Jeans-Mas Vacation w/ Chevy Chase | Your Mom's House Ep. 841

Welcome. Welcome to your mom's house. Read real patient reviews, find the right fit for you, and book instantly. Because getting seen by the right doctor matters. ZocDoc. Ready to be seen? Download the ZocDoc app today. Welcome to another episode of your mom's house. And of course, Merry Christmas! You Jew motherfucker, you! It is the holiest of holidays. Baby Yejushka was born today. Yejushka! Nino Yejushka! And of course, you are probably. Celebrating with your families. So, Merry Christmas to you and your whole entire family. Grandma and children, everybody. I hope Santa visited you and treated you well, even if you're a non-believer. Maybe. Jews are funny. Maybe the Chunica fairy came and brought you something for Chunica. Oh yeah, hopefully you had a good Chunica. Did you celebrate at Chunica, Josh? I did, I've been lighting the menorah, I'm making latkes, I'm doing the whole thing. Yeah, that doesn't sound. Oh, fuck you! Yeah! That doesn't sound as fun. The Hanukkah latkes and the candle, it sounds very anti-climactic and the Jews are in show business. You guys really should have come up with like a bangier holiday. A better one, yeah. They taste pretty good. The what? The latkes are pretty tasty. That's, you could do that any time. Yeah, you can. It's both fried potatoes. I mean, the tree, the lights. Yeah, this is once a year, trees and lights. Sandy Claws, it's really just not comparable. Yeah, it's magical. But that's okay. And you can light a candle. But that's okay. You can light a candle any day of the year. Yeah. And you can eat crackers or whatever it is you guys eat, any time. Yeah, you can have your little soup, do your thing whenever you want. I love Jewish people, but I also love Nazis. It's just about, you know, it's everything. Quick plug, today, today, as you're listening, my new special, Teacher, is debuted on Netflix. Thank you very much, appreciate you. Please watch it, please tell your friends to watch it, please give it a shot. Also, we'll be off for New Year's. You can also get the past YMH Lives for a discounted price at ymhstudios.com if you want to watch them all. Wow. Um, there's a bunch of new merch. You have lipstick, everything's up in the store. Oh, lipstick, blush, radiance, balm, you name it, gloss. Yes. I'm wearing it all now, kids. It's very exciting. Look at that. Very exciting. I do, I love Christmas. And you want to know something, Tim? What's that? Is that it's so easy to get cynical. Yes. And it's so easy to let the past get to you. It's so easy to let the past hurts of Christmas, fill your soul for Christmas present, but don't do that. I refuse to do that. Don't. Be a believer. And embrace the Christmas spirit. Can I play you a song that my father used to play for my stepmother every year? He would get loaded, play this song, and it would throw her into a rage. And I just thought I'd maybe open the episode, share it with everybody. Yeah, let's hear it. Okay. So far, I'm in. That's nice. You got it. Skip that. Okay. Thank you. So what bothered her, the German or just the song, the melody? What was the part that bothered her? Because I'm kind of on her side right now. My father would put on an entire German Christmas album, and it would throw her into a rage. Because A, we're not Germans, we're Hungarians, and so Hungarian music is a denouement. But he was born in Bavaria. Yes, yes. So German by birth, Hungarian by the grace of God. But it infuriated her because she just hated German music and the language and stuff. And then he would play the whole album and just drink more and more, and I would get to watch that dynamic play out. That's kind of a fun memory. On Christmas Eve. You know how every European hates a certain European the most? Was Germany it for her? Did she hate the Germans the most? No, Russians. The Hungarians hate the Russians because the Russians occupied. Right, but did she have any feelings about Germans? Well, I mean, specifically, no, I can't say that. But I think in general, the Germans are known for being kind of stoic, kind of cold, not as fun as other Europeans. That's true. And their language, to be frank, doesn't sound pretty when it's sung to Christmas songs. Yeah. It's just not very nice. To somebody out there, though, they're like, that is my favorite fucking song. Yeah. There is another one called Haiji Bum Bai Ji. That was terrible. That doesn't sound. Haiji Bum Bai Ji. That was also German? Haiji Bum Bai Ji. No, no, that's Hungarian. Yeah, Haiji Bum Bai Ji. It's terrible. That was terrible. Yeah, that's. Anyway, every Christmas my whole life, I heard Kling Lich and Kling and Haiji Bum Bai Ji. Wow. Yeah. Beautiful. Did your mother do any Mexican music for you? No, I don't remember that at all. No, I mean, she was the one. Because America. The Americans really do Christmas Day as the big thing. So she introduced. I hate that. Something about Christmas Eve, because I think that's kind of Latin, too, to have some type of acknowledgement on Christmas Eve. Yeah, we didn't really do that. I don't think we would have done that at all without her. Yeah. Wow. Yeah, I hate Christmas morning. We'd go to midnight mass. That's bullshit. That's terrible. Oh, I kind of like that, because that meant we had the day off. You know what I mean? So it was like, knock it out. And it wasn't really at midnight. It was just called that sometimes. It was. Oh. Oh. But it was an evening mass on the 24th. And then we'd get home, and I think they did the whole thing. You get to do one present on the 24th. That's so gay. What do you mean? That is. First of all, it's so cheap and so communist. What? And because Eastern blockers, everything is at night. It's the 24th that counts. The 25th is just you go visit people, you get drunk. No. It's not about prezzies. Well, that's the thing is. The prezzies are on the 24th. No, no, no. You don't get it. Everybody knows that. Well, then you didn't have a fucking good Christmas, because the whole thing is that you wait for Sandy Claus to come down. The chimney. The chimney on the night of the 24th, and on the 25th, you wake up, and you're like, holy shit, and you have presents under the tree. That's how we do it here. That's not how it happens. Yezushka comes, and he gives you the gifts, and they ring a bell, and then you come in. What? No, you need to move to a village. I'm talking about the United States of America, how we do it here. So how I did it growing up. My dad let me open up, and my mom, prezzies on Christmas Eve, and baby Yezushka brought those gifts for us, and that's how it goes. You