Within the upcoming CNN documentary I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not, Chevy Chase takes a second to confess a recent injury: Whereas the 82-year-old Saturday Night Live veteran attended the star-packed 50th anniversary celebrations of the long-running sketch comedy sequence in February 2025, he was not invited to take part in any sketches. “I anticipated that I’d’ve been on the stage too with the entire different actors,” he says within the doc. “When Garrett [Morris] and Laraine [Newman] went on the stage there, I used to be curious as to why I didn’t. Nobody requested me to. Why was I left apart?”
Chase was a part of the inaugural forged of Saturday Night time Dwell, and one of many founding anchors of its iconic Weekend Replace section. Allegedly, there have been two potential bits for the SNL 50 particular which may have included Chase, in keeping with Chase’s spouse Jayni. “They had been going forwards and backwards,” she says. “After which abruptly, ‘No. There’s no bit.’”
Within the documentary, fellow star Martin Brief defends Chase’s omission as comprehensible: “There’s 50 years of casts. Billy Crystal – no larger star than Billy – he didn’t say a phrase that evening. It’s simply too many individuals to fill.”
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SNL creator Lorne Michaels provides that “there have been a few variations of Replace… and we went forwards and backwards on that. There was additionally a warning from any individual that I don’t need to title that Chevy wasn’t as centered.”
It’s a remark that stands out contemplating that in a 2022 interview, Chase stated he didn’t “give a crap” about the truth that his former Saturday Night time Dwell and Neighborhood co-stars don’t like him. “I’m who I’m. And I like who I’m. I don’t care,” he advised CBS Sunday Morning. “And it’s a part of me, that I don’t care. And I’ve considered that loads. And I don’t know what to inform you, man. I simply don’t care.”
Chase wasn’t the one one absent from SNL50 this yr: Bill Hader and Dan Ackroyd each skipped it solely for private causes. A few of the highlights of the evening included an emotional musical tribute from Adam Sandler and a Beatles medley from Paul McCartney.
