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

Chevy Chase Roast Disaster

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

Ghost Town

Social Sciences, History, True Crime, Science

3.7938 Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

The 2002 Comedy Central Roast of Chevy Chase only aired once, and was a humiliating blow to the guest of honor.

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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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