A laugh is a surprise. And all humor is physical. I was always athletic, so that came naturally to me.

Chase is gifted with absolute pitch. This portrayal of President Ford as a bumbling klutz became a favorite device of Chase and helped form the popular concept of Ford as being a clumsy man. He also wrote a one-page spoof on Mission: Impossible for Mad Magazine in 1970 and was a writer for the short-lived Smothers Brothers TV show comeback in the early 1970s.

Cornelius Crane "Chevy" Chase (/ˈtʃɛvi/; born October 8 1943) is an American comedian writer and television and film actor. He has hosted the Academy Awards twice (1987 and 1988) and briefly had his own late-night talk show The Chevy Chase Show.