:08,040 --> 00:24:09,520 In hindsight, 476 00:24:09,560 --> 00:24:12,960 I felt it was a mistake to... 477 00:24:14,120 --> 00:24:15,880 Leave SNL. 478 00:24:15,920 --> 00:24:17,800 It really was the kind of show 479 00:24:17,840 --> 00:24:22,160 that I was a part of making with Lorne 480 00:24:22,200 --> 00:24:24,680 and it's the kind of thing I wanted to do. 481 00:24:33,520 --> 00:24:34,880 This is a weekly pull. 482 00:24:34,920 --> 00:24:36,560 Chevy gets fan mail weekly. 483 00:24:36,600 --> 00:24:39,760 And it's kind of a massive amount, so this is sort of... 484 00:24:39,800 --> 00:24:41,240 A little bit. 485 00:24:41,280 --> 00:24:43,600 This is half of a weekly amount. 486 00:24:43,640 --> 00:24:46,000 This looks good, it's "priorytet"! 487 00:24:47,160 --> 00:24:49,840 That means it's from Poland. Let's see what we got. 488 00:24:49,880 --> 00:24:52,080 I hope there are no animal parts in there! 489 00:24:52,120 --> 00:24:55,280 "I would like to write you a big thank you for all the excellent roles 490 00:24:55,320 --> 00:24:57,520 and the endless emotions that I experienced." 491 00:24:57,560 --> 00:24:58,560 Thank you. 492 00:24:58,600 --> 00:25:01,600 "One of the films which I am emotionally attached to is Foul Play. 493 00:25:01,640 --> 00:25:05,040 If you could find a moment to sign photos, it would be priceless for me." 494 00:25:05,080 --> 00:25:07,680 Sometimes you get mail from dogs, actual animals! 495 00:25:08,480 --> 00:25:09,480 Joy Heath! 496 00:25:11,880 --> 00:25:14,360 "Please shoot my husband!" Oh... 497 00:25:14,400 --> 00:25:17,120 We met about four or five years ago. 498 00:25:17,160 --> 00:25:19,960 I was brought on to bring him to some state, 499 00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:22,880 it might've been Chicago or Wisconsin or something like that 500 00:25:22,920 --> 00:25:26,440 and we started travelling and then we just hang out, our families got along. 501 00:25:26,480 --> 00:25:30,880 They get along really well, we started doing things together with my children, his children. 502 00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:32,000 We just bonded. Yeah. 503 00:25:32,040 --> 00:25:35,040 I don't know how we became so close but we're here, we enjoy it. 504 00:25:35,080 --> 00:25:37,360 It was your homosexual proclivities but... 505 00:25:37,400 --> 00:25:39,960 One time I didn't have a shirt on, it wasn't my fault. 506 00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:41,880 "I'm a great admirer and fan of yours. 507 00:25:41,920 --> 00:25:45,200 I love your performances in National Lampoon Vacation and Community. 508 00:25:45,240 --> 00:25:47,600 Thank you for being one of my biggest role models." 509 00:25:47,640 --> 00:25:51,960 "My fiance and I would be ecstatic if you attended our wedding!" 510 00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:53,240 OK... 511 00:25:53,280 --> 00:25:55,080 Here's one from 'Spud'. 512 00:25:55,120 --> 00:25:56,960 Spud Toomer. Boy... 513 00:25:57,000 --> 00:25:59,920 "I sincerely appreciate you taking the time to read my letter, 514 00:25:59,960 --> 00:26:01,760 I truly enjoy being part of your career 515 00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:03,800 and admire everything you accomplished." 516 00:26:03,840 --> 00:26:05,880 He wants you to sign these. 517 00:26:05,920 --> 00:26:07,680 Should I write 'to Spud Toomer'? 518 00:26:07,720 --> 00:26:10,120 Yeah. "Wonderful prose!" 519 00:26:10,160 --> 00:26:11,560 Wonderful prose! 520 00:26:11,600 --> 00:26:14,160 I was doing the fan mail and I opened it up 521 00:26:14,200 --> 00:26:15,560 and it says, 522 00:26:15,600 --> 00:26:18,520 "Chevy, just wanna wish you a happy 80th birthday. 523 00:26:18,560 --> 00:26:21,040 Miss you so much. Love to see you soon." 524 00:26:21,080 --> 00:26:23,840 And then it said, "Bill Clinton. Love ya." 525 00:26:23,880 --> 00:26:25,440 And I was like, "Holy cow, man! 526 00:26:25,480 --> 00:26:28,440 You just got a birthday card from Bill Clinton!" Yeah! 527 00:26:29,720 --> 00:26:33,760 You know, I really regard Bill as one of our greatest presidents. 528 00:26:33,800 --> 00:26:36,360 Really bright, intelligent guy. 529 00:26:36,400 --> 00:26:38,280 Not terribly humorous. 530 00:26:38,800 --> 00:26:41,040 "Hello, Chevy, how are you? 531 00:26:41,080 --> 00:26:42,600 Thanks for calling. 532 00:26:42,640 --> 00:26:45,200 Hillary's on my head right now. 533 00:26:45,240 --> 00:26:48,520 She's sitting on my head. She's stark naked. 534 00:26:49,360 --> 00:26:50,440 I'll call you later." 535 00:26:51,320 --> 00:26:53,640 This is the way I am at my age! 536 00:26:53,680 --> 00:26:56,040 Just a child! Yep! 537 00:26:56,080 --> 00:26:58,400 An angry child! 538 00:26:58,440 --> 00:27:00,240 (CHUCKLES) 539 00:27:06,600 --> 00:27:07,680 Hello... 540 00:27:08,680 --> 00:27:10,360 You... What are you doing here? 541 00:27:11,120 --> 00:27:14,240 Two years after a premiere of a show where no one knows him... 542 00:27:14,280 --> 00:27:15,960 Now co-starring with Goldie Hawn. 543 00:27:17,960 --> 00:27:20,920 I didn't really know him. I knew he was funny. 544 00:27:20,960 --> 00:27:21,960 Excuse me... 545 00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:24,320 And then I went up to the office to meet him 546 00:27:24,360 --> 00:27:28,200 and I opened the door and there comes this 6'4 guy. 547 00:27:28,240 --> 00:27:30,720 He's handsome. He's got presence. 548 00:27:30,760 --> 00:27:32,600 I mean, aside from being funny, 549 00:27:32,640 --> 00:27:35,160 but I mean he really was kind of adorable! 550 00:27:35,200 --> 00:27:37,680 And I was wearing sort of a purse, 551 00:27:37,720 --> 00:27:40,080 it was crocheted but it was shapeless 552 00:27:40,120 --> 00:27:42,840 but it did look like an udder of a cow. 553 00:27:42,880 --> 00:27:47,000 He literally took his hand and lifted it on my purse 554 00:27:47,040 --> 00:27:48,640 and he said, "Cough!" 555 00:27:49,520 --> 00:27:51,720 That's a funny group for Turk to belong to. 556 00:27:51,760 --> 00:27:54,560 Hey, I play detective, you play lady in distress. 557 00:27:54,600 --> 00:27:57,120 Hey, wait a minute, it's my ass they're after! 558 00:27:57,160 --> 00:27:58,680 I'm sorry... You're right. 559 00:27:58,720 --> 00:28:00,080 It is your ass they're after 560 00:28:00,120 --> 00:28:03,520 and it's my job to see it that I get there first! 561 00:28:03,560 --> 00:28:04,560 (LAUGHS) 562 00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:08,960 I could honestly go on about how amazing a chemistry we had. 563 00:28:09,840 --> 00:28:13,720 We really were aligned in our timing 564 00:28:13,760 --> 00:28:16,280 and we could feel each other. 565 00:28:16,320 --> 00:28:19,160 (APPLAUSE) 566 00:28:20,600 --> 00:28:22,760 Chevy has a great starting vehicle. 567 00:28:22,800 --> 00:28:25,280 It's not that things are easy for him, 568 00:28:25,320 --> 00:28:29,760 but that, who Chevy is, in his gumption and confidence, 569 00:28:29,800 --> 00:28:32,320 it plays well out in Hollywood. 570 00:28:32,360 --> 00:28:33,800 He's off and running. 571 00:28:36,120 --> 00:28:37,400 I was a single parent. 572 00:28:38,040 --> 00:28:40,520 I had two children, Katie and Oliver. 573 00:28:40,560 --> 00:28:42,560 We went out together. 574 00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:45,400 We were both presenting something at an event 575 00:28:45,440 --> 00:28:47,200 and then we came back together 576 00:28:47,240 --> 00:28:51,280 and Oliver, he had fallen asleep in front of the television set, 577 00:28:51,320 --> 00:28:53,680 and he went over to him... 578 00:28:55,520 --> 00:28:58,880 And he picked him up and he carried him to bed. 579 00:28:59,720 --> 00:29:02,240 And he came down the stairs and he looked at me, he said, 580 00:29:02,280 --> 00:29:04,120 "Go up, he's waiting for you." 581 00:29:04,160 --> 00:29:07,080 And I went upstairs and I sat with Oliver for a while 582 00:29:07,120 --> 00:29:08,840 and then I came downstairs. 583 00:29:09,720 --> 00:29:12,400 And he was playing the piano, softly... 584 00:29:13,560 --> 00:29:16,000 And he looked up at me and he said... 585 00:29:16,040 --> 00:29:18,880 "I can't believe you're doing all this alone." 586 00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:21,000 He cared. 587 00:29:21,040 --> 00:29:24,720 And that's the other part of the wild man. 588 00:29:24,760 --> 00:29:26,600 The man who fell over everything. 589 00:29:26,640 --> 00:29:28,200 The guy who had faux pas. 590 00:29:28,240 --> 00:29:30,560 The really funny, wacky, crazy guy. 591 00:29:31,760 --> 00:29:33,920 Also has a deep heart... 592 00:29:41,120 --> 00:29:46,080 # BOB SEGER AND SILVER BULLET BAND: Hollywood Nights 593 00:29:55,560 --> 00:29:59,080 Chevy Chase, one of the most successful alumni of Saturday Night Live, 594 00:29:59,120 --> 00:30:00,600 is back up on the big screen. 595 00:30:01,240 --> 00:30:02,480 This your place, Carl? 596 00:30:02,920 --> 00:30:07,080 Yeah, what do you think? It's really... It's really awful! 597 00:30:07,120 --> 00:30:08,440 Oh, sit down, come on! 598 00:30:08,480 --> 00:30:10,720 No, I don't wanna stick to anything in here! 599 00:30:10,760 --> 00:30:13,360 Caddyshack is probably the biggest showcase 600 00:30:13,400 --> 00:30:15,640 for all the things that are Chevy Chase. 601 00:30:16,280 --> 00:30:19,800 He's sexy, he's debonair, he's cool, he's funny... 602 00:30:19,840 --> 00:30:21,840 It's all there! 603 00:30:21,880 --> 00:30:25,320 Ty, what'd you shoot today? Oh, I don't keep score, judge! 604 00:30:25,360 --> 00:30:28,200 Oh, well, how do you measure yourself with other golfers? 605 00:30:28,240 --> 00:30:29,240 By height! 606 00:30:29,280 --> 00:30:30,520 As a kid, I studied him. 607 00:30:30,560 --> 00:30:34,280 He would throw away the gold and push the silver, right? 608 00:30:34,320 --> 00:30:37,560 Like, he would say something that is like that's funny 609 00:30:37,600 --> 00:30:40,240 and then under the breath quickly throw away something, 610 00:30:40,280 --> 00:30:41,480 THAT'S the A-plus joke! 611 00:30:41,520 --> 00:30:44,600 I'm gonna end up workin' in a lumber yard the rest of my life. 612 00:30:44,640 --> 00:30:46,920 What's wrong with lumber? I own two lumber yards! 613 00:30:46,960 --> 00:30:50,120 Notice you don't spent too much time there. Not sure where they are. 614 00:30:50,160 --> 00:30:53,480 Caddyshack is one of the greatest comedies ever made, bar none 615 00:30:53,520 --> 00:30:55,000 and you can't do it without him. 616 00:30:55,040 --> 00:30:57,280 # And those Hollywood nights 617 00:30:58,440 --> 00:31:00,320 # In those Hollywood Hills 618 00:31:01,560 --> 00:31:02,880 # She was lookin' so right 619 00:31:04,440 --> 00:31:06,880 # In her diamonds and frills 620 00:31:07,720 --> 00:31:09,160 # Oh, those big city nights # 621 00:31:09,200 --> 00:31:10,800 He was cerebral, he was funny 622 00:31:10,840 --> 00:31:12,680 and he was handsome too! 623 00:31:12,720 --> 00:31:15,560 # Who's the mooseiest moose we know? 624 00:31:15,600 --> 00:31:16,920 # Marty Moose! 625 00:31:16,960 --> 00:31:19,760 # Marty Moose! Marty Moose! Marty Moose! # 626 00:31:19,800 --> 00:31:23,240 Hyuck! That's me! (LAUGHS) 627 00:31:26,760 --> 00:31:28,920 The National Lampoon's Vacation came out. 628 00:31:28,960 --> 00:31:31,640 My parents were like, "Oh, my God, this happened!" 629 00:31:31,680 --> 00:31:33,280 Like, "This happened to us!" 630 00:31:33,320 --> 00:31:36,080 Sorry, folks, we're closed for two weeks 631 00:31:36,120 --> 00:31:39,240 to clean and repair America's favourite family fun park! 632 00:31:39,280 --> 00:31:40,280 Sorry! 633 00:31:40,320 --> 00:31:41,480 Hyuck, hyuck, hyuck! 634 00:31:46,440 --> 00:31:49,480 I think dads everywhere understood Clark Griswold. 635 00:31:50,680 --> 00:31:52,920 At first, I didn't wanna take this vacation... 636 00:31:53,920 --> 00:31:55,680 And now I'm glad I did. 637 00:31:55,720 --> 00:31:59,160 It's given me a chance to spend a lot more time with you and... 638 00:31:59,200 --> 00:32:01,560 Audrey. Audrey, yeah. 639 00:32:03,920 --> 00:32:06,400 National Lampoon's Vacation with Chevy Chase 640 00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:09,960 took in $49.4 million at the box office. 641 00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:13,240 Chevy had massive, massive movie star hits. 642 00:32:13,280 --> 00:32:15,200 Ah-ah-ah-ah, new car, I'll take it! 643 00:32:18,040 --> 00:32:19,040 Waitress! 644 00:32:19,080 --> 00:32:21,960 He's got it all, ladies and gentlemen, Chevy Chase! 645 00:32:22,720 --> 00:32:24,160 Here is Chevy Chase! 646 00:32:24,200 --> 00:32:26,160 (CHEERING) 647 00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:27,480 He gave me a Cartier clock 648 00:32:27,520 --> 00:32:29,480 and on the back of it it was engraved... 