Chevy Chase C/D?

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Another thought..sorry....Chevy Chase is pretty crap really and some of his movies have been really cheesy (fletch) but I don't think I've ever seen him in anything that I have not really enjoyed albeit on a rather childish level. European Vacation still makes me laugh out loud. So is he a genius or is he crap?

― Josh Kelly, Tuesday, 9 March 2004 07:24 (9 years ago) Permalink

dud dud dud dud dud

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 08:29 (9 years ago) Permalink

he's so much taller than paul simon

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 09:05 (9 years ago) Permalink

Caddyshack = C.L.A.S.S.I.C.

The bit with the tequila most of all.

Everything else = dud

― hmmm (hmmm), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 09:06 (9 years ago) Permalink

What's not to like?

I love him in Fletch, and Clark Giswold holds fond memories for me, being my first introduction to that sub-genre of 'America isn't like Europe really'. I also like him in Spies Like Us. I suspect he's a bit lame, but he makes me laugh, and what more can I ask of the guy?

― Dave B (daveb), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 10:14 (9 years ago) Permalink

The video for "Call Me Al"- classic.

Turning down the lead role in American Beauty- also classic.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 10:18 (9 years ago) Permalink

There's something rather loveable about him.

Turning down the lead role in American Beauty to instead do F-grade straight to video kids flicks = insane.

― Mil, Tuesday, 9 March 2004 10:31 (9 years ago) Permalink

Classic for the one and only Chameleon Church album and Christmas Vacation and pretty dud for everything else. The funny thing is when people say he was never as good as when he was on SNL and then you watch him on old SNL's and he isn't really that funny there either. Apparently, he is one of the most evil people in hollywood too, but i won't hold that against him. There was another thread on him and i seem to recall that the brit ilxers had more good things to say about him then the yank ilxers, but i could be dreaming that.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 11:34 (9 years ago) Permalink

I live in Chevy Chase. Nice but pricey and excessively white.

― quincie, Tuesday, 9 March 2004 14:07 (9 years ago) Permalink

Dud. With exceptions. Sclott seward OTM. The SNL season (he was only on ONE season) are really that funny for the most part.

― Skottie, Tuesday, 9 March 2004 14:45 (9 years ago) Permalink

Dud for his films mostly, (Vacation, Funny Farm, parts of Fletch being the exception, and I've heard okay things about certain aspects of Memoirs of an Invisible Man) but that's not him as much as happening upon good material. He was awful on SNL, his rep bloated from mediocre to classic for some reason, like everything on that useless show. HOWEVER, his Steely Dan association: CLASSIC!!

― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 14:50 (9 years ago) Permalink

HOWEVER, his Steely Dan association: CLASSIC!!

Please explain. How can something as important as Steely Dan be associated (in any kind of positive way) with something as worthless as Chevy Chase?

All ears here, waiting to learn.

― Skottie, Tuesday, 9 March 2004 16:54 (9 years ago) Permalink

― Chris 'The Velvet Bingo' V (Chris V), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 16:58 (9 years ago) Permalink

You people are nuts. Fletch is classic. "Where the heck's the file room?" hahahhahhahaaahahhahaaa whoo. hee.

― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 17:01 (9 years ago) Permalink

john cock-toe-stone

― Chris 'The Velvet Bingo' V (Chris V), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 17:02 (9 years ago) Permalink

He was great on SNL and has sucked at everything else he's done. Caddyshack and Fletch included. Blech.

― Salmon Pink (Salmon Pink), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 17:03 (9 years ago) Permalink

He WAS great for Caddyshack, Fletch, Vacation movies. Now he's a big steaming turd of asshole.

― Chris 'The Velvet Bingo' V (Chris V), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 17:07 (9 years ago) Permalink

That album is really nice. Great psych-pop.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 17:09 (9 years ago) Permalink

dud dud dud

vacation films were amusing intermittently when abt 13 but cmon

the SNL stuff was before my time so cannot judge

sidenote - he went to my college and was asked to leave, or in terms of our quaker code, separated from the community coz he was seen as way too unserious and not funny enuf (this was years apart so i aint claiming intimate knowledge)

― H (Heruy), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 20:57 (9 years ago) Permalink

I've heard that he alienates everyone that meets him so everyone hates him. I wonder what he does, does he just like insult you or something?

