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club... and it was 'bizarre' | According to Marc Maron, who was also on the bill"/> </a> <small>© Comedy Store / Instagram</small> </figure> <div class="twelvecol"> <h1>Chevy Chase made a surprise appearance at a comedy club... and it was 'bizarre'</h1> <div> <aside></aside> <div class="news-body-content"> <p class="caption">According to Marc Maron, who was also on the bill</p> <div class="mobile-advert" id="mobile-ad-spot-1"></div> <img alt="comedy" src="http://www.chortle.co.uk/steveimages/punching_up.jpg" style="float: right; width: 200px; height: 318px;" /><p>Chevy Chase made a surprise appearance at the Los Angeles Comedy Store at the weekend – but one comic on the bill described his slot 'bizarre' and 'sad'.</p><P>According to <a href="/comics/m/33663/marc_maron" title="Marc Maron's Chortle profile">Marc Maron</a>, the 75-year-old star took to the stage with no plan other than to field questions from the audience.</p><P>Speaking on his hit WTF podcast, Maron, below said: 'For some reason at all Chevy Chase got on stage with no act at all. Did nothing.</p><P><img src="https://www.chortle.co.uk/images/photos/small/mm_marc_maron_17.jpg" alt-"Maron"></p><P>'It's sort of weird to see him. I used to love him when I was a kid but you know, over time you start to realise, man, he seems to be a kind of cranky, nasty old fuck.</p><P>'I saw him sitting at the back of the room. I didn't know why. I thought maybe he was just lonely and wanted to come watch some comedy and judge. </p><P>'But he got up there and took some questions for about 20 minutes.</p><P>'It was up and down but it was one of those things where it was like, why did that just happen? I guess he is Chevy Chase, he can get up there and do what he needs to do. But why did he want to do it? I don't know</p><P>'It was very bizarre. And it happened. I saw it. I was there. I was wandering around the back of the room going, "What's going on? What is happening right now? 75-year-old Chevy Chase is up there asking people to ask him questions?"</p><P>'I think people were happy to see him… It was not life-changing, if anything it was slightly sad.'</p><P>The club revealed Chase's appearance on social media, including a short clip of him being introduced on to the stage – but no audience member appears to have been moved to post anything.</p><P>The star has an long-standing reputation for being difficult to work with, dating from his days at Saturday Night Live when he fell out with most of his co-stars and its creator Lorne Michaels.</p><P>More recently he feuded with showrunner Dan Harmon when he was a cast member of Community, amid accusations he made racially charged jibes about co-star Donald Glover.</p><P>His latest film, The Last Laugh, has just been released on Netflix to lukewarm reviews.</p><P><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">A Surprise Guest drop in from Chevy Chase! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/thecomedystore?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#thecomedystore</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/kyledunnigan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@kyledunnigan</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/JeffScott101?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JeffScott101</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/ChevyChaseToGo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ChevyChaseToGo</a> <a href="https://t.co/iYLxV1Ke2o">pic.twitter.com/iYLxV1Ke2o</a></p>— The Comedy Store (@TheComedyStore) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheComedyStore/status/1089426431195541504?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 27, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p><P></p><P><blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/p/BtITZyAFZiE/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_medium=loading" data-instgrm-version="12" style=" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; 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