"SNL" stars make a rare comment on "terrible" Chevy Chase & Bill Murray Fight
"I think they both knew the only thing they could tell each other who would do the most bad."
Saturday Night Live A seem to amaze 46 years and he had his fair share of the blips on the screen and drama in the scene. But according toJane Curtin andLana newman, who were both part ofSNL's Inaugural Cast in 1975 and continued its comedy careers, one of the worst fights in the history of the show was of these first years.Curtin and Newman appeared on an episode ofLook what's going on to live recently and talked all thingsSNL with the hostAndy Cohen. When a fan called to ask questions about an infamous fight of 1978 betweenHunting andBill Murray that Newman, Curtin and looking for med memberGilda RadnerWitness, the conversation took a serious turn. Read more about the fight that Newman described as "very sad and painful and awful".
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Jane Curtin and Larain Newman stated that the fight between Chevy Chase and Bill Murray was a shock of "Two Mooses of Taureau".
The fight between Bill Murray and Chevy Chase brought back when Chase, who was goneSNLIn February 1978, apparently not also excellent terms, returned to the show later that year at the guest host. Some regular distribution members were not happy to see Chase back in the star of Vanted Star.
"It's this kind of sad tension that you went into a family, and everyone goes in the corners because they do not want to handle the tension," Curtin said at theWhwlHearing on June 17th. "It was uncomfortable."
But where most of the molding gave the tension simmer just below, Bill Murray-who had been brought onSNLReplace the continuation of the pursuit. "You could understand, you know, there were these two moiets of Taurus who was going on one to the other, so that testosterone was removed and things happen," Curtin continued.
"I think they both knew the only thing they could tell each other who would hurt the most, and that's what I think of the promotion," Newman added. "It was very sad and painful and terrible."
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The notorious fight also involved John Belushi.
According to the bookSaturday night: a backstage history of Saturday night live, The hurtful thing Murray said Chase was that everyone hate him. Chase would have said to Murray his face was so Pokarked, it looked like a landing point of the moon forNeil Armstrong. Murray would then have a coarse comment on the sex life of Chase with the womanJacqueline Carlin.
He went hard that the pair came to blowJohn Belushi'schanging room. At one point, Belushi himself was injured in the fight.
The physical fight was short-life, however; Moments after starting, Chase had to jump on stage and get live start.
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Murray and Chase have increased somewhat over the years.
Just a year and a half after the pre-show brush, Murray played with Chase in the 1980 movie.CaddyShack,Although the pair shares only the paira scene. Chase and Murray appeared onSNLTogether to promoteCaddyShackLaunch of February 1980 and made a musical number together.
Over the years, their relationship has continued to improve by adapting and starts. In an interview of 2008, the pursuit did with Shock JockHoward Stern, he says, "We havenever been nearbyBut we were very friendly, we play golf together. I think we made an effort over the years to get to know you better and put these things behind. "
He also told Stern that he had basically blamed John Belushi, whom he called a querog instigator-to come to blow with Murray. Belushi, according to Chase, "had been pretty jealous of my head to glory. I discovered later, John said that things are planning on me who just had not taken place. So he had already worked a little."
"And I was probably a little full of me after a year of renown or other," he added.
"It wasreally a Hollywood fight, a 'do not touch my face! kind of thing, "says MurrayEmpireIn 2012 of the fight of 1978. "It was a Oedipal thing, a break. Because we all felt angry, he had left us and I was an angel angency Angel who had to speak for all the world. But Chevy and I are friends now. All is fine. "
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But Chase continues to cultivate a reputation for being difficult.
As Chase admits easily now, heStruggled a lot with drugs and alcoholIn the 70s and the 80s, although its consumption of substance did not prevent it from becoming a comic actor known in its own right. In the 80s, Chase led several franchises of successful films, includingCaddyShack, National Lampoon's,andRiver.
But his last role of important profile - like Pierce Hawthorne on the CBS showCommunity-May put the nail in the coffin of his reputation. Chase suddenly left the cast during the fifth season of the show afterCommunity CreatorDan Harmon notedChase was hard to work withand co-starDonald GloverAccused the actor to comment racially insensitive. In 2018New Yorker maintenance,Glover said Chase said to him, "People think you're more funny because you are black."
A camera appearance onSNLThis year did not help Chase's reputation. Although there, according to a 2018Washington Post Profile of the actor, Chase told the writers that hehas not been impressed bySNL these days. "First of all, between you and me and a lamppost, jeoth, I do not want to askLorne [MichaelsThe creator of the show] or the casting, but I will just say, maybe I'm off, I am amazed that Lorne be so low. I had to look a little about that, and I just could not believe it *******. "
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