― Dan I., Tuesday, 9 March 2004 21:05 (9 years ago) Permalink

3 years pass...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Wnj16sK9YIY

― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 19:40 (6 years ago) Permalink

Search: Caddyshack, the "No, you don't actually blow on it..." Weekend Update opening, and the "Babs's Uvula" commercial.

Destroy: everything else.

― Rock Hardy, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 19:45 (6 years ago) Permalink

Chevy Chase is a God to me.

― Noodle Vague, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 20:31 (6 years ago) Permalink

Caddyshack and Fletch are awesome.

And you can't forget about his part in 'Dirty Work' either.

― Bill Bary, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 20:53 (6 years ago) Permalink

Fletch. Amazing.

Apparently though, CC is an enormous ass and most everyone in hollywood hates him. He's supposedly rude and very difficult to work with. I remember being astounded when I first heard that. Who knew?

― ENBB, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 20:56 (6 years ago) Permalink

Chevy Chase is like Steve Martin; the apex of their careers were in the '80s.

# National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989)
# Fletch Lives (1989) .... Irwin 'Fletch' Fletcher
# ¡Three Amigos! (1986) .... Dusty Bottoms
# Spies Like Us (1985) .... Emmett Fitz-Hume
# National Lampoon's European Vacation
# Fletch (1985) .... Irwin 'Fletch' Fletcher
# Deal of the Century (1983) .... Eddie Muntz
# National Lampoon's Vacation # Caddyshack (1980) .... Ty Webb
# Oh Heavenly Dog

tho there were duds during those years, of course

― kingfish, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 21:01 (6 years ago) Permalink

I always feel that Deal of the Century gets forgetten too easily, but if you are of a certain age, you saw the flick dozens of times from HBO. Wallace Shawn as the wormy arms dealer! Directed by William Friedkin!

― kingfish, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 21:05 (6 years ago) Permalink

i haven't seen that many chevy chase movies, but something about the way he looks and his voice...

― the table is the table, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 21:42 (6 years ago) Permalink

I am bummed no one has noted that a) Chevy is fuckin shit up on the drums in that clip! and b) it predates Spinal Tap by like 10 years

― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 21:47 (6 years ago) Permalink

really glad you posted that shakey, have always wanted to SEE lemmings as well as hear it

― stevie, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 21:52 (6 years ago) Permalink

still on HBO...Deal of the Century was on a few days ago.

― dan selzer, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 21:57 (6 years ago) Permalink

2 years pass...

guy is pretty LOL in community

― cutty, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 17:17 (3 years ago) Permalink

The problem with CC is his range as an actor is so limited that you cannot watch many of his films before you notice there's never anything new there to keep you engaged.

This puts him in squarely with a lot of other one-note comedians, like Abbott and Costello, who just kept banging away at the same vein of ore, and never moved more than a foot or two from what put the butter on their bread.

Kids don't care about this sameness. They like it. But, as an adult, I find CC ultimately tedious.

― Aimless, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 17:45 (3 years ago) Permalink

"one-note comedians, like Abbott and Costello"

doesn't matter a damn if the note is funny. but don't lump A&C in with the Chev. (I'm sure you'd call Burns & Allen one-note too)

― Your Favorite Saturday Night Thing (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 18:52 (3 years ago) Permalink

dud dud dud dud dud
― Matos W.K. (M Matos)

He was good in Caddyshack, tho.

― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 21 October 2009 18:56 (3 years ago) Permalink

everybody was good in caddyshack. ted knight should have won an oscar for that performance.

― Bill Magill, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 19:01 (3 years ago) Permalink

Chevy Chase strikes me as being an insufferable, smug prick ala Richard Dreyfuss. That said, thanks to it being one of the few movies my family owned, "Funny Farm" was one of my favorite flicks as a kid. Not knowing what testicles were made his whole Rocky Mountain oyster fest baffling.

