Chevy Chase Bashes ‘Community’: “The Show Wasn’t Funny Enough”

The writers of Community had a fun little game. Someone puts forward a racist or otherwise offensive statement. The rest guess if this was something Pierce Hawthorn said (Chevy's racist character on Community) or something Chevy said himself on set.

Decent article on how disliked and how much of an asshole Chevy Chase is.

My recollection from interviews is that Dan Harmon and the cast found Chevy just didn't get the show at all when they were making it. A huge amount of Community's humour is a mix of meta humour and pop culture references. In the same way that Pierce claimed to never understand what Abed was talking about, Chevy didn't understand most of what Community was on about - his frame of reference for what is funny hadn't moved on in decades.

Even though he's famously a dick, when he says he didn't think Community was funny, he might actually be telling the truth - not just being petty.

Community ended almost a decade ago.

So I suspect what's happening, is that they're finally making a community movie, but Chase likely wasn't invited to join the cast.

Wow, I had no idea he was such a dick. Guess I shouldn’t be surprised.

Also, I couldn’t care less about Chevy Chase’s opinions. Community was genuinely hilarious.

That ain't it, fam. The Dungeons and Dragons episode was a riot, due in part because they made Chevy's character so nasty.

"You appear in the forest naked. You will die of exposure in fourteen turns."
McHale: "I wait fifteen turns."

That beast of a comment by Donald Glover. He is perceptive and also very nice. Love him

Sorry to link to reddit, but the hobby drama about this man is wild. I'd call him a bitter old man if he wasn't already this much of an asshole in the 70s.

https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/xk73sy/comedy_how_to_piss_off_everyone_youve_ever_met_so/

Its not really what he was saying, but he could have had a point. The shows writers really did kind of have it out for him (with good reason as stated everywhere else), and as a result they didn't give him very much to work with. Even his use of the N word was directed at the writers, saying something like "pretty soon they'll just have me call Donald N----r". Its really a vicious cycle, because it's hard to write good jokes for a person you dislike as much as the writers did chevy. And then Chevy gets even shittier to you because you constantly give him the worst lines.

That opinion doesn't seem to be streets ahead!

Chevy will die not understanding that being a shithead is why this all happened to him.

I've seen quotes from damn near everyone else on Community that has said Chevy is a bastard to work with. If this is his attitude about the show, I can see why they would say that.

He's managed to burn every bridge and alienate anyone who might have defended him. He took his success on SNL and trampled it in the dust.

Projection by Chevy Chase

But he's can't escape it. He's still being Pierce...

Chevy not being in the movie is a damn shame. I always envisioned the story being Troy sailing to find hidden treasure but it turning out to be Pierce after having faked his death.

This coming from a man who knows "not funny enough" all too well.

As a fan of both Chevy and the show this just seems unnecessary and sad. Obviously I disagree with him, the show was very funny and awesome.

Chevy does have a history of tense racial interactions.

It would have been funnier without him.

I know he’s a dick but that show is terrible.