The writers of Community had a fun little game. Someone puts forward a racist or otherwise offensive statement. The rest guess if this was something Pierce Hawthorn said (Chevy's racist character on Community) or something Chevy said himself on set.
Decent article on how disliked and how much of an asshole Chevy Chase is.
There's a twitter thread where Alison, Donald and Danny play this game. It's hilarious in a very terrifying way.
Community ended almost a decade ago.
So I suspect what's happening, is that they're finally making a community movie, but Chase likely wasn't invited to join the cast.
In his recent interview with The Hollywood Report, Harmon said that he didn't even know if Chase was legally allowed to come back for the movie.
Context: he was fired for using a slur on set
Six seasons and a movie!
My recollection from interviews is that Dan Harmon and the cast found Chevy just didn't get the show at all when they were making it. A huge amount of Community's humour is a mix of meta humour and pop culture references. In the same way that Pierce claimed to never understand what Abed was talking about, Chevy didn't understand most of what Community was on about - his frame of reference for what is funny hadn't moved on in decades.
Even though he's famously a dick, when he says he didn't think Community was funny, he might actually be telling the truth - not just being petty.
That's totally fine. As much as I love the show, I appreciate it's not for everyone. It relies on a lot of pop culture knowledge and awareness of tropes and memes. It's perfectly reasonable that he doesn't get it. I wouldn't be surprised if Jonathan Banks didn't get some of the jokes either.
But JB isn't an asshole, he's a very grateful and sweet man, so the problem was definitely Chevy.
Wow, I had no idea he was such a dick. Guess I shouldn’t be surprised.
Also, I couldn’t care less about Chevy Chase’s opinions. Community was genuinely hilarious.
Yeah I agree. And I know this is considered a hot take nowadays, but Chevy Chase was great in it. I'm not saying he didn't deserve to get booted off the show, but the show definitely suffered when he left.
That ain't it, fam. The Dungeons and Dragons episode was a riot, due in part because they made Chevy's character so nasty.
"You appear in the forest naked. You will die of exposure in fourteen turns."
McHale: "I wait fifteen turns."
That beast of a comment by Donald Glover. He is perceptive and also very nice. Love him
Sorry to link to reddit, but the hobby drama about this man is wild. I'd call him a bitter old man if he wasn't already this much of an asshole in the 70s.
That opinion doesn't seem to be streets ahead!
I always thought that was something made up for the show...
Then a couple months ago Biden said it and for a split second I thought he was making a Community joke. But he's just so old he unironically talks like Pierce sometimes.
Its not really what he was saying, but he could have had a point. The shows writers really did kind of have it out for him (with good reason as stated everywhere else), and as a result they didn't give him very much to work with. Even his use of the N word was directed at the writers, saying something like "pretty soon they'll just have me call Donald N----r". Its really a vicious cycle, because it's hard to write good jokes for a person you dislike as much as the writers did chevy. And then Chevy gets even shittier to you because you constantly give him the worst lines.
They did seem to kind of lose focus on Pierce as time went time on. In the beginning he was a rich out of touch guy, but would give good advice every now and then still or a word of wisdom from his age. But then, the same thing happened to Britta, who got dumber as the show went on, and Chang, who got crazier as the show went on. It might just be a result of the same Flanderization.
Chevy will die not understanding that being a shithead is why this all happened to him.
I've seen quotes from damn near everyone else on Community that has said Chevy is a bastard to work with. If this is his attitude about the show, I can see why they would say that.
He's managed to burn every bridge and alienate anyone who might have defended him. He took his success on SNL and trampled it in the dust.
He burned his first bridges while on SNL. So much so that he's been banned from hosting a few times. It seems every new generation of cast has to re-learn the lesson of keeping the Chase ban active.
Projection by Chevy Chase
But he's can't escape it. He's still being Pierce...
This coming from a man who knows "not funny enough" all too well.
It would have been funnier without him.
No, I think that his ignorance and hateable nature made the show funnier
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