Chevy Chase had a "full meltdown" on the "Community" set after his alleged N-word use went public, reveals director Jay Chandrasekhar: "Who f*cked me over? My career is ruined! I’m ruined! F*ck all of you!" https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/chevy-chase-meltdown-community-set-n-word-1236619348/ "There was a history between [Chevy and Yvette Nicole Brown] around race, and she got up and stormed out of there. Chevy storms off, so the producer is like, ‘We need Yvette in the scene, right?’ I’m like, ‘Yeah, she’s in the next scene.’ And he goes, ‘Well, she won’t come out unless Chevy apologizes to her’ ... [Chevy comes back and] goes, ‘You know, me and Richard Pryor, I used to call Richard Pryor the N-word, and he used to call me The Honky, and we loved each other.’ And I’m like, ‘I know, man, I love that bit.’ I said, ‘You know, can we just have a little apology?’ He goes, ‘For what?’”

Chevy Chase had a "full meltdown" on the "Community" set after his alleged N-word use went public, reveals director Jay Chandrasekhar: "Who f*cked me over? My career is ruined! I’m ruined! F*ck all of you!" https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/chevy-chase-meltdown-community-set-n-word-1236619348/ "There was a history between [Chevy and Yvette Nicole Brown] around race, and she got up and stormed out of there. Chevy storms off, so the producer is like, ‘We need Yvette in the scene, right?’ I’m like, ‘Yeah, she’s in the next scene.’ And he goes, ‘Well, she won’t come out unless Chevy apologizes to her’ ... [Chevy comes back and] goes, ‘You know, me and Richard Pryor, I used to call Richard Pryor the N-word, and he used to call me The Honky, and we loved each other.’ And I’m like, ‘I know, man, I love that bit.’ I said, ‘You know, can we just have a little apology?’ He goes, ‘For what?’”