Chevy Chase finally broke his silence about being left out Saturday Night Live50th anniversary earlier this year.
In CNN Films’ upcoming documentary I’m Chevy Chase and you’re notthe 82-year-old actor and original cast member admitted it made him ‘hurt’.
Chase revealed that he expected to be on stage with fellow alumni Garrett Morris and Laraine Newman during the fete in February.
“Well, it was actually kind of upsetting,” he said.
“This is probably the first time I’ve said that. But I expected that I would have been on stage with all the other actors as well. When Garrett [Morris] and Laraine [Newman] went on stage there, I was curious why I didn’t. No one asked me to. Why was I left behind?”
Chase, who anchored the show’s first Weekend update segment in 1975, questioned why Bill Murray was included when he was not.
He said he even texted creator Lorne Michaels about the omission.
Although he later retracted the message, but still insisted “someone made a bad mistake there.”
“I brought it up once in a text to Lorne and then took it back,” Chase said.
“I said, ‘Okay, I’ll take it back, silly’. But it’s not that stupid. Somebody made a bad mistake there. I don’t know who it was, but somebody made a mistake. They should have had me on that stage. It hurt.”
Chase drive on SNL continued from its debut in 1975 until midway through its second season in 1976.
