By Andrew Sanford | Celebrity | March 12, 2024 |
By Andrew Sanford | Celebrity | March 12, 2024 |
Chevy Chase is funny. I stand by that. He’s made some bad movies and given some unfunny performances, but at his core, he is funny. At one point in the lives of funny people, they decide if they will use that gift in their everyday lives for good or evil. Chase chose the latter. Any interview with the SNL alum will show you how much of an insufferable prick he is. His dickishness also, coincidentally, lessens his ability to be funny.
Chase is a bully. In a recent interview with Marc Maron, Chase constantly tried to be funny at Maron’s expense. It was a lot of lazy puns and double-talk that further cemented Chase as the last person you want to be around, and made Maron look even more like a world-class interviewer (and that crown already sat firmly on his head). Still, while Maron took the high road with Chase, others chose to fight back.
Joel McHale has not been shy about his relationship with Chase. The two starred together on the cult hit show Community. McHale also played Chase in a movie. They were friendly, even close, until they weren’t. Joel recently sat down with Michael Rosenbaum for his podcast Inside Of You. Rosenbaum asked McHale about his and Chase’s altercations on set, to which the Animal Control star tried to joke it off. “It was an advanced horseplay,” McHale joked, “You know, horseplay, and then it always turned into sex.”
This is par for the course with how McHale has described their relationship in the past. He’s not shy about saying Chase is a dick, but he’s nice about it. But he then dug deeper, admitting that he once injured the Three Amigos star. “It would get a little contentious. It would get to this point … I got in trouble one time because I injured him. I dislocated his shoulder.” Hot damn!
McHale seems like the opposite of Chase in that he derived no pleasure from hurting this awful old man, but he still laughs after revealing what happened. Rosenbaum is stunned by the revelation, but also maybe a little envious? He tells a story about Chase yelling at him in his face despite having Beverly D’Angelo as a buffer. Perhaps Rosenbaum, like many others in Hollywood, I’m sure, wishes he could have done what McHale did: beat up a bully.