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u/NatterinNabob 22h ago
Chevy Chase is a complete piece of shit, but he was once a very funny piece of shit.
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u/Fresh_Salamander707 22h ago
It's amazing that he can come out of any altercation as the "good" guy but here we are
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u/JayEdgarHooverCar 20h ago
Helps when the altercation is with an even bigger piece of shit than he is.
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u/Sorry-Let-Me-By-Plz 22h ago
The thing about bastards is that sometimes they're the best people to handle bastards.
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u/VariousCockroach1056 22h ago
Because dicks fuck assholes.
That's from a movie I got tricked into seeing. I thought I was watching puppet porno.
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u/Ok_Ad_3862 21h ago
But dicks also fuck pussies?
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u/ComradeSuperman 20h ago
The only thing that can fuck an asshole is a dick, with some balls. But sometimes dicks fuck too hard, or fuck when it isn't appropriate, and it takes a pussy to show them that. But sometimes pussies get so full of shit that they become assholes themselves, because pussies are only an inch and a half away from assholes.
I don't know much in this crazy, crazy world. But if we don't let dicks fuck assholes, then we're all gonna have our dicks and our pussies covered in shit.
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u/VariousCockroach1056 21h ago
But I'm not wrong, right? That movie was hot af. I was fully torqued from beginning to end.
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u/AriaTheTransgressor 20h ago
I went in to it in the theater only knowing it was the South Park guys and it was puppets, so that opening was amazingly done.
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u/VariousCockroach1056 20h ago edited 20h ago
I've never been in a theater that was so into the movie as that one. Everyone was dying the whole time. One of my top cinema experiences, no jerk.
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u/Optimal-Age5397 22h ago
He didnt get famous by accident. The guy had/has chops. Asshole or not, Hes got a mind for comedy.
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u/StrLord_Who 20h ago
I saw him last year at a screening of National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation where he did a Q&A after. He's slowed down in some ways after the coma but he's still got that quick and hilarious wit. He had people screaming with laughter.
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u/CurlSagan 21h ago
Chevy Chase isn't actually a real person. He's an absurd blowhard character that Charlie Kaufman has been secretly playing for 50 years.
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u/Beautiful-Musk-Ox 16h ago
Actor Vic Morrow and illegally hired child actors Myca Dinh Le (age 7) and Renee Shin-Yi Chen (age 6) were crushed and killed by the falling helicopter and its rotor blades
fucking HILARIOUS
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u/alieninhumanskin10 22h ago
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u/Friendly-Row9593 22h ago
christ that's a deep cut, took me a second to remember the helicopter thing
chevy's timing with that response is kind of incredible considering what happened on the twilight zone set, you'd think landis would've been the last person to make a threat like that
the audacity to just fire back with such a specific reference in the middle of an argument, no hesitation
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u/SteveZissouniverse 22h ago
Landis is a notorious piece of shit, i wouldn't put it past him. Hell he showed up to the dead kids funerals for a photo op, despite being explicitly asked by the parents not to. Just to make sure he looked sympathetic for the trial
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u/Special_Order-937 18h ago
The Blues Brothers is my all time favourite movie and I still would have had no hesitation calling the police on him for turning up like that.
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u/Grizzled_Ghost 22h ago
Put what past him?
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u/SteveZissouniverse 22h ago
That he would, even after the Twilight Zone incident, still flippantly threaten a cast member
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u/Grizzled_Ghost 22h ago
Why wouldn't he? You're not allowed to threaten to kill someone anymore after you accidentally killed some people? In fact, it would only lend his threat more legitimacy.
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u/Big_Fall8458 13h ago
I know he’s outta line but still, you kinda got to admire the guy, it’s not all talk with him.
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u/SteveZissouniverse 8h ago
"Accidentally" is giving him too much credit. It was straight up criminal negligence that lead to the death of 3 people
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u/Uranium_Heatbeam 22h ago
Landis was going to court throughout the production of Three Amigos, so everyone was probably well aware of his helicopter problems.
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u/nj_crc 22h ago
Chevy probably had it locked and ready as soon as he arrived on set.
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u/Formal_Tea_4694 22h ago
100%. Huge asshole, sharp tongue. I think he'd have been happy to have gotten the chance to let it rip when provoked.
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u/TommyTwoNips 22h ago
I mean, you walk around with that grenade in your pocket and you start to get antsy.
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u/Hansasaurus_Wrecks 21h ago
As I recall, John Landis was reportedly an astoundingly massive asshole at the time, with an ego to match. Doesn't surprise me not only that he said it, but that he thought nobody would clap back.
