PROFESSION: ACTOR, DIRECTOR, COMEDIAN & SCREENWRITER

BORN: OCTOBER 8, 1943

OVERVIEW

Birth name Cornelius Crane Chase has spent most of his career working in comedy. His very first works were small comedy gigs here and there, which eventually transitioned to comedy full time in 1973 while working on “The National Lampoon Radio Hour”. He became one of the original members of the show Saturday Night Live.  He gave huge hits such as Caddyshack in 1980, the National Lampoon’s Vacation in 1983, National Lampoon’s European Vacation in 1985, Fletch in 1985 and Amigos in 1986. Eighties was Chevy’s highpoint. Chase’s career took a down turn in the 1990′s where none of the films he starred in did well at the box office. He is quite active in politics when he is not acting. He has campaigned for Bill Clinton and John Kerry during there respective campaigns.

EARLY LIFE

Chevy Chase was born in Lower Manhattan, New York City. Born to a prominent book editor and magazine writer. father and a concert pianist and librettist mother. Chase was named after his grandfather Cornelius. His grandmother gave him the nickname Chevy. When Chase was four years old, his parents divorced. Both of his parents remarried. Chase has claimed in his biography to be abused as a child by his mother and stepfather, John Cederquist. Both his parents died in 2005.

Chase graduated from Stockbridge School in Stockbridge, Massachusettes. He attended the Haverford college. He was popular in college for his slapstick comedy and a weird sense of physical humour.

Chase played drums with his college band ‘The Leather Canary.’ Chase also used to play drums and keyboards for a rock band called ‘Chamaeleon Church’. They recorded an album for MGM Records before they disbanded in 1969. Chase has worked in many odd jobs, before he became famous as a writer, actor and comedian. Some of his odd jobs included working as a cab driver,  motorcycle messenger, audio engineer,  waiter, product manager of a supermarket, fruit picker, truck driver, salesman in a wine store, construction worker, a theater usher and a busboy.

Saturday Night Live

Chase was one of the original cast members of Saturday Night Live, NBC’s late night comedy television show, which started in October 1975. His catchphrase introduction “I’m Chevy Chase… and you’re not” on the ‘Weekend Update’ segment of SNL became well known. He was the original anchor of the show. Chase also produced a late night talk show “The Chevy Chase Show” which was broadcast by Fox Broadcasting Company.

Chevy left the show in 1976, after his contract ended. He was the first member of the original cast to leave Saturday Night Live. He says he left the show because he wanted to be with his girlfriend, Jacqueline Carlin, who did not want to move to New York. After leaving SNL, Chase moved to Los Angeles and married Carlin. Chevy was offered starring movie roles because of his SNL fame.

TV Commercials and Films

Chase has done various commercials. He appeared in two television commercials for the soft drink Cola Turka in 2003. It was a soft drink developed to be in direct competition with both Coca-Cola and Pepsi, while keeping the money in the Turkish economy. Chase plays a confused American who notices his friend and family using Turkish idioms and exhibiting Turkish customs after consuming the drink. The commercials were comic and nationalistic in theme. The commercials were exclusively shown in Turkey, although they were filmed in New York in English. They had Turkish subtitles. Other commercials that Chase has to his credit are ’Dollar Rent-a-Car’, Doritos in 1996, History Channel in 1999, T-Mobile and Chase Manhattan Bank.

Chase earned around US$7 million per film at the peak of his career in the late eighties. He was a highly visible celebrity. Some of his early films are Foul Play and Oh Heavenly Dog. In 1985, he starred in Fletch, the first of two films based on Gregory McDonald’s Fletch books. Chase did the comedy film Three Amigos in 1986 with SNL veterans Steve Martin and Martin Short produced by Lorne Michaels. Chase hosted the Academy Awards for two consecutive years; 1987 and 1988.

At a time in his career, Chase had three consecutive flop films. Nothing But Trouble in 1991, 1992′s Memoirs of An Invisible Man and Cops and Robbersons in 1994.

He made guest appearances and starred in different TV series. He has guest starred on Law & Order, ABC’s drama series Brothers & Sisters. He had a recurring role on the NBC spy comedy Chuck. Chase has also lent his voice for an episode of Family Guy in 2009.

Chey Chase most recently starred in the NBC sitcom Community, as a business tycoon Pierce Hawthorne. Chase left the show in 2012 after he completed majority of the episodes of Season 4. He returned on the show for a cameo appearance in the Season 5 premiere.

WEALTH AND EARNINGS

Chevy owned a 12,000-sq ft, 10-bedroom estate in East Hampton, New York. It was 2.3 acre property, which he sold it to  Rallye Motors founders, Peter and Julianna Terian, for $10.1 million.

Chase’s home in East Hampton

He owns a house in Bedford, New York. Recently, in 2013, Chevy Chase put his pool house in Mt. Kisco, New York, for rent. A large separate house and a pool house at 48 Fox Lane in Bedford Corners were put up for rent last summer. The main house rented for $20,000 a month while the pool house rents for $1,800.

Chevy Chase’s house in Mt. Kisco, New York

TRIVIA

Chase prefers to do family-oriented movies and has turned down roles in several films including the lead in American Beauty (1999).

