Chevy Chase has been branded ‘insufferable’ after he told an interviewer that she is ‘not bright enough’ to understand him.
In a viral clip from his new documentary, I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not, the 82-year-old Saturday Night Live alum snapped at director Marina Zenovich after she told him that she was trying to figure him out.
I’m Chevy Chase And You’re Not attempts to fix his clouded image by providing a insight into the struggles that prompted his explosive behavior and clashes with his colleagues on-set.
Speaking on camera, Chase responded: ‘No s***, it’s not going to be easy for you.’
‘Why is it not going to be easy?’ Zenovich then asked, prompting Chase to respond, ‘You’re not bright enough. How’s that?’
Social media users were left flabbergasted by Chase’s comments and were quick to call out his behavior online.
Taking to X, formerly known as Twitter, one wrote: ‘I’m sorry but what an insufferable old goat.’
‘Never seen someone easier to figure out,’ another said.
Chevy Chase snapped at a director on camera and told her ‘you’re not bright enough’Â
Chase pictured with Marina Zenovich, the filmmaker whom he snapped at in the viral clip from her documentaryÂ
A third observed: ‘There’s a very profound sadness to this man.’
‘You gotta let this type of misery exist in their own bubble,’ continued a fourth. ‘There’s no reasoning with them.’
Born Cornelius Crane Chase in New York to a concert pianist mother and a magazine editor father, Chase rose to fame as part of the original cast of Saturday Night Live when the show launched in 1975.
He became the first anchor of Weekend Update and won two Emmys in 1976 for writing and performing, but by the mid-eighties he had become a Hollywood outcast.
In a rare show of emotion, Chase said in the documentary that it ‘hurt’ to be excluded from the 50th anniversary special last year and that somebody made a ‘big mistake’ by not letting him on stage.
‘Well, it was kind of upsetting actually,’ he said.
‘This is probably the first time I’m saying it. But I expected that I would’ve been on the stage too with all the other actors. When Garrett [Morris] and Laraine [Newman] went on the stage there, I was curious as to why I didn’t. No one asked me to. Why was I left aside?’
‘Why was Bill Murray there and why was I not?’ Chase scoffed. ‘I don’t have an answer for that.’
Chase voiced his upset over being left out of the SNL 50th Anniversary special last year Â
Elsewhere in the documentary, Chase’s third wife Jayni defended her husband’s explosive behavior and gave insight into the star’s alcohol and cocaine addiction.
Speaking in defense of her other half in the documentary, Jayni, who married the actor in 1982, said: ‘If Chevy says something and you’re offended, it’s a little more on you than him.’
Opening up further about her husband’s controversial behavior, Jayni described him as a risk-taker.
She said: ‘You can’t get where he got without being a risk-taker, so dial it back and get a sense of humor.
‘He’s not an a**hole and neither are you.’
Jayni explained that his issues go back to a difficult childhood that left him traumatized.
 Chase’s third wife Jayni Chase defended her husband’s behaviour in the documentaryÂ
She said: ‘The first time we stayed together, the first time I went to wake him up, he shuddered.
‘He explained, “Well, my mother would wake me up slapping me.” From the time he was a little guy: Wham!’
Jayni also said that while she initially didn’t realize how much Chase was struggling with addiction to cocaine and alcohol, she stressed that he isn’t the same man he was 30 years ago.
‘I realized he was getting a six-pack of organic red wine, and after about four days, it was gone.
‘I pointed it out to Chevy, probably five different times, and he would roll it back. And then he didn’t like me pointing it out to him because the beast of addiction starts taking over.’
She added: ‘People grow. No one is the same person they were 30 years ago.’
