Saturday Night Live alum Terry Sweeney predicts CNN’s new documentary won’t make Chevy Chase look his best.
Before I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not premiered on Thursday, January 1, Sweeney, 75, was asked about some of the story lines featured in the doc, including the alleged abuse he faced as an adult.
“Boohoo … poor screwed up kid,” Sweeney shared with The Hollywood Reporter in an interview published Tuesday, December 30. “So THAT’s why he’s so rotten!!!!!!!”
In the documentary, viewed by The Hollywood Reporter in advance of its release, director Marina Zenovich also looked back on the alleged feud between Sweeney and Chase, 82, at Saturday Night Live.
“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,’” Zenovich said in the doc.
Chase responded in the doc, “Terry Sweeney, he was very funny, this guy. I don’t think he’s alive anymore.”
While speaking with The Hollywood Reporter, Sweeney confirmed he is alive and responded to the documentary. “Don’t you think he is saying this and making himself look more like the ass he is!!!” he told the publication.
Terry Sweeney as Nancy Reagan NBC / courtesy Everett Collection
At another point in the documentary, Zenovich explores a portion of the SNL oral history, Live From New York: The Complete, Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live as Told by Its Stars, Writers, and Guests.
In the oral history, Sweeney reportedly recounts how Chase entered his dressing room and apologized for the AIDS joke, but was “furious that he had to apologize to me.”
In the documentary, Chase responded, “My memory is that he is lying, is my memory. He’s not telling the truth. 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.”
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When reacting to Chase’s comments in the documentary, Sweeney replied, “It all reflects rightly horribly on him!”
According to CNN, I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not charts Chase’s rise from breakout Saturday Night Live phenomenon to box-office royalty, “thoughtfully examining the complexities and challenges that have shaped his legacy.”
Chase, as well as some family members and former coworkers, participated in the documentary that “cuts through the legend to reveal the complicated man beneath the smirk.”
One costar who appears to be uninterested in the documentary is Community actress Yvette Nicole Brown.
Chevy Chase was part of the inaugural season of Saturday Night Live, but the actor’s time on the sketch comedy program was rather short-lived. Chase left the show in the middle of SNL’s second season after originating the Weekend Update segment and the catchphrase “I’m Chevy Chase … and you’re not.” The cast member and […]
Days before CNN premiered I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not, Brown, 54, seemingly addressed the project. (According to The Hollywood Reporter, Brown and her Community cast members did not participate in the doc.)
“If I have something to say, I have NO problem saying it. I’ve never had a problem speaking up and out with my whole chest when it is warranted or when I think it will change a wayward mind or some truly disgusting behavior,” she wrote via Instagram on Monday, December 29. “When I choose NOT to speak on something, it’s usually because it won’t change a thing and more importantly because it’s most likely tawdry, low-vibrational or dumb and therefore BENEATH me.”
I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not premieres on CNN Thursday, January 1, at 8 p.m. ET.