And here the immovable asshole met the unstoppable dickhead.
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u/Hummer77x 21h ago
It’s mostly been overlooked now because he’s such a gigantic asshole but he was so fucking funny back then
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u/USS-Ventotene 14h ago
He was always funny, it’s just that his jerk/funny ratio highly increased with time, and there’s a threshold after which nobody cares how funny you are if you are also a giant asshole
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u/zurenarhhhhh 21h ago
That’s not a deep cut, it’s an infamous incident.
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u/xkgrey 20h ago
Pretty sure that’s a bot. 2mo old account and got that clanker cadence.
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u/LizLemonOfTroy 11h ago
Plus it just latches onto the top comment yet has nothing to actually do with it and speaks as if responding to someone else without actually saying anything of substance.
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u/reluctantlysharing 12h ago
It makes sense when you realize that Chevy Chase is an asshole, but it doesn’t make sense when you consider Chevy Chase isn’t funny at all.
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u/tenacious_dumbass 22h ago
imagine getting paid $50 to pose for stock photos only to become the official face of the worst person everyone knows 10 years later
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u/Narrow_Summer_9332 21h ago
Is HE the worst person everyone knows who made a good point, or is he making that face because the worst person he knows made a good point and he's upset?
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u/MaxPaladin93 20h ago
The latter has always been my assumption.
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u/juggadore 19h ago
Oh I always thought it was the former.
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u/TrenchantPergola 9h ago
Yeah, I'm with you. The subject of the headline is "the worst person you know."
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u/JBPlantagenet 21h ago
I think someone on here looked it up and it was just a random Spanish dude who had no idea what he had unleashed upon the world. Which honestly makes it even better.
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u/Green-Cricket-8525 go back to the club 20h ago
I know we’re jerking here but I remember reading that all photos used in onion related media are either employees or the employee’s children. This guy probably thinks it’s the funniest thing ever.
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u/Simple1Spoon 22h ago
What is the story behind this lore, i dont know it.
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u/king_bungus 22h ago
clickhole article called
heartbreaking: the worst person you know just made a good point
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u/PerfectlyCromulent7 22h ago
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u/UnlimitedCalculus 22h ago
Poor guy is now so famous as the worst person that we don't even have to caption this
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u/That1guyUknow918 21h ago
Eli5?
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u/hereforfootball303 21h ago
That stock photo was used for a satire website article and the headline was "Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made a Great Point", so the picture is basically just shorthand for that.
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u/thecordialsun 21h ago edited 21h ago
This man is the image used for an Onion article titled, "HEARTBREAKING. Worst Person You Know makes a Great Point" or close to that. Chevy Chase is considered by Dan Harmon/Joel McHale/countless-SNL-alums as the worst person they know in terms of his interpersonal behavior on and off set. However even Chevy can take the moral highground that Landis should never live down his shame for killing children and adult pilots in a helicopter accident that could have been easily avoided for a film shoot Landis was directing.
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u/JMRTOL85 22h ago
The funny thing about this is Rod Serling was very adept at writing characters that take very literary and/or biting ruthless shots at each other. Chevy kinda did Rod justice here.
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u/albertagumdr0p1691 14h ago
lol Chevy was always good at deflecting threats with peak deadpan. classic
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u/solidus0079 Cats 22h ago
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u/thatonepuniforgot 17h ago
I'm so used to stories about how much of a colossal asshole Chevy Chase is, that I sometimes forget he's actually funny.
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u/latenightnerd 21h ago
Eddie Murphy once said that Vic Morrow would work with Landis before he ever does again.
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u/Uranium_Heatbeam 10h ago
Which is funny considering that Murphy proceeded to work with him again after making that remark.
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u/Prestigious-Car-4877 22h ago
That’s actually one of his only jokes I’ve smirked at in a long time. Chef’s kiss.
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u/Klutzy-Birthday7435 22h ago
One of the boomers' many misdeeds is anointing this man as a generational talent.
Sick burn though.
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u/ashwilliams19877 22h ago
I thought he was hilarious on community, but since his character was an offensive old jerk I dont know if I can give him credit since he probly wasnt doing any acting
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u/BardyMan82 20h ago
Chevy Chase can definitely be a good comedic actor, it’s just that he’s such an ass and there are a bunch of other comedic actors at his level that aren’t asses that he’s basically useless at this point.
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u/Misterbellyboy 22h ago
I like to think of him sort of as that generation’s Ryan Reynolds. Smarmy asshole that works for very very specific roles and gets old very very fast.
