Chevy Chase

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q310926: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

Counted as actor. The films the hosts said they acted in, which the two lists below run through too: Caddyshack (1980); Seems Like Old Times (1980); Modern Problems (1981); Under the Rainbow (1981); Deal of the Century (1983); Fletch (1985); National Lampoon's European Vacation (1985); Spies Like Us (1985); Three Amigos (1986); Fletch Lives (1989); Vacation (2015); Christmas Vacation; Foul Play; Vacation (National Lampoon's).

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

Gregory McDonald: 1 line

  1. lineage (source material) · through Fletch (1985), which they acted in: Gregory McDonald ⇒ Fletch (the host's read). Fletch adapts the McDonald novels; the noir voiceover feels like the book, the ad-libbed scenes deviate.
    “So it's a Gregory McDonald novel”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Fletch’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:25:35 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

Appatow-era comedies: 1 line

  1. lineage (influence) · through Vacation (National Lampoon's), which they acted in: Vacation (National Lampoon's) ⇒ Appatow-era comedies (the host's read). Vacation is called the father of later Apatow and Todd Phillips comedies.
    “I think is directly the, like the father of some of the appatau era comedies.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Fletch’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:09:26 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)

Confess, Fletch (2022): 1 line

  1. unmapped (reboot) · through Fletch (1985), which they acted in: Fletch ⇒ Confess, Fletch (the host's read). Chris describes it as a riff on the long-promised Fletch franchise reboot, with Jon Hamm taking the role Chevy Chase made iconic.
    “Chevy Chase did an iconic turn as a Fletch character, a journalist come detective in Los Angeles.”
    The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 1:08:48 · Chris Ryan (0.85 sure it was them)

Joel McHale: 1 line

  1. unmapped (imitation) · them, directly: Chevy Chase ⇒ Joel McHale (the host's read). Among people trying to do Chevy on TV, McHale on Community does Chase opposite Chase himself.
    “Joel McCale is doing Chevy Chase in community with Chevy Chase in the show.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Fletch’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:23:51 · Chris Ryan (0.70 sure it was them)

Ryan Reynolds: 1 line

  1. theme (persona successor) · through Fletch (1985), which they acted in: Fletch ⇒ Ryan Reynolds (the host's read). Reynolds stole the Chevy Chase playbook; Deadpool is Fletch.
    “Deadpool is Fletch.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Fletch’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:15:11 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)

The Rom-com era of the 90s: 1 line

  1. lineage (precursor) · through Seems Like Old Times (1980), which they acted in: Seems Like Old Times ⇒ The Rom-com era of the 90s (the host's read). Seems Like Old Times has held up as an early version of the 90s rom-com.
    “I think seems like old times has held up in a lot of ways as kind of the precursor to the rom-com era that comes in the 90s”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Fletch’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:08:06 · Chris Ryan (0.60 sure it was them)

Tombstone (1993): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Three Amigos (1986), which they acted in: Three Amigos ⇒ Tombstone (the host's read). The wedding-execution opening resembles the Three Amigos setup.
    “this movie's after the 3 amigos, right?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Tombstone’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:28:23 · Chris Ryan (0.30 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Acting (16) everyone in acting

Other (2) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

career (1)

  1. career (career parallel): Chevy Chase → Bill Murray. Chase and Murray were the 70s guys who navigated into the Letterman sarcasm era; Chase was neck and neck with Murray in the mid 80s.
    “I think him and Bo Murray specifically were able to navigate what came next with the Letterman era, the sarcasm era, basically.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Fletch’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:20:47 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

contrast (1)

  1. contrast (contrast): Eddie Murphy → Chevy Chase. Chase would do anything physically for a laugh, but Eddie seemed more natural.
    “Chevy Chase was willing to do anything physically to make you laugh.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:20:38 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

craft (1)

  1. craft (craft): Vince Vaughn → Chevy Chase. Vaughn's comic persona is described as an aggro Chevy Chase, which would have suited the stepfather role.
    “He, he's like aggro Chevy Chase.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:13:15 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)

people (1)

  1. people (feud): Bill Murray → Chevy Chase. Compared to Murray calling Chase medium talent.
    “Wow. Which is up there with Bill Murray saying to Chevy Chase, calling him medium talent.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens · 1:35:26 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

theme (1)

  1. theme (persona aspiration): Chevy Chase → Cary Grant. Early on Chase seemed to think he was Cary Grant or Jimmy Stewart in lighthearted mystery and mix-up movies, a miscasting of himself.
    “It kind of seems like he thinks he's like Carrie Grant or Jimmy Stewart”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Fletch’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:04:57 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)

unmapped (4)

  1. unmapped (difficult shoot): National Lampoon's European Vacation → Chevy Chase. Heckerling had a miserable experience; Chase is said to be hard on collaborators.
    “Whereas everyone who's ever worked on Chevy Chase immediately walks offset and into inpatient treatment.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 0:38:48 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (archetype successor): Pete Davidson → Chevy Chase. Davidson in his Staten Island movie plays the 2020 version of the wisecracking, can't-be-serious Chase archetype.
    “He's basically doing 2020 Chevy Chase in a lot of ways in that movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Fletch’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:22:12 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. unmapped (imitation): Joel McHale → Chevy Chase. Among people trying to do Chevy on TV, McHale on Community does Chase opposite Chase himself.
    “Joel McCale is doing Chevy Chase in community with Chevy Chase in the show.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Fletch’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:23:51 · Chris Ryan (0.70 sure it was them)
  4. unmapped (wardrobe knack): Chevy Chase → Eddie Murphy. Both could wear terrible 80s clothes and look cool, Murphy in Beverly Hills Cop, Chase in Fletch.
    “him and Eddie Murphy had a real knack for being able to wear absolute dog shit clothes and make them look really cool.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Fletch’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:49:27 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

what-if (3)

  1. what-if (what-if): Chevy Chase → The Player. Chevy Chase wanted the Griffin Mill part but Warner Brothers said no.
    “Chevy Chase wanted to play Griffin Mill.”
    The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 1:13:46 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
  2. what-if (career what-if): Chevy Chase → Johnny Carson. A sideways comment about not wanting a nightly TV job and Carson's jab back may have cost Chase the Tonight Show path; a Carson clip shows tension between them.
    “you can sense that Johnny just thinks that Chevy Chase is an asshole”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Fletch’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:13:43 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. what-if (casting what-if): Ryan Gosling → Chevy Chase. Chris would cast Gosling as 2020 Fletch because his talk-show humor is close to Chase's.
    “he's actually way closer to like Chevy Chase's sense of humor in his talk show appearances than he is in the movies that he's in.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Fletch’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:24:13 · Chris Ryan (0.80 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Chevy Chase: Chase nearly died during Modern Problems when airplane landing lights on his costume malfunctioned and passed an electric current through his arm, back and neck.
    “An electric current passes through his arm back and neck muscles and he almost dies.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Fletch’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:08:55 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)