Wow was this show bad. I actually bought a DVD online of the first episode. It's so great to watch. It's such a disaster. Have you ever seen the film BROADCAST NEWS? This film centers on three people in the news, two of whom are males, one a talented newscaster, another a talented news writer. The news writer wants to be a newscaster (he thinks it'll be easy since it seems so brainless compared to writing the news), and so he tries out, on the air, to read the news, and finds it's a lot harder than he'd realized (and that the newscaster guy, whom he thought was dumb, really had some talent). This news writer is sweating on the air, his lips are thin, his face pale. This is how Chevy looked for the entire six weeks of his show. Like he had no idea what he'd gotten into. A deer caught in headlights, that of a Mack truck, and the truck didn't stop. There's one point on the show where Chevy had Queen Latifah as a guest. As usual with his guests, there was a point of very uncomfortable silence (this show was like watching a bad first date). During this silence, Chevy turned to the actress and said, "So... Queen Latifah", in a tone like he was just passing time before... the show's demise, which happened only weeks after. Oh man was this show bad. Bad and sad. Here's the situation in a nutshell: With the likes of Johnny Carson and David Letterman, who are only famous for interviewing famous people, to be a buffer between the general public and famous people, you MUST at least SEEM interested in their lives. Chevy was just another billionaire, just like his guests, and he could care less of their doings (and vice versa). This shined through. Oh yes, the Chevy Chase Show, one of the worst in television history... and the funnest to watch. I wish I had the entire season on DVD. I'd watch it on a loop, a loop without end.
Review of The Chevy Chase Show
