Chevy Chase Rant in Context

Chevy Chase is on the frying pan for blowing off steam on the set of the NBC show “Community” Friday. Chase was reportedly angry at the direction his bigoted character, Pierce Hawthorne, was taking and angrily ranted that the next thing he would be asked to do is call Donald Glover’s character Troy or Yvette Nicole Brown’s character Shirley the “N-word.”

The 69-year-old actor has now apologized for using the word, clarifying that his frustrations were not directed at any of his cast members. Not that we think that needed clarifying, but evidently Chase did.

It’s a little ironic actually because Chase played a bigot based on the Mel Gibson incident in the ripped from the headlines Law & Order episode “In Vino Veritas” (2006). In that episode, it was okay for his character, Mitch Carroll, to say “Jew bitch” and to call Milena Govich’s character, Nina Cassady, “sugar tits” on TV, nevermind in a rant with a director.