649 00:32:29,920 --> 00:32:31,680 "Keep getting me the six million!" 650 00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:33,000 (LAUGHING) 651 00:32:33,040 --> 00:32:34,040 Chevy Chase! 652 00:32:34,080 --> 00:32:36,080 (CHEERING AND LAUGHTER) 653 00:32:36,120 --> 00:32:37,800 May I help you, doctor? 654 00:32:37,840 --> 00:32:39,440 Oh, it's me, Dr Rosenpenis. 655 00:32:39,480 --> 00:32:41,400 I'm just here to check out... Doctor who? 656 00:32:41,440 --> 00:32:42,600 ..the family's file. 657 00:32:42,640 --> 00:32:44,160 Dr Rosen-Rosen, I'm here to... 658 00:32:44,200 --> 00:32:46,840 Could you give that name again? It's Dr Rosen. 659 00:32:46,880 --> 00:32:48,120 I wanna... Doctor who? 660 00:32:48,160 --> 00:32:50,320 Doctor Rosen, where's the record room? 661 00:32:50,360 --> 00:32:52,760 In my early days, if you watch Van Wilder, 662 00:32:52,800 --> 00:32:54,720 I'm just doing a Chevy Chase impression! 663 00:32:54,760 --> 00:32:56,560 Where am I? You're in the records room. 664 00:32:57,280 --> 00:32:58,600 Can I get you something? 665 00:32:58,640 --> 00:33:00,840 Uh, yeah, do you have The Beatles' White Album? 666 00:33:00,880 --> 00:33:03,800 I've seen Fletch, I don't know, 75 times? 667 00:33:04,560 --> 00:33:06,720 Oh, I just got out of the shower! 668 00:33:06,760 --> 00:33:09,600 Yeah... Can I borrow your towel for a sec? 669 00:33:09,640 --> 00:33:11,200 My car just hit a water buffalo! 670 00:33:11,240 --> 00:33:12,240 (LAUGHS) 671 00:33:12,280 --> 00:33:15,440 For me, the height of Chevy's filmmaking 672 00:33:15,480 --> 00:33:17,760 was National Lampoon Christmas Vacation! 673 00:33:17,800 --> 00:33:20,280 I just can't get enough of that movie. 674 00:33:20,320 --> 00:33:23,880 There are plenty of shopping days left until adulteries... 675 00:33:23,920 --> 00:33:26,160 Adulthood... Which is to say Christmas! 676 00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:29,640 Chevy made movies that you wanna see over and over again. 677 00:33:29,680 --> 00:33:32,400 What is your objective? My objective? 678 00:33:32,440 --> 00:33:34,640 Well, I object to taking a girl out, you know, 679 00:33:34,680 --> 00:33:37,280 and buying her dinner and then she won't put out for you! 680 00:33:37,320 --> 00:33:39,160 I'm Lucky Day! I'm Ned Nederlander! 681 00:33:39,200 --> 00:33:41,360 And I'm Dusty Bottoms and together we're... 682 00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:42,720 ALL: The Three Amigos! 683 00:33:43,920 --> 00:33:44,920 (ALL COUGH) 684 00:33:44,960 --> 00:33:46,400 # Hollywood nights! 685 00:33:48,240 --> 00:33:51,440 The thing about fame is that it doesn't really change you, 686 00:33:51,480 --> 00:33:53,600 it's that everything around you changes! 687 00:33:55,040 --> 00:33:57,800 If you were at Yankee Stadium with Chevy, 688 00:33:57,840 --> 00:34:00,440 everyone at Yankee Stadium would know he was there! 689 00:34:00,480 --> 00:34:04,240 (MUSIC CONTINUES) 690 00:34:04,280 --> 00:34:08,520 Good evening and welcome to the 59th Annual Academy Awards Show. 691 00:34:08,560 --> 00:34:09,800 My name is Chevy Chase, 692 00:34:09,840 --> 00:34:12,280 I feel privileged to be your host this evening. 693 00:34:12,320 --> 00:34:13,719 I'm really a replacement... 694 00:34:13,760 --> 00:34:17,679 I'm sorry to have to tell you that Jim and Tammy Baker couldn't make it tonight! 695 00:34:17,719 --> 00:34:19,560 (LAUGHTER) 696 00:34:20,800 --> 00:34:24,639 There's nothing like when Chevy Chase is coming into a restaurant. 697 00:34:24,679 --> 00:34:25,880 I've never seen... 698 00:34:25,920 --> 00:34:28,120 You know, wow, the people's heads snap around! 699 00:34:28,159 --> 00:34:29,920 Chevy is a bona fide movie star! 700 00:34:32,960 --> 00:34:34,280 # Those Hollywood nights 701 00:34:35,840 --> 00:34:37,600 # Above all the lights 702 00:34:39,320 --> 00:34:41,040 # Hollywood nights... # 703 00:34:42,800 --> 00:34:45,199 I met Chevy when I was 23. 704 00:34:45,239 --> 00:34:48,320 So, I was two years out of college. 705 00:34:48,360 --> 00:34:53,400 It was my second job... Working on a Chevy Chase movie. 706 00:34:53,440 --> 00:34:58,760 The last thing I wanted was to fall in love... 707 00:34:58,800 --> 00:35:00,040 Yeah. 708 00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:01,080 Um... 709 00:35:01,120 --> 00:35:03,280 Chevy's calling! (LAUGHS) 710 00:35:03,320 --> 00:35:04,320 Take it! 711 00:35:05,640 --> 00:35:06,760 Hi, honey! 712 00:35:07,480 --> 00:35:10,640 Hi, don't forget to mention how much we make love everyday! 713 00:35:10,680 --> 00:35:11,680 (LAUGHS) 714 00:35:13,640 --> 00:35:17,200 OK, I'm on camera so they might have captured that! 715 00:35:18,480 --> 00:35:20,520 Three times on weekends! Goodbye! 716 00:35:20,560 --> 00:35:22,280 OK! Love you, honey! 717 00:35:27,560 --> 00:35:30,400 I was working on a movie called Under the Rainbow. 718 00:35:31,240 --> 00:35:33,880 Jayni was the production coordinator in it. 719 00:35:35,160 --> 00:35:37,120 My trailer was pulled right up 720 00:35:37,160 --> 00:35:41,200 near to where the production unit was 721 00:35:41,240 --> 00:35:43,720 and I could hear her voice 722 00:35:43,760 --> 00:35:46,560 and I'd think, "What a beautiful voice." 723 00:35:46,600 --> 00:35:49,160 But I never looked to see who it was. 724 00:35:49,200 --> 00:35:51,160 Finally, I sort of did this, 725 00:35:51,200 --> 00:35:53,480 you know, where you look in the door... 726 00:35:53,520 --> 00:35:55,720 And I saw her and she was gorgeous. 727 00:35:57,640 --> 00:36:00,600 We were shooting at Union Station, Downtown LA. 728 00:36:00,640 --> 00:36:04,080 It was the end of the day and he came up and said, 729 00:36:04,120 --> 00:36:08,640 "Would you go with me to the premiere of my movie tonight? 730 00:36:08,680 --> 00:36:10,480 Goldie is in Paris 731 00:36:10,520 --> 00:36:12,760 and Jessica Lange..." 732 00:36:12,800 --> 00:36:14,760 Or some other actress... 733 00:36:14,800 --> 00:36:16,480 "Has the flu." 734 00:36:16,520 --> 00:36:19,080 And I looked up, I said, "Not if I'm third choice!" 735 00:36:19,120 --> 00:36:22,200 And he looked very crestfallen. 736 00:36:22,240 --> 00:36:23,480 Oh... 737 00:36:24,520 --> 00:36:26,640 Wasn't my job to give him his call time 738 00:36:26,680 --> 00:36:29,120 but I offered to call him with it. 739 00:36:29,160 --> 00:36:32,120 And he came on all out of breath and I said, 740 00:36:32,160 --> 00:36:34,840 "Do you still want me to come with you tonight?" 741 00:36:34,880 --> 00:36:35,960 And he said, "Really?" 742 00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:40,480 We went and that was the beginning of my falling in love with him. 743 00:36:40,520 --> 00:36:42,480 # Thanks for droppin' by 744 00:36:44,440 --> 00:36:47,360 # I never thought to ask you why! # 745 00:36:47,400 --> 00:36:51,960 Through one machination or another, I managed to get her on my side. 746 00:36:54,280 --> 00:36:57,480 We had a very small wedding in the backyard. 747 00:36:57,520 --> 00:37:00,120 Including the caterers, 40 people. 748 00:37:02,320 --> 00:37:03,920 She's the great love of my life. 749 00:37:04,920 --> 00:37:06,560 She's only three feet tall... 750 00:37:06,600 --> 00:37:07,600 No! 751 00:37:09,560 --> 00:37:11,240 We were married 752 00:37:11,280 --> 00:37:17,160 and it's only a year since he saw that last tape 753 00:37:17,200 --> 00:37:19,200 and look what's happened... 754 00:37:20,960 --> 00:37:23,240 This is Cydney! It's Cydney! 755 00:37:25,960 --> 00:37:29,600 The way he took care of me when I was pregnant 756 00:37:29,640 --> 00:37:32,840 and at all the birthings of the girls 757 00:37:32,880 --> 00:37:35,440 and seeing him as a daddy 758 00:37:35,480 --> 00:37:38,320 and how happy it made him... 759 00:37:38,960 --> 00:37:41,640 Hi, peewees! Hi, Dad! 760 00:37:41,680 --> 00:37:43,520 They go through their ups and downs. 761 00:37:43,560 --> 00:37:45,120 I mean, it's not perfect 762 00:37:45,160 --> 00:37:47,920 but they really hold on to one another 763 00:37:47,960 --> 00:37:49,480 and they really love each other. 764 00:37:50,800 --> 00:37:53,720 She's beautiful and smart as a whip! 765 00:37:57,000 --> 00:37:59,680 I don't have much to say about her that isn't good. 766 00:38:00,440 --> 00:38:03,920 No, I know, but it's just nice after hearing about Jacqueline 767 00:38:03,960 --> 00:38:05,000 and what have you... 768 00:38:05,040 --> 00:38:06,040 (BURPS) 769 00:38:06,080 --> 00:38:08,600 Oh, I'm sorry! Your mistake? 770 00:38:08,640 --> 00:38:10,880 That you found someone and that you're... 771 00:38:11,840 --> 00:38:14,040 You know, you have three beautiful daughters. 772 00:38:14,080 --> 00:38:18,040 Yeah, no, I don't think a lot of people have the happiness I have. 773 00:38:18,080 --> 00:38:19,920 Marriages are breaking up, 774 00:38:19,960 --> 00:38:21,680 kids do bad things, 775 00:38:21,720 --> 00:38:25,480 all that stuff that is family stuff, it's tough. 776 00:38:25,520 --> 00:38:27,360 Not just in America, 777 00:38:27,400 --> 00:38:29,960 but even worse in, let's say, Russia 778 00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:31,000 because... 779 00:38:31,040 --> 00:38:33,520 It must be nice to be a Russian family, huh? 780 00:38:33,560 --> 00:38:34,560 Pass the fork! 781 00:38:41,160 --> 00:38:43,720 (INAUDIBLE) 782 00:38:43,760 --> 00:38:44,760 Thank you. 783 00:38:44,800 --> 00:38:46,440 Come on. Oh, thanks. 784 00:38:47,840 --> 00:38:49,800 Fan of yours! (HONKING) 785 00:38:54,720 --> 00:38:55,720 Oh, a chair! 786 00:38:55,760 --> 00:38:58,040 Hi! Hello! 787 00:38:58,080 --> 00:38:59,960 What's his name? That's Rubet! 788 00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:03,120 She will be 11 in July. 789 00:39:03,160 --> 00:39:04,280 Oh, cool. Yeah. 790 00:39:04,320 --> 00:39:06,600 I have a couple of 17-year-olds... Really? 791 00:39:06,640 --> 00:39:10,080 And, uh, a 23-year-old. 792 00:39:10,120 --> 00:39:11,240 We have everything! 793 00:39:11,280 --> 00:39:14,920 Cats, dogs... We have a pelican! 794 00:39:14,960 --> 00:39:15,960 Really? No! 795 00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:17,000 (LAUGHS) 796 00:39:17,040 --> 00:39:18,760 Do I have a picture of my dog? Yeah! 797 00:39:19,840 --> 00:39:22,320 That's my granddaughter. Cute. 798 00:39:22,360 --> 00:39:23,880 She's only seven months. 799 00:39:23,920 --> 00:39:25,920 Seven months, wow. She speaks French. 800 00:39:25,960 --> 00:39:26,960 Really? No! 801 00:39:28,560 --> 00:39:30,720 I just keep lyin' to you! I keep buyin' it! 802 00:39:30,760 --> 00:39:32,080 Well, I'll have a steak! 803 00:39:32,120 --> 00:39:33,680 No, I'm kidding! 804 00:39:33,720 --> 00:39:36,720 We came in to get some flowers. They're for my wife. 805 00:39:36,760 --> 00:39:40,000 I have you on file, so if you wanna know, like, what you got last time... 806 00:39:40,040 --> 00:39:42,760 Oh, yeah, yeah! Let's look! Yeah, let me take a look. 807 00:39:45,360 --> 00:39:46,880 Oh... 808 00:39:46,920 --> 00:39:48,080 Beautiful! 809 00:39:48,120 --> 00:39:51,200 They're actually tulips. They're not peonies. These are tulips. 810 00:39:51,240 --> 00:39:53,480 They look like peonies. Yeah, those are tulips. 811 00:39:53,520 --> 00:39:54,800 That's your licence. What? 812 00:39:54,840 --> 00:39:56,800 Yeah, I want you to drive my car over here. 813 00:39:56,840 --> 00:39:57,840 Oh, yeah? 814 00:39:57,880 --> 00:40:00,080 What did I just give you my licence for? 815 00:40:01,200 --> 00:40:03,280 This is what I meant! Perfect, thank you! 816 00:40:06,920 --> 00:40:08,720 These are for Jayni, my wife! 817 00:40:09,800 --> 00:40:13,200 (COUGHING) I love her! 818 00:40:13,240 --> 00:40:14,240 (CRUNCHING) 819 00:40:16,360 --> 00:40:18,040 If she doesn't love 'em, you tell me, 820 00:40:18,080 --> 00:40:19,680 but I guarantee she'll love 'em. 821 00:40:19,720 --> 00:40:22,120 Do you want me to sign something? No, you're good. 822 00:40:22,160 --> 00:40:25,040 What do you mean? I don't know what they cost! They're 400. 823 00:40:25,080 --> 00:40:26,640 Four hundred dollars? Yeah! 824 00:40:28,480 --> 00:40:29,480 What?! 825 00:40:29,520 --> 00:40:32,400 For a little thing of flowers?! That's a big thing! 826 00:40:32,440 --> 00:40:34,960 I can give you a little thing! I bet you can! 827 00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:36,000 Yeah! 828 00:40:36,040 --> 00:40:37,160 OK, never mind... 829 00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:39,320 Oh, they really are pretty. 830 00:40:40,040 --> 00:40:42,240 Yeah, these are particularly special. 831 00:40:42,280 --> 00:40:45,120 We don't have these in regularly, you can't always get those. 832 00:40:45,160 --> 00:40:47,120 Peonies? No, those are actually tulips! 