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WHO'S HOT & WHO'S NOT!
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Posted on 12/31/2004 8:06:16 AM PST by Apolitical

1. CHEVY CHASE



Have you heard the one about the garbage-mouthed left-wing comedian who hosted a fancy mid-December awards ceremony in Washington and managed to gross out even the Hollywood liberal socialites in the audience with a string of hysterical anti-Bush obscenities?

The distinguished speaker was Cornelius Crane "Chevy" Chase, the distinguished venue was the toney Kennedy Center on the banks of the Potomac, and the distinguished audience consisted largely of well-dressed members and supporters of "People for the American Way" -- a grotesquely misnamed leftist advocacy group that had engaged the 61-year-old washed-up comic to host its annual fundraiser celebrating Hollywood political activism.

All was going according to script as the evening moved along and participants streamed to the stage to congratulate one another for their "enlightened" (and identical) political views. The organization's founder, Norman Lear, presented its "Defender of Democracy" citation to Alec Baldwin, and Ted Kennedy bestowed the same award upon Susan Sarandon. It was a festive night, but all managed to maintain their dignity as leading lights of the liberal establishment.

And then Chase stepped up to the microphone and unleashed his out-of-control rant, calling the President of the United States, among other things, a "dumb f---" and an "uneducated, real lying schmuck." The tirade was so savage, so obscene, and so personal that it shocked even the uniformly left-wing crowd and dampened the proceedings for the rest of the evening. The next speaker, Senator Tom Daschle, appeared stunned as he took the stage and admitted that it was a tough act to follow.

The outburst especially did not go down well with the assembled movers and shakers of the film industry -- including Lear, who immediately disavowed Chase's remarks. And it certainly didn't do anything to enhance the has-been comedian's employment prospects, which have long been in the toilet, right down there with his unshuttable potty mouth.

Chevy Chase is an angry man -- no longer very funny and practically unemployable -- but he can't blame the President for the collapse of his career or the fact that his best role in recent years has been as the voice of a talking canine in a movie called "The Karate Dog."

Perhaps that's where the loud-mouthed comedian learned to drink from the toilet and found that he liked it.....



TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bardcollege; bushwood; caddyshack; chase; chevy; chevychase; comedian; comedy; kerrydefeat; vacation
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Chevy was a baaad boy. Not to worry. His career is self-destructing faster than the U.S. greenback.
1 posted on 12/31/2004 8:06:17 AM PST by Apolitical
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I thought he fit right in with the rest of the crowd. They differ from him only in their reluctance to express their thoughts.


2 posted on 12/31/2004 8:11:05 AM PST by ReadyNow
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Not only did I never like this guy, I never thought he was funny, EVER!

I really, really dislike this guy. Always did. Got it?


3 posted on 12/31/2004 8:11:56 AM PST by garyhope
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WHO'S HOT & WHO'S NOT!

I'm Hot. I just had to turn up the air conditioner.

4 posted on 12/31/2004 8:14:33 AM PST by benice
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It's the libs who aren't the IN crowd. Bush is IN the WH.


5 posted on 12/31/2004 8:15:19 AM PST by mtbopfuyn
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To: Apolitical

Check the IMDB and you find that Chase's career is now nothing but direct to video B & C movies, he truly is a has been and is washed up.


6 posted on 12/31/2004 8:17:14 AM PST by Captain Peter Blood
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To: Apolitical

Republicans are in most Democrats are out.


7 posted on 12/31/2004 8:18:03 AM PST by handy old one
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sittin' in Whoopie's lap, is he?

I did like him when he was radioactive. What was the name of the movie?


8 posted on 12/31/2004 8:18:37 AM PST by peacebaby (smoked and inhaled)
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He falls down real funny. Maybe he should go back to that . . . and shut up.


9 posted on 12/31/2004 8:19:41 AM PST by savedbygrace ("No Monday morning quarterback has never led a team to victory" GW Bush)
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"...grotesquely misnamed."


10 posted on 12/31/2004 8:22:35 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks
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"dumb f---" and an "uneducated, real lying schmuck."

Sounds more like Chevy Chase was describing himself. He and his Hollyweird crowd need to buy their tickets and move to a place more accommodating to their viewpoints...perhaps a Middle East country?
11 posted on 12/31/2004 8:24:05 AM PST by Ginifer
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I thought he was FANTASTIC in Ghost Busters...Oh he wasn't in that. He was funny in the Nutty Professor...oops not in that ether! His late night talk show is pretty good, oh yeh that was canceled almost as soon as it started.
12 posted on 12/31/2004 8:24:52 AM PST by sierrahome
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...calling the President of the United States, among other things, a "dumb f---" and an "uneducated...

Hmmm... Dubya graduated from Yale and Harvard business school while Chevy was expelled from Haverford College and then went to Bard College. Well, I guess that almost makes the Bard boy a Haverford man.

Have another drink Chevy.

13 posted on 12/31/2004 8:41:56 AM PST by Jeff F
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The Invisible Man! Great flick.

It's like the "shut up and sing" idea, the value of the product is different then the politics of the maker.

Three Amigos was great too IMHO.


14 posted on 12/31/2004 8:43:03 AM PST by expat_panama
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To: garyhope

I never liked him either. Way overrated.


15 posted on 12/31/2004 8:44:48 AM PST by driftless ( For life-long happiness, learn how to play the accordion.)
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It is interesting to note that our former South Dakota Senator Tommy Daschle was a keynote speaker for this liberal cabal. Why for years he told us he was just plain folks like us poor rubes out in the sticks and annually traded his silk suit and Gucci loafers for jeans and sneakers while he went out among the sweating masses trolling for votes.

I'm saddened...deeply saddened that he hasn't moved back to South Dakota and gone back to selling insurance out of the basement of his Mother's house in Aberdeen.

16 posted on 12/31/2004 8:45:59 AM PST by The Great RJ
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His real name is Cornelius Crane Chase? I wonder if he's related to some old family friends of mine. I'll have to ask next summer.

My uncle was a good friend of Clinton Crane, the yacht designer. They shared an interest in boats. I think Cornelius was one of the given names in the Crane family.

http://www.lesliefield.com/other_history/clinton_cranes_yachting_memories.htm

I despise rich people from old families who turn into limousine liberals. It's so common.


17 posted on 12/31/2004 8:46:20 AM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Ginifer
Sounds more like Chevy Chase was describing himself.

Unlike many Hollywood Jerks, Chase actually graduated from a quasi-prestigious liberal arts college -- Bard College, in upstate NY.

18 posted on 12/31/2004 8:46:32 AM PST by Labyrinthos
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I never thought he was funny

How about annoying? Kind of a drunk clown.

19 posted on 12/31/2004 8:47:29 AM PST by RightWhale (No dead animals)
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chase - attended Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, NY.

President BUSH -received a bachelor's degree from Yale University in 1968, received a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School in 1975 yet this clown has the gall to call The President dumb.

20 posted on 12/31/2004 8:49:33 AM PST by LoneSome Journey
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