No One From Community Wants to Talk About Chevy Chase

Greendale Community College wants to be excluded from Chevy Chase’s narrative, please and thank you. Documentarian Marina Zenovich says it was incredibly difficult to get anyone from Community to appear in her CNN doc I’m Chevy Chase, and You’re Not. “Every single person said no,” she told Variety. “I ran into Dan Harmon at a screening of Deaf President Now! and I got his number. I was so excited. I thought it was going to happen but then he declined.” Zenovich did eventually get someone from behind-the-camera to speak on Chase, director and Broken Lizard troupe member Jay Chandrasekhar. “He has such an amazing delivery and he was willing to go there. If Jay had said no, I would have been screwed,” she says.

Chevy Chase feuding with his co-stars is about as shocking as florals for spring. Another person who declined to appear in the doc is Chase’s ex-Amigo Steve Martin. But the Community feud has become a major part of Chase’s story since he left the show. Chase was reported to have stormed off the set several times before leaving for good in 2012. He also reportedly clashed with his co-stars over racially insensitive jokes and remarks made to and about Donald Glover. His character, Pierce Hawthorne, was killed off in season 5. “I don’t give a crap. I am who I am. And I like who I am. I don’t care,” Chase said in 2022 when asked about his reputation for being a jerk. “And it’s part of me that I don’t care. And I’ve thought about that a lot. And I don’t know what to tell you, man. I just don’t care.”