He’s still chasing it.
Original “Saturday Night Live” cast member Chevy Chase is giving a new kind of weekend update in his new documentary.
“It was a mistake to leave SNL,” Chase, 82, reveals in the trailer for CNN Films’ “I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not,” which debuted Thursday.
Chase was in the show’s first season in 1975, hosting the inaugural “Weekend Update” sketch that has since become a staple of the show.
He departed halfway through Season 2 in 1976, going on to launch his Hollywood career in movies such as 1980’s “Caddyshack” and 1983’s “National Lampoon’s Vacation.”
He’d go on to star in “Hot Tub Time Machine” and in the NBC sitcom “Community,” which ran from 2009 to 2014.
“I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not” features interviews with Chase, “SNL” boss Lorne Michaels, fellow inaugural star Dan Aykroyd, and fellow actors like Goldie Hawn and Martin Short.
Hawn, 78, who was in 1978’s “Foul Play” and 1980’s “Seems like Old Times” with him, said in the trailer, “Chevy has a deep heart, and that’s the other part of the wild man.”
Michaels, 81, who still helms “SNL” despite retirement rumors, chimes in, “The forces pulling him were money, power, and all of that. And when Hollywood wants you, they’re pretty good at it.”
His “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation” onscreen wife, Beverly D’Angelo, added: “The thing about fame is that everything around you changes.”
The trailer describes Chase as “a complicated comedy legend,” seemingly discussing the actor’s reputation for being difficult. At one point, a woman offscreen says, “I’m just trying to figure you out.”
Chase replies: “It’s not going to be easy for you.”
Chase was fired from “Community” in 2013 after allegedly using a racist slur toward Donald Glover during filming and following a heated confrontation with its creator, Dan Harmon.
Glover, 42, also known as Childish Gambino, claimed that Chase used the N-word while on a rant about his issues with his character.
During an interview with the Washington Post later that same year, Chase denied that he was a bigot, but didn’t deny using the slur.
“I could have said it,” he said, before noting it would have been misinterpreted. He added that he had been a fan of Glover’s the entire time they worked together on the show.
“Community” star Joel McHale, meanwhile, has publicly made it clear he’s not a fan of Chase.
“It would get a little contentious. It would get to this point where I’m like, ‘OK…’ I got in trouble one time because I injured him. I dislocated his shoulder,” McHale said in a March 2024 episode of the “Inside of You” podcast.
One year earlier, Chase said that he didn’t think “Community” was “funny enough.”
“I felt a little bit constrained a bit. Everyone had their bits and stuff. I thought they were all good, but it just wasn’t hard-hitting enough for me,” he said in a 2023 interview on Marc Maron’s “WTF” podcast.
“My response to that was, ‘Well, yeah the feeling is mutual about your attitude, and you didn’t have to be there,’ ” McHale said on the “Inside of You” podcast.
In Chase’s new doc, the controversial star states: “I don’t think a lot of people have the happiness I have. I am who I am, and I like who I am.”
“I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not” premieres Jan. 1, 2026, at 8 p.m ET on CNN.
