Overview
- Chase says he expected to be onstage with fellow originals like Garrett Morris and Laraine Newman during February’s SNL50 broadcast but was not asked.
- He questions why Bill Murray appeared in the special’s Weekend Update segment while he did not, despite originating the desk in 1975.
- Chase says he texted Lorne Michaels about the omission and then retracted the message, calling the decision a mistake that hurt.
- Jayni Chase says producers told her husband up to the day of the show that he had two potential bits before suddenly dropping them.
- Chase attended the special but did not appear onstage, and his remarks surface in CNN Films’ I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not, premiering Jan. 1.