833 00:40:47,160 --> 00:40:48,800 I know, I know, I was kidding you! 834 00:40:52,560 --> 00:40:55,200 By the way, that's why I drive! Yeah! 835 00:40:55,240 --> 00:40:57,600 For people like you! Thank you! 836 00:41:03,320 --> 00:41:07,440 We spent a lot of time together in the late '70s 837 00:41:07,480 --> 00:41:08,800 and early '80s. 838 00:41:09,800 --> 00:41:14,640 He was uniquely funny and pretty crazy! 839 00:41:17,840 --> 00:41:19,600 When we were in Hawaii, 840 00:41:19,640 --> 00:41:23,800 he had somebody ship in many ounces of coke 841 00:41:23,840 --> 00:41:26,360 in a special shaving cream can 842 00:41:26,400 --> 00:41:28,440 which you could twist in a certain way 843 00:41:28,480 --> 00:41:29,640 and get to the coke. 844 00:41:30,400 --> 00:41:31,960 (LAUGHING) 845 00:41:32,000 --> 00:41:33,200 Every so often 846 00:41:33,240 --> 00:41:35,680 we'd have some cocaine flown in from the... 847 00:41:35,720 --> 00:41:37,600 From the mainland! 848 00:41:37,640 --> 00:41:38,960 "Mail's here!" 849 00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:41,160 Anyway... (LAUGHING) 850 00:41:47,520 --> 00:41:49,800 When I would visit Chevy in LA, 851 00:41:49,840 --> 00:41:53,480 I remember going to one restaurant and it was a circular table 852 00:41:53,520 --> 00:41:55,480 and I think there were about... 853 00:41:56,120 --> 00:41:59,640 Maybe six to eight of us around the table 854 00:41:59,680 --> 00:42:02,040 and the only person I knew was Chevy 855 00:42:02,080 --> 00:42:06,760 but in the centre of the table there was, like, a lazy Susan... 856 00:42:07,520 --> 00:42:08,800 It was out of a pyramid... 857 00:42:10,200 --> 00:42:11,920 That pyramid was cocaine! 858 00:42:12,320 --> 00:42:14,040 (AS DONALD DUCK) Oh, boy! 859 00:42:14,080 --> 00:42:15,080 Oh, boy! 860 00:42:15,120 --> 00:42:16,120 Nobody knows... 861 00:42:17,560 --> 00:42:23,560 (SNORTING) 862 00:42:26,440 --> 00:42:27,680 Modern Problems, 863 00:42:27,720 --> 00:42:32,520 there's such a thin line between what's going on in the movie and in his life! 864 00:42:34,160 --> 00:42:35,600 YESSS! 865 00:42:37,240 --> 00:42:40,640 (LAUGHS) I LIKE IT! 866 00:42:41,800 --> 00:42:44,600 The night before we were starting to shoot Modern Problems, 867 00:42:44,640 --> 00:42:48,800 Chevy just calls up, he's like, "I'm not doing the movie! You have to fix the script!" 868 00:42:50,320 --> 00:42:53,160 Alan Greisman, Ken Shapiro and I go up to Chevy's house. 869 00:42:54,440 --> 00:42:57,040 We start to go over the script page by page 870 00:42:57,080 --> 00:43:01,760 and Chevy pours coke on the table and starts sniffing it! 871 00:43:02,320 --> 00:43:05,400 'Cause there you're supposed to be having a rational discussion 872 00:43:05,440 --> 00:43:07,440 about a movie that you're gonna do 873 00:43:07,480 --> 00:43:10,720 and he's just snorting coke like there's no tomorrow! 874 00:43:11,440 --> 00:43:13,720 We're sitting there kind of... 875 00:43:13,760 --> 00:43:15,480 Not really wanting some 876 00:43:15,520 --> 00:43:16,640 but maybe, you know... 877 00:43:16,680 --> 00:43:18,440 But he's not offering us any, OK? 878 00:43:18,480 --> 00:43:19,880 So, we're in that space, OK... 879 00:43:19,920 --> 00:43:22,160 Who does cocaine alone in front of other people? 880 00:43:24,680 --> 00:43:28,440 So, by the time we're three-quarters of the way through the critique, 881 00:43:28,480 --> 00:43:31,200 he says, "You know what... I disagree with myself!" 882 00:43:33,360 --> 00:43:37,240 So, rationality was not high on the agenda! 883 00:43:41,240 --> 00:43:44,720 Chevy had a weird relationship with the director Ken Shapiro. 884 00:43:48,040 --> 00:43:51,680 Kenny wanted me to play a dream that I was a plane, 885 00:43:51,720 --> 00:43:52,800 landing. 886 00:43:53,720 --> 00:43:56,120 He put landing lights on my arms. 887 00:43:57,200 --> 00:43:59,920 They flipped the switch and he was uh-uh-uh-uh-uh... 888 00:43:59,960 --> 00:44:01,560 And they thought he was joking 889 00:44:01,600 --> 00:44:04,920 so they let it go longer than they coulda, shoulda... 890 00:44:04,960 --> 00:44:07,880 All of a sudden, he, like, passes out. 891 00:44:07,920 --> 00:44:10,400 So, the EMTs come, OK? 892 00:44:10,440 --> 00:44:13,600 And they do these questions, "How many fingers am I holding up? 893 00:44:13,640 --> 00:44:16,480 Do you know what day it is? What's your name?" 894 00:44:16,520 --> 00:44:18,320 And he goes, "Don't you know who I am?" 895 00:44:18,360 --> 00:44:20,760 I mean, and my memory of that is that... 896 00:44:20,800 --> 00:44:22,440 Oh, come now! 897 00:44:22,480 --> 00:44:24,680 I'm not saying he didn't feel something 898 00:44:24,720 --> 00:44:29,360 but he certainly didn't get electrocuted or a full dose of something! 899 00:44:30,840 --> 00:44:33,400 Chevy, you don't want to work with him 900 00:44:33,440 --> 00:44:37,360 because he can be so unpleasant and so gratuitously mean. 901 00:44:37,400 --> 00:44:40,360 And I don't think he knows that he is. 902 00:44:41,120 --> 00:44:43,880 I think it's just... It's an instinct. 903 00:44:46,520 --> 00:44:49,560 Sometimes, you know, he was his own worst enemy. 904 00:44:51,360 --> 00:44:54,360 He would do things that were emotional 905 00:44:54,400 --> 00:44:57,560 or out off insecurity that he shouldn't have done. 906 00:44:58,440 --> 00:45:00,680 Would you ever try to talk to him about it? 907 00:45:00,720 --> 00:45:02,840 Yeah, I was very open with him about it. 908 00:45:02,880 --> 00:45:06,040 And, um, to his credit he would listen. 909 00:45:06,080 --> 00:45:09,440 Whether he would take the advice or not remained to be seen. 910 00:45:11,400 --> 00:45:12,480 On the surface, 911 00:45:12,520 --> 00:45:16,480 Chevy looks like the guy that everything went perfect for. 912 00:45:16,520 --> 00:45:19,200 It wasn't really the case, you know? 913 00:45:19,240 --> 00:45:21,440 There was... There was some darkness. 914 00:45:21,480 --> 00:45:24,600 Did anyone tell you about the Terry Sweeney incident? 915 00:45:24,640 --> 00:45:25,960 I was there for it, yeah. 916 00:45:29,160 --> 00:45:31,200 It's Saturday Night Live... 917 00:45:31,240 --> 00:45:35,040 (CHEERING) 918 00:45:35,080 --> 00:45:36,560 ..with host Chevy Chase! 919 00:45:38,640 --> 00:45:40,240 When Chevy came back to host, 920 00:45:40,280 --> 00:45:43,320 I don't think anyone is prepared for the Chevy that shows up. 921 00:45:44,600 --> 00:45:48,080 I always felt like... It was beneath him to do this. 922 00:45:48,120 --> 00:45:50,040 I've gotten to know the cast very well, 923 00:45:50,080 --> 00:45:51,200 it's a great new cast, 924 00:45:51,240 --> 00:45:52,720 I hope you saw last week's show. 925 00:45:52,760 --> 00:45:54,560 If you didn't, this week you meet them. 926 00:45:54,600 --> 00:45:56,520 They're a wonderful group of 28 kids... 927 00:45:56,560 --> 00:45:57,560 Uh... 928 00:45:57,600 --> 00:45:59,800 That's not true, there are only about seven. 929 00:45:59,840 --> 00:46:02,400 He was really tough on the furniture that week, 930 00:46:02,440 --> 00:46:04,000 particularly Terry Sweeney, 931 00:46:04,040 --> 00:46:07,880 who was the first openly gay cast member of SNL. 932 00:46:07,920 --> 00:46:10,840 Uh, President Kennedy? Very good job! 933 00:46:10,880 --> 00:46:14,320 He had this wonderfully warm icebreaker with Terry Sweeney, 934 00:46:14,360 --> 00:46:16,400 which was, "You're gay, right?" 935 00:46:16,440 --> 00:46:19,160 And Terry said, "Yes, what would you like me to do for you?" 936 00:46:19,200 --> 00:46:21,600 And Chevy said, "You can start by licking my balls!" 937 00:46:21,640 --> 00:46:23,920 And then, of course, it went downhill from there. 938 00:46:24,440 --> 00:46:26,520 I think Chevy was just being Chevy. 939 00:46:26,560 --> 00:46:28,480 He would say things that were funny 940 00:46:28,520 --> 00:46:33,760 but he assumed that you were comedy people and you could speak that way. 941 00:46:33,800 --> 00:46:36,080 You know, we would say terrible things 942 00:46:36,120 --> 00:46:38,720 because that's what would make us laugh. 943 00:46:38,760 --> 00:46:42,320 It wasn't... We didn't tell anecdotes, you know? 944 00:46:42,360 --> 00:46:44,200 You said to Terry Sweeney, 945 00:46:44,240 --> 00:46:45,440 "Oh, you're the gay guy! 946 00:46:45,480 --> 00:46:48,600 Why don't we do something where we say you have AIDS 947 00:46:48,640 --> 00:46:51,160 and then every week we weigh you!" 948 00:46:51,200 --> 00:46:53,520 (LAUGHS) 949 00:46:54,120 --> 00:46:55,120 That's the worst! 950 00:46:56,960 --> 00:46:59,200 Ron, how are you? Uh, Nancy! 951 00:46:59,240 --> 00:47:00,800 Just terrific, Jerry! 952 00:47:01,400 --> 00:47:03,600 How's Betty? Oh, she's fine! 953 00:47:06,120 --> 00:47:08,360 Terry Sweeney, I mean, he was very funny, 954 00:47:08,400 --> 00:47:09,480 this guy... 955 00:47:09,520 --> 00:47:12,000 I don't think he's alive anymore, Terry Sweeney. 956 00:47:12,040 --> 00:47:15,320 I hope he isn't 'cause I don't want you talking to him about this! 957 00:47:15,360 --> 00:47:16,960 He's alive! Is he? 958 00:47:17,000 --> 00:47:18,760 Yeah, and I think... How do you know? 959 00:47:19,600 --> 00:47:21,400 'Cause I looked him up on Google! 960 00:47:21,440 --> 00:47:23,240 I mean, is he alive? He's alive! 961 00:47:23,280 --> 00:47:25,880 He's alive! Oh! He's aliveeeee! 962 00:47:25,920 --> 00:47:27,520 The gay guy! 963 00:47:28,400 --> 00:47:29,400 Oh, God... 964 00:47:29,440 --> 00:47:31,120 No, um, I think... 965 00:47:31,160 --> 00:47:32,560 I think... And this is... 966 00:47:32,600 --> 00:47:35,240 But the idea of weighing him, come on, that's... 967 00:47:35,280 --> 00:47:37,280 That's clearly me...! (LAUGHING) 968 00:47:37,320 --> 00:47:41,040 No, yeah, I think his recollection is different! 969 00:47:41,080 --> 00:47:42,080 Oh, what's his... 970 00:47:42,120 --> 00:47:45,000 He was very hurt by... Oh! 971 00:47:45,040 --> 00:47:46,040 Yeah, so... 972 00:47:47,040 --> 00:47:50,560 Well, when did you talk to him? I haven't talked to him! 973 00:47:50,600 --> 00:47:54,120 Then how do you know he was hurt? I've heard it from other people! 974 00:47:54,160 --> 00:47:57,840 Other people have told you that I hurt his feelings? It's like in books! 975 00:47:58,440 --> 00:47:59,640 I have to be going now! 976 00:47:59,680 --> 00:48:01,680 I'll leave you two leaders alone to talk. 977 00:48:01,720 --> 00:48:03,320 I'm gonna take Lucky for a walk. 978 00:48:03,360 --> 00:48:06,360 I think you hurt his feelings and... What book is this? 979 00:48:06,400 --> 00:48:08,880 Should I read this? Yeah, read it out! 980 00:48:08,920 --> 00:48:10,720 Come over here so he can hear you. 981 00:48:10,760 --> 00:48:12,360 Oh, this is great, thanks... 982 00:48:12,400 --> 00:48:13,520 This'll make my day! 983 00:48:15,640 --> 00:48:17,120 "Chevy turned to me and he said, 984 00:48:17,160 --> 00:48:18,720 'Oh, you're the gay guy, right?' 985 00:48:18,760 --> 00:48:21,440 And he said, 'I've got an idea for a sketch for you. 986 00:48:21,480 --> 00:48:24,360 How about we say you have AIDS and we weigh you every week.' 987 00:48:24,400 --> 00:48:27,160 It was out of place so then he ended up having to apologise 988 00:48:27,200 --> 00:48:29,040 and actually come into my office. 989 00:48:29,080 --> 00:48:31,520 He was really furious he had to apologise to me. 990 00:48:31,560 --> 00:48:33,840 He was just beside himself and it was just awful." 991 00:48:34,880 --> 00:48:38,080 None of that's true. I would remember that. 992 00:48:38,120 --> 00:48:40,040 You would? Yeah! 993 00:48:40,080 --> 00:48:44,440 That... That I was angry that I had to apologise to him? 994 00:48:46,080 --> 00:48:48,360 Good God, Chevy, what's wrong with you? 995 00:48:48,400 --> 00:48:51,640 I mean, of course I... That's just not true! 996 00:48:52,600 --> 00:48:55,680 My memory is that he's lying is my memory! 997 00:48:56,640 --> 00:48:58,440 He's not telling the truth! 998 00:48:59,440 --> 00:49:02,200 That isn't me. That's not how I am. 999 00:49:03,080 --> 00:49:04,640 And if I am that way, 1000 00:49:04,680 --> 00:49:06,240 my life has changed 1001 00:49:06,280 --> 00:49:09,520 'cause I have to live with that now for the rest of my fuckin' life 1002 00:49:09,560 --> 00:49:12,480 'cause you guys got a book out and read it to me! 1003 00:49:13,040 --> 00:49:15,080 I'd like to thank... (FRANTIC SPEAKING) 1004 00:49:15,120 --> 00:49:16,200 Goodnight! 1005 00:49:17,120 --> 00:49:20,720 Within the next week it was all over the place. 1006 00:49:21,480 --> 00:49:24,520 And you know, people who left that week saying, 1007 00:49:24,560 --> 00:49:26,680 "I never wanna see the guy again." 1008 00:49:34,480 --> 00:49:38,160 Look, there are certain people who've got reputations that you don't want. 1009 00:49:39,160 --> 00:49:40,160 Um... 1010 00:49:41,320 --> 00:49:42,880 (LAUGHS) Chevy... 