CHEVY CHASE acts so much like his character on “Community” his co-stars can’t stand him!
In real life, the former “Saturday Night Live” original cast star, 68, often is as tactless as his TV persona – insensitive moist-towelette tycoon Pierce Hawthorne, insiders say.
“After two seasons, Chevy’s uncouth remarks have got the rest of the young cast keeping him at arm’s length,” said a source close to the NBC sitcom.
“His oafish behavior can be so similar to the intolerant, narrow-minded Pierce it’s often hard to tell the two of them apart!”
But Chevy sees nothing of himself in his clueless TV alter-ego.
“What I love about him is this character is so unlike me in every way,” the prat falling comic said in a recent interview.
“I mean his manners are coarse and the way he treats women and he’s racist and bigoted against homosexuals and, you know, everything that I’m not.”
But in the same interview, Chevy made a sexist crack about his female co-stars Yvette Nicole Brown, Alison Brie and Gillian Jacobs, saying: “I mean…when you have three women, you never know what time of the month it is.”
The source noted: “Chevy seems to be completely oblivious to the fact that those kind of ignorant remarks are the reason he’s become a pariah on the set.
“Everyone on ‘Community’ has put up with him because of his reputation as a comic icon. But they’ve had it with his pompous attitude and bad jokes – and no one is really laughing!”
