Chevy Chase Pans Sarah Palin's SNL Appearance

Access Hollywood landed an interview with SNL alum Chevy Chase, who thinks Sarah Palin bombed on "Saturday Night Live".

"Quite frankly, it's a big mistake to let her go on," Chevy told Access Hollywood at the Give Food a Chance benefit in New York. "What was brilliant about ['SNL' chief] Lorne [Michaels] was that he had nothing written for Sarah and that apparently she cannot improvise herself out of a paper bag!...

"On 'Weekend Update,' that was her big chance," he said. "Nothing."

But Chevy was critical not only of Sarah's comedic chops, but of the political campaign of her running mate, Sen. John McCain.

"The management behind McCain's campaign has been dumb. This has only helped accentuate the problem of his judgment in choosing, in such a cynical way, a candidate like Sarah Palin for vice president. I think the last thing that they would want right about now is to have the rest of America knowing all that... to have her be seen on 'SNL,' certainly never there. If anything, you just want her to be seen just from a distance."

"I'm sure she's very bright," he added. "But so is the Butterworth woman."

But Chevy had kinder words for Tina Fey, the "30 Rock" star and "SNL" alum who has returned to the show several times this season to play Sarah, including Saturday's opening sketch.

"I think Tina Fey's in a lot of trouble," he laughed. "Because after Jerry Ford lost, I made about $80 million. Are you kidding? You're talking to the wrong guy here. Tina's great!"

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Comments

[StacyJ]

Chevy Chase has always been hilarious and I've been a big fan.
He's right about her not being able to improvise. She doesn't seem to be able to think on her feet, ...I doubt if she can even think sitting down. She needs someone to write all of her lines for her.

[The Lorax]

From the clips I saw online she pretty much did nothing but sit there or stand there and her only joke was about not taking questions, which I don't see as funny because it's true. Blah.

[TjayeInLA]

She also tried a joke about not doing the rap "because that would be crossing the line"....but it was dead silence when she delivered it.

[PhantomAviator]

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Isn't this the unfunny kettle calling the unfunny OTHER kettle black? (Wow, what a mixed metaphor.)

Chevy hasn't been funny since 1986. It's like Steve Martin saying Chevy Chase isn't funny.

An ouroboros. (Look it up.)

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[LiberalHick]

What - we don't know it's a snake swallowing it's own tail? Ooooh, you're really smart.

[PhantomAviator]

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Gold star fer you. Now find someone else.

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BTW, it's NOT a "snake". It's a metaphorical device.

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[PhantomAviator]

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What I find interesting, LiberalHick, is that you've been a member here since THIS MONTH and have 200 posts.

THAT'S funny.

Funny "strange".

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[TjayeInLA]

Okay TIME OUT! Steve Martin IS funny and will always BE funny!

I demand that you repudiate your own statement or I shall be forced to lodge a negative untrue campaign about you. Go on!! Start repudiatin'!

[PhantomAviator]

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I stand by my assertion that Steve Martin is no longer funny. In fact, he a BORING-boros.

Was THAT funny?

I gave up on him after Nothing But Trouble, that meisterwerk.]

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[cnobody]

"funny" is subjective. Steve Martin is hilarious and while Chase hasn't done much of late, his stint on SNL was great as were his earlier films.

[PhantomAviator]

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My point is that RECENTLY he has been notably UNfunny.

Except his personal life.

Was THAT funny?

I keep TRYING.

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Much like Steve Martin.

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[stonesfan30]

Why are you so bitter Chevy? You're no longer relavant. Get over it.

[Opsimath44]

Nothing sadder than someone pretending he thinks someone else isn't relevant, and yet compelled to comment on it. If he's not relevant, then you'd be elsewhere, doing something else that is relevant.

Nice try.

[LiberalHick]

LOL.

[DebofMD]

HAHAHA!

[PhantomAviator]

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I'm confused....

Now THAT's funny!!

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[LeftCoastLefthandedLefty]

Good point.

[just4shiggles]

I can't understand why Palin didn't have something prepared for her big opportunity to be on the show. I would think that after all of the comments she has made about wanting to meet Tina Fey, she would have tried a little harder to be entertaining. I think that she made a fool of herself yet again and that everyone and everything else in the skits involving her were hilarious. Loved the llama!!!

[ChrisR]

Coincidence that "Chevy Chase" rhymes with "Waste of Space?"
Sorry, but he was never as good as he so obviously thought.

[Opsimath44]

And ChrisR rhymes with...

Oh yeah... no one freaking cares.

[HST]

ChrisR rhymes with pissior

[cnobody]

He's Chevy Chase and you're not.