# What celebrities are known for being jerks(that are not named Chevy Chase)? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 4, 2020, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-are-known-for-being-jerks-that-are-not-named-chevy-chase/919839 "2020-09-04T19:52:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2024, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-are-known-for-being-jerks-that-are-not-named-chevy-chase/919839/201 "2024-07-09T23:38:38Z")
Just a little update. I just heard two director-producers talking about the most difficulty actors to work with in their career. It was Charles Band and John Carpenter having the conversation. Their answers? Charles Band - He said Klaus Kinski, who was in a non-Herzog movie that Band produced. And yes, Kinski grabbed a knife and threatened to kill the director(not Band, a guy named David Schmoeller) John Carpenter - Who did Carpenter say? You got it. Chevy Chase. I didn’t know this, but Carpenter directed that Invisible Man movie Chase is in and Chase was atrocious. ---
**Author:** ![Dropo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Dropo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dropo)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2024, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-are-known-for-being-jerks-that-are-not-named-chevy-chase/919839/202 "2024-07-10T00:14:06Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Charles Band - He said Klaus Kinski, who was in a non-Herzog movie that Band produced. And yes, Kinski grabbed a knife and threatened to kill the director(not Band, a guy named David Schmoeller) [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/iWqRgweZ3SA/hqdefault.jpg "Please, Kill Mr. Kinski") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWqRgweZ3SA) Unfortunately, the movie in question, _Crawlspace_ (1986) is a piece of cinematic excrement whose only virtue is that it inspired this short film. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2024, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-are-known-for-being-jerks-that-are-not-named-chevy-chase/919839/203 "2024-07-10T00:39:25Z")
> [@Dropo](#): > > Unfortunately, the movie in question, _Crawlspace_ (1986) is a piece of cinematic excrement whose only virtue is that it inspired this short film. Never heard of that short film, but I just watched all of it. You have to love it. Here is Charles Band commenting on that movie. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/ydP_LBJs4f8/maxresdefault.jpg "John Carpenter and Charles Band on the Most Difficult Actors") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydP_LBJs4f8) ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2024, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-are-known-for-being-jerks-that-are-not-named-chevy-chase/919839/204 "2024-07-10T02:38:08Z")
Charles Kuralt, the rotund, jolly host of _CBS Sunday Morning_ and the “On the Road” features was discovered after his death to have a second family in Montana, while leaving his wife alone in New York. Even before then he had gained a reputation at CBS as being difficult to work with. While this was implied by several CBS people in their memoirs, former president of the News Division Ed Joyce really exposed a lot of the backstage dissension, even naming other CBS news personalities who refused to work with Kuralt. Supposedly the entire News division celebrated Kuralt’s On the Road and Sunday Morning assignments because they kept him out of the office during the regular Monday-Friday shifts. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2024, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-are-known-for-being-jerks-that-are-not-named-chevy-chase/919839/205 "2024-07-10T03:52:09Z")
I once had a boss who might well have been the female pharmaceutical equivalent of Mr. Kinski. If you’re wondering if this is the same person I’ve mentioned before who was in a near-fatal car accident several years after I worked with her, and she had a TV station and the newspaper do big stories about it, which was followed by the reporters’ e-mail boxes crashing because of the response they got from people telling them what she was really like, yes, it was. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2024, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-are-known-for-being-jerks-that-are-not-named-chevy-chase/919839/206 "2024-07-10T04:29:18Z")
> [@Kent\_Clark](#): > > Charles Kuralt, the rotund, jolly host of _CBS Sunday Morning_ and the “On the Road” features was discovered after his death to have a second family in Montana, while leaving his wife alone in New York. “For that is what brought me to the road in the first place, so many years ago: the promise of sex with a string of anonymous partners across this great land.” [https://www.reddit.com/r/NormMacdonald/comments/nohsi5/sunday\_morning\_with\_charles\_kuralt/](https://www.reddit.com/r/NormMacdonald/comments/nohsi5/sunday_morning_with_charles_kuralt/) ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2024, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-are-known-for-being-jerks-that-are-not-named-chevy-chase/919839/207 "2024-07-10T07:05:23Z")
