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Classic clip of Chevy Chase's fabled talk show

by Adam Finley, posted Jul 21st 2006 3:01PM

chevy chaseI didn't see a single moment of Chevy Chase's short-lived talk show when it aired, probably because my attention was diverted to the shake ups at more established late night fare such as The Tonight Show and Late Night. Chase's show came along the same time Conan O'Brien was slipping into Letterman's slot on NBC, and as we all know, The Chevy Chase Show never quite gained an audience. I think after you watch a clip (after the jump) of Chase interviewing actress Goldie Hawn, you'll begin to understand why. This four minutes of "interview," awkward dancing, and a gag involving a birthday cake that falls flat in more ways than one culminate into one glaring fact: it takes a special kind of person to helm a late night talk show, and Chevy Chase wasn't it. A shame really, because in the right circumstances the man can be quite funny. Watch if you dare.

Thanks to Josh for hepping us to the clip.

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MWillyB

Was that a segment from during a "commercial break"? Because if it wasn't, that is the most horribly produced piece of dreck that I have ever seen. Chevy funny, whatever, but what producer allows stretches of time on screen where literally nothing is happening?

July 23 2006 at 12:19 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Akbar Fazil

you do have to give props for Chevy being able to do the Doritos commercial where he got fired there too in mid commercial.

July 21 2006 at 6:01 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Malcontent

Even that relatively brief clip was so bad that I had to close out of it. You know what it reminded me of? That one time I actually tried to watch the Chevy Chase Show when it was on the air!

July 21 2006 at 5:26 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Rick

This was on Family Guy, the final part of the movie (The edited FOX version)

July 21 2006 at 5:02 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Karen

"Never quite gained an audience"? There's an understatement. Chase was ridiculed in almost every venue you can imagine, and his show was held up as one of the emblematic TV disasters of all time.

To be fair, he was debuting at a time when the talk show circuit was much more sparsely populated than it is today, and the failure of talk shows was therefore more spectacular. It was less clear, at the time, that you needed to be more than simply funny to be able to interview people effectively.

That's what happens when you're on the cutting edge of programming...

July 21 2006 at 3:23 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply

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