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"I'm Chevy Chase . . . that's the joke"

And you thought he only sucked at comedy-- back cover of Chamaeleon Church's 1969 MGM album, with drummer/keyboardist Chevy second from the right

It was looking like we might finally be rid of him, but Chevy Chase has returned, if only to find a new bottom to hit. There's a new biography of him-- authorized, of course (and currently #1,540 in Books at Amazon)-- and through a press release, he's pimping it with a grim remembrance of childhood whippings. While there's nothing funny about the act described (or that papers like the Washington Post are printing the p.r. verbatim as "news"), it's odd that we're now supposed to think of Chevy-- both the most disliked SNL cast member and guest host ever-- as a sympathetic character.

Reopening the wound to help flog a book must have at least taken his mind off the beating his last movie, his first starring vehicle in ten years, took at the box office. It played four theaters for one week, making a cool $2,800. You read that right: $700 a theater, $100 a day. Make the ticket price a round ten bucks, and you could even count how many people went to see it. (Except that Chevy probably went a lot, and maybe even bought tickets for non-existent "friends.")

For those who will tell you he used to be great, show them this and remind them of Johnny Carson's line: "Chevy Chase couldn't ad lib a fart at a bean-eating contest."

P.S. Time is currently accepting questions for Chevy to use in their upcoming 10 Questions-- send him a good one here.

Posted by Steve Monaco at April 25, 2007 4:01 PM

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