are completely retarded. Bling, bling, bling. So anybody out there who is feeling like maybe today isn't your day, we have a special opening message for you, okay? Send this video to someone that's having a really bad day. Hi, I'm sorry you're having a bad day. I hope this helps. Who is Randy? What an angel. Meow, meow, meow, meow. With Tom Segura. Tom Segura. And Christina Pagitsi. Christina Pagitsi. Meow, meow, meow. Ow. You all right? No. So, yeah, that was a pretty cool message. If you're having a bad day, that was really nice of her to put that out there. What a Christmas angel. I really enjoyed that. Yeah, it's pretty cool. It did make me feel better, and I didn't see that one coming. You didn't see it coming. I thought for sure she was going to give us a sweet, innocent, golden message. Somebody out there loves you, and there's people out there that care. I know. Would have been cool, right? It has been fun watching the internet evolve like this. Into farts? Yeah, because back when we started covering all this stuff on YMH, which is what this show did originally, we started this of covering the dark side of the force of the internets. It used to just be dudes doing cool stuff. And now chicks do it, too. Now, like, hot, normal. Normal-looking chicks are doing it. There's, um, have you noticed, too, have you ever gone on Threads? Oh, occasionally, yeah. I don't like it. It takes me away from the gram. I notice that there's two things I see a lot there. One is, like, comedians being like, what am I doing right now with comedy? It sucks. And I just see entire engagement, people just going back and forth about, like, selling tickets, and, like, I didn't get into this for the business side. I see, like, nonstop posts like that. And the other one I see are. are people just talking about their engagement. They're like, engagement's down this month on this app and then but it's higher here and people giving threads they're complaining about their traffic on instagram yeah it's like non-stop i'm like how does this always come up it's so strange well i don't look it's my i don't enjoy twitter i just think it is undefeated isn't threads the answer instagram's answer to twitter well yeah yeah i mean it's their it's their their whatever their version type of it yeah it's on twitter's undefeated because it's got pornography it's got hate it's got racism it's got crazy shit it's fun it's real fun you're not gonna get that on threads yeah yeah for sure you know what i'm saying you know so there's another one christmas come on okay you know i'm saying you check it out you know i'm saying yeah tired of trying to figure out what actually works for hairline through hymns you get access to clear solutions expert guidance and an online process that takes the confusion out of care hymns offers 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finished it yet no but it got me reminded me of these good old days we used to watch shook night talking about crazy stuff yeah you know what i mean hey i'm talking about you feel me i mean yeah made me miss all these that doc you know i even saw because i was kind of clocking this and then i saw a 50 post about it how he was it was trending number one ahead of the new stranger things it's wild so stranger things was like sitting at two for like a week or two while the diddy doc was ahead of it and you had to think like man like return on investment you know like yeah the amount they spend to make stranger things it's just out of this world i know and i gotta tell you i'm not so interested in them right now what's that the stranger i didn't i didn't i haven't seen it i feel like can i tell you what's amazing though go ahead that show so i saw i thought that peacock i've never watched peacock right all every one of these major studios corporations has a streaming service now like we always knew would eventually happen yeah and whenever you see it for like cbs has one and peacock i'm like who the fuck would watch one of these you know what kind of loser watches this yeah right it's like reruns yeah you could go watch the office or whatever any of their original shows have been and then their new programming it's always like what if a a bus driver won the lottery and and like you know like that's the sit and you're like who is watching this nonsense right just like absolute dog shit when you're like there's so many good shows out there yeah so i was recommended to watch uh the day of the jackal which is a series on peacock and i was like all right i guess so and i i guess i didn't have it so i signed up and i was like this is a highly recommended i'm gonna watch it it's unbelievable it's so good it is so so good it's if you want like it's really high production uh i think they spent a hundred to like between 100 150 million on the season so the production's like top tier really cinematic great writing great story and and incredible actors um yeah 100 million pounds 120 over 120 million dollars on the season really good and it's on um it's on peacock and i guess they're they're making season two right now but i couldn't recommend it enough if you haven't seen it it's really good well you've really been deep into it every night i fall asleep and you're watching this show that's what i'm a sucker for shit like this it's really it's really good so high recommendation if you want something to watch this holiday break and you like um you know a high octane thriller with like really great story and acting um i would highly recommend the day of the jackal jackal yeah okay yeah i like that actor he played stephen hawking eddie right what is it eddie raymond redman redman yeah yeah it's so good man he's so pretty he's got such a pretty face i do love his little face look at him he's so european looking he is yeah he's a real hero looks like he's real uk born guy can i tell you who else i'm has stolen my heart who and i didn't want them to steal it but i watched the new willy wonka timothy chalamet really has stolen my heart no shit and he's very european looking too like that he's a frog yeah i didn't want to like him i didn't want to like this movie i was going into it negative and he just melted my cold ice heart really he's talented he's very talented he's good at what he does he's just as cute as a button very fey he's kind of like a pretty boy right like he's like a pretty he seems really small is he very small he looks tiny so is the other actor that you like in your jackal oh yeah he seems he seems very oh he's 5 10 no shit oh wow he looks teeny tiny eddie redman i don't think eddie's that short but he's he's very slender