Chevrolet Chase has finally broken the silence on its exclusion Saturday evening liveCelebrating ‘s 50th anniversary earlier this year.
In the upcoming CNN Films documentary I’m Chevy Chase and you’re notthe 82-year-old actor and original cast member admitted it “hurt” him.
Chase revealed he expected to be on stage alongside fellow alumni Garrett Morris and Laraine Newman during the February special.
“Well, it was quite upsetting actually,” he said.
“This is probably the first time I’ve said it. But I expected that I would also be on stage with all the other actors. When Garrett [Morris] and Laraine [Newman] I went on stage there, I was curious why I didn’t do it. Nobody asked me. Why was I left out? »
Chase, who presented the first episode of the series Weekend Update segment in 1975, wondered why Bill Murray was included when he wasn’t.
He said he even messaged creator Lorne Michaels about the omission.
Although he later retracted his message, he nevertheless insisted that “someone made a big mistake here.”
“I mentioned it once in a message to Lorne and then took it back,” Chase said.
“I said, ‘Okay, I’ll take it back, stupid.’ But it’s not that stupid. Someone made a big mistake. I don’t know who it was, but someone made a mistake. They should have had me on stage. It hurt.”
Chase, continue SNL continued from its debut in 1975 until the middle of its second season in 1976.