I remembered that sketch, and went looking for it and couldn’t find it. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2025, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-are-known-for-being-jerks-that-are-not-named-chevy-chase/919839/208 "2025-01-05T00:26:53Z")
Another little anecdote about Chevy Chase being a jerk to someone. Chris Columbus, director of Home Alone and Harry Potter had an encounter around 1988. Columbus was actually hired to direct Christmas Vacation. He really needed to do the movie at that point in his career. He went to lunch with Chase and talked for awhile about the movie and how he wanted it to be. Chase? Silent. Finally, while Columbus is talking, Chase says, “Wait a minute…you’re the director?” Columbus said, “Yes…I’m directing…the movie.” Chase said: “Oh, I thought you were a drummer.” Columbus has never figured out what the heck Chase was talking about. They met once more with a producer, but Chase ignored him the entire time. Columbus called John Hughes and others and said he had to pull out. John Hughes felt bad and reached out to him not long after with a new script. Home Alone ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2025, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-are-known-for-being-jerks-that-are-not-named-chevy-chase/919839/209 "2025-01-05T21:48:04Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Finally, while Columbus is talking, Chase says, “Wait a minute…you’re the director?” > > Columbus said, “Yes…I’m directing…the movie.” > > Chase said: “Oh, I thought you were a drummer.” That sounds like his type of humor, to be honest. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2025, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-are-known-for-being-jerks-that-are-not-named-chevy-chase/919839/210 "2025-01-05T22:13:31Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > That sounds like his type of humor, to be honest Just found an interview with Jeremiah Chechik, who ended up directing Christmas Vacation. I’ll quote him: > [@](#): > > **I assume you were you familiar with Chevy Chase’s work.** > > [Chuckles] You mean his _oeuvre_? Certainly. I loved CADDYSHACK and all that. But I never saw myself as a director of that kind of movie. I had heard he was quite difficult, but I never found that to be the case. So some folks find him OK. I mean, with all the movies he was making, he must have performed and behaved adequately. Edit: I just read the entire interview and Chechik says Columbus never worked on the movie: > [@](#): > > **There’s a story that Chris Columbus met with Chevy Chase over dinner and that Columbus decided he could not work with him.** > > I never spoke to Chris Columbus. The only thing I knew was that Chevy had met with him and didn’t like him. People have their own stories. I did read somewhere that he was going to direct CHRISTMAS VACATION, which is definitely not true. I have the very first script that John Hughes wrote and all the subsequent scripts that were developed in my purview. Certainly, Chris is no slouch, he did some amazing things, but he didn’t work on CHRISTMAS VACATION. I came in, the studio wanted me, John wanted me, Chevy wanted me. That was the end of the story. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2025, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-are-known-for-being-jerks-that-are-not-named-chevy-chase/919839/211 "2025-01-05T22:20:13Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > So some folks find him OK. I mean, with all the movies he was making, he must have performed and behaved adequately. Certainly celebrity status went to his head, but Chevy is known for having a strange sense of humor- which if you dont understand it- can come across as being a jerk. Mind you, he isnt always as funny as he thinks he is. Nearly every celebrity has had a few jerk moments. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2025, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-are-known-for-being-jerks-that-are-not-named-chevy-chase/919839/212 "2025-01-05T22:31:03Z")
That was hilarious. When I was a kid, I used to go around saying “I’m Charles Kuralt” in my most Charles Kuralt-y voice. But - yikes - didn’t know how much of a ratbastard he’d been, though. Vince Gallo can be a bit of a handful. Jerkish (and stupid) of John Belushi to have repeatedly let SNL’s women cast members know that women aren’t funny. ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2025, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-are-known-for-being-jerks-that-are-not-named-chevy-chase/919839/213 "2025-01-06T00:22:15Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > Chevy is known for having a strange sense of humor- which if you dont understand it- can come across as being a jerk. Mind you, he isnt always as funny as he thinks he is. He told Ivan Reitman he should be embarrassed for his recent SNL movie (depicting the first night of the show). I never saw it. I wonder if this was another Chase joke. David Spade and Dana Carrey seemed to think so. > [@](#): > > “Chevy loves to say the thing you’re not supposed to say — to the extreme,” Reitman told _SNL_ alums [David Space](https://ew.com/person/david-spade/) and [Dana Carvey](https://ew.com/person/dana-carvey/) on the new episode of their [_Fly on the Wall_ podcast.](https://youtu.be/kdiiSeCDTrs?si=KLu8dGTDdtBFg89o) "I have an example for you… So Chevy comes in to watch the movie, and he is there with [his wife] Jayni, and they watch the film, and he’s in the group, and **he comes up to me after, and he pats me on the shoulder and goes, ‘Well, you should be embarrassed.’"