I listened to a Chevy Chase podcast interview so you don't have to

[Steve Timko]

I listened to Chevy Chase on the Dana Carvey and David Space “Fly On The Wall” podcast so you didn’t have to.
It went pretty much how you would guess it went. The “news” from the podcast is that Chase had a heart attack early last year and suffered memory loss. This came up when Chase tried to recall a Richard Pryor anecdote, then conceded he couldn’t remember it. His wife explained the medical event from off the microphone, maybe on the other side of the room.
Other than that, for 51 minutes or so, Chase had nothing to say. Carvey forced his laughs and that got annoying. Chase asked how Phil Hartman died, then remembered a minute or two later. He cracked a joke about Gilda Radner dying, but it fell flat. No discussion of “Community.” He kept saying Bill Murray killed someone, but it wasn’t clear if it was another bad joke or if he has enmity for Murray.
They were trying to wrap up the interview and Chase kept pushing it forward.

[Tom Wolper]

This sounds sad all around. The hosts need to make guests look good in this format. I will assume the finished episode is already edited down so this was the best they could get from Chase. They could have released a 20 minute episode saying Chase wasn’t up to more or just decided not to release it.

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[Steve Timko]

I listened to the "Fly on the Wall" podcast with Al Franken and it was good. I'd say SNL fans should listen to it.

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[Steve Timko]

Chevy Chase is on Marc Maron's WTF Podcast Monday and it sounds like it did go well.

[PGage]

Hard to imagine how such a thing could go well, short of Mr. Chase announcing that he had recently realized he had been an insufferable asshole for most of his adult life, and was sorry.

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[Tom Wolper]

I listened to the interview. The backstory is that Chase’s daughter plays piano at the Comedy Store and she has been after Maron to interview her father. He knew it would probably be difficult but he has to find guests while the strikes are on.

The strange thing with Chase is that he doesn’t have banquet stories. In the pre-podcast days the way celebrities dealt with the public was by being invited to banquets. And each celebrity had a story or two to tell (prepared in advance and usually coached) about their life. That’s the sort of thing that could get an introvert through a talk show segment. Someone with a show business history like Chase should have a ton of these stories and Chase never bothered developing any for public speaking or interviews. A lot of times Maron would ask Chase about how a life changing event happened and Chase would just say he doesn’t remember.

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