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Chevy Chase, the beloved comedian who was a monster off camera: ‘Not everyone hated him, just the people who’ve worked with him’

A film about ‘Saturday Night Live’ has revived interest in its first star’s controversial career as a beloved icon of humor who was a real nightmare for those with whom he shared a set

Chase is a descendent of the Puritans who arrived in the United States on the Mayflower, and he attended elite schools growing up, managing to be expelled from college after somehow getting a cow up to his fourth-floor dorm room. When Chris Columbus was still just a screenwriter, having penned both Gremlins and Young Sherlock Holmes, producer John Hughes offered to make his directing dreams come true with the Christmas follow-up to Vacation. He was eventually fired for showing up drunk to set and for falling asleep at work, but things had reached their boiling point when Harmon and his crew started chanting “Fuck you, Chevy” in front of the actor’s wife and daughter.

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