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Bruce Hornsby on Chevy Chase parodying 'The Way It Is' on Community: 'I’ve had people take the piss out of my songs. I’m fine with it'

On Community repurposing “The Way It Is” for the Human Beings: “This stands alone. There’s nothing that sounds like it.”

Such is the scenario Pierce (Chevy Chase) contorts himself into in Community ’s season-one episode “Advanced Criminal Law,” after he’s approached to lend his piano and songwriting magic to the musical cause. I don’t totally recall how this idea came to me, but I’m pretty sure it was like: “Hey, Chevy Chase is playing a character at some sort of outdoor get-together at a school with a piano. I had the pleasure of helping him and his band — we wrote a song together that we played that night called “Go Back to Your Woods,” and I also joined him on “The Weight” and sang a verse.

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