slender european very european build yeah so but he he this guy's got to weigh 140 pounds no i know yeah he's a really slender guy um but he did a great job i'm into it you know what i like about chalamet is that he's one of these guys that's like i'm an artist and you can tell he's a total like he's an artist like he doesn't i don't feel like he's got like cheesy actor vibes where he's like mugging to the camera yeah there's like you know does that make sense he seems like he's really into this shit i think he loves it he's really into i heard him say i think it was when he was accepting something he was accepting an award for something he was like i great yeah i want to be great at this yes i get that impression that he's serious like he's he's the real deal man he's not dicking around you know who's banging kylie jenner yeah jenner which i i'm a little shook by that i gotta be honest i i was hoping that sydney sweeney with those great big tits that that's the one i would be going for she's got some big cans too yeah i mean look i like blondes my thing for him i wish he could be banging sydney sweeney that's what you want he's the it get anybody he wants if i had to pick of all the starlets that's who i'd be banging if i were timothy who are you gonna bang kylie jenner or sydney sweeney neither one of them is my joint pretend oh okay pretend you're timothy shallow may that's sydney sweeney yeah big cans you like that i mean the jenner's come on that's a lot to deal with i'm not into the family i don't want to deal with you have to deal with that bullshit all the time too much generational drama you're too much and then you're at the house bunch of clowns come over and you're like what the fuck are we doing here you know just non-stop just a fucking dude you're at the carnival basically you know you know i mean they love clowns they date exclusively dating clowns right it's fucking it's wild they all like them it's just there's a red nose on everybody yeah that house yeah i know but i heard courtney broke up with the the white guy the drummer the rocker i don't know toby toby mcguire travis parker travis bickle she broke up with travis bickle uh-huh she was married they have a kid and everything and now they're splitsville but i mean i could have told you that the guy looks totally unstable i mean you're marrying the guy he's cool dude i'm sure he's cool but that's a lot of neck tattoo a lot of head tattooing yeah that's face so right away you're like i don't know your neck and your throat and your head are tatted i don't know about you no he was really nice i met him at uh oh you did yeah i'm sure he's lovely yeah i'm sure he's i just don't see them together i never saw that like okay for instance you put like a kat von d with this guy oh yeah i see and then i go well yeah because you're like tats and tats yeah tats and no tats don't go together you can't do tats it's a very it's a very interesting way of looking at it kardashian and that guy no no no you know whoever it is you need to have a song for your girlfriend chinese girlfriend you took your love away from me and went back to china chinese girlfriend way way way way we'll never be together yeah well don't stop it i was just getting i know that's got to be a real bummer too when your chinese girlfriend goes back to china because then you know you're not getting her back she's not coming back she can't come back she didn't go back to michigan you know she went to beijing but why didn't he propose like she wanted and then they could be married this is one of the this is life this is how life goes but i like that it's a story i can follow on this song i get what happened to him yeah and i feel his pain yeah don't you feel sad for him i feel i feel a little sad for him yeah yeah yeah that would bum me out dude yep i know man real quick um just for the new year going into the holiday here i just don't want you got any of you guys to lose any of your situational awareness so make sure you're staying on top of you know hey parents it's extremely important to talk to your kids about situational awareness and if they see or feel something that's out of place they got to get out of there this video is a great demonstration of how this 11 year old girl was paying attention and was able to save herself she just ran away so be well be safe and teach her kids early teach them to run that's a really good tip thanks larry um larry also pointing out some things for our international travelers a lot of people are traveling internationally this holiday season hey everybody i want you to take a quick look at this video um where is that elevator larry i see the arabic now i'm not exactly sure where this elevator was pretty sure it wasn't in the united states i did work on elevators for about 20 years oh and that situation could have cut somebody in half or taken somebody's head off this person who was videoing this was very very lucky as you can see the elevator is not going to stop so when i make safety recommendations it's coming from a place of experience okay yeah let me tell you something this is it fucking idiots see this is why i do prefer eastern european culture sometimes to americans because that danger is built into everyday life in eastern europe and you fucking know it and you're like i'm not getting into that elevator yeah like you know i'll tell you something just from the first frame of that elevator i would have said i'm taking the stairs no no kidding yeah but but but he has to make a video to tell idiots not to do it it's like bro just follow your heart no you need larry you need larry to that's that was that's a good tip larry um like listen i mean i don't know i got this coming you got that's his book you got the book situational awareness we don't want to get too deep into this what's the rest of the book situational awareness and safe family travel strategies let me just wet your beak no just give me one little taste this is for vehicle safety and situational awareness on the road this is just the opening quote are you ready remember cars are coffins when they aren't moving that's just the beginning that's a 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and you're not comes out on cnn on january 1st new year's day and with us now in the new year's day we're going to be talking about the new year's day is the one and only chevy chase everybody how do you do thank you very much i appreciate that this is so exciting for us um like a lot of people we you know we've worked in comedy now for a while but our whole thing is like you know the foundation of why you fall in love with