Chevy Chase might be the unfunniest human being currently alive

[Orrex]

If, indeed, he is alive.


I have my doubts.

[Mike_03]

1. how old is Chevy. I am not saying you are wrong, but how old is the guy> NT

[Skittles]

20. 67

[Mike_03]

2. I would hope to see Chevy Chase joiine hee,.

Chevy Chase is a genius, I hope he does join here,.\

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. Oh, no. A number of people are unfunnier than Chevy Chase.

Dennis Miller and Adam Sandler immediately come to mind.

[Orrex]

5. Adam Sandler, maybe. But is Dennis Miller even a human being?

[Blue-Jay]

4. I dunno... He's pretty funny on "Community".

From all accounts, he's something of a dick in person, but he's made me laugh frequently. That doesn't excuse him from being a dick, but he's not my neighbor or relative or anything.

[Orrex]

6. Actually, "Community" is what prompted my OP

At 8:00PM I found myself strapped into one of those Clockwork Orange chairs and forced to watch it.


Which is, for the record, the only way I could have sat through a half an hour of it.

Chevy seemed forced and desperate with every syllable. Of course, if he's actually laid-back and confident in real life, then it was a heck of a fine performance.

Still not what I'd call funny, though.

[Duer 157099]

21. But that's his character on Community

Clearly everyone else thinks he's unfunny too, and in this episode, didn't he even try to hire some kids to write funny lines for him?

I'm not defending him because while I like that show, he's my least favorite character in it, but I do like the show.

[Orrex]

25. I see what you mean about that being his character

But that really seems to be his character, as in his personality. The last bunch of roles he's played have had a similarly desperate edge to them, though, so maybe it's just the roles coloring my perception of him.

[brendan120678]

34. Thank God for "Bones"...

otherwise there would be nothing worth watching on network TV from 8:00 - 9:00 p.m.

[EOTE]

47. +1. Community is one of my favorite new shows.

And I think it's great that part of what makes him so funny on that show is that he's so painfully unfunny. But hey, I even kinda liked the Chevy Chase show.

[Catshrink]

7. Mitch McConnell is funnier than Chevy Chase.

[Shining Jack]

10. A banana peel slip joke is funnier than him. n/t

[kayakjohnny]

8. Aren't you forgetting someone?

[Yurovsky]

12. oh sweet baby jebus I forgot about that POS...

I feel stupider just from looking at his picture...

[Duer 157099]

22. I thought for sure that was going to be Carrot Top n/t

[whistler162]

36. Is that a photo of Orrex?

[Orrex]

44. I've killed for less.

:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

[CBGLuthier]

9. I find that Kevin Nealon makes a perfectly fine Chevy Chase

About the same height, both former SNL anchors. Nealon can actually say something in a funny way unlike Chase who makes me wonder how much coke Fletch Lives paid for.

[Rabrrrrrr]

11. Oh, please- Joe Piscopo, Carlos Mencia, Andrew Dice Clay, Carrot Top, Larry the Cable Guy,

and so, so, so many more.

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

13. He seemed to have peaked

with Clark Griswold and the Vacation movies. Hard to argue he wasn't funny in those....... :shrug:

[Quantess]

17. I agree, the Vacation movies were great

and I know he was in other films after that, but he was not funny and was unmemorable. I think as soon as he got cosmetic surgery, it started going downhill.

Vacation films were his peak.

[Orrex]

26. IMO only the first Vacation movie was good

Aside from his insult-rant in Christmas Vacation, the other three(?) movies seemed to be just going through the motions.

[KamaAina]

14. Dane Cook died?

Awwww.

[Quantess]

15. No, he isn't the unfunniest.

He's pretty unfunny, but no way the unfunniest.

How about the dad on Full House?

[Orrex]

16. I hate you for making me remember Bob Saget

I'd successfully put him out of my mind until about 40 seconds ago.


Thanks.

[Lindsey]

18. I go with Wanda Sikes at least ror now. N/T

[Lindsey]

19. oops..misread tge O/P,, I thougt we were taliking about the

bedt comics.

[Duer 157099]

23. Ew, you should have seen the creeepy part he had in a recent episode of Entourage

I never really like Saget but that role made him downright icky

[Orrex]

24. I've been told that he's actually a pretty funny standup comedian, but I don't believe it

And I confess that I can't bring myself to watch him. I could forgive him for Full House or America's Funniest Home Videos, but not both.

