Community wasn’t funny enough for Chevy Chase, says Chevy Chase
Pop, pop! He also didn’t like being around the cast
Chevy Chase has added a new wrinkle to his dishonorable discharge from Community in 2012. As it turns out, he never really thought the show was that funny to begin with.
Finally given the opportunity to tell the world who his guys were, Chase appeared on Marc Maron’s long-running podcast, WTF, today. Leaning on his 50 years of showbiz ups and downs, Chase discussed the things he liked and the many things he disliked in Hollywood. Chase is who he is. Eventually, the conversation turned to his most notable set confrontation of the last two decades: his firing from Community.
By the time Maron brings up Dan Harmon’s beloved cult series about an hour into the podcast, Chase seems surprised to hear the title at all. The former Fletch had just finished talking about how much he loves his life, which consists primarily of spending time with his wife and kids, when Maron brings up Community being a “big deal”—again, to Chase’s surprise. “I kind of forget about that,” Chase said of being asked to be on the show. “They wanted me, so I said ‘yes.’”
Chase lasted 83 episodes on the sitcom before creator Dan Harmon fired him for using the N-word on set. The actor sarcastically asked aloud if his character would start using racist epithets. For Chase, though, the show could have been better to begin with.
