# Chevy Chase's humour **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 10, 2008, 9:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chevy-chases-humour/476541 "2008-12-10T09:57:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chevy-chases-humour/476541/21 "2008-12-11T16:00:11Z")
> [@Tangent](#): > > I’d agree somewhat with the **Ryan Reynolds** comparison. Maybe **Jeremy Piven** as well. **Will Ferrell** reminds me of Chevy’s more slapstick moments from some of the above movies. I don’t know. Piven, at least in his Entourage roll, is more overtly aggressive and belligerant. His humor is derived from the fact that he’s a control freak and he starts getting ever more and more worked up as the situation spirals out of his control. Chase, Reynods, Vaugn, Bateman and Penn all have kind of a similar vibe. For the most part, they always appear to be in control. Everyone else gets worked up around them but they are usually infuriatingly calm. Mostly just making non sequitor remarks, ironic or sarcastic mocking comments under their breath or flipant observations. I don’t know if it’s self-depracating. They tend to come off as pretty arrogant. As if everyone else around them is an idiot and they are somehow above it all. It’s humorous because everyone around them generally are pompous idiots and take themselves way to seriously and it’s funny to see them taken down a peg with the verbal equivalent of a pie to the face. A classic example would be from Blade Trinity where Renolds is describing their special rifles to Blade and finishes with “…it doesn’t have the range of…a sword.” Or when he tells Blade “…and another thing..every once and awhile you might want to try…blinking.” ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chevy-chases-humour/476541/22 "2008-12-11T16:21:18Z")
I’d call it “Smartass”. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chevy-chases-humour/476541/23 "2008-12-11T21:31:21Z")
What about Leslie Nielsen in Police Squad? Neilsen plays his characters completely straight. ---
**Author:** ![5-HT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/f19dbf/32.png) [@5-HT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5-HT)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chevy-chases-humour/476541/24 "2008-12-11T21:37:49Z")
Norm MacDonald. He’s the only one Chevy felt did Weekend Update right. ---
**Author:** ![BabaBooey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dfb087/32.png) [@BabaBooey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BabaBooey)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2008, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chevy-chases-humour/476541/25 "2008-12-12T00:17:43Z")
> [@Captain\_Amazing](#): > > What about Leslie Nielsen in Police Squad? Neilsen plays his characters completely straight. Yeah, I was thinking of the Naked Gun moves. Very similar exchanges, the only difference being Neilson’s character doesn’t know he’s giving smartass answers. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chevy-chases-humour/476541.md?page=1)