Chevy Chase finally broke his silence about being banned Saturday night liveCelebrating the 50th anniversary of 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 left him “hurt.”
Chase revealed that he was looking forward to being on stage alongside fellow alumni Garrett Morris and Laraine Newman during the February special.
“Well, it was actually a little disturbing,” he said.
“This is probably the first time I’ve said it. But I hoped I would have been on stage with all the other actors as well. When Garrett [Morris] and laraine [Newman] I went on stage there, I was curious why I didn’t. Nobody asked me. Why did they leave me aside?”
Chase, who hosted the show’s first show. weekend update segment in 1975, he questioned why Bill Murray was included and he was not.
He said he even texted creator Lorne Michaels about the omission.
Although he later retracted the message, he insisted that “someone made a serious mistake there.”
“I mentioned it once in a text message to Lorne and then I took it back,” Chase said.
“I said, ‘Okay, I’ll take it back, dumbass.’ But it’s not that dumb. Someone made a big mistake there. I don’t know who it was, but someone made a mistake. They should have had me on that stage. It hurt.”
chase continues SNL It continued from its debut in 1975 until midway through its second season in 1976.
