Say what you will about Chevy Chase and his alleged behavior on set, because the actor has openly stated that he's not concerned about it whatsoever. For years, Chase has had a reputation for being a bit abrasive on set with some of his co-stars describing working with the Vacation star in a very unflattering way. He is particularly known for his alleged problems mingling with the other cast on the sitcom Community, eventually leading to the actor's exit from the show.
On CBS Sunday Morning, Chase spoke about the reports that he wasn't pleasurable to work with on Community and other productions. Chase did not appear to be sympathetic to the claims made by others that he'd made life hard on them
. The actor not only refuses to apologize but takes the position that he hasn't really done anything wrong, declaring that he is who he is and suggesting that it doesn't affect him whether other people take well to that or not.
“I guess you’d have to ask them,” Chase said when asked about the claims from others of him being a "jerk" to work with. “I don’t give a crap. I am who I am. And I like who I am. I don’t care. 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.”
Chevy Chase's Problematic Behavior Has Been Reported on For Years
In 2018, Chase's on-set behavior was placed into a national spotlight when Community's Dan Harmon and Donald Glover spoke about the situation with The New Yorker. Harmon, the creator of the series, claimed that Chase was jealous of Glover and often spouted racial remarks at Glover's expense as a way of taking him down a peg.
“Chevy was the first to realize how immensely gifted Donald was, and the way he expressed his jealousy was to try to throw Donald off,” Harmon said. “I remember apologizing to Donald after a particularly rough night of Chevy’s non-P.C. verbiage, and Donald said, ‘I don’t even worry about it.’”
Glover, who wanted to believe there was a softer side Chase leaves unseen to others, added, "I just saw Chevy as fighting time—a true artist has to be ok with his reign being over. I can’t help him if he’s thrashing in the water. But I know there’s a human in there somewhere—he’s almost too human.”
Saturday Night Live star Pete Davidson was much less diplomatic with his language when speaking about Chase. After Chase criticized the SNL cast, Davidson called him a "f**king d**chebag" and added, "F**k Chevy Chase. He's just a genuinely bad, racist person and I don't like him. He's a putz."
SNL legend Will Ferrell also made concerning allegations against Chase. Ferrell described one occasion when Chase returned as a special guest and went around insulting almost everyone he came across. Per US Weekly, he told the story all the way back in the 2002 book Live From New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live when Ferrell dubbed Chase as the "worst host" he ever worked with.
“I don’t know if he was on something or what, if he took too many back pills that day or something, but he was just kind of going around the room and systematically riffing,” Ferrell said. “When he got to one of our female writers, he made some reference like, ‘Maybe you can give me a h**djob later.’ And I’ve never seen Lorne [Michaels] more embarrassed and red.”