Chevy Chase Roast Disaster

Ghost Town: Strange History, True Crime, & the Paranormal

Jason Horton & Rebecca Leib

True Crime, Unknown, Paranormal, Weird History, Social Sciences, History, Science

3.7 • 928 Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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The 2002 Comedy Central Roast of Chevy Chase only aired once, and was a humiliating blow to the guest of honor. Visit the Deadliest Hotel in LA Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ghosttownpod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ghosttownpod Sources: https://bit.ly/3qQ8rzN Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	A fall from Chase. I'm Rebecca Leib. I'm Jason Horton and this is Ghost Town. This actually isn't a roast, it's an intervention.
0:13.0	We are.
0:19.0	This actually isn't a roast, Chevy.
0:22.0	It's an intervention.
0:24.8	We are all here. We want you to stop making movies, television, anything.
0:29.9	Please stop.
0:30.8	In September 2002, the comedy central roast of Chevy Chase was only aired once.
0:39.0	That's a good thing, right?
0:41.0	It's not very common for a comedy roast to only be aired once.
0:48.8	I've gone to a comedy, I went to one comedy central roast.
0:52.0	The roast of James Franco. Oh yeah, I think. to one comedy central roast. Yeah.
0:52.6	The roast of James Franco.
0:53.6	Oh yeah, I think you mentioned that.
0:55.6	Yeah, it was really good and a lot of really great people there.
0:57.8	A lot of his friends and peers and respected people in the industry it was a real who's who.
1:06.0	And if you've never watched a roast or a comedy central roast or
1:10.5	those friars roasts it's meant to be celebrating somebody, but you really
1:16.8	stick it to them.
1:17.8	It's supposed to be mean spirit or you're getting roasted.
1:19.6	If a roast is so mean that it's agreed that they're only going to air at once.
1:28.0	That's pretty bad.
1:30.0	Yeah.
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