[muffin1]

27. Chevy Chase had a very creepy role on Law and Order, too.

He played an anti-Semitic asshole who was pulled over for drunk driving (a la Mel Gibson - real asshole), who may or may not also be a murderer.

[TheMightyFavog]

49. You mean the guy who told the filthiest version of The Aristocrats joke that I have ever heard?

Shocked the hell out of me when I saw it.

http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Aristocrats-Bob-Sagets-Version-Very-Very-Foul-Lang

[peekaloo]

28. I actually like him on 'Community'.

He plays a sad old bastard who'll do anything for a laugh or to get laid. :think:


Don't know if it's available on Youtube (I'm lazy) but on the first incarnation of Bill Maher's 'Politically Incorrect' he proved himself a first class asshole when he decided to mock/humiliate fellow panelist Steven Boccho. It backfired resulting in highly amusing tee vee.

[PassingFair]

29. Chevy Chase is not as bad as Norm McDonald.

Norm McDonald is unwatchable.

Seriously, I turn the channel if he
comes on.

[Bucky]

32. I love Norm McDonald! I totally share his snarky sense of humor.

He also had me with his tv show, which was set in a social worker office--how many comedians are willing to put such a blue collar spin on their flagship?

[PassingFair]

33. I love snark. I'M snarky. I live for snark.

Norm McDonald doesn't snark.
He acts like he's an insider to places
I don't want to go.

Maybe he appeals more to men than to
women....because I don't think he's
funny at all.

[Patiod]

38. We saw him tank doing stand up - serious flop-sweat

He was appearing at a local college, and he was over two hours late, saying he had gotten into an accident on the way down from NYC. I've never seen a comedian die before, and it wasn't pretty.

[Dr. Strange]

40. For a moment there, I thought you were talking about Norm MacDonald.

And I was going to have to destroy you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLkdSDAw1gU

[PassingFair]

42. Ack! 10 minutes?

I couldn't break 1:16.....

Slouchy and unfunny.

[Bucky]

30. I saw him on Jimmy Kimmel the night Kimmel was doing his Leno impression.

Kimmel was made up as Leno and doing the Leno lisp and had the fake chin on. His impression wasn't very good, but it was headed in the right direction at least--plus he got the constant not-funny Leno jokes shtick down pretty good. Then Chevy comes out with the Conan wig on... it was a great set up.

Now a Conan impression wouldn't be very hard to do. Again, neither Chase or nor Kimmel is an impressionist, so I don't expect Frank Gorshin level detailing. But you can at least mimic Conan's style pretty easy. Have a squealy tone of voice and a too-eager twittering laugh. Wiggle your neck a bit so your big red pompadour wobbles when you overreact. It's not a tough sell once you have the wig on. But instead of doing a Conan impression--or at least trying to do a Conan impression--Chevy starts mimicking Jimmy Kimmel's Leno lisp.

Get it? Kimmel is lisping so Chevy starts lisping. It's like watching a three year old singing along with a muppet he's watching on tv, only Chevy Chase is 67 and looks senile while doing it. How utterly lame! It's like he has no internal process going on, which is pretty important if you're going to be a comedian or any other human being worth watching.

How did this formerly pretty buffoon ever get famous? I used to think Dan Quayle was the luckiest man in the world. Chevy Chase may just have surpassed him.

[Mad_Dem_X]

31. Alas, Chevy jumped the shark a long time ago.

Sometime in the 80's, if I'm not mistaken.

[Deep13]

35. I like him in Community. nt

[rurallib]

37. When it comes to unfunny funny people it is Dennis Miller hands down

saying he stinks is a compliment.

[Patiod]

39. You beat me to it

And I used to find him funny back in his SNL days. But now, just ew,

[SoxFan]

41. Two words: David Spade

[Tommy_Carcetti]

43. Have you ever seen or heard Pablo Francisco?

Good lord, he sucks.

[zonkers]

45. Perhaps he is channeling Ken Berry. But to be fair, Clark Griswald is a pretty funny character.

[closeupready]

46. I think this is a generational thing - he could burp and it would make me laugh because

somehow, I can tell that he and I were raised in a very similar way, and his sense of humor is about the absurdity of everyday things and customs (comedy of manners?). Whereas, someone like Julie Brown caricatures celebrities and famous people.

He keeps me in stitches.

[mochajava666]

48. He snorted the funny right out of him by the 90's

He's OK in Community, but was very good earlier in his career when he did Caddyshack and the first Vacation movie.