What happened to Chevy Chase's career?

[JEDI]

He had great hits in the 80's with Caddyshack, Fletch, and National Lampoon's Vacation.

then it took a nose dive.

How did he fall off the success path that fellow SNLer's Bill Murray, Dan Akroid, and Eddie Murphy followed?

 

[theknight571]

Ever since they named that city after him.... he's just been to big for his britches.

I don't know... I liked him.... granted some of the movies were pretty bad.. lol

Whoa... I was just looking at his list of movies on Wikipedia... the last one I recognize was made in the late 80's... I guess he has fallen off the charts.

 

[compuwiz1]

Maybe he made enough money to be happy, and not buy into the Hollywood thing. I hope he did

We are not as stoned today, so he is not as funny, today.

 

[moshquerade]

burnt out most likely

 

[Pepsi90919]

Originally posted by: theknight571
Ever since they named that city after him.... he's just been to big for his britches.

it's raining in baltimore, 50 miles east.

 

[MotionMan]

Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, and Eddie Murphy redefined themselves and grew up with the fans who loved them on SNL.

We grew up, but CC's humor did not, so he became a B- or C-lister.

MotionMan

 

[JulesMaximus]

Dan Aykroyd hasn't done much lately either.

 

[MisterJackson]

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
Dan Aykroyd hasn't done much lately either.

Blasphemy! Have you not seen his performance in the Charter commercials?! Oscar worthy indeed!

I liked Aykroyd in "Evolution"

Chase had a realy bad opiate problem (script painkillers). From what I understand he's off them now, but you never know.

<Eddie Murphy> AAAEHEHEHEH! That b1tch done fall off! AAAEHEHEHEH!!!! <\Eddie Murphy>

 

[timswim78]

1. Cocaine habit
2. Hard to work with him

But, I still like him. 3 Amigos may be the best movie of all time.

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: timswim78
1. Cocaine habit
2. Hard to work with him

But, I still like him. 3 Amigos may be the best movie of all time.

yeah...sucks that he fell into that

 

[jdoggg12]

He's not funny anymore. FTW

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: theknight571
Ever since they named that city after him.... he's just been to big for his britches.

I don't know... I liked him.... granted some of the movies were pretty bad.. lol

Whoa... I was just looking at his list of movies on Wikipedia... the last one I recognize was made in the late 80's... I guess he has fallen off the charts.

You don't recognize Vegas Vacation (1997)?

 

[Wuffsunie]

Looked over IMDB myself. Wow! Last thing I liked him in was Memoirs of an Invisible Man (1992). The rest I never heard of, or was crap. He did all his good movie work in the 80s.

 

[Fritzo]

He did physical comedy. When you get old, you can't do that stuff anymore (Jerry Lewis anyone?). Since he couldn't act very well either...only logical he wouldn't be working much now.

That talk show he had probably killed most of his clout as well.

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: Fritzo
He did physical comedy. When you get old, you can't do that stuff anymore (Jerry Lewis anyone?). Since he couldn't act very well either...only logical he wouldn't be working much now.

That talk show he had probably killed most of his clout as well.

I dunno, he delivered some of the most classic lines of comedy in Christmas Vacation without much physical comedy at all.

 

[Midlander]

When you make one bomb after another, Hollywood quits calling.

 

[JasonCoder]

Originally posted by: Amused

I dunno, he delivered some of the most classic lines of comedy in Christmas Vacation without much physical comedy at all.

"That's nice, honey have you checked our shitters?"

"Where do you think you're going? Nobody's leaving. Nobody's walking out on this fun, old-fashioned family Christmas. No, no. We're all in this together. This is a full-blown, four-alarm holiday emergency here. We're gonna press on, and we're gonna have the hap, hap, happiest Christmas since Bing Crosby tap-danced with Danny ****** Kaye. And when Santa squeezes his fat white ass down that chimney tonight, he's gonna find the jolliest bunch of assholes this side of the nuthouse."

"Hey. If any of you are looking for any last-minute gift ideas for me, I have one. I'd like Frank Shirley, my boss, right here tonight. I want him brought from his happy holiday slumber over there on Melody Lane with all the other rich people and I want him brought right here, with a big ribbon on his head, and I want to look him straight in the eye and I want to tell him what a cheap, lying, no-good, rotten, four-flushing, low-life, snake-licking, dirt-eating, inbred, overstuffed, ignorant, blood-sucking, dog-kissing, brainless, dickless, hopeless, heartless, fat-ass, bug-eyed, stiff-legged, spotty-lipped, worm-headed sack of monkey ****** he is. Hallelujah. Holy ******. Where's the Tylenol?"

 

[MetalMat]

I liked him in "Dirty Work"

 

[ballmode]

Vegas Vacation ftw

 

[LookingGlass]

Dan Aykroyd was just here in Dallas promoting a new Blues club that is going to be opening. House of Blues

I'd certainly like to check out that club once it opens.

 

[amish]

his death was his tv show.

 

[JasonCoder]

Kinda funny timing but he was just on Law & Order last week. The one on NBC, not one of the reruns on TNT, so it's recent. Played an asshole alcoholic suspect. Interesting.

 

[DrPizza]

I always thought he was a poor actor. Funny roles, but didn't have the ability to really get into a role.

 

[IGBT]

..I miss John Candy.

 

[lokiju]

I think after his failed attempt at a talk show in the 90's he pretty much fell off. He just wasn't any good at that though.

He had some great movies but a lot of them sucked pretty hard also.

Still though, every year I dust off Christmas Vacation and laugh my ass off each time I see it.