comedy is i think when you're a kid when you're a kid you know you're watching movies you're watching tv and you are a huge reason why we fell in love oh well sure adri man it's you're just thanks a lot goodbye now no i get it i get we i mean like there's so many i mean you you've done so many i was thinking today because i was i was looking at like you know you're doing so many amazing movies and i was thinking like what's the one that first got me and i think for me the thing that i first saw you in some of them some movies you watch you know out of order was three amigos three amigos for me that's my favorite is that really your favorite well yeah two of my best friends yeah and uh martin short and steve martin marty and steve um and uh yeah i mean i well yeah that i think that is my favorite even fletch doesn't doesn't quite come up we were talking about three amigos i love fletch too sure but three amigos i was wondering like when you guys silly it's so silly it is so silly that's the whole point and was it i mean you just said that these are two of your good friends yeah but is it a i mean you know comedians are and comedy actors always trying to like get the you know the last line in the funniest thing was it easy to navigate like it was easy for me easy for you to navigate those two yeah yeah sure was it but would you guys have to like was there improv a lot in that because it feels like it there was there is a lot i i improvised a lot of my movies so yeah i i think it's important in comedy that people are free to say what they if they're good if they're good yeah it's important to do that and you walked you worked a lot with john landis i'm afraid so yes you're afraid but would he twice it's not a lot that's not a lot but did he uh was he somebody who encouraged that kind of thing i don't remember no no it could be john landis i think so yeah well it's not like john was a comedic genius no uh he was just john landis he hit he knew where the cameras should be and he knew what to do and let you guys take it from there sure yeah yeah but was working with your buddies that was like a thrill that was fun of course yeah yeah that's and most of the things i do are i have buddies more or less yeah working with me sure yeah now i heard the the thing you did in vacation where you would go russ that was an improvised thing that's me yeah yeah i've been doing that since the very very first one bruce oh there you are he's always right next to me when i go i love that yeah so i'd start setting it up for the other movies you know get them over here Russ! Oh, there you are. Yeah, yeah. So silly. Different Russes. Yeah, you're not afraid to be silly, and you're not afraid to be physical. Well, I think all comedy is physical, frankly. Really? Yeah. And, you know, I mean, from the lifting of an eyebrow to, you know, biting the lip to smiling to pratfall. Yes. All these things are physical. Yeah. So it has to do with a certain amount of athleticism and timing, and that's kind of how comedy comes about. And, you know, you have to be open to improvisation, and that's my favorite, of course. Is improv-ing and doing physical stuff. Yeah, yeah, sure, sure. Yeah. I haven't obviously seen the docs as it comes out January 1st on CNN, but in the trailer, there is this moment that I wanted to ask you about, because I don't know if it's like, sometimes they cut trailers and it's a manipulation of what was said, but in the trailer, it says that you regretted, it was a mistake to leave SNL. That's in the trailer of the doc. That's such horseshit. Okay, that's what I was just saying. No, it isn't. Okay. Oh, it isn't horseshit. No, it isn't. It wasn't. Well, in retrospect, I've always felt that it was too soon. Really? Yeah. I mean, when I left, it had to do with a girl and wanting to marry her and all this stuff, and she wanted me to be in LA and, you know, just junk. Yeah. So, I mean, we were married for about eight months. Oh. And that was about it. Okay. So, in that sense, yeah. But, I mean, obviously, it worked out for you, like, leaving. Well, it did, but I still miss it. Really? Yeah. I watch it here and there, not all the time, but I missed being that guy who said live from New York and, you know, just- The live aspect, too, right? Of course. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Do you have any SNL performers that you enjoy watching over the last, you know, however, 20, 30 years? Absolutely not. No. Screw them. Let me think. An old name song. I don't even know, man. I mean- You see? Yeah, you're right. Chevy Chase. That was the last one. Well, here's- Oh, Kate McKinnon. Kate McKinnon, yeah. She's great. She's great. She was good. Kenan, he's great. Kenan who? Thompson. Oh, Kenan. Yeah, he's good. Yeah. He's been there a while. Yeah. Yeah, he's okay. Okay. I mean, I don't know. It's hard to- No, you're right. I don't know how to answer. They're wonderful. Every one of them. Okay, there you go. There's the good answer. Would you tell me a little bit about Gilda Radner? No. I grew up watching you guys as a very young girl. You did not. You're too young for that. You're so sweet. You were my first crush on TV, and I was like, I'm going to marry Chevy Chase when I grow up. Oh, my God. I'm going to just- I mean, look at- I know. Loved. Handsome, charming, funny guy. You know, Gilda was magic, in my opinion. She just- Her personality seemed to be- To me, an improv in itself. She just was ready. And a lovely girl. I spent a lot of time with Gilda. I think Danny actually went with her for a while. No. Yeah. Well, everybody banged her. I mean- Really? No, that's not true. Oh, that's so cool. No, that's outrageous. Did you guys all bang on SNL? Tell me. You can say now. On SNL? Yeah, like the cast. Did you guys hook up? Hook up? Yeah. You mean bang on the cast? What the hell is happening to you? I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. She's got a filthy beard. I said I was kidding, but look at her. I know. She's already- Her hair's standing on end. It's all she thinks about, man. It's ridiculous. Well, you guys were young and carefree, and it was fun. Yeah, there's a difference between young and carefree and banging everybody all over the set. Thank you for pointing that out. You're welcome. Jesus, Christina. Oh, look at this. Get it together. Jesus. What a face on you, too. Christina, really, I tell you. But you're so- You know what? I really- Handsome. You're so handsome. Yes. Thank you. I will say that. I appreciate that. But you also masterfully play these kind of- Masturbate. Masturbating characters. Yeah. You're also kind of like