― existential eggs (Abbott), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 19:20 (3 years ago) Permalink

everybody was good in caddyshack. ted knight should have won an oscar for that performance.

OTM. Ted Knight's best work.

― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 21 October 2009 19:21 (3 years ago) Permalink

I don't like him on Community at all, but he isn't quite as annoying as I usually find him.

― Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 19:24 (3 years ago) Permalink

oh come on he's great. earnoculars!

― cutty, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 19:38 (3 years ago) Permalink

Fletch is classic.
Having to see his bloated face in an obnoxious cell phone commercial during the playoffs - not classic

― hyperstudio (skeletor), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 20:30 (3 years ago) Permalink

When I get home, I'll see if the high point of his non-"Caddyshack" career is on youtube...

― Race Against Rockism (Myonga Vön Bontee), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 21:04 (3 years ago) Permalink

the high point of his non-"Caddyshack" career is on youtube

You mean a pratfall or goofy sneer on SNL?

― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 21 October 2009 21:05 (3 years ago) Permalink

you dingalings, Ted Baxter IS Ted Knight's career

― Your Favorite Saturday Night Thing (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 21:28 (3 years ago) Permalink

What about The Mary Tyler Moore Show?

― Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 21:30 (3 years ago) Permalink

lol at "you dingalings."

Ted Baxter is soooooooooo 1970s. Judge Elihu Smails rocks.

― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 21 October 2009 21:33 (3 years ago) Permalink

Chevy Chase did have a great line in Caddyshack:

Judge Smails: You know, you should play with Dr. Beeper and myself. I mean, he's been club champion for three years running and I'm no slouch myself.
Ty Webb: Don't sell yourself short Judge, you're a tremendous slouch.

― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 21 October 2009 21:34 (3 years ago) Permalink

"by height"

― mookieproof, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 21:36 (3 years ago) Permalink

OK, here it is (I hope):

www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMMZGLPecyw

― Race Against Rockism (Myonga Vön Bontee), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 21:52 (3 years ago) Permalink

Damn. (I think)

― Race Against Rockism (Myonga Vön Bontee), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 21:53 (3 years ago) Permalink

― Race Against Rockism (Myonga Vön Bontee), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 23:30 (3 years ago) Permalink

7 months pass...

― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Friday, 28 May 2010 08:53 (2 years ago) Permalink

1 year passes...

I started reading a Dave Wiegel article on the media, and, the internet being what it is, clicked through to this photo on Wikipedia shortly after. It's from 1976, taken "at the private party after the premiere of the movie A Star is Born, on the third floor of Dillon's Disco."

I tried to find a "Photos That Sum Up the Creepy, Coked-Out Decadence of the Bicentennial Moment" thread, but no luck.

― clemenza, Monday, 23 April 2012 03:21 (1 year ago) Permalink

ilx broadly otm about this smug cokevacuum

― diafiyhm (darraghmac), Monday, 23 April 2012 08:30 (1 year ago) Permalink

The problem with CC is his range as an actor is so limited that you cannot watch many of his films before you notice there's never anything new there to keep you engaged.
This puts him in squarely with a lot of other one-note comedians, like Abbott and Costello, who just kept banging away at the same vein of ore, and never moved more than a foot or two from what put the butter on their bread.

this is really unfair to bud and lou, who were always awesome at what they did and WAY out of the league of someone like chase.

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 23 April 2012 19:11 (1 year ago) Permalink

Chase was hired by SNL as a writer; he serendipitously became a star mostly bcz he was a conventionally handsome guy who could do silly and filthy (by the standards of the era) things. He certainly made plenty of bad choices, but the waste of his talent is about as much in the Hollywood Eats Its Own column as with his substance-abuse issues/ talent limits. He's a funny guy.

― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Monday, 23 April 2012 19:15 (1 year ago) Permalink

― caro's johnson (Eazy), Monday, 23 April 2012 19:44 (1 year ago) Permalink

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