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...meantime, two men from San Jose, California who had been watching the chase, found the abandoned bike irresistible...
...only miracle about The Chevy Chase Show is that the star was still showing his face on national TV by the end of the week. His Tuesday-night debut was the sort of disaster TV fans will recall for their grandchildren. Nervous and totally at sea, Chase tried everything, succeeded at nothing. He shot basketballs from the stage, fawned embarrassingly over guests (Goldie Hawn and Whoopi Goldberg), took pratfalls that fell flat and, in one desperate moment, boogalooed in the middle of the stage, pleading with the apathetic crowd, "Everybody, shake it!" He recycled old material shamelessly, not just from...
...show improved only slightly as the week wore on. Chase, ill-prepared with guests, had no questions that anyone could possibly want to know the answer to. (To Jason Priestly: "You are such a big star . . . has it changed you much, or are you pretty much the same guy you've been all your life?") His comedy bits were mostly gross-out juvenilia (a gerbil clogs up Tom Scott's saxophone...
Actually, The Chevy Chase Show might have found a niche. A tall, rubber- faced, middle-aged entertainer who likes to schmooze with Hollywood celebrities -- he just might have been the real heir to Johnny Carson's disfranchised audience, the people confused by Dave and disappointed by Jay. Trouble is, Chevy still wants to be hip, outrageous, the choice of a new generation. Somewhere, Pat Sajak is smiling...
...CHEVY CHASE...