1011 00:49:46,520 --> 00:49:51,280 The old Chevy could make you laugh putting you down 1012 00:49:51,320 --> 00:49:53,320 and there was a little bit of a wink there 1013 00:49:53,360 --> 00:49:54,840 so you were in on the joke... 1014 00:49:57,000 --> 00:49:58,640 But now it just comes off as mean. 1015 00:49:59,840 --> 00:50:01,840 It's kind of the elephant in the room. 1016 00:50:04,880 --> 00:50:06,200 Oh, I'm sorry, go ahead. 1017 00:50:06,240 --> 00:50:07,800 The elephant in the room, yeah. 1018 00:50:07,840 --> 00:50:09,560 That there are two camps. 1019 00:50:09,600 --> 00:50:11,160 There are the people who love you 1020 00:50:11,200 --> 00:50:12,800 and the people who don't like you. 1021 00:50:12,840 --> 00:50:16,880 OK, I don't know what to say about the people who don't like me except fuck 'em! 1022 00:50:16,920 --> 00:50:20,360 What can you say, actually, about something like that? 1023 00:50:20,400 --> 00:50:22,720 I can't say they're misunderstanding me 1024 00:50:22,760 --> 00:50:25,360 because maybe they're not by their standard. 1025 00:50:26,720 --> 00:50:30,560 Uh, I just prefer to be liked... Not disliked. 1026 00:50:31,880 --> 00:50:33,080 Like all of us! 1027 00:50:46,360 --> 00:50:47,720 Our doctor, 1028 00:50:47,760 --> 00:50:49,840 the ear, nose and throat guy, 1029 00:50:49,880 --> 00:50:52,200 called me and asked me to come in 1030 00:50:52,240 --> 00:50:53,960 and he needed to talk to me 1031 00:50:54,000 --> 00:50:57,960 and he explained to me that Chevy was addicted to cocaine. 1032 00:50:59,440 --> 00:51:00,760 Cocaine one-upped him. 1033 00:51:00,800 --> 00:51:03,400 He was no longer in control 1034 00:51:03,440 --> 00:51:06,520 and for a guy who loves being in control 1035 00:51:06,560 --> 00:51:12,240 I think it was a very, very dark, dangerous journey. 1036 00:51:12,280 --> 00:51:16,840 He's had many times where he was doing just fine 1037 00:51:16,880 --> 00:51:18,360 and then something happens 1038 00:51:18,400 --> 00:51:19,480 and that's... 1039 00:51:19,520 --> 00:51:21,480 You know, it's a disease of relapse 1040 00:51:21,520 --> 00:51:24,280 and, you know, it's never a wonder... 1041 00:51:24,320 --> 00:51:26,040 (LAUGHS) ..that an addict uses! 1042 00:51:26,080 --> 00:51:28,080 It's a miracle if an addict doesn't! 1043 00:51:29,560 --> 00:51:32,200 So, we did an intervention. 1044 00:51:32,240 --> 00:51:35,880 He said, "I know I need to stop. 1045 00:51:36,680 --> 00:51:38,040 And I know I need help." 1046 00:51:38,080 --> 00:51:41,440 Well, comedian Chevy Chase will be off the job for a while. 1047 00:51:41,480 --> 00:51:43,840 A spokesman says that the reason is a drug problem. 1048 00:51:43,880 --> 00:51:46,560 The first time I ever heard of the Betty Ford Clinic 1049 00:51:46,600 --> 00:51:49,160 was in relation to Chevy Chase going there 1050 00:51:49,200 --> 00:51:50,720 and my mother having to be like, 1051 00:51:50,760 --> 00:51:54,200 "Well, that's where rich people go when they've had too much to drink." 1052 00:51:54,240 --> 00:51:55,800 He went to Betty Ford 1053 00:51:55,840 --> 00:51:59,560 but after a week he called me and begged me to come pick him up. 1054 00:52:00,920 --> 00:52:02,880 Doctors released comedian Chevy Chase 1055 00:52:02,920 --> 00:52:06,000 from the Betty Ford Drug Rehabilitation Centre over the weekend. 1056 00:52:06,040 --> 00:52:09,200 According to a spokeswoman, his system is cleaned of drugs. 1057 00:52:11,120 --> 00:52:13,960 You know, the actual addiction or the... 1058 00:52:14,960 --> 00:52:19,560 The things he's gone through, I've come to see it as an illness. 1059 00:52:19,600 --> 00:52:25,160 The fact that he has overcome that, that's another thing he's overcome. 1060 00:52:28,000 --> 00:52:29,720 There's good news and bad news 1061 00:52:29,760 --> 00:52:33,520 because if you go through rehab and you're successful 1062 00:52:33,560 --> 00:52:36,280 then you're moving on with a healthier life. 1063 00:52:36,320 --> 00:52:39,720 The problem is that all the crutches, 1064 00:52:39,760 --> 00:52:44,320 all the vehicles that you used to get through certain situations, 1065 00:52:44,360 --> 00:52:45,680 they're all gone. 1066 00:52:46,520 --> 00:52:51,600 And it turns out that that inner core, that raw nature 1067 00:52:51,640 --> 00:52:53,400 can be incredibly mean! 1068 00:52:57,040 --> 00:52:58,640 He made these huge movies, 1069 00:52:58,680 --> 00:53:00,520 he was one of the biggest stars going... 1070 00:53:01,600 --> 00:53:03,840 And then he made a couple of ones that weren't... 1071 00:53:03,880 --> 00:53:05,520 Didn't do that great. 1072 00:53:05,560 --> 00:53:08,000 Because he was who he is, 1073 00:53:08,040 --> 00:53:12,200 even on the way to the top he was not a good guy. 1074 00:53:13,440 --> 00:53:16,920 But I can't imagine how he was on the way to the bottom. 1075 00:53:16,960 --> 00:53:20,600 I mean, basically, I'll just yell 1076 00:53:20,640 --> 00:53:22,880 and I'll just yell, "Hey, you guys, hey!" 1077 00:53:22,920 --> 00:53:24,320 Keep it goin'. Yeah. 1078 00:53:24,360 --> 00:53:25,360 Speed, mark! 1079 00:53:26,360 --> 00:53:27,640 And light! 1080 00:53:30,640 --> 00:53:32,040 Hey, help! 1081 00:53:32,080 --> 00:53:33,080 Up here! 1082 00:53:33,120 --> 00:53:34,360 Now over to number two! 1083 00:53:34,400 --> 00:53:35,400 Help! 1084 00:53:36,960 --> 00:53:38,160 Bang away! 1085 00:53:39,440 --> 00:53:42,520 Chevy Chase, I wanted to quit the business after working with him! 1086 00:53:43,320 --> 00:53:47,360 Really? What was the movie? Memoirs of an Invisible Man. 1087 00:53:47,400 --> 00:53:48,760 Um, it... 1088 00:53:48,800 --> 00:53:50,760 He was a producer on this thing! 1089 00:53:50,800 --> 00:53:52,640 So, you're directing, and he's, like, 1090 00:53:52,680 --> 00:53:53,840 got this attitude? 1091 00:53:53,880 --> 00:53:55,520 Oh, yeah, it... It was bad! 1092 00:53:55,560 --> 00:53:59,600 Was it one of those things where they had to shut things down? No, no, it was not that way. 1093 00:53:59,640 --> 00:54:02,880 I took it all in and just internalised it. 1094 00:54:02,920 --> 00:54:04,080 But that was my... 1095 00:54:04,120 --> 00:54:05,840 Uh, that was my... 1096 00:54:06,680 --> 00:54:09,160 Worst... Worst! 1097 00:54:11,000 --> 00:54:13,440 It's a great movie, I'm very happy with it. 1098 00:54:13,480 --> 00:54:16,400 You play an invisible man. I play the invisible man. 1099 00:54:16,440 --> 00:54:20,360 I sincerely think that this is by far and away the best picture I've made, 1100 00:54:20,400 --> 00:54:22,520 which is, according to some critics, 1101 00:54:22,560 --> 00:54:25,480 the equivalent of a mutt saying, "I just had a beautiful dump!" 1102 00:54:25,520 --> 00:54:28,120 "Memoirs of an Invisible Man is a mediocre movie 1103 00:54:28,160 --> 00:54:30,680 that can't make up its mind what it wants to be. 1104 00:54:30,720 --> 00:54:33,280 Chase is fine when the going gets funny. 1105 00:54:33,320 --> 00:54:36,600 Unfortunately, when he's called upon to act he turns amateurish." 1106 00:54:38,960 --> 00:54:41,360 I'm gonna say something that I probably shouldn't 1107 00:54:41,400 --> 00:54:46,040 but I never got the sense Chevy was as serious about his career 1108 00:54:46,080 --> 00:54:48,240 as his career was serious. 1109 00:54:48,280 --> 00:54:53,400 We had clients that were so focused on building and what role went next 1110 00:54:53,440 --> 00:54:55,760 and, um... 1111 00:54:56,280 --> 00:54:58,360 He didn't think that way. 1112 00:54:58,880 --> 00:55:02,960 I don't think he took himself as seriously as he was taken. 1113 00:55:03,800 --> 00:55:05,760 How did the talk show come about? 1114 00:55:05,800 --> 00:55:07,200 You know, it's funny, 1115 00:55:07,240 --> 00:55:08,800 I knew you'd ask me this question. 1116 00:55:08,840 --> 00:55:10,640 I hated the idea. 1117 00:55:12,480 --> 00:55:17,080 Bruce Bodner was Chevy's lawyer morphed into his manager. 1118 00:55:17,120 --> 00:55:20,160 Bruce was very influential on his life. 1119 00:55:20,200 --> 00:55:22,480 He really had Chevy's ear. 1120 00:55:22,520 --> 00:55:25,720 Thought it was a good idea, those of us around him didn't. 1121 00:55:29,200 --> 00:55:32,440 There's a lot to be done as Chevy Chase starts his quest 1122 00:55:32,480 --> 00:55:35,120 for a chunk of the late-night talk show audience! 1123 00:55:35,160 --> 00:55:36,960 The pressure is, can I do it? 1124 00:55:37,000 --> 00:55:39,320 And the anticipation is, can I do it? 1125 00:55:39,360 --> 00:55:40,800 You did a talk show! 1126 00:55:40,840 --> 00:55:43,040 What was that like? Short! 1127 00:55:43,080 --> 00:55:45,400 (LAUGHING) Thanks for asking! 1128 00:55:47,400 --> 00:55:51,440 I never took anybody's advice about how to do a talk show. 1129 00:55:51,480 --> 00:55:52,720 I didn't... 1130 00:55:52,760 --> 00:55:54,800 I can do it, I kept thinking! 1131 00:55:54,840 --> 00:55:57,680 He came to me and said, "Do you wanna work on it?" 1132 00:55:57,720 --> 00:55:59,360 Um, and I was like, yeah! 1133 00:55:59,400 --> 00:56:05,240 If there's anything I could change it's that period of time... 1134 00:56:06,200 --> 00:56:09,600 That kind of took us to Memoirs of an Invisible Man 1135 00:56:09,640 --> 00:56:10,840 and the talk show. 1136 00:56:10,880 --> 00:56:13,000 The closer we got to the airdate, 1137 00:56:13,040 --> 00:56:17,680 the more we started to feel like this ship is not upright! 1138 00:56:18,720 --> 00:56:20,200 So, I have a pain in my... 1139 00:56:20,240 --> 00:56:21,840 My chest right in here 1140 00:56:21,880 --> 00:56:24,200 and some numbness going down my arm. 1141 00:56:24,240 --> 00:56:26,600 Otherwise, I'm kind of nervous! 1142 00:56:26,640 --> 00:56:28,680 I don't think it was well thought-through. 1143 00:56:28,720 --> 00:56:31,800 They just had this idea, "Oh, he's funny, he's a big star! 1144 00:56:31,840 --> 00:56:33,960 We'll put him on TV and it'll work!" 1145 00:56:34,000 --> 00:56:36,360 (CHEERING) 1146 00:56:37,600 --> 00:56:38,880 And now... 1147 00:56:38,920 --> 00:56:41,520 He's still not ready for prime time! 1148 00:56:41,560 --> 00:56:42,560 Chevy Chase! 1149 00:56:42,600 --> 00:56:44,760 (CHEERING AND APPLAUSE) 1150 00:56:50,040 --> 00:56:52,760 It wasn't Chevy's forte... 1151 00:56:52,800 --> 00:56:56,000 Chevy was not a guy who could do stand-up comedy! 1152 00:56:56,040 --> 00:56:58,600 President Clinton is appearing on Nightline tonight 1153 00:56:58,640 --> 00:57:00,880 to discuss his healthcare plan further. 1154 00:57:00,920 --> 00:57:02,200 If you're watching him... 1155 00:57:02,240 --> 00:57:05,280 Or excuse me if you're watching me instead of him, I'm flattered 1156 00:57:05,320 --> 00:57:07,720 but I think maybe you should see a doctor 1157 00:57:07,760 --> 00:57:10,320 because that's just a sign of how really sick you are! 1158 00:57:10,360 --> 00:57:11,360 (DRUMS SMASH) 1159 00:57:11,400 --> 00:57:13,840 I think the show needed a different kind of produce, 1160 00:57:13,880 --> 00:57:17,200 the person they got had a long history of television producing 1161 00:57:17,240 --> 00:57:20,080 but it was really old-time TV comedy. 1162 00:57:20,120 --> 00:57:22,520 Uh, I feel like a hundred dollars! 1163 00:57:23,320 --> 00:57:26,760 You know, I don't want... I want you out! 1164 00:57:28,080 --> 00:57:31,240 I remember being on set and... 1165 00:57:31,280 --> 00:57:34,400 It felt like I wanted him to relax! 1166 00:57:34,440 --> 00:57:36,520 He felt nervous to me! 1167 00:57:37,800 --> 00:57:39,480 It was hideous! 1168 00:57:39,520 --> 00:57:43,520 I just didn't really have a sense of what you do on a talk show. 1169 00:57:43,560 --> 00:57:45,800 It's basically a true story and it... 1170 00:57:45,840 --> 00:57:49,080 It's based on sort of the dilemma of a kid 1171 00:57:49,120 --> 00:57:51,760 who's brought up with a father who really cares about him 1172 00:57:51,800 --> 00:57:54,600 but he's also very close to a member of kind of the mob, 1173 00:57:54,640 --> 00:57:56,000 I mean... 1174 00:57:56,040 --> 00:57:58,000 Roll the clip! (LAUGHTER) 1175 00:57:58,040 --> 00:58:01,240 That's a hard thing to do every night for an hour! 1176 00:58:01,280 --> 00:58:03,760 It's almost impossible, if you wanna know the truth! 1177 00:58:03,800 --> 00:58:06,160 You have to know something about everything. 1178 00:58:06,200 --> 00:58:07,400 You have to be well-read. 1179 00:58:07,440 --> 00:58:09,640 You have to understand current events. 1180 00:58:09,680 --> 00:58:11,360 You have to know who your guest is 1181 00:58:11,400 --> 00:58:13,240 and there are five of them a night. 1182 00:58:13,800 --> 00:58:16,840 I don't know how people like Letterman and others do it. 1183 00:58:16,880 --> 00:58:18,400 I... It's beyond me. 1184 00:58:18,440 --> 00:58:22,080 You can say it's interesting to have different people with different... 1185 00:58:22,120 --> 00:58:24,520 Yeah, yeah, right. We're all the same, pretty much. 1186 00:58:24,560 --> 00:58:26,200 It's not that interesting. 