Chevy Channels Mel's Chutzpah

Posted Nov 2nd 2006 5:39PM by TMZ Staff

A Hollywood star gets arrested for drunk driving, and in the process of getting arrested, he starts hurling anti-Semitic remarks. Yeah, you know the story. Well, now Hollywood's most notorious arrest of the year is getting the "Law & Order" treatment.


What, you were expecting it to be an episode of "Ghost Whisperer?"

Seeing as Mel Gibson was probably too busy atoning to play the part, the "L&O" people got comedy legend Chevy Chase to play the role of Mitch Carroll. He's a TV star who gets pulled over for drunk driving, implicated in a murder, and somehow along the way, manages to throw the word "Jew" into every other sentence. Such a shonda!

"I wasn't familiar enough with what happened to Mel," Chase says. "He's a good friend of mine -- I haven't seen him in years -- but I had never seen any prejudice in him."

Check out Chase in "Law & Order" when it airs this Friday night at 10PM ET/PT on NBC.

Filed under: TV, Mel Gibson


Tags: chvey chase, ChveyChase, mel gibson, MelGibson

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1. Chevy Chase as Mel Gibson? I can't really think of a Hollywood actor more unlike Mel Gibson than Chevy Chase.

Posted at 11:44PM on Nov 2nd 2006 by Oscar Dahl, BuddyTV

2. Give me a break, they even had to use "sugar tits" ? Did the writers just run out of creativity and the only story line that was appealing to rip off was a drunken tirade from an actor who has 1) apologized repeatedly and 2) he was DRUNK! This story is old and was blown way out of porportion from the beginning, even the arresting officer (who was Jewish) thought so.

I think it is time to get some writers who can think of their own story lines without scouring the paper on a daily basis for someone else to do the job for them.

Posted at 9:20AM on Nov 6th 2006 by elizabeth

3. What I found interesting was that he had such horrible things to say about Jews, but was perfectly comfortable with Detective Greene, an African American. Not once did he come close to using the n word.
Come on.

Posted at 10:24AM on Nov 6th 2006 by M. L. Burrwell

4. L&O you went way over the line on this one. Also, Chevy could use some acting lessons.

Posted at 11:13AM on Nov 6th 2006 by Nancy Powling

5. So I guess Law and Order has stooped low enough to use story lines from todays trash magazine headlines. The show has been on way to long if they can't even be origional.

Posted at 11:54AM on Nov 6th 2006 by Mona Brasley

6. Not worth watching.

Posted at 12:00PM on Nov 6th 2006 by GFSinclair

7. Enough already How many months to we have to hash this Mel Gibson story over and over. Bad not worth watching I just turned it off .

Posted at 12:01PM on Nov 6th 2006 by GFSinclair

8. Bring back Elisabeth Rohm!

Posted at 1:03PM on Nov 6th 2006 by Brick Firestone

9. I think it's disgusting that this imitation of Mel's episode was done.......let's drop it now and go on to someone else. I shut it off.....

Posted at 2:11PM on Nov 6th 2006 by Kim Anderson

10. sick to death of seeing news headlines in my primetime storylines. come on writers of L&O you can do better than this.

Posted at 10:02PM on Nov 6th 2006 by pam shrakes