Suffers from a fear of snakes.

Chase is a huge jazz fan.

At 6′ 4″, he was the tallest original Saturday Night Live cast member and was the first “tall guy” on the show.

He has streets named after him in Cochranton, Pennsylvania; Brea, California; Port Charlotte, Florida; and New Orleans, Louisiana.

He plays piano, drums and saxophone.

PERSONAL LIFE

Chevy Chase with wife Jayni Chase and one of their daughters

Chase has three daughters with wife Jayni Chase. He currently lives with wife Jayni in Bedford, New York.Chase has been married twice before; once to Susan Hewitt  and the second time with Jacqueline Carlin.

He is an environmentalist and charity fundraiser. He raised money and campaigned for Bill Clinton in the 1990′s and John Kerry in the 2004 Presidential Election.

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Career/Profession: Actor, Comedian

Dane Jeffery Cook is popularly known as Dane Cook. He is an American stand-up comedian, actor who is acclaimed for his comedian personality. He is widely known for his observational looks and dark comedy. His style is very casual, but he always uses long-stories with repetitive phrases. He has a net worth of about $30 million. He is a one of the comedian actor who uses web pages and space pages to build and expand his fan following.

Education Profile:

Cook was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts on March 18, 1972. He was the second son of George F. Cook and Donna Jean. He has five sisters and one elder half- brother named Darryl. He belongs to Roman Catholic Family and his parents were very religious and believed in Catholic traditions. They have an Irish ancestry. Cook grew up in Arlington and completed his studies from Arlington High School. His behavior was slightly confusing in his childhood as in school, he was very shy and introvert type of boy rather at home he was an extrovert boy. He became an open character when he was in his high school. He started doing stand-up comedy and became a part of the drama club. This helped him to boost his knowledge and expose his talent to the country. After graduation, he pursued some course in graphic designing and kept it as his back-up plan if he did not reach his goal. Due to this learning he is now capable of designing cover designs for his albums and don’t need to hire any cover designer. He neither drinks nor takes any drugs.

Cheated By his Brother:

Dane’s elder brother Darryl was his partner and his business manager till 2008. After that he and his family were surprised as they came to know that his brother and his wife cheated on him. They embezzled lots of money from his account to make their future lightened. They both were sentenced to prison for this fraud despite of blood relation.

Big Break as a Comedian:

Cook started his career by performing at the clubs in 1990. In 1994, he moved to New York for achieving more fame. In 1998, ‘Comedy’s Central Premium Blend’ gave his career a bang start. In 2003, he launched his first album ‘Harmful If Swallowed’ based on comedy and signed a treaty with Comedy Central Record.  In 2005, he came up with his second album named ‘Retaliation’ which topped the Billboard chart. It was a great success for him as it was platinum certified. Later in the following year he acted in ‘Vicious Circle’. In 2012, he starred in the NBC comedy series ‘Next Caller’ but the show was criticized a lot more than appreciation and got cancelled very soon. In 2007, he released ‘Rough around the Edges’ which was filmed at Madison Square Garden in New York. During the following year, he also performed on stage for about 3 hours 50 minutes and broke the record of Richard Pryor i.e. Laugh Factory’s Endurance Record. He also broke the record of Chapelle after on stage performance of 8 hours.

In 2005, he hosted a widely famous show ‘Saturday Nightly Live’. Then he goes on to host season 32 of SNL. In 2006, he grabbed the opportunity to host Teen Choice Awards against Jessica Simpson. He was awarded as ‘Hot Comic of the Year’ by Rolling Stones.

Acting Career:

He also pursued his career as a comedy actor by performing in various movies. In 1999, he started with ‘Mystery Man’. In 2006, he got a lead role in ‘Employee of the Month’ and earned $ 30 million. In 2007, he performed in ‘Mr. Brooks’ as the devious photographer. This movie hit the box office. In the same year, ‘Good Luck Chuck’ was released and became the 2^nd highest earning movie on its opening weekend. Later, he came up with ‘Dan in Real Life’ which was rated 2^nd at the box office. It grossed around $11.8 million in thousands of theatres. In 2008, he performed in ‘My Best Friend’s Girl’ as a supervisor which earned $ 8.2 million in its first weekend. He also tried his hands on animated movies such as ‘Planes’ in 2013.

Criticism:

As cook’s comedy style is very simple and casual. It has a feature of long-form storytelling with repetitive phrases. He used to say that he had inherited this from his parents. But media found him an unfunny character and criticized him by saying that he did not suit to the role. Ron White, another comedian, actor criticized him and said that he lacked in real material and did not perform up to the mark. Nick DiPaolo also agreed with him and accepted that he was not capable of making any scene funny at all. He was rated as one of the Worst Comedians on the radio show Toucher and Rich in Boston. In Michigan Daily also, Elie Zwiebel stated that his act is really boring.

Famous Quotes:

• I don’t have to do anything for anyone else’s benefit anymore. I just want to exceed my own expectations.
• I like fearless characters, people just not afraid to do anything it takes to make people laugh.
• My fame is just a regular family. But all of them have great senses of humor.

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