1187 00:58:26,240 --> 00:58:28,800 The reviews were universally terrible 1188 00:58:28,840 --> 00:58:32,040 and Chevy literally would come into the writers' room and say, 1189 00:58:32,080 --> 00:58:33,760 "You guys are doing a great job! 1190 00:58:33,800 --> 00:58:35,680 It is not your fault, it's my fault!" 1191 00:58:43,320 --> 00:58:45,880 There was a 50th birthday party for Chevy 1192 00:58:45,920 --> 00:58:47,720 with a lot of big stars. 1193 00:58:47,760 --> 00:58:49,360 It was a huge disappointment 1194 00:58:49,400 --> 00:58:51,440 when we learned at the end of the party 1195 00:58:51,480 --> 00:58:53,800 that the show had been pulled by Fox. 1196 00:58:53,840 --> 00:58:56,920 It was my job to tell him the show was cancelled and I did it. 1197 00:58:57,920 --> 00:58:59,840 I remember Mike Ovitz saying... 1198 00:59:00,880 --> 00:59:05,000 "Do you wanna do another couple of weeks or what?" 1199 00:59:05,040 --> 00:59:06,880 I said, "A couple of weeks?" 1200 00:59:06,920 --> 00:59:08,680 "Yeah, I think we're finished!" 1201 00:59:08,720 --> 00:59:10,080 You know, and that was it... 1202 00:59:20,440 --> 00:59:24,680 It was kind of a weird environment after his talk show. 1203 00:59:24,720 --> 00:59:29,200 I know my dad has been depressed. I knew that at a young age. 1204 00:59:29,240 --> 00:59:31,400 And that was sort of hard for me 1205 00:59:31,440 --> 00:59:32,840 because, you know... 1206 00:59:32,880 --> 00:59:35,600 I would go in and, like, tug on his shirt 1207 00:59:35,640 --> 00:59:37,520 and he'd say, like, "Not now, honey." 1208 00:59:38,200 --> 00:59:40,840 Huh? Where are we? What's the date? 1209 00:59:40,880 --> 00:59:43,120 April 19th 1994. 1210 00:59:44,120 --> 00:59:46,160 Four Seasons Hotel, Washington, DC. 1211 00:59:47,160 --> 00:59:49,840 I'm your host and I'd be happy to take your order. 1212 00:59:50,600 --> 00:59:53,400 One thing that was interesting about our household 1213 00:59:53,440 --> 00:59:58,640 is that my parents were pretty open with some of the things going on that were deeper, 1214 00:59:58,680 --> 01:00:00,320 depending on our ages. 1215 01:00:01,760 --> 01:00:06,440 My parents were communicating enough to say there's something called depression 1216 01:00:06,480 --> 01:00:11,240 and it is hard for people to get out of bed. 1217 01:00:13,520 --> 01:00:14,520 Hi! 1218 01:00:15,720 --> 01:00:16,960 Why are you doing this? 1219 01:00:19,680 --> 01:00:21,560 He would get in bed and not get out. 1220 01:00:23,680 --> 01:00:25,520 I didn't understand why... 1221 01:00:27,560 --> 01:00:29,080 My father and mother, 1222 01:00:29,120 --> 01:00:31,000 they divorced when I was around four 1223 01:00:31,040 --> 01:00:33,280 and not many years later he married again 1224 01:00:33,320 --> 01:00:34,320 and so did my mother. 1225 01:00:34,360 --> 01:00:36,920 John Cederquist, he married my mother. 1226 01:00:36,960 --> 01:00:38,360 He was a psychoanalyst. 1227 01:00:38,400 --> 01:00:41,560 He was not like my father. 1228 01:00:42,120 --> 01:00:43,360 Humourless. 1229 01:00:44,960 --> 01:00:45,960 Humourless... 1230 01:00:46,000 --> 01:00:50,720 He was the father figure, as our stepfather, 1231 01:00:50,760 --> 01:00:53,080 for most of the time growing up. 1232 01:00:54,360 --> 01:00:56,680 My father had a flash anger 1233 01:00:56,720 --> 01:00:59,720 and he could lash out with a single blow 1234 01:00:59,760 --> 01:01:01,560 and no talk before or after. 1235 01:01:02,240 --> 01:01:06,680 He did not take to anything that he perceived as insolence. 1236 01:01:06,720 --> 01:01:07,840 Chevy was insolent. 1237 01:01:10,040 --> 01:01:13,480 The first time we stayed together, 1238 01:01:13,520 --> 01:01:18,200 the first time I went to wake him up he shuddered... 1239 01:01:19,480 --> 01:01:20,480 And he explained, 1240 01:01:20,520 --> 01:01:23,520 "Well, my mother would wake me up slapping me." 1241 01:01:24,400 --> 01:01:27,680 From the time he was a little guy, wham! 1242 01:01:29,240 --> 01:01:32,120 Our mother was a bag of cats. 1243 01:01:32,160 --> 01:01:35,200 Certainly on the schizoid spectrum. 1244 01:01:36,440 --> 01:01:42,040 I felt like, uh, this was an out-of-control woman 1245 01:01:42,080 --> 01:01:46,040 who I look back on and I say, "I feel sorry for her." 1246 01:01:46,080 --> 01:01:49,280 She had her own issues. Bad ones. 1247 01:01:49,320 --> 01:01:53,680 But she was physically abusive to me. 1248 01:01:54,560 --> 01:01:56,600 Oftentimes, in abusive households, 1249 01:01:56,640 --> 01:01:59,280 there's one child who's the target of the abuse. 1250 01:02:00,400 --> 01:02:03,400 And unfortunately, he... He was that. 1251 01:02:05,040 --> 01:02:10,360 I would hear stories from Chevy about some of the terrible things that would happen to him 1252 01:02:10,400 --> 01:02:12,080 as a young man. 1253 01:02:12,120 --> 01:02:14,480 Things like being locked in the closet. 1254 01:02:14,520 --> 01:02:17,440 There was a cellar and he was sent down there 1255 01:02:17,480 --> 01:02:20,600 because of really messing up at school. 1256 01:02:21,720 --> 01:02:23,200 My marks stank 1257 01:02:23,240 --> 01:02:27,960 but they stank because whereas others would concentrate on their homework 1258 01:02:28,000 --> 01:02:29,640 I didn't have a chance at that. 1259 01:02:30,400 --> 01:02:33,000 I was always worried about one thing or another 1260 01:02:33,040 --> 01:02:34,560 that had to do with my own health. 1261 01:02:36,800 --> 01:02:39,400 Ned and I were eating breakfast 1262 01:02:39,440 --> 01:02:44,040 and Cederquist came down and started slapping me across the back of the head. 1263 01:02:44,760 --> 01:02:48,160 And I stood up and made it clear 1264 01:02:48,200 --> 01:02:52,000 I didn't think was a time for corporal punishment... 1265 01:02:53,280 --> 01:02:56,600 And John Cederquist sat down and I sat down. 1266 01:02:57,400 --> 01:03:00,480 I knew at that time that Ned was there for me. 1267 01:03:01,520 --> 01:03:03,600 Uh, that was a big moment for us. 1268 01:03:06,280 --> 01:03:07,600 So, at what point... 1269 01:03:07,640 --> 01:03:11,480 Or was there a point where you walked away from your mother and stepfather 1270 01:03:11,520 --> 01:03:12,960 and never saw them again? 1271 01:03:14,320 --> 01:03:15,320 (SIGHS) 1272 01:03:16,160 --> 01:03:17,160 (SCOFFS) 1273 01:03:20,800 --> 01:03:21,800 Sorry? 1274 01:03:21,840 --> 01:03:22,840 It shaped him. 1275 01:03:22,880 --> 01:03:25,680 He used comedy, he used humour 1276 01:03:25,720 --> 01:03:28,720 as a way to, um... 1277 01:03:28,760 --> 01:03:31,320 You know, mask what was going on inside. 1278 01:03:31,360 --> 01:03:34,560 And that's continued. It continues to this day. 1279 01:03:34,600 --> 01:03:38,240 I mean, he will joke around from morning to night 1280 01:03:38,280 --> 01:03:40,240 and you won't know what's going on. 1281 01:03:40,280 --> 01:03:42,720 That's his instinct, is... 1282 01:03:42,760 --> 01:03:44,840 "I wanna bring humour to this situation!" 1283 01:03:44,880 --> 01:03:48,320 'Cause that's how he always dealt with the problems in his life. 1284 01:03:48,360 --> 01:03:50,360 Chevy, do you have your lighter close-by? 1285 01:03:50,400 --> 01:03:52,200 I have my lighter very close-by! 1286 01:03:52,240 --> 01:03:53,240 Are you ready? 1287 01:03:53,280 --> 01:03:55,680 I'm ready 'cause I wanna put all these away! 1288 01:03:55,720 --> 01:03:57,600 Oh, wait, that's chewing gum! 1289 01:03:58,480 --> 01:03:59,920 Do you know about his past? 1290 01:03:59,960 --> 01:04:02,160 Do you know that he was abused as a child? 1291 01:04:02,200 --> 01:04:05,440 Um, I don't know that he was abused as a child 1292 01:04:05,480 --> 01:04:10,800 but I am sort of sad to say that I would have guessed that... 1293 01:04:10,840 --> 01:04:13,440 Because of, you know... 1294 01:04:13,480 --> 01:04:17,480 Um, what he's doing is a coping mechanism. 1295 01:04:19,600 --> 01:04:20,720 No problem... 1296 01:04:22,880 --> 01:04:27,440 Funny people generally have a lot of sad things in their background. 1297 01:04:27,480 --> 01:04:30,080 A lot of tragedy. That's where the comedy comes from. 1298 01:04:32,320 --> 01:04:37,640 What it really boils down to is being able to behave in a very natural way 1299 01:04:37,680 --> 01:04:39,840 in a very unnatural environment. 1300 01:04:39,880 --> 01:04:43,320 And I think, often, the... 1301 01:04:43,360 --> 01:04:45,960 That... That skill is honed... 1302 01:04:46,840 --> 01:04:51,760 Um, in a... In an unhappy home. 1303 01:04:51,800 --> 01:04:52,800 (LAUGHTER) 1304 01:04:54,200 --> 01:04:55,440 Uh-oh, I've got it...! 1305 01:04:55,480 --> 01:04:58,240 (GASPING AND LAUGHTER) 1306 01:04:58,280 --> 01:05:01,080 (TENDER MUSIC) 1307 01:05:01,120 --> 01:05:03,480 We've lost a huge evergreen over here. 1308 01:05:03,520 --> 01:05:04,720 Huge tree. 1309 01:05:04,760 --> 01:05:06,000 What do you think of this? 1310 01:05:06,040 --> 01:05:09,160 I went through, like, six or seven years of real depression. 1311 01:05:09,200 --> 01:05:11,640 I just couldn't quite figure out what it was... 1312 01:05:11,680 --> 01:05:15,960 When you're in it, uh, you're just not feelin' too good. 1313 01:05:16,000 --> 01:05:17,960 (ELETRIC PIANO PLAYING) 1314 01:05:22,720 --> 01:05:26,440 I found that, the better I got on the piano, 1315 01:05:26,480 --> 01:05:29,360 the more he would come downstairs 1316 01:05:29,400 --> 01:05:32,480 so I played my tuchis off! 1317 01:05:32,520 --> 01:05:35,680 He loved it and he was inspired by it 1318 01:05:35,720 --> 01:05:37,680 and inspired me and loved hearing it 1319 01:05:37,720 --> 01:05:39,440 and would love to show me stuff! 1320 01:05:42,200 --> 01:05:43,880 It brought him out of the bedroom! 1321 01:05:43,920 --> 01:05:46,320 (GIGGLING) 1322 01:05:48,680 --> 01:05:50,280 This is our house now! 1323 01:05:50,320 --> 01:05:52,200 Well, it's most of it! 1324 01:05:53,200 --> 01:05:55,960 Moving us out of LA 1325 01:05:56,000 --> 01:06:00,960 was my way of making sure that we were living more in reality. 1326 01:06:01,440 --> 01:06:04,360 That was the best thing, I think, for all of us. 1327 01:06:04,400 --> 01:06:06,320 To get out of that environment. 1328 01:06:08,040 --> 01:06:09,400 I needed to get him here. 1329 01:06:09,440 --> 01:06:10,920 This was... He grew up here! 1330 01:06:15,120 --> 01:06:16,360 I've always had Jayni. 1331 01:06:16,400 --> 01:06:21,240 It's pretty hard to be depressed too long with a happy woman. 1332 01:06:21,280 --> 01:06:23,160 (LAUGHS) Chevy! 1333 01:06:39,800 --> 01:06:42,320 Where's your chess set? Right back there, buddy. 1334 01:06:43,600 --> 01:06:46,160 You wanna play now? Or just this? 1335 01:06:46,200 --> 01:06:48,280 Just that first, we'll do the chess after. 1336 01:06:49,080 --> 01:06:50,080 Here... 1337 01:06:51,440 --> 01:06:52,880 That's the face right there! 1338 01:06:52,920 --> 01:06:55,720 (LAUGHS) How's this? 1339 01:06:56,920 --> 01:06:59,200 Look at that face! No! 1340 01:06:59,240 --> 01:07:00,240 All right, ready? 1341 01:07:00,280 --> 01:07:02,080 (BOTH LAUGHING) 1342 01:07:02,120 --> 01:07:03,320 All right, try again! 1343 01:07:05,080 --> 01:07:06,960 Why are you makin' that same face?! 1344 01:07:07,000 --> 01:07:08,000 What? 1345 01:07:08,040 --> 01:07:09,840 It looks like you're takin' a shit! 1346 01:07:09,880 --> 01:07:12,680 It looks like I'm takin' a shit? Yeah, look at it! 1347 01:07:12,720 --> 01:07:13,760 Sorry, everybody! 1348 01:07:13,800 --> 01:07:14,800 (LAUGHING) 1349 01:07:14,840 --> 01:07:16,280 My apologies! 1350 01:07:17,680 --> 01:07:19,560 OK, from now on let's be serious! 1351 01:07:19,600 --> 01:07:20,600 Seriously! 1352 01:07:20,640 --> 01:07:21,640 (LAUGHS) 1353 01:07:22,360 --> 01:07:23,360 He likes to tease. 1354 01:07:24,240 --> 01:07:27,840 Remember the 12-year-old boy that pulls the girl's hair? Right? That's him! 1355 01:07:27,880 --> 01:07:29,280 "All the best!" 1356 01:07:29,600 --> 01:07:30,600 (LAUGHS) 1357 01:07:31,920 --> 01:07:33,680 We were at a restaurant 1358 01:07:33,720 --> 01:07:37,240 and he seemed to be talking to his veal chop... 1359 01:07:37,280 --> 01:07:39,440 He had one finger, he says, "Come on!" 1360 01:07:39,480 --> 01:07:41,880 He would say, "Come on, come on, come on!" 1361 01:07:41,920 --> 01:07:44,360 And then with his other hand he picked it up, fwah, 1362 01:07:44,400 --> 01:07:45,640 "There, that's good!" 1363 01:07:47,240 --> 01:07:49,200 If I were you, I wouldn't do that! 1364 01:07:49,240 --> 01:07:51,800 (LAUGHING) 1365 01:07:51,840 --> 01:07:53,040 Chevy will do... 1366 01:07:53,080 --> 01:07:55,480 If you're sitting at a table he'll be sitting there 1367 01:07:55,520 --> 01:07:57,240 and then he'll start to do this... 1368 01:07:57,280 --> 01:07:58,880 He does this, where... 1369 01:07:59,920 --> 01:08:02,720 He bounces along and you see this figure bounce 1370 01:08:02,760 --> 01:08:03,760 and it's just... 1371 01:08:03,800 --> 01:08:06,240 Always buckles me over when he... When he does that! 1372 01:08:06,280 --> 01:08:09,920 Huge fan, Mr Chase, huge fan! Thank you! I appreciate that! 1373 01:08:09,960 --> 01:08:10,960 Thank you! 1374 01:08:11,000 --> 01:08:12,800 Would you like a signed picture? 