Donald Glover Jokes About Chevy Chase’s Alleged Use of the N-Word on ‘Community’

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Donald Glover explained Chevy Chase’s alleged use of the N-word on the set of Community while presenting Atlanta executive producer Paul Simms with an award at Sunday’s Writers Guild Awards.

Glover noted that Simms was receiving an award named after former Saturday Night Live writer Herb Sargent, who co-created the Weekend Update segment with Chase.

“Chevy Chase once called Herb one of the funniest writers working in television,” Glover says at the 1:40 mark above. “Chevy Chase called me once—you know, it was about Paul.”

Glover recalled his brief stint on the HBO series Girls, which Simms co-executive produced. “I was on the set of Girls after filming a sex scene for eight hours, which they cut down to two minutes,” says Donald. “I haven’t seen any of the rest of that footage.”

“I asked Lena [Dunham]’Hey, why did you decide to work with Paul [Simms]?’ And she goes ‘Honestly, this n***a lets me do whatever I want,'” Glover continued. “And I remember thinking two things. One, Lena uses the N-word so liberally. Who does she think she is, Chevy Chase? And two, that’s the kind of producer I want.”

A representative for Dunham released a statement to the Los Angeles Times, saying that what Glover said about her was a joke, while also denying that she said the N-word.

“Donald Glover told a joke referring to Lena Dunham at last night’s WGA Awards,” the statement read. “It includes, in effect, language that Lena has never used, nor will ever use.”

A 2012 report from The Hollywood Reporter said Chase once apologized to the cast and crew of Community for using the N-word in the presence of Glover and Yvette Nicole Brown in an outburst on set due to growing frustration with his character.

In a 2018 New Yorker profile about Glover, Community creator Dan Harmon recalled apologizing to the Atlanta creator after a “particularly rough night of Chevy’s non-PC verbiage.” The magazine claims that a jealous Chase would try to disrupt Glover’s scenes by making “racial cracks” between takes.

After Chase criticized Saturday Night Live, former cast member Pete Davidson appeared on The Howard Stern Show on SiriusXM and called him “a really mean, racist person,” adding, “I don’t like him. ”

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