a lovable jerk in a lot of the roles you play. That's so full of you. Which is so hard to do. Well, Clark Griswold is the jerk. Yes. And he's a character I play, so I think you're right. Yeah. But in real life, I'm not lovable. No. I'm just a jerk. Well, thank you very much. I don't buy that. That was great. I don't buy that. That was great. No, I loved it. But wait, the other one, because you worked with Dan, obviously, Spies Like Us. Oh, I love that one. That was another one. Oh, my God. That movie. I just watched it again. I love Danny. I mean, he's the greatest. He is great. Yeah. Even to now, well, now he lives in Canada. I don't know what he's escaping, but he's like Randy. Yeah. Right there in Canada. Yeah. If we go backwards. They're dead. Right. I don't know, but I don't believe that for a second. They just live. But that movie is so fucking funny. If it's you. Well, he's the best. I mean, it's nice of you to include me in a sense, because I just think he's so wonderful. Dan. And such a lovable person. Yeah. Great guy. Yeah. And my God, the chemistry of you guys in this movie is just fantastic. If you have not seen Spies Like Us, it is. It is such a comedy classic. That's what I wanted to ask you, because you really, in a big way, laid the foundation for comedy movies that studios made that were huge hits and people loved. Do you have an actual impression, a thought, on why we don't see great studio comedies really released anymore? Well, I don't know why you don't. I don't. And frankly, that's insulting of you. Really? No. Oh. I understand what you're saying, but you're asking the guy who loves doing it and misses it. So I don't want to put anybody down. I mean, there are good people on. For me, it's make me laugh. Make me laugh. Yeah. And I'm not an easy laugher. So it doesn't mean that if you don't make me laugh, you stink. It's just that. You're a tough laugh. It's got to be a surprise, for one thing. Yes. Out of nowhere. Yeah. To get me. Otherwise, I can sort of expect it. And I know just about everything, every trick in the book. Sure. You know? Yeah. And I don't mean to be overly confident about these things, but it's just a fact that I've been around a long time. I'm 82 now. Amazing. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I feel like there is a thing where. I mean, it's almost like it's your answer, is that you guys were putting out really funny movies. And then something happened in the last, I feel like in the last 15 years, where studio comedies. That's about right. I don't think I've made a movie in 15 years. That's right. That's when it stopped and you stopped. And then. I don't know. They're not putting out funny stuff, though. Like, they really aren't. There's not a lot of funny movies that come out. Well, that's an opinion, of course, on your part. And I know what you're saying. I don't watch a lot, so I can't be totally honest about that. I haven't been to a number of movies that have come out. Yeah. When I do turn on the TV and I do see part of Weekend Update or something like that, I laugh. Yeah. But it's really the writing that matters to me. And when I was first hired, it was as a head writer, not as an actor. Lauren didn't want me to act, for that matter. Just right. Yeah, he just wanted me to write. And out of circumstance and tryouts and stuff that everybody had on that show, somehow Lauren picked me, too. But basically, I wanted to act. Yeah. I had just been writing for the Smothers Brothers show, which was a pretty good TV show on television. Yeah. And I'm glad I said TV show on television. So you can tell that I'm 82. But, yeah. You know, I was just starting a little acting on that show. And then Lauren and I met in a line for a midnight showing of Monty Python's Holy Grail, which, of course, they're the greatest of all. Yeah, great. And anything they do, I love, particularly with Eric and John. And I think I met with Lauren. I met with Lauren the next day at a hotel, the Chateau Marmont in L.A., where Lauren was staying. We didn't really know each other yet, but we spent the whole day together laughing. And he was telling me about this show that he wanted to start called Saturday Night Live. That's unreal. And we went on from there. Wow. Started picking the cast and putting it together. Yeah. I will say, Michael Che and Howard. I must say that Lauren. was the major operator there in picking the cows. ass and all of those yeah you know i was with them that's that's all i care about yeah yeah i love them yeah of course um but we can update again which you start like the guys today i'm saying colin and michael che that i see on there all the time super funny guys they're really yeah i think they're funny yeah um i always see this not that funny okay yeah they're funny enough yeah funny and decently funny yeah fairly funny they're i'm always fascinated by roles that people maybe turn down are there any roles that you turn down that you're like damn i shouldn't have turned that down well none that i say damn i shouldn't have turned that down but yeah but there have been some that have been very successful like forrest gump for example really yeah no shit that was written for me what come on yeah that's but i just didn't think i was the guy who goes my mother once said you know that's i think you're right feels right for tom you're right you're too smart like you're too i'm too smart clever no you are but tommy isn't yeah no he's he's some shit life is like a box good good good that is hilarious to picture you yes okay can i guess another improv that i've yeah suspected can you if you could confirm or deny in fletch john cock toast on you know what i was just watching the the playback of that recently and it's funny because everybody thinks i said john cock toastin yeah or cock toastin yeah but if you listen carefully it's just john tot toast toy john cock toast toy t-o-y yeah my whole life i've heard john john cock john john john cock toast toy like that isn't that funny just blew my mind because i've seen that movie a million times well thank you for blowing mine yeah dude yeah yeah man john john oh and then you have to i doctor doctor doctor doctor doctor doctor doctor had nothing to do with that it just came up i'm just standing there watching them all do it and i thought it was pretty funny yeah doctor doctor doctor doctor but you know it's easy i also thought watching that in spies like us because they get these super hot like russian chicks of course that i was like oh that one i was like those super hot russian chicks there's just one oh is there one is there one there's a blonde one that