WHO'S HOT & WHO'S NOT!

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[Apolitical]

1. CHEVY CHASE



Have you heard the one about the garbage-mouthed left-wing comedian who hosted a fancy mid-December awards ceremony in Washington and managed to gross out even the Hollywood liberal socialites in the audience with a string of hysterical anti-Bush obscenities?

The distinguished speaker was Cornelius Crane "Chevy" Chase, the distinguished venue was the toney Kennedy Center on the banks of the Potomac, and the distinguished audience consisted largely of well-dressed members and supporters of "People for the American Way" -- a grotesquely misnamed leftist advocacy group that had engaged the 61-year-old washed-up comic to host its annual fundraiser celebrating Hollywood political activism.

All was going according to script as the evening moved along and participants streamed to the stage to congratulate one another for their "enlightened" (and identical) political views. The organization's founder, Norman Lear, presented its "Defender of Democracy" citation to Alec Baldwin, and Ted Kennedy bestowed the same award upon Susan Sarandon. It was a festive night, but all managed to maintain their dignity as leading lights of the liberal establishment.

And then Chase stepped up to the microphone and unleashed his out-of-control rant, calling the President of the United States, among other things, a "dumb f---" and an "uneducated, real lying schmuck." The tirade was so savage, so obscene, and so personal that it shocked even the uniformly left-wing crowd and dampened the proceedings for the rest of the evening. The next speaker, Senator Tom Daschle, appeared stunned as he took the stage and admitted that it was a tough act to follow.

The outburst especially did not go down well with the assembled movers and shakers of the film industry -- including Lear, who immediately disavowed Chase's remarks. And it certainly didn't do anything to enhance the has-been comedian's employment prospects, which have long been in the toilet, right down there with his unshuttable potty mouth.

Chevy Chase is an angry man -- no longer very funny and practically unemployable -- but he can't blame the President for the collapse of his career or the fact that his best role in recent years has been as the voice of a talking canine in a movie called "The Karate Dog."

Perhaps that's where the loud-mouthed comedian learned to drink from the toilet and found that he liked it.....

[Apolitical]

Chevy was a baaad boy. Not to worry. His career is self-destructing faster than the U.S. greenback.

[ReadyNow]

I thought he fit right in with the rest of the crowd. They differ from him only in their reluctance to express their thoughts.

[garyhope]

Not only did I never like this guy, I never thought he was funny, EVER!

I really, really dislike this guy. Always did. Got it?

[benice]

WHO'S HOT & WHO'S NOT!

I'm Hot. I just had to turn up the air conditioner.

[mtbopfuyn]

It's the libs who aren't the IN crowd. Bush is IN the WH.

[Captain Peter Blood]

Check the IMDB and you find that Chase's career is now nothing but direct to video B & C movies, he truly is a has been and is washed up.

[handy old one]

Republicans are in most Democrats are out.

[peacebaby]

sittin' in Whoopie's lap, is he?

I did like him when he was radioactive. What was the name of the movie?

[savedbygrace]

He falls down real funny. Maybe he should go back to that . . . and shut up.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

"...grotesquely misnamed."

[Ginifer]

"dumb f---" and an "uneducated, real lying schmuck."

Sounds more like Chevy Chase was describing himself. He and his Hollyweird crowd need to buy their tickets and move to a place more accommodating to their viewpoints...perhaps a Middle East country?

[sierrahome]

I thought he was FANTASTIC in Ghost Busters...Oh he wasn't in that. He was funny in the Nutty Professor...oops not in that ether! His late night talk show is pretty good, oh yeh that was canceled almost as soon as it started.

[Jeff F]

...calling the President of the United States, among other things, a "dumb f---" and an "uneducated...

Hmmm... Dubya graduated from Yale and Harvard business school while Chevy was expelled from Haverford College and then went to Bard College. Well, I guess that almost makes the Bard boy a Haverford man.

Have another drink Chevy.

[expat_panama]

The Invisible Man! Great flick.

