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 other. The films the hosts said they were tied to, which the two lists below run through too: The Player (1992); Wedding Crashers (2005). Count them as actor (14 films) instead.

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.

Alfred Hitchcock: 1 line

  1. craft (craft) · through The Player (1992), which they were tied to as wanted to play Griffin Mill (what-if): Alfred Hitchcock ⇒ The Player (the host's read). Wesley notes the Hitchcock-like touches in the rattlesnake and police station scenes.
    “Little Hitchcock homage, I feel like.”
    The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 1:05:45 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Nashville (1975): 1 line

  1. craft (craft) · through The Player (1992), which they were tied to as wanted to play Griffin Mill (what-if): Nashville ⇒ The Player (the host's read). Wesley says the tricks Altman uses in The Player, like famous people dropping into a space, are ones he used in Nashville.
    “a lot of the tricks that he's using in the player, I mean, he uses in Nashville, right?”
    The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 0:17:32 · Wesley Morris (0.85 sure it was them)

Singin' in the Rain (1952): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through The Player (1992), which they were tied to as wanted to play Griffin Mill (what-if): Singin' in the Rain ⇒ The Player (the host's read). Sean says movies about movies go back long before The Player, e.g. Singin' in the Rain, but this one is far more inside the joke.
    “Going back to singing in the rain.”
    The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 0:04:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)

The Long Goodbye (1973): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through The Player (1992), which they were tied to as wanted to play Griffin Mill (what-if): The Long Goodbye ⇒ The Player (the host's read). Wesley reads Greta Scacchi's character as an echo of Nina van Pallandt's ice queen in The Long Goodbye, itself a riff on noir femmes fatales.
    “that character is a an echo of another Altman character, the Nina Van Palant character in the longabai”
    The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 1:07:08 · Wesley Morris (0.80 sure it was them)

Touch of Evil (1958): 1 line

  1. craft (craft) · through The Player (1992), which they were tied to as wanted to play Griffin Mill (what-if): Touch of Evil ⇒ The Player (the host's read). The Player's opening nods to Touch of Evil's tracking shot by having Fred Ward's character talk about it, then reveal he never watches foreign films.
    “Fred Ward talking about the tracking shot and touch of evil, but then revealing that he never watches foreign films.”
    The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 0:35:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

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

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)

The Larry Sanders Show (1992): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through The Player (1992), which they were tied to as wanted to play Griffin Mill (what-if): The Player ⇒ The Larry Sanders Show (the host's read). Bill asks whether The Player is ground zero for the meta-Hollywood strain that runs through Larry Sanders and Curb.
    “Larry Sanders and Curb your enthusiasm and all these different things we've had over the 30 years.”
    The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 0:03:46 · Bill Simmons (0.95 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)