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‘I’m Chevy Chase, and You’re Not’ Director on Going Toe-to-Toe With Chevy, the ‘Community’ Cast Turning Down Interviews and the Doc Being a ‘Hard Watch’ For the Chase Family (variety.com)

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[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Let's not forget that they wrote him to be a racist asshole, and it really bothered Chevy.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 weeks ago

I think they did that after he had at least a year or two of being an asshole to everyone on set

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

And when he complained, he was labeled "difficult"...

Like, this was pretty soon after Harmon was fired from a small writing spot on The Sarah Silverman Show for going off on Sarah Silverman at a writing table and basically telling her to shut the fuck up in front of her entire writing team...

He's immensely funny, but he's a giant asshole. And out of all the people on set, Chevy was the one in a position to actual say shit about it. He didn't need Community, everyone else could have had their career ended if they were labeled "difficult".

So Harmon turned the whole cast and crew against Chevy.

Not saying Chevy is a saint himself, and likely handled it as poorly as possible. But it definitely wasn't as one sided as we hear.