Chevy Chase Quotes
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I was very involved in political satire, and I'd been writing parody for 'Mad' and 'National Lampoon,' so I made up some strange story about Gerald Ford.
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I think I need to be taken away, dropped in some territory with just a lot of loud guys.
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My father was the funniest guy I ever met. I'm not sure if I stole his stuff or if I inherited it.
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I did comedy and parody television in the '70s. I was a liberal Democrat, and it was a very heady year.
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We never could have performed live for an hour and a half every week if we were doing drugs.
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Yes, I've seen Louis CK. I wouldn't in any way make a degrading remark about Louis CK, but the question is do I think anyone is funny? And the answer is not too many people. He might fit right in there.
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The best comedy I ever did was when people didn't know who I was.
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I come from a much freer kind of performance thing, where I rely on my own improv and my own sense of humor.
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Anybody can reach anywhere from five to 15 million people weekly making a president look like an idiot, as I did back then, or Tina Fey did with Sarah Palin... You're always preaching to the choir one way or the other.
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You could knock my teeth out and break my nose, and there'd be something funny about it to me.
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You can't observe as much if you're observed by others.
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'Weekend Update' can be presented as a full 20-minute sketch, and there's a lot of room there.
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Frank Capra's grandson was a second Assistant Director on 'Christmas Vacation.'
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It will eventually be discovered that the more you sleep, the healthier you are. Which means you'll really be at your healthiest when you pass away.
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Nobody prepares you for what happens when you get famous, and I didn't handle it well.
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For me, what makes you laugh makes you laugh.
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You may have read that I went to M.I.T. In 1982 I filled out a Who's Who survey with joking responses, and they never bothered to check the facts.
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Damn, I had some great moves. I still have them; I'm just not using them at home a lot.
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Television doesn't make stars. It's the written media, the press, that makes stars.
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I'm a New Yorker, and I live in the country.
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It's incredible. Twenty-three minutes on the air, and I've got to shoot for twelve, fifteen hours a day. What the hell's that?
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Anything I have blown a lot of money on? Well, I have three daughters and a wife - that's four women, and I'm working on a sitcom, so you could say that I am just trying to stay alive!
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It's about timing and rhythm. But who could be better than Chaplin or Keaton?
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What's funny is funny. The same thing that made you laugh a hundred years ago makes you laugh now.