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The upcoming – and authorized – CNN documentary I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not is still days distant from its January 1 premiere moreover arsenic it continues to make news. The latest: New specifications astir nan notorious 2012 incident that led to Chase’s abrupt departure from nan deed sitcom Community.
According to People magazine, Community director Jay Chandrasekhar says successful nan caller doc that Chase had an on-set “meltdown” pursuing nan incident successful which nan erstwhile SNL formed personnel apparently utilized nan N-word successful a speech pinch co-star Yvette Nicole Brown.
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 characteristic Pierce Hawthorne.
Chase, arsenic elaborate successful a Deadline study at 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.”
In nan CNN film, Chandrasekhar, according to People, says, “I cognize that location was a history betwixt [Chase and Brown] astir race, and she sewage up and stormed retired of there. Chevy storms off, truthful nan shaper is like, ‘We request Yvette successful nan scene, right?’ I’m like, ‘Yeah, she’s successful nan adjacent scene.’ And he goes, ‘Well, she won’t travel retired unless Chevy apologizes to her.’ ”
Chandrasekhar said Chase past claimed he “didn’t opportunity anything.”
“He goes, ‘You know, maine and Richard Pryor, I utilized to telephone Richard Pryor nan N-word, and he utilized to telephone maine The Honky, and we loved each other.’ And I’m like, ‘I know, man, I emotion that bit.’ I said, ‘You know, tin we conscionable person a small apology?’ He goes, ‘For what?’”
When connection astir nan incident soon leaked to nan press, Chase, according to Chandrasekhar, had a “full meltdown.” The head says Chase came “storming onto nan set, and he goes, ‘Who f*cked maine over?’ … ‘My profession is ruined! I’m ruined!’ Like, it’s a afloat meltdown. ‘F*ck each of you!’ ”
Adds Chandrasekhar, “And I’m like, ‘Alright, let’s sprout nan scene.’ He ne'er ended up coming backmost aft that.”
While Chase later apologized, he near Community aft 2013’s Season 4 (save for 1 little appearances successful 2014).
Chandrasekhar besides recalls a alternatively disfigured real-life segment during a Community wrap party. “It was retired successful nan unfastened that Chevy Chase was a small difficult connected Community, and I’m being nice,” nan head says. “People were talking astir it, capable that Dan did that point astatine nan wrap party.”
“That thing” was erstwhile Community creator and head Dan Harmon allegedly sewage statement guests to chant “F*ck you, Chevy!” arsenic nan character walked in. That, successful turn, led to Chase’s leaked profanity-laden voicemail directed astatine Harmon.
As People reports, Chase’s girl Caley Chase recalls nan infinitesimal for nan documentary (both she and mother Jayni Chase were successful attendance). “My dada was ace excited to bring maine and my mom to nan wrap party,” Caley Chase, now 40, says. “We locomotion in, Dan, he had had immoderate drinks. He had gotten nan full formed and unit to yell, ‘F*ck you, Chevy!’ ‘F*ck you, Chevy!’ “
Caley continues, “I’m there, he’s showing his daughter, like, ‘This is nan show I did,’ and we locomotion successful to ‘F*ck you, Chevy!’ That’s rough. And mean.”