was beautiful oh i thought there was two i forgot the blonde one is jenny's wife right that's right i remember there's not two girls in it there is but she's a little she's not attractive that one on the right she's not attractive she's not attractive she's not attractive right she's like the jokey one it's a russian one oh okay yeah yeah i was like oh god what was her name vanessa um angel vanessa angel that's right yeah yeah but at that age i was like oh so like funny guys get hot chicks i know yeah i was too how come i'm not that guy how come danny got her and they had a tent that's cool yeah yeah i ended up with danny's wife i couldn't do a thing yeah it sucks man sometimes it just goes that way she's lovely though they're all great people that's amazing can i ask you um so directors though is there any director that you look back on and you go this guy there's something about how he directs a comedy that stands out to you that you enjoyed or like helps that i worked with yeah i think jeremiah chetchik who whose name doesn't seem to hit you really quickly but uh he he directed uh a fletch i believe yeah among other things so but yeah he he was great you know it's it's it's just people who sort of know what you can do excuse me and put you in uh fuck it yeah oh i'm sorry yeah it's like he bought a car along here yeah he's totally this is perfect um beverly d'angelo beverly she doesn't direct no no no but she no no come on i saw i memorized your vacation yeah very funny girl fantastic amy heckerling directed that one right your pain vacation yes i think you're right yeah amy heckerling she was terrific yeah did a good job yeah because that movie seemed like a really high budget comedy i remember being like they went to so many it may well have been i i don't know i mean the issue with uh with directing is put them where where the lighting's right put them where you've you've blocked it and let them do their thing and amy was that type of director but so was uh michael and uh um i just forgot michael's last name um segura yeah segura yeah yeah he was fantastic doesn't matter oh yeah because eric idol was in european vacation he sure was yeah eric i love eric you hit him with your car a few times yeah i think you're you're sort of on there yeah right yes hit him with my car a few times yeah yeah yeah well i didn't know what lane to drive in so what the hell what's the best no no i'm all right really it's just a pleasure yeah okay big ben parliament was that an improv improvisation just improv i just uh yeah because we couldn't get out of we couldn't get left as i remember i literally couldn't get left so we were in that situation literally because you could we couldn't direct traffic there to make the movie that was the traffic and i really was caught in that situation look kids big ben parliament yeah by the end it was just uh nuts yeah yeah yeah we watched we've watched these so many times i know all the big i mean that's very nice of you thank you no i mean like yeah it's like um yeah it's to me it's the same watching you in these movies growing up especially is i look at it the same way as like i looked at like sports heroes you know what i mean like like i'm serious i really did because like it's no because like you know i would watch michael jordan and bo jackson you're like oh my god look at these guys and that's you're the same thing to me yeah michael and i are about the same yeah you guys are the same like jordan and me i think so i like to call him mikey mikey mikey jordan mikey i'm sure he would take that from you you're chevy chase say whatever the fuck you want i know you know what he was a little bit like that really with me uh yeah of course he admired you yeah it was strange really of course how could you admire me and not be amazed that it's michael jordan i'd you know so is that those things i love if you've obviously met like so many holy shit level very famous people yeah somebody like that stand out to you as like well a president for instance stands out yeah bill clinton and i got very close really um but um gerald ford for instance oh yeah what a lovely experience that was actually i was just raking him over the course every every week and and loving it because i'm a democrat he was a republican basically that was the deal uh and um but he was so sweet and invited me to the white house and to stay overnight in the lincoln bedroom and all of that no way yeah i mean that you meet some pretty terrific people in this business and and he was what one i mean he was a terrible president so there's no yeah as far as i'm concerned but otherwise otherwise everything yeah you you really yeah you really went hard on him i lambasted him that's good how was that what was it like though staying at the white is that like a pretty crazy experience yeah we've done that yeah uh it's it's a it's a big white house yeah i don't know why all these huge rooms yeah yeah yeah how about that knocking down the half of the white house to build a ballroom for for yeah it's bizarre wait but why the sleepover why why do you think they wanted you to do the sleepover at the white house well they all like to sleep with me i don't know what i knew it i knew it i knew it i knew it why the slumber party i think it's a big deal to anybody going there yeah yeah that uh to wake up in the morning in the lincoln bedroom yeah it was uh you know bacon yeah did you have a butler and stuff like did they bring you i bring my own butler yeah that's smart you know efficient yeah now you you spent the night there when gerald ford was in office and then in the morning did you guys like see each other in your jammies like in the hallway no but we did i did see him and uh uh he almost fell over once and i had to save his life it was very funny really yeah he had to give i'll be just secretary i have to do this thing at his his little uh what do you call it podium whatever and um uh and he started falling and i had it was just and grabbed him to help. Nothing like he was unable to do. He's just one of those people who fell down airplane steps. Yeah. And what a great person to have as president. Yeah. Don't you wish Trump would fall down a few? Jeez. It's coming. Yeah, it's coming. He'll never come up to good old Jerry. Yeah. No, I think he's going to fall pretty soon. Some kind of way. Some kind of way. We don't know. Yeah. Yeah. I don't think it's going to end well. No. Okay, guys. I don't want to be a part of that. Do you have any stories, because I have to ask, about Carlin or Pryor? Who? George Carlin, Richard Pryor. Well, Richard, obviously. Yeah. George was. Our