Chevy Chase (born October 8 1943) is an Emmy Award-winning American comedian, writer, and television and film actor. Born into a prominent family, Chase became a sensation as a cast member in the inaugural season of Saturday Night Live. He also hosted the Academy Awards twice (1987 and 1988) and briefly had his own late-night talk show, The Chevy Chase Show. He is also known for his portrayal of the character Clark Griswold in four National Lampoon films.

The Chevy Chase Show was a very short-lived FOX weeknight talk show hosted by comic actor and comedian Chevy Chase. One of several talk shows that various networks put on the air after Johnny Carson retired, it lasted for only five weeks. In keeping with the formula Carson and David Letterman had established, the show also featured a house band that Chase called the best band in the world, the Tom Scott-led MBC Orchestra. Chase himself produced the show through his company Cornelius Productions, whose logo is a caricature of him dressed like a court jester juggling balls. (Cornelius is Chevy Chase's real first name.)

Just days before the show's premiere, the name of the venue where the show was recorded was changed from the Aquarius Theater to the Chevy Chase Theater. (Today the theater is known as Nickelodeon on Sunset.)

The lead-in featured a cartoon Chevy stealing letters to spell the name of his show from notable Los Angeles landmarks, including Mann's Chinese Theater. As the credits rolled at the end of each episode, Chase was seen shooting basketball at an onstage backstop.

Although FOX canceled the show after four weeks, it ran for a fifth and final one, some of the last episodes making light of the show's failure.

1992 and 1993 saw great changes in late-night talk shows: Jay Leno took the place of Johnny Carson, David Letterman switched networks and time slots, and Chevy Chase and newcomer Conan O'Brien started their own shows. After the dust cleared from the greatly-hyped "talk-show wars", Chase emerged as the undisputed loser. While the show's format differed little from that of its competition, and a star of Chase's caliber had no trouble finding well-known guests, the show simply failed to resonate with viewers, and ground to a humiliating halt as it was finally pulled off the air in mid-show. Written by Jean-Marc Rocher

Born Cornelius Crane Chase, he changed his name to Chevy Chase, joined the Saturday Night Live crew, and embarked on a highly successful movie career. Chase scored in the eighties with hits such as Caddyshack (1980), the National Lampoon movies and the Fletch movies. All his films show his talent for deadpan comedy. Sadly, his career has generally worsened throughout the nineties, starring in flops such as the wholly mediocre Memoirs of an Invisible Man (1992), and Cops and Robbersons (1994).