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Chevy Chase is again wading into nan resurfaced contention surrounding his alleged usage of nan N-word connected nan group of Community.
The newly-released documentary I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not, recounts Chase’s firing from the NBC sitcom aft he allegedly utilized a group slur.
“It was excessively awesome a misunderstanding of what I was saying and not saying,” Chase said successful an question and reply published yesterday by nan New York Times. “I thought that location was astatine slightest 1 personification — and different who, for immoderate ungodly reason, didn’t get me, didn’t cognize who I was, aliases didn’t recognize for 1 2nd I’m not racist. They were excessively young to beryllium alert of my work. Instead, location was immoderate benignant of visceral guidance from them.”
In nan doc, Community head Jay Chandrasekhar says that Chase had an on-set “meltdown” following nan incident successful which nan former SNL cast personnel apparently utilized nan N-word successful a speech pinch co-star Yvette Nicole Brown, who is Black.
While he didn’t really perceive nan speech betwixt nan 2 actors, Chandrasekhar says successful nan doc that he “was there, directing, nan nighttime that Chevy Chase sewage fired from Community.” Chandrasekhar says nan arena stemmed from a scripted “blackface” manus puppet spot involving Chase’s Community character Pierce Hawthorne.
Chase, arsenic elaborate successful a Deadline study astatine nan time, was unhappy pinch his character’s racist development, and said thing on nan lines that soon nan writers would beryllium having him opportunity nan N-word. Only he didn’t opportunity “N-word.”
Brown took to societal media yesterday and emphasized that nary 1 tin speak for her aliases for her individual experiences connected nan show.
“There are things I’ve ne'er spoken of publically and possibly ne'er will. Anyone presently speaking FOR aliases ABOUT maine pinch perceived authority is speaking without EVER speaking to maine astir nan things they declare to cognize about,” she wrote successful a connection on Threads. “They really don’t really cognize maine — astatine all.”
She continued, “They besides person nary knowledge of my narration pinch anyone l’ve worked pinch & cannot credibly speak connected immoderate existent aliases erstwhile issues. I dislike that each this had to beryllium said. In East Cleveland speak: Keep my sanction retired your mouth.”
Chase, reflecting connected his clip connected Community and departure from nan show, said, “It wasn’t a bad experience. I conscionable didn’t deliberation it was that good, nan show.”
On nan taxable of explaining himself and his past actions, Chase said, “I don’t person immoderate request to do that. The full rumor of them reasoning I’m an [expletive], it’s each junk. I don’t attraction overmuch astir it. I person a great, awesome life, a awesome family.”
Asked if his actions wounded his career, nan comedian responded, “I don’t deliberation I sabotaged my career. I deliberation we spell up and down and up and down, up and down. You make mistakes. You make mistakes. You don’t make truthful galore mistakes. You study more, and past you get to wherever I americium now, wherever I don’t deliberation immoderate of that matters anymore. All that matters is really I americium pinch group passim nan remainder of my life.”
Glenn Garner contributed to this report.
