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Forester567 t1_j6bqt5x wrote

Community.

Between Dan Harmon and Chevy Chase I would have loved to see the clash of comedic egos go at it.

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ReflexImprov t1_j6c1d4b wrote

I don't know that they actually interacted all that much or clashed that often. From everything I've read, even though he was the boss, Dan usually kept to the writers room and let the Russos and directors run the set.

The clash was mostly over Dan being late with script pages and Chevy randomly going home early - and being an ass to everyone.

The big clash that the press writes about was when Chevy went home early and it was the last day of a shoot for the season, with sets scheduled to be struck later that day, so they couldn't pick an important shot up again like they usually did when Chevy pulled this crap.

The scene would have been a tag at the end of the video game episode with Abed rewriting the game so Pierce's father told him he was proud of him everytime he threw a pixel baseball at his floating head then cutting to irl Pierce giving Abed a hug.

Dan was pissed that the scene was lost and led a chant of "Fuck you Chevy" at the season wrap party with the cast and crew (which reportedly many joined in with - Chevy clearly wasn't beloved on that set).

Chevy then left an angry voicemail about how he embarrassed him in front of his family which Dan played the following week for the crowd at his Harmontown show (not sure if it was a podcast yet at this point) and someone recorded that and leaked it to the press.

Both were on much friendlier terms with each other not long after. The whole incident isn't as dramatic, or as long-lasting as the press makes it out to be.

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yoaver t1_j6fg9s0 wrote

Worth noting that Community notoriously had a much more demanding and late-hour shoots than even normal tv shows which are already demanding. Chevy Chase was in his 60s, and unused to such an environment. I get him wanting to go home "early".

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PoopStickler69 t1_j6bz1tr wrote

No you wouldn’t. That sounds like hell.

Working with Chevy Chase sounds like the last thing I’d ever want to do.

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ahintoflime t1_j6bz9ix wrote

Chevy Chase was never part of the writers room for Community

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[deleted] t1_j6bwzzf wrote

Dan and Chevy always get the brunt of it, but Donald Glover and Alison Brie also have enormous egos. Ken Jeong’s is not particularly small either.

Honestly I think the fact that the cast and crew were all so full of themselves is part of what made Community work so well, given that most of the episodes are about the characters getting in fights with each other due to ego.

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ReflexImprov t1_j6c1yut wrote

Everything I've read, the cast got along really well behind the scenes, including Donald. Chevy obviously got harder to work with as the show progressed, but everyone else was (and still is) pretty tight knit with each other. They are actors, so yes, there is ego involved, but seemed to be a true ensemble and not any competition.

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Tatis_Chief t1_j6esovi wrote

So Jeff the one with the biggest ego in the show, has the smallest ego from the cast?

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yoaver t1_j6fgito wrote

Can you tell more details on Glover's and Brie's ago? Did they have any stories?

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TheThunderhawk t1_j6dka51 wrote

Except the part where you get to watch Dan just shit all over and belittle one of the best writers in the room Megan Ganz because of his weird little incel misogyny shit. He admitted to all of it and apologized in his podcast Harmontown.

I wouldn’t be able to put up with it. Or at least, I hope I wouldn’t.

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