NCS’s documentary about Chevy Chase is about to premiere on Thursday (January 1) and is already inflicting controversy, with some of the comic’s former costars, Saturday Night Live‘s Terry Sweeney and Community‘s Yvette Nicole Brown speaking out.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, one part of the doc, I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not, revisits an incident between Chase and his former SNL costar. Sweeney was the long-running sketch present’s first overtly homosexual solid member.
“You said something to Sweeney like, ‘Oh, you’re the gay guy. Why don’t we ask if you have AIDS. And every week, we weigh you,” the movie’s director, Marina Zenovich, says to Chase within the doc, per THR.
Chase responds, “Terry Sweeney, he was very funny, this guy. I don’t think he’s alive anymore.”
Sweeney may be very a lot nonetheless alive and has responded to Chase’s feedback, telling THR by way of immediate message, “Don’t you think he is saying this and making himself look more like the ass he is!!!”
In the doc, the National Lampoon’s Vacation star is instructed what Sweeney stated in regards to the alleged incident in Tom Shales and James Andrew Miller’s SNL oral historical past, Live From New York: The Complete, Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live as Told by Its Stars, Writers, and Guests.
“My memory is that he is lying, is my memory,” Chase says within the doc, noting that he couldn’t bear in mind ever going into Sweeney’s dressing room and being “furious” that he needed to apologize for the AIDS joke.
“That isn’t me. That’s not who I am. And if I am that way, my life has changed, because I have to live with that now for the rest of my f***ing life,” Chase states.
In his feedback to THR, Sweeney added, “It all reflects rightly horribly on him!” Another half of the documentary posits that the abuse Chase skilled from his dad and mom as a baby is what made him “an asshole.” To that, Sweeney responded, “Boohoo … poor screwed up kid … so THAT’s why he’s so rotten!!!!!!!”
Sweeney isn’t the one one talking out about Chase and the NCS doc. Chase’s former Community costar, Brown, took to Instagram on Tuesday (December 30), sharing a press release that gave the impression to be addressing the doc (although she didn’t point out Chase by identify).
“These are things I’ve never spoken of publicly and perhaps never will,” Brown wrote. “Anyone currently speaking FOR or ABOUT me with perceived authority is speaking without EVER speaking to me about the things they claim to know about. They actually don’t really know me — at all.”
She added, “They also have no knowledge of my relationship with anyone I’ve worked with & cannot credibly speak on any current or previous issues. I hate that this all had to be said. In East Cleveland speak: Keep my name out of your mouth.”
Chase was fired from Community in 2012 after an obvious falling out with Brown and different solid members involving allegations of racist slurs and harassment. According to THR, Chase doesn’t touch upon the alleged incident within the doc.
I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not, TV Premiere, Thursday, January 1, 2026, 8/7c, NCS
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