Joel McHale (left) and Chevy Chase, who costarred on ‘Community’.Photo:Jon Kopaloff/Getty; ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty
Jon Kopaloff/Getty; ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty
Joel McHaleis brushing offChevy Chase’s recent digs about their former comedy seriesCommunity.
“He stopped hurting my feelings in 2009,” McHale, 51, who starred on the NBC and Yahoo! Screen series for six seasons from 2009 to 2015, quips to PEOPLE.
“I honestly felt the show wasn’t funny enough for me, ultimately. I felt a little bit constrained,” Chase told Maron during the interview. “Everybody had their bits, and I thought they were all good. It just wasn’t hard-hitting enough for me.”
Joel McHale and Chevy Chase on the first season of ‘Community’.Mitchell Haaseth/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank
Mitchell Haaseth/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank
“I wrote about this in my book, but I was like, ‘Hey, the feeling’s mutual, bud,’ continues McHale.
Indeed, in his 2016 memoirThanks for the Money: How to Use My Life Story to Become the Best Joel McHale You Can Be, McHale recalled the tension between the two and the often-uncomfortable things Chase allegedly said on set, including racist terms and jokes about sexual assault.
McHale has also spoken several times about an on-set altercation he allegedly had with Chase, during which he accidentally dislocated Chase’s shoulder.
Nevertheless, McHale went on to portray Chase in the 2018 movieA Futile and Stupid Gesture, a biopic aboutNational Lampoonfounder Doug Kenney, who was a friend of Chase’s.
ACommunityspinoff movie is in the works, but McHale recently revealed onKelly Ripa’s podcastLet’s Talk Off Camerathat Chase would not be a part of it. (His character, after all, was killed off when Chase left the show.)
“Yeah, I don’t think so,” McHale responded to Ripa when she asked if theNational Lampoon’sVacationstar would be joining Glover, Brie and other returning stars. “There weren’t any issues at all when we were making the show,” he said sarcastically.
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McHale, who hosts the new E! reality competitionHouse of Villains, also voices Johnny Cage in the upcoming movieMortal Kombat Legends: Cage Match, available on DVD, Blu-ray and digital Oct. 17.
source: people.com
