I don't really know how to start shows.

Come on now, don't start liking me now.

So yeah, I'm funny compared to you.

Well, you'll see later.

I favor me.

I know a lot of fucking idiots.

You think a lot of shit is mean-spirited, just because it goes against what they believe.

But the relief of comedy is it take things that aren't funny,

and it allows us to laugh about them for an hour.

We got a purple suit to buy in a gigantic coffin.

Why are you laughing?

The evening, everybody.

Welcome to another episode of Why Are You Laughing, a history of comedy podcast coming to you live from the vaulted podcast studios.

And today, I am pleased to introduce to you Chevy Chase, one of the greatest cremudgeons that perhaps we've covered on this show.

A very interesting guy.

And like me and Matt were just talking before we hit record.

Maybe one of the most famous guys, certainly comedic actors, through the

70s and 80s, but also a guy that like our generation doesn't know as well.

Like I know him from community is what I mostly know.

And I've seen the vacation movies and stuff like that.

But I didn't know of him as the star that he was until eventually it

was told to me, you know? Like, I never thought of him as that guy because over the years he's

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