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(Entertainment Weekly) -- One thing you may want to know about ''Saturday Night Live'' is that, from copious evidence offered in ''Live From New York,'' a lot of people, no matter which cast of any era, disliked Chevy Chase.
Chase -- the first Not Ready for Prime Time Player to both become a star and leave the show -- was ''resented,'' says Bill Murray, who once got into a fistfight with him when Chase returned to host ''SNL.'' In the mid-'80s, Chevy hosted again; when openly gay cast member Terry Sweeney asked, ''What would you like me to do for you?'' Chase replied, ''Well, you can start by licking my b---s.''
Tim Meadows says, ''He has no qualm about telling you you're an idiot...treating people real bad.'' Will Ferrell, who recently left the show himself, says, ''The worst host was Chevy Chase.... [He'd] scream and yell and you would look at him, and he'd see you were looking at him and he would smile like, 'I'm just joking.' We'd be like, 'No, I don't think you are.'''
''Live From New York'' is an oral history compiled -- with occasional pert interstitial chronology added -- by Tom Shales and James Andrew Miller.
