The same thing that happened to Steve Martin.
They stopped doing all that coke and now they aren't funny.
They stopped doing all that coke and now they aren't funny.
What happened to Chevy Chase?
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TheLonelySquire
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Maybe the fact that his hey day was like 20 years ago?
Or maybe he realized how messed up the world is these days...
The main cause for Chevy Chase's downslide in Hollywood has to do with the fact that he's always been known within the industry as being an egotistical dick.
This too.
Speaking of which, there's that great story as told in the book, Live from New York, about the time Chevy came back to host SNL and got into a fight with Bill Murray. As John Landis puts it...
Incidentally, that scene between the two of them in Caddyshack was their public make-up.
It's true, there's something about his face that actually makes him look like he's made out of wax.
This too.
Speaking of which, there's that great story as told in the book, Live from New York, about the time Chevy came back to host SNL and got into a fight with Bill Murray. As John Landis puts it...
Read the whole thing here. In another account of the fight by Laraine Newman, Bill Murray is said to have yelled, "Why don't you fuck your wife once in awhile?!".
Incidentally, that scene between the two of them in Caddyshack was their public make-up.
It's true, there's something about his face that actually makes him look like he's made out of wax.
I would say it was the reverse. His audience stopped doing so much drugs and nows he's not funny.
I would say Steve Martin stopped playing the fool and tried doing more worthwhile passion projects. And then, like a lot of people who get their passion projects made, learned he has to do something more commercial and less desirable he doesn't want to do in order to pay for the things he does. Watching The Pink Panther is watching a man who'd rather be elsewhere.
Chevy Chase just found less and less work when people didn't like him anymore.
Hey, I highly recommend Born Standing Up by Steve Martin. I got it from the local library - worth a read!
Well. These days, it seems as if it disappeared from the DC area, hearing about either "Bethesda" or Friendship Heights.
Well, however unfunny or grumpy he may have become, at least he's not become what Steve Martin has become.
Ah, classic Chevy- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuBUNFPRjJo
And http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWGOJjnz49k
And http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWGOJjnz49k
I really liked him in Spies Like Us. That bit with the Ronald Reagan movie was funny, the Paraguyan press conference, and the confrontation with the Ninjas.
He was histerical in Ghost Busters. Gotta love those typical 80 movies! 
Dan Akroyd > John Belushi > Chevy Chase > Bill Murray > Adam Sandler
Sorry y'all, but Akroyd is just far funnier than either Chase or Murray could ever hope to be. Chase is also far funnier in the Vacation series than Murray is in anything except maybe Stripes and Ghostbusters.
Sorry y'all, but Akroyd is just far funnier than either Chase or Murray could ever hope to be. Chase is also far funnier in the Vacation series than Murray is in anything except maybe Stripes and Ghostbusters.
I agree with this, but what of Leslie Nielson?
"Ah yes i remember. I had the lasagna."
^ Apparently he turned down American Beauty because wanted to do movies that his kids could watch.
So, he did... nothing?
Here is a pre SNL clip of him from the 1974 movie The Groove Tube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMyzCJpULCQ&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMyzCJpULCQ&feature=related
He was never on the cast of SNL. If I didn't limit it to just the SNL cast members, then I'd have to put George Carlin, Robin Williams, Henny Youngman, Jack Benny, Groucho Marx, and Jeff Foxworthy in too.
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