1375 01:08:12,840 --> 01:08:15,920 Do you have one available? I might... I might have one! 1376 01:08:16,640 --> 01:08:19,680 We were at the AFI Tribute to Gregory Peck. 1377 01:08:19,720 --> 01:08:20,920 Way, way in the corner, 1378 01:08:20,960 --> 01:08:23,120 Mary Hart was interviewing someone live 1379 01:08:23,160 --> 01:08:24,160 and Chevy said, 1380 01:08:24,200 --> 01:08:26,960 "I wonder if I can hit her with this roll." 1381 01:08:27,000 --> 01:08:29,359 And he whipped it as far as he could 1382 01:08:29,399 --> 01:08:33,359 and it hit her right in the head in the middle of a thing and he had to sit down like a kid! 1383 01:08:33,399 --> 01:08:35,160 I was at an event 1384 01:08:35,200 --> 01:08:38,680 and this young caterer came up with a tray full of, like, 1385 01:08:38,720 --> 01:08:41,120 chocolate mousse, shots of chocolate mousse. 1386 01:08:41,160 --> 01:08:43,319 "Would you guys like some chocolate mousse?" 1387 01:08:43,359 --> 01:08:46,720 Chevy looked at it, he stuck his finger in one, took it out and went... 1388 01:08:46,760 --> 01:08:47,760 "No, thank you!" 1389 01:08:47,800 --> 01:08:50,880 So, I'm up 100 to, uh... 1390 01:08:50,920 --> 01:08:52,560 Twelve? Yes! 1391 01:08:53,120 --> 01:08:55,520 (BREATHING HEAVILY) 1392 01:08:57,319 --> 01:08:59,520 We're not rolling, are we rolling? Yes! 1393 01:08:59,560 --> 01:09:00,560 This whole time? 1394 01:09:01,560 --> 01:09:04,040 What was the question? So, Community... 1395 01:09:06,200 --> 01:09:09,040 What? (LAUGHING) 1396 01:09:09,080 --> 01:09:12,960 OK, I did Community, Jayni says I was great in it! 1397 01:09:13,000 --> 01:09:14,960 What is community college? 1398 01:09:15,000 --> 01:09:17,479 Well, you've heard all kinds of things... 1399 01:09:17,520 --> 01:09:21,680 You've heard it's loser college or old people... 1400 01:09:21,720 --> 01:09:24,120 I sort of thought I was in retirement 1401 01:09:24,160 --> 01:09:26,920 a little bit back with my wife and the kids 1402 01:09:26,960 --> 01:09:29,000 back at the farm in New York 1403 01:09:29,040 --> 01:09:30,200 but, you know... 1404 01:09:30,240 --> 01:09:31,680 When I saw the... 1405 01:09:31,720 --> 01:09:34,960 The pilot script, I said, "Oh, I gotta play that guy!" 1406 01:09:35,000 --> 01:09:36,800 My dad got this pilot. 1407 01:09:36,840 --> 01:09:38,840 He said yes to it 1408 01:09:38,880 --> 01:09:40,640 because he loved the writing! 1409 01:09:41,720 --> 01:09:43,720 Thought Dan Harmon was quite a genius! 1410 01:09:44,800 --> 01:09:49,399 I was here in LA, acting, pretty much just living on couches. 1411 01:09:49,439 --> 01:09:53,399 My mom said, "Don't really wanna move to LA. 1412 01:09:53,439 --> 01:09:56,080 Is there any way you would live with your father? 1413 01:09:56,120 --> 01:09:57,520 I'll give you a place to stay." 1414 01:09:57,560 --> 01:10:00,240 And I was like, "Oh, my God, yes! I'll do it!" 1415 01:10:01,160 --> 01:10:03,080 I became a little LA. 1416 01:10:03,120 --> 01:10:04,120 I got some sage... 1417 01:10:04,560 --> 01:10:06,800 Wanted to empty the house of... 1418 01:10:08,000 --> 01:10:09,640 Whatever the heck was there. 1419 01:10:09,680 --> 01:10:12,200 The next morning, I found a note in the bag 1420 01:10:12,240 --> 01:10:13,440 with the sage. 1421 01:10:13,480 --> 01:10:15,960 It just said, "Smoked it, didn't like it. 1422 01:10:17,160 --> 01:10:18,720 Love you, Dad." 1423 01:10:18,760 --> 01:10:20,760 And I'm thinking, "Did he?" 1424 01:10:20,800 --> 01:10:26,040 (THEME PLAYS) 1425 01:10:26,080 --> 01:10:28,880 I was a Chevy Chase fan from Saturday Night Live. 1426 01:10:28,920 --> 01:10:30,000 The beginning. 1427 01:10:30,040 --> 01:10:33,040 He's a classical sketch performer. 1428 01:10:35,280 --> 01:10:37,560 I was hired to do Community 1429 01:10:37,600 --> 01:10:41,560 and I had heard, you know, that he could be challenging... 1430 01:10:41,600 --> 01:10:43,840 Would you stop tuning that guitar? 1431 01:10:43,880 --> 01:10:46,200 You are 105 years old! 1432 01:10:46,800 --> 01:10:47,800 EXCUSE ME... 1433 01:10:49,120 --> 01:10:51,920 But it's springtime and I thought I might woo a few chicks! 1434 01:10:51,960 --> 01:10:54,480 On the first day I was working with Chevy, 1435 01:10:54,520 --> 01:10:57,320 he's throwing a big pause in the middle of this sentence 1436 01:10:57,360 --> 01:10:58,880 that cannot have a pause... 1437 01:10:58,920 --> 01:11:03,160 And I'm like, "Can we do it again without that pause?" 1438 01:11:03,200 --> 01:11:06,320 And he's puttin' the pause in and puttin' the pause it 1439 01:11:06,360 --> 01:11:08,000 and he keeps puttin' the pause in 1440 01:11:08,040 --> 01:11:09,040 and I'm like, 1441 01:11:09,080 --> 01:11:13,360 "If you pull that pause out I think it's gonna be funnier!" 1442 01:11:13,400 --> 01:11:14,800 And he goes, "Oh, I see... 1443 01:11:14,840 --> 01:11:17,760 Are YOU telling ME how to do comedy?" 1444 01:11:17,800 --> 01:11:19,840 And I said, "I am... 1445 01:11:19,880 --> 01:11:21,360 In this case, I am. 1446 01:11:21,400 --> 01:11:23,320 And it kills me, but yes, I am." 1447 01:11:23,360 --> 01:11:24,960 And he goes, "Fine, fuck it!" 1448 01:11:25,000 --> 01:11:26,840 And so, he did it without the pause 1449 01:11:26,880 --> 01:11:29,000 and he goes, "You're right, that was better!" 1450 01:11:30,400 --> 01:11:33,240 He and I would argue about how he was delivering a line 1451 01:11:33,280 --> 01:11:34,520 and it would get heated 1452 01:11:34,560 --> 01:11:37,400 and the next day he'd come in and be rubbing my belly 1453 01:11:37,440 --> 01:11:39,280 and telling me Richard Pryor stories! 1454 01:11:39,320 --> 01:11:40,320 I loved it! 1455 01:11:40,360 --> 01:11:42,360 Like, I mean, you know... 1456 01:11:43,080 --> 01:11:45,920 I complimented him on the movie Foul Play 1457 01:11:45,960 --> 01:11:47,960 and he goes, "It's a terrible film!" 1458 01:11:48,000 --> 01:11:50,240 I'm like, "No, Chevy, it's a great film!" 1459 01:11:50,280 --> 01:11:53,280 And he goes, "You don't know what the fuck you're talkin' about!" 1460 01:11:53,320 --> 01:11:55,400 "I do know what the fuck I'm talkin' about!" 1461 01:11:55,440 --> 01:11:58,040 "You wanna see a good movie? Rosemary's Baby!" 1462 01:11:58,080 --> 01:12:00,240 And I'm like, "OK, that's also a good movie!" 1463 01:12:00,280 --> 01:12:01,800 It seems... Bleugh! 1464 01:12:03,080 --> 01:12:04,080 It seems... 1465 01:12:04,120 --> 01:12:07,400 (SNORTS) Thought it was my line, I'm sorry! 1466 01:12:07,440 --> 01:12:10,400 There was a little bit of negativity around Chevy 1467 01:12:10,440 --> 01:12:12,240 and the rest of the cast 1468 01:12:12,280 --> 01:12:16,680 and so there was a desire to shoot him out every day... 1469 01:12:16,720 --> 01:12:19,080 And so, the very first shots of the day, 1470 01:12:19,120 --> 01:12:20,960 I would get him to say all his lines 1471 01:12:21,000 --> 01:12:22,160 and we would argue 1472 01:12:22,200 --> 01:12:23,520 and then, uh... 1473 01:12:23,560 --> 01:12:26,560 And I'm like, "All right, Chevy, we're done." And he would leave. 1474 01:12:26,600 --> 01:12:28,440 Once he left, everyone's like, "Hey!" 1475 01:12:28,480 --> 01:12:30,320 Troy, get up here and double-bounce me! 1476 01:12:30,360 --> 01:12:31,880 That's not how we do things here! 1477 01:12:31,920 --> 01:12:35,320 Get up here and double-bounce me or I'll tell everybody about this place! 1478 01:12:35,360 --> 01:12:37,360 Harmon then was like... 1479 01:12:37,400 --> 01:12:40,280 Listening to his cast and he goes, 1480 01:12:40,320 --> 01:12:43,360 "Don't worry, I broke Pierce's legs for you!" 1481 01:12:44,080 --> 01:12:45,240 (BOTH SCREAMING) 1482 01:12:45,280 --> 01:12:46,760 Father... 1483 01:12:50,600 --> 01:12:52,200 MY LEGS! ARGH! 1484 01:12:52,240 --> 01:12:55,320 Two casts and a wheelchair. 1485 01:12:55,360 --> 01:12:58,960 So, you just stick him in one place 1486 01:12:59,000 --> 01:13:01,880 and just shoot him out for the whole episode. 1487 01:13:01,920 --> 01:13:03,840 He's just fuckin' in that chair! 1488 01:13:05,360 --> 01:13:07,000 For the first time, 1489 01:13:07,040 --> 01:13:10,400 it was very clear to him that he was the old fart. 1490 01:13:11,600 --> 01:13:14,680 His castmates, they were so much younger 1491 01:13:14,720 --> 01:13:17,640 and they were just living a very different life. 1492 01:13:17,680 --> 01:13:21,120 Here's the thing, the first script back, 1493 01:13:21,160 --> 01:13:22,400 which Chevy loves, right? 1494 01:13:22,440 --> 01:13:25,400 What's that? Have you seen it? I have not seen it! 1495 01:13:25,440 --> 01:13:27,480 This is the respect I didn't get! 1496 01:13:28,200 --> 01:13:29,200 It's in his email! 1497 01:13:29,240 --> 01:13:31,400 Which is in New York! His email's in New York! 1498 01:13:31,440 --> 01:13:34,720 They were cracking up because they'd asked him, "Do you do email? 1499 01:13:34,760 --> 01:13:35,840 Do you have email?" 1500 01:13:35,880 --> 01:13:38,720 And he said, "Oh, yeah... But that's in New York!" 1501 01:13:38,760 --> 01:13:41,120 The cast, by the way, minus Chevy, is so nice! 1502 01:13:41,160 --> 01:13:42,280 (LAUGHTER) 1503 01:13:44,040 --> 01:13:46,200 He said you're nice! You're nice! 1504 01:13:46,840 --> 01:13:48,600 But that's fine... 1505 01:13:48,640 --> 01:13:50,160 Chevy was unprotected. 1506 01:13:50,200 --> 01:13:54,480 And any time I spoke to anyone no one really did anything. 1507 01:13:55,600 --> 01:14:00,680 That was when I realised that I was getting a six pack of organic red wine 1508 01:14:00,720 --> 01:14:04,880 and after about four days it was gone. 1509 01:14:04,920 --> 01:14:09,840 I pointed it out to Chevy probably five different times 1510 01:14:09,880 --> 01:14:11,400 and he would roll it back 1511 01:14:11,440 --> 01:14:15,080 and then he didn't like me pointing it out to him. 1512 01:14:16,240 --> 01:14:17,240 Because the... 1513 01:14:18,320 --> 01:14:21,320 The beast of addiction starts taking over. 1514 01:14:22,040 --> 01:14:24,840 He was not an alcoholic all those years 1515 01:14:24,880 --> 01:14:28,000 but alcoholism is a whole different level. 1516 01:14:28,040 --> 01:14:29,680 It really takes over. 1517 01:14:29,720 --> 01:14:31,600 And that was hard for him to stop. 1518 01:14:32,840 --> 01:14:34,600 Chevy was functional. 1519 01:14:34,640 --> 01:14:37,520 I didn't realise it right away. 1520 01:14:38,240 --> 01:14:39,520 Caley did. 1521 01:14:40,320 --> 01:14:44,080 She finally said, "Mom, I think he's drinking on set!" 1522 01:14:44,120 --> 01:14:47,120 Look at awesome Jeffrey Winger! 1523 01:14:47,680 --> 01:14:50,520 Too awesome for old Pierce 1524 01:14:50,560 --> 01:14:52,360 with your hip shirts and your... 1525 01:14:52,400 --> 01:14:54,000 Your gelled hair! 1526 01:14:55,120 --> 01:14:59,320 It was out in the open that Chevy Chase was a little difficult on Community. 1527 01:14:59,360 --> 01:15:01,560 And I'm being nice... (LAUGHS) 1528 01:15:02,440 --> 01:15:03,840 People were talking about it, 1529 01:15:03,880 --> 01:15:06,240 enough that Dan did that thing at the wrap party. 1530 01:15:08,480 --> 01:15:12,000 My dad was super-excited to bring me and my mom to the wrap party. 1531 01:15:12,400 --> 01:15:15,440 We walk in, Dan had had some drinks... 1532 01:15:16,640 --> 01:15:19,480 He starts railing on Chevy on the microphone. 1533 01:15:19,520 --> 01:15:24,560 He had gotten the whole cast and crew to yell, 1534 01:15:24,600 --> 01:15:27,120 "Fuck you, Chevy! Fuck you, Chevy!" 1535 01:15:27,920 --> 01:15:32,240 I'm there, he's showing his daughter 'this is the show I did' 1536 01:15:32,280 --> 01:15:34,200 and we walk into 'fuck you, Chevy'. 1537 01:15:34,240 --> 01:15:36,320 That's rough and mean... 1538 01:15:36,360 --> 01:15:38,600 I don't get talked to like that by anybody, 1539 01:15:38,640 --> 01:15:41,000 certainly not in front of my wife and daughter, 1540 01:15:41,040 --> 01:15:44,560 you (BLEEP), alcoholic fat (BLEEP)! 1541 01:15:44,600 --> 01:15:46,960 You're not funny. You're OK..." 1542 01:15:47,000 --> 01:15:52,600 He was pissed and left an angry, pissed but also kinda funny voicemail to Dan. 1543 01:15:52,640 --> 01:15:54,440 "You can suck my (BLEEP)..." 1544 01:15:55,120 --> 01:15:56,960 Dan was going through a time as well 1545 01:15:57,000 --> 01:15:59,960 and he ended up putting my dad's voicemail public. 1546 01:16:02,480 --> 01:16:04,560 So, they went back and forth, I don't know... 1547 01:16:04,600 --> 01:16:07,240 There was like this little mini-war with them. 1548 01:16:07,280 --> 01:16:09,520 Dan was fired from the show. 1549 01:16:11,920 --> 01:16:15,240 They made up and then my dad said, "I won't come back without Dan!" 1550 01:16:15,280 --> 01:16:16,280 It was crazy! 