It's like the "shut up and sing" idea, the value of the product is different then the politics of the maker.

Three Amigos was great too IMHO.

[driftless]

I never liked him either. Way overrated.

[The Great RJ]

It is interesting to note that our former South Dakota Senator Tommy Daschle was a keynote speaker for this liberal cabal. Why for years he told us he was just plain folks like us poor rubes out in the sticks and annually traded his silk suit and Gucci loafers for jeans and sneakers while he went out among the sweating masses trolling for votes.

I'm saddened...deeply saddened that he hasn't moved back to South Dakota and gone back to selling insurance out of the basement of his Mother's house in Aberdeen.

[Cicero]

His real name is Cornelius Crane Chase? I wonder if he's related to some old family friends of mine. I'll have to ask next summer.

My uncle was a good friend of Clinton Crane, the yacht designer. They shared an interest in boats. I think Cornelius was one of the given names in the Crane family.

http://www.lesliefield.com/other_history/clinton_cranes_yachting_memories.htm

I despise rich people from old families who turn into limousine liberals. It's so common.

[Labyrinthos]

Sounds more like Chevy Chase was describing himself.

Unlike many Hollywood Jerks, Chase actually graduated from a quasi-prestigious liberal arts college -- Bard College, in upstate NY.

[RightWhale]

I never thought he was funny

How about annoying? Kind of a drunk clown.

[LoneSome Journey]

chase - attended Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, NY.

President BUSH -received a bachelor's degree from Yale University in 1968, received a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School in 1975 yet this clown has the gall to call The President dumb.

[Snardius]

Snardius is HOT...chevy is not.

[peacebaby]

Yes, The Invisible Man....there's a point in that title, I think. Anyhoo, remember when he was snorting the white powder in a circle? Now that was funny.

Other than that moment, wasn't he funny at some time or other in Saturday Night Live?

[Snardius]

"Once a hottie always a hottie...even if it only comes in flashes."
Dollie Parton

[DustyMoment]

Apparently, Chase's efforts to ingratiate himself to the uber-liberal Hollyweird leftists backfired in a fitting parallel of his "career".

His best days as a "comic" were apparently when he was on SNL - and even then he wasn't very funny, just stupid.

His lack of a career is no big loss.

[boycott]

The Invisible Man! Great flick.

It's like the "shut up and sing" idea, the value of the product is different then the politics of the maker.

Three Amigos was great too IMHO.

It wasn't Chevy that was funny. It was the script. Any bozo actor could have been funny in that part. The same applies to Caddyshack.

Chevy proved himself with his late night show flop. Anyone that has seen 8th grade boys cut-up and act silly have seen Chevy's act many times over. In my opinion, the guy isn't too bright.

[Slings and Arrows]

Chevy was a baaad boy. Not to worry. His career is self-destructing faster than the U.S. greenback

Career?

[expat_panama]

Saturday Night Live stopped being funny to me in 1978.

I'd never say Chevy was a good writer, but he was a good script reciter. It's really not something just anybody can do.

[Leo Carpathian]

Jerk, trying to play funny, never succeeding! Plonk!

[weegee]

If Chevy needs work so bad, he should consider going on SNL again as a regular to play Dick Cheney:

Then again, he might end up embarassing liberals so much that he does more damage to their positions than he does to Cheney and Republicans...

[weegee]

Chevy Chase? Is he still around? It's like asking Martin Mull for his perspective on the President....

[Ginifer]

"Unlike many Hollywood Jerks, Chase actually graduated from a quasi-prestigious liberal arts college -- Bard College, in upstate NY."

Obviously he didn't learn proper etiquette or how to speak with respect from his "prestigious" Bard College.

[Gondring]

Unlike many Hollywood Jerks, Chase actually graduated from a quasi-prestigious liberal arts college -- Bard College, in upstate NY.

