Chevy Chase Is No Longer an Asshole, According to New Report

These days Chevy Chase is less known for being a comedic actor than he is for being a giant asshole. And for good reason — there are countless stories of the Fletch star being unnecessarily rude, dropping racist and homophobic epithets and even physically attacking people. 

Watching interviews in which his co-stars discuss working with him really makes the case for creating some kind of support group for those who have survived Chase projects. 

But Closer Weekly, the publication that’s also keeping us up to date on the current status of Jon Voight’s “relationship to God,” is now reporting that Chase is no longer a prick — and they say journalism is dead.

This would be a huge scoop if true. We’re talking “Woodward and Bernstein taking Nixon down” levels of shocking. According to Closer Weekly, they spoke with an anonymous source who told them that “a lot of people can fake being nice and then show their true colors, but that’s not the case with Chevy. His nasty spots are gone, and he’s prioritizing other people’s feelings over his own.”

While the magazine stopped short of speculating that Chase may have been visited by three ghosts in the night, they did primarily attribute the change in behavior to his wife and three daughters. “For one thing, he’s a total family man, and his wife and his grown daughters have him wrapped around their fingers,” said the source, who we’re picturing wearing a trench coat and a fedora in a shadowy parking lot.

“Chevy’s always happy to help neighbors — even strangers on the street — and he’ll pick up the tab after lunch with friends. His reputation as a cantankerous brat may precede him, but Chevy chooses to be genuinely kind these days, and people are happy to see the change is here to stay,” said the source who, come to think of it, may just be Chase’s publicist.

A whole other anonymous source told Closer last spring that Chase’s mood improved after he recovered from heart failure: “He can’t afford to get angry and take swipes at people. His blood pressure couldn’t take him carrying on that way.”

If Chase really has mellowed out and become a non-asshole, it would have been quite recently. It was only two years ago that Chase responded to a question about his allegedly abusive behavior on the set of Community by responding: “I don’t give a crap. I am who I am. And I like who I am. I don’t care. And it’s part of me that I don’t care. And I’ve thought about that a lot. And I don’t know what to tell you, man. I just don’t care.”

By the way, this was after the heart failure that supposedly gave Chase a newfound respect for all living creatures.

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