Overview
- I'm Chevy Chase and You're Not premieres Jan. 1 on CNN, profiling the comedian’s career alongside decades of complaints about his conduct.
- On camera, Chase rejects Terry Sweeney’s AIDS-joke account and remarks, “I don’t think he’s alive anymore,” while telling director Marina Zenovich, “You’re not bright enough.”
- SNL alum Sweeney, who declined to be interviewed for the film, called Chase “so rotten” and said the documentary comments “reflect rightly horribly on him.”
- The documentary revisits a 2012 Community set incident through director Jay Chandrasekhar’s account, as Yvette Nicole Brown posts that others should not speak for her and several cast members decline on-camera participation.
- Zenovich and Chase’s family discuss childhood abuse and 2021 heart-failure complications with resulting memory gaps as context for his recollections and reluctance to apologize.