Joel McHale Responds to Chevy Chase Saying He Didn’t ‘Want to Be Surrounded’ by ‘Community’ Cast: ‘No One Was Keeping You There… The Feeling’s Mutual, Bud’
variety.comZack Sharf Digital News Director Joel McHale was asked by People magazine to weigh in on Chevy Chase‘s recent diss of “Community,” the NBC sitcom they starred on together as series regulars for four seasons (McHale continued with the show for two additional seasons), to which McHale said: “He stopped hurting my feelings in 2009.” Speaking on Marc Maron’s “WTF” podcast, Chase said “Community” wasn’t “funny enough for me, ultimately,” adding: “I felt a little bit constrained.
Everybody had their bits, and I thought they were all good. It just wasn’t hard-hitting enough for me.” Asked about his character, millionaire Pierce Hawthorne, Chase added, “I didn’t mind the character.
I just felt that it was… I felt happier being alone. I just didn’t want to be surrounded by that table, every day, with those people.
It was too much.” McHale told People that his first thought upon hearing Chase’s criticisms was, “Hey, no one was keeping you there.” “I mean, we weren’t sentenced to that show,” McHale added. “It was like, ‘All right, you could have left if you really wanted that.’ But yeah, you know Chevy.
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