1551 01:16:21,761 --> 01:16:23,800 We have to teach Jeffrey how to fight. 1552 01:16:23,840 --> 01:16:24,960 I know a few moves. 1553 01:16:25,000 --> 01:16:27,240 Troy, I assume you're handy with a switchblade. 1554 01:16:27,280 --> 01:16:29,040 Abed, you get back to the family tent, 1555 01:16:29,080 --> 01:16:31,080 try to find a chicken for Jeff to chase. 1556 01:16:31,720 --> 01:16:34,280 As the seasons went on, 1557 01:16:34,320 --> 01:16:35,440 Chevy had a lot... 1558 01:16:35,480 --> 01:16:40,560 A lot of concerns with his role and how they were portraying him. 1559 01:16:40,600 --> 01:16:42,040 A little angry, a little mean. 1560 01:16:42,600 --> 01:16:45,800 They were writing his character more and more bigoted. 1561 01:16:45,840 --> 01:16:48,280 And he was getting upset about it. 1562 01:16:51,240 --> 01:16:54,160 I was there directing the night Chevy Chase got fired 1563 01:16:54,200 --> 01:16:55,360 from Community. 1564 01:16:55,400 --> 01:16:59,240 And that's why Pierce should host the reception! 1565 01:16:59,280 --> 01:17:00,600 He speaks their language! 1566 01:17:00,640 --> 01:17:02,920 Finally, somebody's making some sense! 1567 01:17:02,960 --> 01:17:06,800 I've got a Blackface Senor Wences bit I've been workshopping. 1568 01:17:06,840 --> 01:17:07,840 Perfect! 1569 01:17:07,880 --> 01:17:09,440 Harmon write this... 1570 01:17:10,080 --> 01:17:11,920 A Blackface hand puppet routine. 1571 01:17:11,960 --> 01:17:14,240 What you talkin' about, honky? 1572 01:17:14,280 --> 01:17:17,440 Character is a little tone-deaf on this thing! 1573 01:17:17,480 --> 01:17:20,440 I haven't introduced you to my Asian wife yet! 1574 01:17:21,840 --> 01:17:23,320 Uh-oh! 1575 01:17:23,360 --> 01:17:27,120 Now, had it been Chevy in his heyday, 1576 01:17:27,160 --> 01:17:29,440 he would have been totally fine, right? 1577 01:17:30,240 --> 01:17:32,320 He said something to Yvette... 1578 01:17:32,360 --> 01:17:36,720 I know that there was a history between those two around race 1579 01:17:36,760 --> 01:17:41,480 and she got up and stormed out of there... 1580 01:17:41,520 --> 01:17:42,920 Chevy storms off. 1581 01:17:42,960 --> 01:17:47,400 So, the producer is like, we need Yvette in this scene, right? 1582 01:17:47,440 --> 01:17:49,440 I'm like, "Yeah! She's in the next scene!" 1583 01:17:49,480 --> 01:17:51,960 "She won't come out unless Chevy apologises to her!" 1584 01:17:52,000 --> 01:17:53,040 I'm like, "Oh...!" 1585 01:17:53,080 --> 01:17:55,800 (LAUGHING) 1586 01:17:55,840 --> 01:17:57,400 He's like... 1587 01:17:58,400 --> 01:17:59,400 He comes back... 1588 01:17:59,440 --> 01:18:01,440 Comes back on the set 1589 01:18:01,480 --> 01:18:02,480 and he's like... 1590 01:18:02,520 --> 01:18:05,640 He goes, "Hey, man... I didn't say anything!" 1591 01:18:05,680 --> 01:18:07,680 And I'm like, "No, I know, I know!" 1592 01:18:07,720 --> 01:18:09,680 He goes, "Me and Richard Pryor... 1593 01:18:09,720 --> 01:18:12,000 I used to call Richard Pryor the N word! 1594 01:18:12,040 --> 01:18:13,480 He used to call me the honky! 1595 01:18:13,520 --> 01:18:14,920 And we loved each other!" 1596 01:18:14,960 --> 01:18:16,960 And I'm like, "I know, man! I love that bit!" 1597 01:18:17,000 --> 01:18:19,880 I said, "But you know... Can we just have a little apology?" 1598 01:18:19,920 --> 01:18:21,000 He goes, "For what?" 1599 01:18:21,040 --> 01:18:22,520 And I'm like... I was just... 1600 01:18:22,560 --> 01:18:27,160 "I don't know, like, we're just... Can we just make the goddamn show? 1601 01:18:27,200 --> 01:18:28,840 Can we make the goddamn show?" 1602 01:18:30,400 --> 01:18:35,040 Somebody has leaked that there was a racial incident to The Hollywood Reporter 1603 01:18:35,080 --> 01:18:37,200 at 2:00 in the fuckin' morning. 1604 01:18:37,240 --> 01:18:39,360 There were 50, 75 extras there, 1605 01:18:39,400 --> 01:18:42,000 so, you're like, "Oh, my God, this is so... 1606 01:18:42,040 --> 01:18:44,720 This shouldn't have happened!" Right? 1607 01:18:44,760 --> 01:18:47,760 And he comes storming onto the set and he goes, 1608 01:18:47,800 --> 01:18:49,720 "Who fucked me over?!" 1609 01:18:49,760 --> 01:18:50,760 And I'm like... 1610 01:18:51,360 --> 01:18:52,360 And he goes, 1611 01:18:52,400 --> 01:18:56,720 "One of you motherfuckers said to The Hollywood Reporter my career is ruined! 1612 01:18:56,760 --> 01:18:58,120 I'm ruined!" 1613 01:18:58,160 --> 01:19:00,240 Like that... It's a full meltdown! 1614 01:19:00,280 --> 01:19:01,400 "Fuck all of you!" 1615 01:19:01,440 --> 01:19:02,440 And I'm like... 1616 01:19:03,680 --> 01:19:05,360 "All right, let's shoot the scene!" 1617 01:19:05,400 --> 01:19:08,440 Look, either he leaves the group or I do! 1618 01:19:08,480 --> 01:19:12,720 (LAUGHS) You just dug your own grave! 1619 01:19:21,240 --> 01:19:23,360 He never ended up coming back after that. 1620 01:19:25,680 --> 01:19:28,200 Hey... What's up? 1621 01:19:28,240 --> 01:19:29,760 They kicked me out of the group! 1622 01:19:31,000 --> 01:19:33,480 Chevy Chase reportedly used the N word 1623 01:19:33,520 --> 01:19:37,720 after complaining about some of the lines the show Community had given him. 1624 01:19:37,760 --> 01:19:39,600 Some of the lines made him so upset 1625 01:19:39,640 --> 01:19:44,600 that he said that pretty soon they would have him call the black characters the N word 1626 01:19:44,640 --> 01:19:46,400 but he actually said the N word. 1627 01:19:47,760 --> 01:19:49,160 When you read that stuff, 1628 01:19:49,200 --> 01:19:52,400 'Chevy's been a jerk', are those unfounded cheap shots? 1629 01:19:52,440 --> 01:19:53,800 I don't give a crap. 1630 01:19:53,840 --> 01:19:55,120 I am who I am. 1631 01:19:55,160 --> 01:19:58,320 And I like who I am. I don't care. 1632 01:19:58,360 --> 01:20:01,600 And it's part of me that I don't care. 1633 01:20:04,000 --> 01:20:07,080 I would say 90% of my experience 1634 01:20:07,120 --> 01:20:10,760 with journalism around my dad is negative. 1635 01:20:12,080 --> 01:20:15,800 This is like the core of it... Yeah, of course. 1636 01:20:15,840 --> 01:20:18,160 You want the truth, the reality. 1637 01:20:18,200 --> 01:20:20,400 I want the truth but it's kind of like... 1638 01:20:20,440 --> 01:20:25,640 What adds to the complication, he doesn't remember certain things. 1639 01:20:25,680 --> 01:20:28,640 Oh, well, I mean, he's 80-something 1640 01:20:28,680 --> 01:20:31,880 and has basically come back from the dead, so... 1641 01:20:31,920 --> 01:20:33,440 Tell me about that, like... 1642 01:20:33,480 --> 01:20:36,040 Oh, my God! He had heart failure! 1643 01:20:36,080 --> 01:20:37,880 Have they talked about that at all? 1644 01:20:39,920 --> 01:20:43,240 Urgh... It's so hard to talk about! 1645 01:20:43,280 --> 01:20:44,280 Um... 1646 01:20:48,520 --> 01:20:50,120 Something was wrong 1647 01:20:50,160 --> 01:20:52,760 and he couldn't explain to me what was wrong, 1648 01:20:52,800 --> 01:20:54,640 so, go to the ER... 1649 01:20:55,240 --> 01:20:56,800 His heart stops. 1650 01:20:56,840 --> 01:20:59,200 During those years he was drinking, 1651 01:20:59,240 --> 01:21:05,240 he got cardiomyopathy, when the heart muscles get weaker 1652 01:21:05,280 --> 01:21:10,680 and they can't pump as much blood out with each beat. 1653 01:21:11,720 --> 01:21:14,240 They decided to put him into a coma 1654 01:21:14,280 --> 01:21:16,920 for maybe eight days. 1655 01:21:16,960 --> 01:21:18,640 That's pretty rough on the body. 1656 01:21:19,240 --> 01:21:22,120 It was so scary when he was in the hospital. 1657 01:21:22,160 --> 01:21:24,480 We were all there, it was during COVID. 1658 01:21:25,640 --> 01:21:28,320 The doctor had warned us we might not get him back, 1659 01:21:28,360 --> 01:21:30,520 we don't know how present he'll be. 1660 01:21:30,560 --> 01:21:31,560 You know, this... 1661 01:21:31,600 --> 01:21:34,480 "Prepare yourselves for the worst." 1662 01:21:39,200 --> 01:21:41,280 He woke up, all he could do was use his voice, 1663 01:21:41,320 --> 01:21:43,800 'ah, ah' and it was just his waking up... 1664 01:21:43,840 --> 01:21:45,400 It was like a new birth. 1665 01:21:45,440 --> 01:21:48,240 And the nurse came in, to, like, switch some stuff up 1666 01:21:48,280 --> 01:21:51,920 And she said, "I'm gonna have to put this in here." 1667 01:21:51,960 --> 01:21:54,040 And he said, "That's what she said!" 1668 01:21:57,560 --> 01:21:59,120 When he came out of it, 1669 01:21:59,160 --> 01:22:02,280 it took a while for him to re-orient himself. 1670 01:22:03,200 --> 01:22:05,520 So, I feel like his memory gaps 1671 01:22:05,560 --> 01:22:07,760 come from that incident. 1672 01:22:07,800 --> 01:22:10,600 So, how's that problem you're having with an erection? 1673 01:22:10,640 --> 01:22:13,080 (LAUGHING) 1674 01:22:13,560 --> 01:22:14,680 This is the worst... 1675 01:22:14,720 --> 01:22:16,600 Queen of diamonds. Check. 1676 01:22:16,640 --> 01:22:20,120 OK, tell you what, who's richer? 1677 01:22:20,160 --> 01:22:24,920 (BOTH LAUGHING) 1678 01:22:24,960 --> 01:22:26,800 And let me just say this... 1679 01:22:26,840 --> 01:22:28,360 Yeah? 1680 01:22:28,400 --> 01:22:30,680 They have ways now of keeping you hard! 1681 01:22:30,720 --> 01:22:32,000 (LAUGHS) 1682 01:22:32,040 --> 01:22:33,280 According to the doctors, 1683 01:22:33,320 --> 01:22:35,320 my memory would be shot from it 1684 01:22:35,360 --> 01:22:37,880 and that's what's happened here, so... 1685 01:22:37,920 --> 01:22:40,480 You had a lot of cognitive disability 1686 01:22:40,520 --> 01:22:42,240 and we started playing cards. 1687 01:22:42,280 --> 01:22:43,280 That's right. 1688 01:22:43,320 --> 01:22:45,760 We played a lot of cards and a lot more cards 1689 01:22:45,800 --> 01:22:48,320 and then you started gettin' your head back together 1690 01:22:48,360 --> 01:22:50,040 and then my boys would come play. 1691 01:22:50,080 --> 01:22:52,200 Then we went to chess. Then we went to chess. 1692 01:22:52,240 --> 01:22:55,440 That's when I started really winning. Won every once in a while. 1693 01:22:55,480 --> 01:22:58,080 Heart failure is what it is... I'm fine now. 1694 01:22:58,680 --> 01:23:00,720 It's just that it affects your memory 1695 01:23:00,760 --> 01:23:02,600 very, uh... 1696 01:23:02,640 --> 01:23:05,200 And the doctors have told me that, so... 1697 01:23:05,240 --> 01:23:07,800 You know, I have to be reminded of things. 1698 01:23:07,840 --> 01:23:10,040 Five, king, seven... 1699 01:23:14,920 --> 01:23:16,920 In the early days of SNL, 1700 01:23:16,960 --> 01:23:19,080 I would remember trying to tell, like, 1701 01:23:19,120 --> 01:23:21,520 my parents' friends or some... 1702 01:23:21,560 --> 01:23:23,680 You know, about this show that I write for. 1703 01:23:23,720 --> 01:23:29,080 They hadn't heard of it but I would then find myself saying, 1704 01:23:29,120 --> 01:23:32,120 "You know, the Chevy Chase show, the show Chevy Chase is on!" 1705 01:23:32,160 --> 01:23:33,160 THAT they knew! 1706 01:23:34,920 --> 01:23:38,280 Tonight we are live at 30 Rockefeller Plaza 1707 01:23:38,320 --> 01:23:41,640 in the very place where Saturday Night Live started 50 years ago! 1708 01:23:42,360 --> 01:23:44,800 Comedy icons, your favourite entertainers 1709 01:23:44,840 --> 01:23:46,040 are all here! 1710 01:23:46,080 --> 01:23:48,480 Did you think we would be here 50 years later? 1711 01:23:48,520 --> 01:23:51,160 Uh, you mean, like, dead or here? 1712 01:23:52,400 --> 01:23:55,840 He was there at the moment Saturday Night Live was born. 1713 01:23:55,880 --> 01:23:57,960 It was a really powerful collaboration 1714 01:23:58,000 --> 01:24:00,160 and we both went for that ride. 1715 01:24:00,200 --> 01:24:04,440 If it hadn't been for me this show would've gone on the dumper that year! 1716 01:24:05,560 --> 01:24:06,640 No... 1717 01:24:06,680 --> 01:24:09,360 That's all you're gonna show now, right, you devils! 1718 01:24:09,400 --> 01:24:11,760 He's very proud of his days at SNL. 1719 01:24:11,800 --> 01:24:15,520 Just speaks so highly of the people he was working with. 1720 01:24:15,560 --> 01:24:18,360 Loves Lorne dearly... He really does. 1721 01:24:18,400 --> 01:24:21,400 Would you ever come back? Of course! 1722 01:24:21,440 --> 01:24:23,600 Yeah, I'd love coming back! 1723 01:24:23,640 --> 01:24:28,320 They told Chevy up until that day that there were two bits, 1724 01:24:28,360 --> 01:24:30,200 they were going back and forth... 1725 01:24:30,240 --> 01:24:32,840 And then all of a sudden, "No, there's no bit." 1726 01:24:32,880 --> 01:24:35,600 There were a couple of versions of Update 1727 01:24:35,640 --> 01:24:38,200 and we went back and forth on that. 1728 01:24:38,240 --> 01:24:41,880 There was also a caution from somebody I don't wanna name 1729 01:24:41,920 --> 01:24:46,360 that Chevy, you know, wasn't as focused. 