first, I think, was he our first? First ever, yeah. Yeah. Host of the show. I thought he was funny, but nobody could touch Richard Pryor. I mean, he was the best. Yeah. And Richard and I got along famously. We wrote that thing where I said all the bad words. Yeah. Jungle Bunny and things like that. Yeah. The two of us did that. Uh-huh. I wrote it. And he just played it. He played it so well. Yeah. Oh, Faye. You know, he'd say, and then he, didn't he say, what did he say that was the last one? He said, dead honky, honky, honky, honky, dead honky. Dead honky, yeah. That's just beautiful stuff. Yeah. He was so good. Legendary sketch. Yeah, I loved it. Yeah, that's so great, man. Yeah, it was a lot of fun to do that. And to be able to do it with somebody who's, first of all, who's black to begin with and to end with. But in front of a huge national audience and come up with stuff like that and get great accolades for it and stuff, it was great. I imagine, too, that because of the way television has evolved and the fact that you can watch so many different things now, the viewership of the show when you were on there had to have been crazy back in the- A little bit. Right? It had to be. It had to be. Well, it wasn't. The beginning of drugs and pretty, I mean, 1980, 82, in that area. Yeah. But there also wasn't 500 channels. It wasn't just the beginning, no. No, it wasn't. Yeah. But, yeah, it was a time of amazingness. I'm glad I could say that. A time of amazingness. But he's right, because millions of people would watch Saturday Night Live. Sure, yeah. And it's like, I imagine your life went. It's like bananas overnight. No. No? I mean, no, there were situations where I had to have a bodyguard or whatever. But for the most part, there was one situation where I was a little bit taken aback, because I'd go to work and I'd come back like at two in the morning in my apartment, to my apartment building. And I went in around two. And the doorman said, oh, there's a package for you, Mr. Chase. So I saw that there was a package waiting outside the elevator right there in the bottom floor. And I thought, you know what? There have been threats recently. And I just assumed somebody came in and checked it out. Like, how about the bomb squad? That would be good. And the bomb squad came. And the bomb squad came in, and they sort of perused it. And looked at it. And then one of them went up and kicked it. No. And it backed off like this. Jesus. One of them floated. Yeah. You wouldn't see him again. Is that how you guys test bombs? That's what was my thought exactly. Oh, so that's what you do. You just kick it. You just fucking kick it. But yeah, so that was a pretty funny experience. Of course, it ended up being, I had just had a cold. And it ended up being vegetables. Vegetable soup for me. Yeah. From some fan. Vegetable soup. Thanks for mailing that, bro. Yeah, thanks a lot. That's really cool. Yeah. I don't know if it was just dropped off or what. Thought Chevy Moore was some soup. The doorman didn't know. What an insane thing to drop off. Would you eat soup just left by a stranger? Hell no. No. I wouldn't eat any. No, no. I don't eat anything people give me. No. Yes, you do. Anyway. Did you ever get a really good gift from a fan? You ever gotten anything really good from a fan? Really cool that you like from a fan? From a fan? Yeah. You know, cold, hard cash. Yeah, cash. I don't know. No. I'm trying to think. How about when you- Pajamas. Nice. No, we sold the pajamas. That's not true. Oh, that's okay. I was like, that's a nice pair of pajamas. That's the one thing that I did take. You know, they take props, stars. Yeah. Every star takes a prop from this film. You take PJs? Yeah. So I took the dinosaur pajamas from the vacation. Oh, that's awesome. Oh, hell yeah. Yeah, we still have those. What is, when you first became, oh, that's awesome. Yeah. When you first became successful, like, you're like, okay, I've made it. What is the dumbest shit you've bought? Have you ever bought something really stupid? The dumbest shit, what? That you've bought. That I bought? Yeah. You know, you got money all of a sudden. Did you buy anything ridiculous? I can't remember, honestly. There was that Dodd Charger. No, I just made it up. Like a wolf coat or something? A wolf coat. Something stupid. How do you know? He loves wolf jackets. Can they even do that? Do you like wolf trinkets? I love them. Do they do that? They're my favorite. I should have gotten a wolf coat before I brought it in. I can't remember. It's been a long time, though. Yeah. Like 50 years. Jesus. That's a long time to me. So wait, was the Smothers Brothers your first, first writing gig? No. What was your first? Well, I wrote for PBS. I wrote for the something time machine on PBS or Channel 13 in New York. The Great American Dream Machine, it was called, that show. I wrote for a few smaller issues, and it just builds up over, you know, they get, you get a name for your writing a little bit, which is nice. Yeah. Of course, that's what I cared about. Yeah. Funny Farm. I love Funny Farm. Lamb Fries. Lamb Fries. Lamb Fries. I didn't write Lamb Fries, but I love it. The idea of it, yeah. Funny Farm was a great one. Yeah. That was a great one. Sheep testicles. Yes. Oh, Jesus. I think that even learning that, I thought, was such a funny, like I've never heard anything like that, you know? No, neither. Neither did I, or that a guy would eat them without knowing. I would. Yeah, sheep testicles. Well, if they're cooked. Yeah. Yeah. You know, properly cooked. They're fine. Properly cooked, they're fine. Yeah. Your face, too, when you eat that last one, and like you're so proud of yourself. It's so good. You know, I ended up doing a lot in my movies. Yeah. I was just noticing that the way they play now, where I'm spinning out the, oh God, the dog peed all over the, everybody's in. Oh, the sandwiches. Yeah. Vacation. In the sandwich, yeah, vacation. Yeah. Oh, my God. My favorite one is when you go, real tomato ketchup, Eddie? Oh, yeah, yeah. Real tomato ketchup, Eddie? Yeah. Nothing but the best, Clark. Yeah. He just did that for me. I love that character. Yeah, he's the best. He's the best. Cousin Eddie? That character's amazing. Yeah. He's got a lip fungus, hasn't been identified yet. Yeah. And when he gives them this. The shoes? Better not, Clark. Well, that just sort of started with the first movie, and then it just went on for every time we've had something, it'd be. That's so, oh, yeah, and then he gives you those shoes. The shoes, I saw the way you were looking at mine. What was that one? When he gives you his shitty shoes, and then you're like, thanks. He's like, I saw the way you were looking at mine. Like, you were admiring them. Oh, yeah. The way you were admiring my shoes. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. That's so silly. Oh, I'm sorry. I had a little bit of a cold. Oh, it's all good. Yeah, me too. It's such a, thank you. I hope I get it. Fighting years for like three weeks. I know. I have the flu. I got over it. You have HIV. Oh, thanks a lot for talking to me. You got it. It's gone. I had it too. It's gone. You did, yeah. How did the documentary come about? When did this start becoming a thing that you were going to do, the doc that comes out? January 1st, I'm sure, Jason, you're not. Well, it was CNN that came up with it. They came up with it. Yeah. Yeah. And it's just like a whole recap of your- I don't really know how to describe it. It does recap a lot from the beginning to now of things that I did. I haven't really looked at it carefully, but it's good. Yeah. Yeah. one should watch it if one cares yeah i mean i'm gonna watch it of course you care yeah of course i care yes um can i ask you so for the um in the because when you make movies where are you looking when you're talking to me i looked at the screen to see something i looked at that screen for a second i have looked at you okay okay okay i have looked at you i just glided over he does the same thing to me oh that's very disrespectful you have a camera coming from there don't you i just looked and then i looked over here okay so when you are making these movies do you ever have the thing i imagine that when you're making them you don't know how this is going to turn out how's this going to go so was any of the hits ever a huge surprise to you were you ever like well we made one you know i hope it's good was it ever a surprise well there haven't been many hits that i've made in my life but i've made a lot of movies that i've made in my life and i've made a lot of movies that i've made in my life and i've made a lot of movies that i've made in my life and i've made a lot of movies that i've made in my life and i've made a lot of movies that i've made so they're all a surprise any one of them i'll take it okay but uh and that's the real answer i mean um of course i'm surprised uh you know the the christmas vacation one that we uh go around and and show and then i appear and talk um that one just seems to have lasted over 39 years i think it's incredible yeah so people like that and i like it too yeah it's a good movie juliet lewis is in it yeah juliet's the best love she was my favorite uh audrey yes oh yeah i mean nothing against the other audrey's but juliet just has that yeah you know that look of just sure thing the whole way through excellent acting excellent and then uh my favorite uh my favorite rusty was really anthony michael hall from the first one yeah because he was nine years old and it just all fit good yeah yeah incredible casting yeah yeah it's good good stuff yeah really good stuff god damn it really good christy brinkley christy good that there's good casting yeah bam i mean because she's beautiful good friend of mine and janie's and uh she's such a sweet normal girl that hardly get a sense that she was one of the supermodels of all time but um she was that that scene in the car oh my god it's so great i know yeah she's you like feeling yourself and then having to like look over oh yeah it's so well done yeah yeah it's so well done yeah can i talk one more scene with you from european vacation yeah sure when you take your wife out for french culture what's up guys are in the bar and you're like watching the strippers and you're doing this what am i doing you're dancing you're doing this you're dancing as you watch them and then rusty i don't remember there with a hooker no really rusty's behind you and he's with a hooker yeah oh okay i think i sort of remember she goes look over there over there you're like what just a kid with a hooker and then it's rusty it's just a kid with a hooker yeah so good i don't remember that yeah you're dancing i'll never forget here what's my what's my take when i see rusty you mean well at first you're doing a big take or no yeah yeah yeah because you're gonna go you go over there and you kill him you know yeah yeah well thanks for giving it away you got it also want to promote that um you have one date left as of the premiere of of this episode an evening with chevy chase uh you're the tour that you've been on the last date is the last date of the premiere of the premiere of the premiere of the is December 29th in Richmond, Virginia. You can buy tickets at OfficialChebbyChase.com. I just want to remind people of that. Thank you. In the Richmond, Virginia area. That's true, that's true. Go to the show. December 29th. December 29th, yeah. Are you going to come to the show? I would love to come to the show. Well, you're both invited if you have the time or chance. Oh, yeah, that's a concert hall. Of course, you'll have great seats. Oh, my God, that'd be awesome. Thank you so much. No problem. Love that. And then, of course, a reminder to everybody that on January 1st, you can watch I'm Chevy Chase and You're Not, the new documentary that is on CNN that recaps the whole story of like- My life. Yeah, your life. And incredible. The trailer's amazing. I can't wait to see it. It's going to recap how you, I assume, got into show business and this 50-year career, which is incredible. Yeah. It's amazing, man. It's amazing. Thank you. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. Thanks for making all those movies. It's great to meet both of you. It's so nice to meet you, too. You've been so flattering. I'm not going to live it down. No. I mean, you really, like, we fell in love with comedy, and you're a big reason why, man, for real. That's very nice. Very nice. Thank you. I appreciate it. Thank you for coming in today. You're the best. We appreciate you very much. You're both very welcome. Thanks for having me. We'll see you guys next week. Thank you. Bye, Mommy. Bye, Mommy. Bye, Mommy. Bye, Mommy. Bye, Mommy. Hello? Hey, buddy. Just laying there watching an afternoon TV show. I had a squirter in bed and got on the bedspread. Thought I was farting and it kind of came blasting out, so I got it on the bedspread and I had to watch the bedspread. And it was spotty, you know. It wasn't tons, but it was spotty. Now, just a miscalculation. I'm like. Thank you. Thank you. at ZocDoc, we know you care about your health. You wouldn't do that early morning cardio if you didn't. 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