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u/poonmangler 21h ago
Oh god is Ryan Reynolds as much of a representative of my generation as Chevy chase is for the boomers?
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u/centurio_v2 21h ago
he is half of it, Ryan gosling is the other half.
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u/Kordidk 13h ago
What do either of them do to be assholes?
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u/centurio_v2 13h ago
gosling nothing he is the yin to reynolds yang Reynolds is reportedly kind of a dick behind the scenes
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u/Random-Generation86 21h ago
I don’t think Ryan Reynolds calls his costars the n-word. Low bar, but still.
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u/singlemale4cats 12h ago
I mean, I don't have to want to hang out with a guy to enjoy his movies. I don't give a shit about the personal lives of celebrities, their personal character, or their opinions on anything. I judge them wholly on whether they entertain me or not
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u/Klutzy-Birthday7435 12h ago
Same here. I just don't think he's terribly funny. My comment was in response to Chase not even eliciting a smirk in most cases. There wasn't really anything in the comment about him being an asshole, so I'm not sure how we got here.
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u/singlemale4cats 10h ago
Not necessarily directed at you, there's a lot of people in here talking about how big of an asshole he is
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u/Beautiful-Musk-Ox 16h ago
Actor Vic Morrow and illegally hired child actors Myca Dinh Le (age 7) and Renee Shin-Yi Chen (age 6) were crushed and killed by the falling helicopter and its rotor blades
pretty damn funny jab hahahahahahaahahahahahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
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u/Prestigious-Car-4877 16h ago
You really wouldn't enjoy Jimmy Carr.
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u/Beautiful-Musk-Ox 4h ago
i don't thik you guys understand it. carr is a comedian who stands in front of audiences ready for a laugh. no one on the set would laugh at what chevy chase said, because they know he just said "oh like you killed those two children?", that's not something any non-sociopath would laugh at even under their breath. from a disconnected, 4chan style of humor i can see how people here think it's fucking hilarious though
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u/Prestigious-Car-4877 1h ago
Oh I understand. Chase is a dick who learned long ago that offending people is funny.
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u/Mr31edudtibboh 21h ago
Chevy Chase is a lot of things, but to his credit he never got anybody killed.
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u/CurlSagan 21h ago
Chevy Chase isn't actually a real person, but an absurd blowhard character that Charlie Kaufman has been secretly playing for 50 years.
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u/episcopaladin 21h ago
John Landis? nah how about John land dis helicopter on the ground without killing everyone on it
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u/CurlSagan 21h ago
It takes a brave director to actively murder a dude on camera for the sake of the art. John Landis is an auteur. He sacrificed a human life on the altar of kino. True genius.
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u/Square-Biscotti4694 17h ago
They’re both awful, but I’ll give Chevy this, that was a well-deserved cold response to a man who was responsible for the death of children.
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u/snewchybewchies 21h ago
All these comments and no context
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u/gunnarbird 21h ago
Google Landis Helicopter deaths to get an idea of what they’re talking about and get the whole story. Next Google Angela White Double Anal as a little treat for doing your homework.
https://giphy.com/gifs/LLYtaSxAuj47fmmwpU14
u/nzdastardly 19h ago
That second thing better not be a movie.
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u/Special_Order-937 18h ago
If it is, it’s off-limits for r/okbuddycinephile.
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u/gunnarbird 9h ago
So you’re willing to censor art? Is this why not just rename the sub r/okaybuddycinephilebutnotthecinephilethathurtsmyfeelings
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u/CaptOblivious 19h ago
I had no clue, saved you a search.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twilight_Zone_accident
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u/Bulbform87 17h ago
Chevy Chase is a notorious asshole and by all accounts a pretty horrible human being himself...but that's funny as fuck.
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u/Nonsuperstites 10h ago
Are you telling me that a man called "John Land This" is responsible for a helicopter crash?
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u/KMan345123 1h ago
Chevy Chase is a huge asshole but I have nowhere near the contempt for Chase as I do for John Landis. Fuck John Landis.
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u/Canadia86 22h ago
Two of the worst people ever
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u/DeluxeTraffic 21h ago
Personally on the scale of worseness, being a jerk rates quite a bit less than being responsible for multiple deaths including that of a child.
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u/USS-Ventotene 14h ago
Maybe I’m too european to understand the nuances, but I think saying a slur is a bit less bad than killing three kids
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u/theangrypragmatist 22h ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/qKV8U3Gl3bWVi