** > > Spade and Carvey immediately broke out into laughter. > > **“What an _exact_ Chevy thing,” Spade said. “You could’t even write it better.”** > > **Carvey suggested that Chase was intentionally trying to make Reitman uncomfortable. “Well, he knows that’s funny — like, that’s the roughest thing you could say to a director in the moment, or right up there.”** > **[Chevy Chase told Jason Reitman he should be embarrassed of 'SNL' film](https://ew.com/chevy-chase-said-jason-reitman-should-be-embarrassed-of-saturday-night-snl-movie-8767308)** > > 'Saturday Night' director Jason Reitman revealed Chevy Chase's brutal reaction after watching his movie about 'SNL': 'You should be embarrassed.' ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2025, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-are-known-for-being-jerks-that-are-not-named-chevy-chase/919839/214 "2025-01-06T00:26:27Z")
> [@Moriarty](#): > > He told Ivan Reitman he should be embarrassed for his recent SNL movie (depicting the first night of the show). I never saw it. Jason Reitman, not Ivan Reitman. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2025, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-are-known-for-being-jerks-that-are-not-named-chevy-chase/919839/215 "2025-01-06T01:44:51Z")
> [@Moriarty](#): > > I wonder if this was another Chase joke. David Spade and Dana Carrey seemed to think so. Yep, that is weird humor, and yep I can see how others consider it being a jerk. ---
**Author:** ![GrunthosTheFlatulent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grunthostheflatulent/32/21319_2.png) [@GrunthosTheFlatulent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrunthosTheFlatulent)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2025, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-are-known-for-being-jerks-that-are-not-named-chevy-chase/919839/216 "2025-01-06T01:56:47Z")
Someone who worked on a Mike Myers movie said he would regularly show up late to set, so everyone would be standing around waiting for him. It was also forbidden to look at him when the camera wasn’t rolling. There are many such stories about him. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2025, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-are-known-for-being-jerks-that-are-not-named-chevy-chase/919839/217 "2025-01-06T03:10:57Z")
My sons went to high school with Nikki Glaser’s younger sister. Nikki was two years older than them. She seems to have polished her humor stylings on underclassmen. My sons make it a point to avoid every opportunity to see or hear her club act, TV appearances, interviews, etc. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2025, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-are-known-for-being-jerks-that-are-not-named-chevy-chase/919839/218 "2025-01-06T03:30:54Z")
Incidentally, Alanis Morrisette was very nice when I asked her out in a Kingston bar. She shot me down, but nicely. Elon Musk seemed boring and shy when I met him at a house party, but he was only 19. I only talked to him for a couple of minutes though. Kate Winslet spilled a bit of her beverage on me at O’Hare Airport and was very apologetic. Lisa Loeb is a sweetheart, albeit much more business driven than you’d think. Dan Ackroyd is a loud jerk. Lindsay Lohan was quiet and standoffish. I guess that’s all I got firsthand. ---
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I rode a ski lift in Aspen with William H. Macy. He was utterly charming and friendly. He appreciated that I knew of some of his “lesser” roles. Really nice guy. My one real celeb encounter 'in the wild" so to speak. ---
**Author:** ![DoctorJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctorj/32/2904_2.png) [@DoctorJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoctorJ)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2025, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-are-known-for-being-jerks-that-are-not-named-chevy-chase/919839/220 "2025-01-06T04:34:50Z")
Ask anybody in the world of bluegrass and they’ll tell you there have been very few assholes in that scene, with the notable exception of Dr. Ralph Stanley. He’s been gone for a few years now, but people who worked bluegrass shows when he was around still exchange eye rolls when his name comes up. Unquestionable legend, but generally unpleasant. I met John Oates and saw him do some interviews a few years ago and he got hilariously pissy when anyone would bring up Daryl Hall, just appalled that no one could address him on his own merits. Mind you, he had done a show with Daryl two nights before. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-are-known-for-being-jerks-that-are-not-named-chevy-chase/919839.md?page=10) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-are-known-for-being-jerks-that-are-not-named-chevy-chase/919839.md?page=12)