Chevy Chase Reacts to Being Snubbed From SNL50: 'It Hurt'
Chevy Chase isn’t happy about being excluded from the Saturday Night Live 50th anniversary special.
He talks about not being part of SNL50 in his upcoming CNN Films’ documentary I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not, per Entertainment Weekly.
Chevy says he was “hurt” at not being invited.
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“Well, it was kind of upsetting actually,” he said. “This is probably the first time I’m saying it. But I expected that I would’ve been on the stage too with all the other actors. When Garrett [Morris] and Laraine [Newman] went on the stage there, I was curious as to why I didn’t. No one asked me to. Why was I left aside?”
He also pointed out that Bill Murray was part of the “Weekend Update” segment, but he wasn’t.
The Caddyshack star was one of the original SNL cast members and the first-ever “Weekend Update” anchor.
He mentions bringing it up in a text to SNL creator Lorne Michaels in a text. “I said, ‘Okay, I take it back, silly.’ But it’s not that silly. Somebody’s made a bad mistake there. I don’t know who it was, but somebody made a mistake. They should’ve had me on that stage. It hurt,” he added.