Mean. Arrogant. Delusional. Why did America fall in love with Chevy Chase?

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/film/vacation/chevy-chase-lampoon-snl/

Karma’s final kick in Chevy Chase’s pants was his participation in NBC’s culty, critically adored sitcom Community. Creator Dan Harmon cast Chase as Pierce Hawthorne, a paunchy, decrepit, bigoted, impotent millionaire. The role was not a stretch.

Chase wasted no time in alienating a cast largely comprised of young black, Asian and Indian actors. Community star Joel McHale told Howard Stern: ”When I would try to talk to him about his attitude, he would just try to fight me. He physically wanted to fight me.” Confronted about his liberal on-set use of the N-word, McHale recalls Chase saying “Richard Pryor told him it was okay to call him that.”

Relations between Chase and Dan Harmon broke down in 2012 at an end-of-season wrap party, when Harmon regaled the assembled cast and crew with expletive-filled phone messages Chase had left him, and then led the assembled revelers in a chorus of “F--- you, Chevy!” delivered in front of Chase, his wife and daughter. Though the pair reached a frosty detente, Chase quit the show before the end of its fourth season.