{"id":468551,"date":"2025-12-24T08:51:37","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T08:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/468551\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T08:51:37","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T08:51:37","slug":"why-was-i-left-aside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/468551\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Why Was I Left Aside?’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d fans may have noticed a major face missing from the \u201cSNL50\u201d anniversary special<\/a> earlier this year, as original cast member Chevy Chase did not return for the celebration. Chase himself is now asking why that is.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was kind of upsetting, actually,\u201d Chase says in his upcoming CNN Films documentary \u201cI\u2019m Chevy Chase and You\u2019re Not.\u201d \u201cThis is probably the first time I\u2019m saying it. But I expected that I would\u2019ve been on the stage too with all the other actors. When Garrett [Morris] and Laraine [Newman] went on the stage there, I was curious as to why I didn\u2019t. No one asked me to. Why was I left aside?\u201d<\/p>\n

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In the doc, directed by Marina Zenovich and premiering Jan. 1 on CNN, Chase talks about his exclusion from the 50th anniversary special of \u201cSNL,\u201d a show he joined as one of its founding cast members. As one of the few Not Ready for Prime Time Players still alive, Chase expected he would get the same invite extended to former co-stars like Morris and Newman.<\/p>\n

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Even more confusing to the actor, who became the first anchor of the now-iconic Weekend Update segment, was the inclusion of future anchor Bill Murray in a special Weekend Update segment (Chase and Murray famously got into a fist fight backstage when the former first hosted \u201cSNL\u201d).<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy was Bill Murray there and why was I not?\u201d Chase asks in the documentary. \u201cI don\u2019t have an answer for that.\u201d<\/p>\n

The comedian has developed something of a reputation over the years for being a rather difficult actor to work with. The comedian was written off of \u201cCommunity\u201d after having vocal disagreements over his character with show creator Dan Harmon. For years, reports and rumors have swirled that Chase was, at least for a time, banned from \u201cSNL\u201d (though show creator Lorne Michaels himself disputed this in a 2018 Washington Post<\/a> profile of Chase).<\/p>\n

\u201cI did bring it up once in a text to Lorne and then took it back,\u201d Chase says in the documentary. \u201cI said, \u2018OK, I take it back, silly.\u2019 But it\u2019s not that silly. Somebody\u2019s made a bad mistake there. I don\u2019t know who it was, but somebody made a mistake. They should\u2019ve had me on that stage. It hurt.\u201d<\/p>\n

Though Chase did attend \u201cSNL50,\u201d the actor\u2019s wife, Jayni Chase, adds in the documentary that Chevy was initially set to appear in the show itself. In fact, she says that those involved \u201ctold Chevy up until that day that there were two bits, they were going back and forth \u2026 and then, all of the sudden, \u2018No, there\u2019s no bit.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Michaels appears to confirm this detail himself in the documentary, implying that Chase was initially set to appear in a potential \u201cWeekend Update\u201d segment \u2014 returning to the desk he launched 50 years later. \u201cThere were a couple versions of [\u2018Weekend Update\u2019] and we went back and forth on that,\u201d Michaels says. \u201cThere was also a caution from somebody that I don\u2019t want to name that Chevy, you know, wasn\u2019t as focused.\u201d<\/p>\n

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