Chevy Chase opened up about his exclusion Saturday evening live‘s 50th anniversary revealed he was ‘hurt’.
The 82-year-old actor and original Saturday Night Live cast member revealed in CNN movies’ upcoming documentary, I’m Chevy Chase and you’re not, that he was disappointed because he was not involved SNL50: The anniversary special.
“Well, it was actually quite disturbing,” Chase said. “This is probably the first time I’m saying it. But I expected that I would also be on stage with all the other actors.”
Chase admitted that the appearance of other cast members confused him while he was away from them.
“Then Garrett [Morris] and Laraine [Newman] When I went on stage, I was curious why I didn’t do that. Nobody asked me that. Why was I left out?”
Chase also questioned his absence from the popular Weekend Update segment. “Why was Bill Murray there and why wasn’t I? I don’t have the answer to that.”
He further shared that he raised the issue with SNL creator Lorne Michaels.
“I brought it up once in a text message to Lorne and then took it back,” he said, adding, “But it’s not that crazy… They should have had me on that stage. It hurt.”
For those unfamiliar, Chase was a part of SNL since its debut in 1975 and was the show’s first Weekend Update anchor.
