Career Chevy_Chase
1 career 1.1 career 1.2 saturday night live 1.2.1 leaving snl 1.3 film 1.3.1 later work 1.4 return television 1.4.1 television commercials career early career chase member of underground comedy ensemble called channel 1 co-founded in 1967. wrote one-page spoof on mission: impossible mad magazine in 1970 , writer short-lived smothers brothers tv show comeback in spring of 1975. chase made move comedy full-time career 1973, when became cast member of national lampoon radio hour, syndicated satirical radio series. lampoon radio hour featured john belushi, gilda radner, bill murray, , brian doyle-murray, of whom later became not-ready-for-prime time players on nbc saturday night (later retitled nbc s saturday night , saturday night live). chase , belushi appeared in national lampoon s off-broadway revue lemmings, sketch , musical send-up of popular youth culture (in chase played drums , piano during musical numbers). appeared in theatrical release groove tube directed co-founder of chann...