1730 01:24:46,400 --> 01:24:50,640 The night of the 8H show that everybody watched on Sunday night, 1731 01:24:50,680 --> 01:24:51,880 he wasn't in that show. 1732 01:24:53,320 --> 01:24:55,440 I don't know what the dynamics were, 1733 01:24:55,480 --> 01:24:57,240 I don't know why that was decided. 1734 01:24:57,280 --> 01:24:58,560 I honestly don't know. 1735 01:24:58,600 --> 01:25:01,920 There's 50 years of casts... 1736 01:25:01,960 --> 01:25:05,560 Billy Crystal, no bigger star than Billy... 1737 01:25:05,600 --> 01:25:08,640 He didn't say a word that night. 1738 01:25:08,680 --> 01:25:10,960 You know, just too many people to fill. 1739 01:25:11,000 --> 01:25:14,320 Live from New York it's Saturday Night! 1740 01:25:14,360 --> 01:25:18,880 He should have opened the show with 'it's Saturday night'! 1741 01:25:18,920 --> 01:25:19,920 That's it... 1742 01:25:19,960 --> 01:25:21,760 They didn't even need to use him more 1743 01:25:21,800 --> 01:25:23,040 but... 1744 01:25:23,080 --> 01:25:25,520 come on, guys! That was it! 1745 01:25:25,560 --> 01:25:26,560 (CHEERING) 1746 01:25:26,600 --> 01:25:30,480 And live from New York it's Saturday Night! 1747 01:25:30,520 --> 01:25:32,640 (CHEERING) 1748 01:25:32,680 --> 01:25:37,120 You gotta think about the people who grew up watching that show 1749 01:25:37,160 --> 01:25:38,480 and watching him. 1750 01:25:39,280 --> 01:25:42,200 It was a bit of a slap in the face. 1751 01:25:42,240 --> 01:25:44,200 Well, it was kind of... 1752 01:25:44,240 --> 01:25:46,040 Upsetting, actually. 1753 01:25:46,080 --> 01:25:49,320 Uh, and this'll probably be the first time I'm saying it 1754 01:25:49,360 --> 01:25:52,640 but I expected that I would've been on the stage too 1755 01:25:52,680 --> 01:25:54,240 with all the other actors. 1756 01:25:55,040 --> 01:25:58,720 When Garrett and Laraine went on the stage there... 1757 01:25:59,800 --> 01:26:02,400 I was curious as to why I didn't. 1758 01:26:02,440 --> 01:26:04,120 No one asked me to. 1759 01:26:04,160 --> 01:26:06,040 Why was I left aside? 1760 01:26:06,080 --> 01:26:08,840 Cornelius Crane Chase... 1761 01:26:09,520 --> 01:26:12,800 Who we've all come to know as Connie! 1762 01:26:12,840 --> 01:26:14,480 (LAUGHTER) 1763 01:26:14,520 --> 01:26:18,360 Let's face it, Weekend Update simply would not exist without him! 1764 01:26:18,400 --> 01:26:20,080 So, it would be wrong 1765 01:26:20,120 --> 01:26:22,720 to have him listed anywhere but number four! 1766 01:26:22,760 --> 01:26:26,120 (LAUGHTER) 1767 01:26:26,160 --> 01:26:28,680 Why was Bill Murray there? Why was I not? 1768 01:26:28,720 --> 01:26:29,800 Jane Curtin and... 1769 01:26:29,840 --> 01:26:32,320 I don't have an answer for that. ..and Danny Aykroyd. 1770 01:26:32,360 --> 01:26:34,520 I did bring it up once... (COUGHS) 1771 01:26:34,560 --> 01:26:38,440 ..in a text to Lorne and then took it back. 1772 01:26:38,480 --> 01:26:41,040 I said, "OK, I take it back, it's silly." 1773 01:26:41,800 --> 01:26:43,480 But it's not that silly... 1774 01:26:44,080 --> 01:26:45,080 Uh, it was... 1775 01:26:45,120 --> 01:26:47,080 Somebody's made a bad mistake there. 1776 01:26:47,960 --> 01:26:50,680 I don't know who it was but somebody made a mistake. 1777 01:26:50,720 --> 01:26:53,040 They should've had me on that stage. 1778 01:26:54,400 --> 01:26:55,400 It hurt. 1779 01:26:58,240 --> 01:27:02,680 If you wanna know what it takes to make a show like this last for 50 years, 1780 01:27:02,720 --> 01:27:05,120 it's these people right around me... 1781 01:27:05,160 --> 01:27:06,160 The first cast! 1782 01:27:06,200 --> 01:27:08,240 Laraine Newman, Jane Curtin, 1783 01:27:08,280 --> 01:27:10,440 Garrett Morris and Chevy Chase! 1784 01:27:10,480 --> 01:27:13,360 Afterwards, when I saw him, 1785 01:27:13,400 --> 01:27:15,440 everybody was happy to see each other 1786 01:27:15,480 --> 01:27:20,280 and there's Chevy lookin' like he was lookin' for his place... 1787 01:27:21,080 --> 01:27:22,640 And I say, you know, "Chevy... 1788 01:27:24,480 --> 01:27:27,120 None of this would be happening without you. 1789 01:27:29,000 --> 01:27:33,040 You don't do Weekend Update to start this at the beginning, 1790 01:27:33,080 --> 01:27:34,880 all of us are somewhere else tonight." 1791 01:27:36,240 --> 01:27:40,680 (SOFT MUSIC) 1792 01:27:50,760 --> 01:27:53,440 (CHATTER FLOWING) 1793 01:28:03,760 --> 01:28:05,320 There is a nip in the air, though. 1794 01:28:05,360 --> 01:28:07,520 Can I take something out for you? 1795 01:28:07,560 --> 01:28:11,640 (LAUGHTER) 1796 01:28:13,320 --> 01:28:14,960 All right, Pat... Hey, buddy. 1797 01:28:15,000 --> 01:28:17,040 I'm glad you're here. I'm glad I'm here too. 1798 01:28:17,080 --> 01:28:19,800 Should this be buttoned up here? Stand up. 1799 01:28:19,840 --> 01:28:20,840 Huh? Let me see. 1800 01:28:20,880 --> 01:28:23,480 Where's Jayni? I don't know... Let go of it. 1801 01:28:23,520 --> 01:28:25,720 You said this is good, I don't really... 1802 01:28:25,760 --> 01:28:27,080 Well, try buttonin' it. 1803 01:28:27,120 --> 01:28:29,320 OK, I am! What do you mean, try? 1804 01:28:29,360 --> 01:28:30,360 I'm buttoning it! 1805 01:28:30,400 --> 01:28:32,120 So, every December is our Super Bowl 1806 01:28:32,160 --> 01:28:34,440 and this is what we prepare for all year. 1807 01:28:34,480 --> 01:28:37,240 So, it's OK, then, do you think, if I go out like this? 1808 01:28:37,280 --> 01:28:41,240 We've been going out on the road November, late November 1809 01:28:41,280 --> 01:28:42,760 and all of December 1810 01:28:42,800 --> 01:28:48,800 doing these big theatre screenings of Christmas Vacation 1811 01:28:48,840 --> 01:28:53,360 where Chevy and I go out and do the answer Q&A afterwards. 1812 01:28:53,400 --> 01:28:57,920 And that all started happening because there are so many people 1813 01:28:57,960 --> 01:29:02,040 that live and breathe Christmas Vacation! 1814 01:29:02,080 --> 01:29:05,040 You have food on your pants, honey. A lot of food. 1815 01:29:05,080 --> 01:29:07,360 They're gonna see that... There's breakfast! 1816 01:29:07,400 --> 01:29:08,920 Please! Lunch, dinner... 1817 01:29:09,920 --> 01:29:11,400 What are you... 1818 01:29:11,440 --> 01:29:15,280 No one's notice the mustard and eggs on my pants! 1819 01:29:16,280 --> 01:29:18,320 What's that? I'm drying it! 1820 01:29:18,360 --> 01:29:20,840 I think I'm gonna enjoy this! (LAUGHS) 1821 01:29:22,320 --> 01:29:24,560 You know Bill? Mister Chase, nice to meet you. 1822 01:29:24,600 --> 01:29:26,160 Hi, Bill. Thanks for being here. 1823 01:29:26,200 --> 01:29:28,200 Thank you very much. He owns the theatre. 1824 01:29:28,240 --> 01:29:29,560 What? He owns the theatre! 1825 01:29:29,600 --> 01:29:30,600 That's great! 1826 01:29:30,640 --> 01:29:32,360 I gotta ask you one question... OK? 1827 01:29:32,400 --> 01:29:35,440 When you made Caddyshack... Can't answer that! (LAUGHTER) 1828 01:29:35,480 --> 01:29:40,880 (MUSIC FADES) 1829 01:29:40,920 --> 01:29:42,720 (SIGHS) I did it... 1830 01:29:45,840 --> 01:29:48,800 (CHEERING AND APPLAUSE) 1831 01:29:48,840 --> 01:29:50,920 Please help me welcome Mr Chevy Chase! 1832 01:29:59,240 --> 01:30:00,240 What?! 1833 01:30:05,080 --> 01:30:06,320 Thank you! 1834 01:30:06,960 --> 01:30:09,080 Oh, my gosh... Thank you! 1835 01:30:12,560 --> 01:30:15,680 You know, when you're makin' movies you don't get to see this. 1836 01:30:15,720 --> 01:30:19,320 You just get to see the camera, the director 1837 01:30:19,360 --> 01:30:20,520 and some nice ass... 1838 01:30:20,560 --> 01:30:21,600 No, I'm kidding! 1839 01:30:21,640 --> 01:30:23,000 And, uh... 1840 01:30:23,040 --> 01:30:26,200 You're my real fans and I really appreciate this! 1841 01:30:26,240 --> 01:30:28,200 (CHEERING AND APPLAUSE) Thank you! 1842 01:30:28,800 --> 01:30:29,800 Thank you so much! 1843 01:30:32,800 --> 01:30:34,080 It's fun... 1844 01:30:34,120 --> 01:30:38,120 It's fun because when you make movies or even television 1845 01:30:38,160 --> 01:30:42,000 you don't get the kind of honest reaction from your fans 1846 01:30:42,040 --> 01:30:44,160 as you do there in the theatre. 1847 01:30:45,840 --> 01:30:48,400 I'm always moved, I get goose bumps! 1848 01:30:49,360 --> 01:30:51,200 Jayni, this question is for you. 1849 01:30:51,240 --> 01:30:53,720 How is Chevy similar to Clark? 1850 01:30:54,240 --> 01:30:55,240 Oh... 1851 01:30:55,280 --> 01:30:57,000 Well, we both look the same! 1852 01:30:57,040 --> 01:30:58,720 (LAUGHTER) 1853 01:30:58,760 --> 01:31:01,160 A lot of the persona was at being effortless. 1854 01:31:01,200 --> 01:31:02,200 It wasn't. 1855 01:31:03,080 --> 01:31:04,880 You represent a generation 1856 01:31:04,920 --> 01:31:08,800 and another generation grows up, they look at your stuff, 1857 01:31:08,840 --> 01:31:10,320 they worship you 1858 01:31:10,360 --> 01:31:13,400 and then you show up in their work. 1859 01:31:14,760 --> 01:31:18,520 You can't not remember someone like him fondly. 1860 01:31:18,560 --> 01:31:19,880 Listen, 5:39... 1861 01:31:19,920 --> 01:31:23,000 Any encounter with him, you don't know what's gonna come out next. 1862 01:31:23,040 --> 01:31:25,520 It's exciting and dangerous and really, really fun. 1863 01:31:25,560 --> 01:31:28,960 Kate L wanted to know, did you break your finger while shooting the movie? 1864 01:31:29,000 --> 01:31:30,000 If what? 1865 01:31:30,040 --> 01:31:32,600 Did you break your finger while shooting the movie? 1866 01:31:32,640 --> 01:31:34,160 I thought you said sphincter! 1867 01:31:36,080 --> 01:31:40,000 His legacy really is how he made people laugh, 1868 01:31:40,040 --> 01:31:42,800 how you tickle that part of your heart 1869 01:31:42,840 --> 01:31:45,360 and I don't think people forget that. 1870 01:31:45,800 --> 01:31:47,640 If acting didn't work out, 1871 01:31:47,680 --> 01:31:50,000 what would you have wanted to do for a career? 1872 01:31:51,120 --> 01:31:53,120 Well, I've always enjoyed surgery! 1873 01:31:53,160 --> 01:31:54,160 Surgery! 1874 01:31:54,200 --> 01:31:55,720 (LAUGHTER) 1875 01:31:55,760 --> 01:31:57,520 Would you work with him again? 1876 01:31:58,880 --> 01:32:01,760 (SIGHS) Yeah... Yeah, I would! 1877 01:32:01,800 --> 01:32:03,440 (LAUGHING) 1878 01:32:03,480 --> 01:32:05,800 I'd work with Chevy! I mean, are you kidding me? 1879 01:32:05,840 --> 01:32:08,440 It's Chevy Chase! Yeah, I'd work with him again! 1880 01:32:08,480 --> 01:32:10,320 And I want to look him straight in the eye 1881 01:32:10,360 --> 01:32:14,560 and I want to tell him what a cheap, lying, no-good, rotten, four-flushing, low-life, 1882 01:32:14,600 --> 01:32:15,640 snake-licking... 1883 01:32:15,680 --> 01:32:19,840 ..dirt-eating, inbred, overstuffed, ignorant, blood-sucking, dog-kissing, 1884 01:32:19,880 --> 01:32:22,640 brainless, dickless, hopeless, heartless, 1885 01:32:22,680 --> 01:32:26,240 fat-ass, bug-eyed, stiff-legged, spotty-lipped, worm-headed 1886 01:32:26,280 --> 01:32:28,320 sack of monkey shit he is! 1887 01:32:28,360 --> 01:32:33,280 (CHEERING AND APPLAUSE) 1888 01:32:34,880 --> 01:32:36,200 I feel fulfilled... 1889 01:32:37,520 --> 01:32:40,280 By my standard, I'm still a movie star! 1890 01:32:40,320 --> 01:32:46,320 (WARM MUSIC) 1891 01:32:48,200 --> 01:32:53,040 (CONTINUES) 1892 01:32:55,200 --> 01:32:56,240 Oh, my goodness... 1893 01:32:56,280 --> 01:32:58,080 Again, my apologies, I... 1894 01:32:58,120 --> 01:32:59,120 For what? 1895 01:32:59,160 --> 01:33:00,720 Just for being who I am! 1896 01:33:00,760 --> 01:33:05,920 (CHEERING AND APPLAUSE) 1897 01:33:18,880 --> 01:33:19,880 Chevy Chase! 1898 01:33:19,920 --> 01:33:24,920 (CHEERING CONTINUES) 1899 01:33:24,960 --> 01:33:28,440 (FADES) 1900 01:33:29,600 --> 01:33:35,080 # PAUL SIMON: You Can Call Me Al 1901 01:33:43,680 --> 01:33:45,200 # A man walks down the street 1902 01:33:45,240 --> 01:33:47,200 # He says why am I soft in the middle now? 1903 01:33:47,240 --> 01:33:51,000 # Why am I soft in the middle, the rest of my life is so hard 1904 01:33:51,040 --> 01:33:52,680 # I need a photo opportunity 1905 01:33:52,720 --> 01:33:54,320 # I want a shot at redemption 1906 01:33:54,360 --> 01:33:58,080 # Don't wanna end up a cartoon in a cartoon graveyard 1907 01:33:58,120 --> 01:33:59,720 # Bone digger, bone digger 1908 01:33:59,760 --> 01:34:01,640 # Dogs in the moonlight 1909 01:34:01,680 --> 01:34:04,800 # Far away in my well-lit door 1910 01:34:04,840 --> 01:34:06,880 # Mr Beer Belly, Mr Beer Belly 1911 01:34:06,920 --> 01:34:08,840 # Get these mutts away from me, you know 1912 01:34:08,880 --> 01:34:11,200 # I don't find this stuff amusing anymore 1913 01:34:12,000 --> 01:34:16,600 # Uh, if you would be my bodyguard I can be your long-lost pal 1914 01:34:19,440 --> 01:34:20,680 # I can call you Betty 1915 01:34:20,720 --> 01:34:24,080 # And Betty, when you call me you can call me Al... # 1916 01:34:26,160 --> 01:34:29,720 Subtitles by Sky Access Services www.skyaccessibility.sky