Bard actually is quasi-prestigious, and I have attended some wonderful Nobel lectures there (Distinguished Scientist Lecture Series), but to describe it as "upstate" is incorrect. Despite the impression they try to give in their marketing, it's actually down near the City, in Annandale-on-Hudson (lower Hudson Valley, near the Rhinecliff Bridge).

Regarding Chevy Chase's degree from Bard, check out http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1304944/posts. Anyone know anything else on this topic? Any way to easily confirm?

[Slings and Arrows]

If you've discovered a killfile feature on FR, I'd be obliged if you'd share the details with the rest of us.

[Labyrinthos]

I used to phrase "quasi-prestigious" to describe Bard because it is highly ranked by the people at Princeton Review and US News, but its not quite at the level of some of the better none liberal arts colleges like Vassar, Bates, Amherst, and Williams. Personally, I wouldn't waste the $40,000 a year to hang around with the Eurotrash and offspring of the Flower Children, who tend to gyrate to that school.

I described Bard as "upstate NY" because to people in NYC and on Long Island, "upstate" is anything north of the George Washington Bridge.

[Nascardude]

I've said it before and I'll say it again. Chevy Chase can thank the brilliant writers of the National Lampoon Vacation movies that he even had a career. That was his trademark role and that's what everyone remembers him for. It wasn't anything he did in those movies, it was just brilliant writing and a funny story line that most people can relate to with family vacations they have had.

Other than those, he hasn't done anything. And if it weren't for Vacation, nobody would even know who he is. Sure Caddyshack was a funny movie, but I don't see that it was anything he did. His character in that movie wasn't anything great and could have easily been replaced. Funny Farm was good for a few chuckles, but a forgetable movie. I thought Three Amigos was stupid. I never have seen the Fletch movies. Other than that if you look at his resume of movies throught his career, a lot of the ones that he is in were very bad movies:

Nothing But Trouble
Memoirs of an Invisible Man
Cops and Robbersons


Those are some pretty crappy and forgetable movies.

[LA Conservative]

I ran into Checy Chase when I was 19 years old and working as a courier in the entertainment industry. I had the task of delivering his video copy of "The Three Amigos". I rang the doorbell to his home in Pacific Palisades. He answered the door and another man shouted from upstairs, "Is that the doorbell?" to which our subject angrily responded, "No, it was the oven". "What an a$$hole", I thought. So I asked if I could use his telephone, I walked in, looked around, and said, "Nice place, Chevy, I didn't think Three Amigos did that well"

The look on his face was priceless. He stopped, stunned that a snot-nosed teenager would insult him in his own home and just mumbled, almost defensively, "Well, it did".

It was just one of those pleasurable moments, like shooting a hole in one.

[MaryFromMichigan]

I used to be a hot chick,
but now it only comes in flashes.


(sorry!)

[RJL]

Norman Lear, presented its "Defender of Democracy" citation to Alec Baldwin

It was nice of Alec to fly over from his home in France for this award.

/Sarcasm

[savedbygrace]

?

(feeling stupid for not getting it)

[Eric in the Ozarks]

The author of the piece uses this phrase to refer to "People for the American Way". They're obviously not for the way America was founded and its extremely presumptuous for this smug liberal, elitist group to make such a claim.

[garyhope]

Not just annoying, but mean, snide and nasty. Really mean, nasty and condescending in the most petty snobbish way.

[savedbygrace]

So, I was right . . . for feeling stupid. I see that sentence now. Thanks for being kind to this old dummy, Eric.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Happy New Year from a fellow geezer.

[savedbygrace]

And back to ya.

I'm still grumbling about the yutes who were shooting off all their leftover Independence Day fireworks between 12 and 1 this morning. If I coulda dragged myself outa bed, I'd'a called the police on 'em.

When I got up at 6:30 this morning, I wanted to drive around blasting my car horn to wake all those drunks up and pay 'em back. But I didn't.

[Ditter]

Chevy Chase was funny way back when Sat Nite Live was young and so was he. I have never seen a movie that he was in that I thought was worth the wasting of a couple of hours of my time.