He was a horrible talk show host and shows us what a jackass he is. Jim Varney has more class than Chevy Chase does.

It’s easy to see why you had forgotten it, too lol

Cocaine sorta makes things really long but short...

Yeah the part where he had Goldie Hawn on and he embarrassed the shit out of her son and dropped a bday cake on him while dancing like a cornball…..COCAINE man

Retards that issue 🤘

'Wildwood Flower', I believe.

@@tubularguynine Yes, 'Wildwood Flower'.

@@billytwoknives6495 - The first song I ever learned on a six-string. Wasn’t very good at it, so I played bass for 35 years… And I WAS good at that!

@@tubularguynine by the Carters...just over the hill. Mother Maybelle started a guitar style style emulated today. Go to the Carter Fold in Hiltons, VA!!

Chevy Chase is a d**k.

Genuine people are RARE nowadays...🧐

“Play from your fucking HHEAARRTT!!!” Bill Hicks

I had no idea he was musically inclined. Really nice.

I think his last role was when he once again provided the voice of Slinky the dog in "Toy Story 2". He passed away not too long after it came out in theatres.

@@USSBARBEL He was multi-talentedly inclined!

+Lorena Jaquier yes. classy guy.

Unflappable!

Oh, for crying out loud! Nobody was getting insulted. This was just common talk show banter, with witty remarks from both sides. I thought Chase did a wonderful job!

Yep I love that smile

Grace. Varney was a one hit wonder asshole who screwed over every friend he had before he was Jed Clampett you flaming moron.

i dont get that but it was funny

@@calista910 Bill is a shortened nickname for William. Hence "Hillbilly" is short for "Hillwilliam." That's the joke.

@@ChadtheHammer really?! i never knew that. cool thanks for the explanation.

There was a security guard when I worked at WTVI in Charlotte. He was from West Virginia and moved to Buffalo, NY. He joked that he became Mount William.

That's pretty funny, actually.

Man you got that right. Chevy in film in the 80’s, funny. Chevy anywhere outside those parameters awkward and uppity. Gosh I miss Jim.

Chevy was hard to watch here

Chevy put the age old struggle between rural living and "enlightened urban" living on display for everyone in these few minutes. They need us a lot more than we need them.

@@eddarby469 Can't have the rich without the poor. The rich need someone to look down on and to wipe their a55es for them... oh, and to steal from them(not the poor stealing from the rich, other way around... that is why the fraud market was invented... to make it easy to fleece).

@@Tglegos chase was never funny to me.

Explains why his show was cut so short lol

Mike Holland Chevy is an arrogant prick. Don't get me wrong, he is a brilliant comedian and I love his movies. However, when he is either interviewing or being interviewed he's an asshole. Hollywood is a strange place. No one or no thing is as it appears.

Yea, "let's run a clip of the movie" by all means Chevy, it's your goddamn show. Jeezuz. What a failure. RIP Jim Varney, such a gentle soul indeed. Watching the ole clips on youtube makes me smile. Reminds me you can be a good person and make people laugh and not be some fuck up.

Nick Herrera lol if u pay attention they kinda showed a bit of his assholeness in some of his films lol

dylan steinman says the guy that has no picture

I wish I could have met this gentleman.

i made a delivery to a mine up at the end of a holler and the drive up the road that followed the stream with homesteads on either side was absolutely enchanting.

@@tracypaxton1054 So many of us do!

His eyes sparkled in every interview I've seen him in 🥰 a handsome and beautiful person gone too soon

​@@BeBopScraBoo My mom grew up in a holler, and I got to spend a big chunk of my childhood there. Grandma's house was nestled right up against the mountain, and even her water supply was spring-fed. It really was enchanting! The silence and peace of the place, Mom sitting out front in the early mornings with a cup of coffee, before everything woke up... I miss it a lot sometimes.

And definitely more likeable

Chase was just stifled in the position of a talk show syndicated to Fox network affiliates. It only lasted five weeks before the Vaudeville hook came a callin'.

For sure - I guess it’s not saying much when you’re dealing with Chevy chase. But Jim was a treasure, it would’ve been great to see him with a better host.

frozen cavemen have more talent than Chevy Chase and are infinitely more likable.

I was just thinking the same thing. I think Chevy knew he would be upstaged, because he starts off being cold to one of America's funniest people.

I don't know why it was cancelled either 😎

I looked it up the show only had 15 episodes. I can see why.

Yeah, this was the last episode. I was in the audience. I was 13 and remember thinking "well, this is terrible."

I never would have known it was sarcasm if you hadn't said it (take a guess).

Fantastic actor, not such a great interviewer. But, you gotta admit, in an acting scenario, you just can't find funny like Chevy Chase anymore. We need another team like Chevy and Dan Aykroyd. "Spies Like Us" was magical!

And less people like Chase

@@benprice1632 Amen to that.

One of a kind, sadly we'll not see his like again.

You're absolutely right. I would love to find a longer video of Jim playing that. Imagine sitting on the porch listening to this on a summer night. It would be great. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you.

Training and Technique? I'd say it takes a lot of Practice Man, Practice.

One grew up in Grandpa's Mansion. The grew other up in a clapboard house with a space heater. Might even had the luxury of a cast iron stove left over from the depression. I personally prefer the clapboard dwellers over the mansion dwellers. Got relatives that live in both.

@@leftylou6070 It's really not that hard. There are various tunings, but DAD is a common one. The frets are spaced to avoid sharps or flats. You can just pick the string closest to you and strum the rest as drone strings. I had to build one for my niece and ended up making half a dozen for friends after they saw it.

That's not condescending. That's recognizing and admiring the fact that to play well, one needs to practice *alot.*

I'm not convinced Chevy has any Jim Varney in his heart, Tim.

I know him best as Ernest P Worell I used to watch his show when I was little as well as the Ernest movies Scared stupid was the best

+Clyde Drake I miss him a lot. He was candy for kids,but he had other stuff like " entremanures" that a kid wouldn't understand but any adult would,

In other words, he was very "earnest" about proving his range.

Yeah from what I understand he was a virtuoso

And he was slinky in toy story he was bout to become a mega star

Clyde Drake The Beverly Hillbillies film was awesome. He plays a father. Bloopers at the end too.

I consider your uncle such an inspiration! He was a genius and the only person who could keep up with Robin Williams. I recently read your book and found a kindred spirit in Jim. I wish I could've met him, but I think we're all so lucky to have had him in our lives and in our hearts.

***** Thanks for those kind words Caryn.

Louie Neira Thanks Louie. So happy you enjoyed it. I hope my book gave Jim's fans a better understanding of what a great talent and person he was.

Justin Lloyd Ernest came to mind to me out of no where, I loved his movies in the 90's as a kid. Jim Varney was such a great comedic actor, he was great in the Beverly hillbillies too. He's not forgotten.

I always loved watching him as a kid, and I still do as an adult! It's neat to see him in an interview. (Although, he seems much too genuine to be talking to Chevy.) Anyway, he was very talented, and seemed very kind. RIP

I've never seen Chase's show. Now I understand why so many people call him an asshole.

Chevy's a douche an always was behind the scenes. Some of the old SNL cast has mentioned how much of an egotistical fuck he was/is.

@@DrMurdercock The Community cast has also mentioned how awful he was, and there are voicemails he left for Community creator Dan Harmon that also show what an egotistical, entitled, and rude asshole he is.

No kidding, I was really hoping for another Beverly Hillbillies movie or two!

Yeah, no, I don't want a reboot. The character was built around Jim Varney. No one else could do it justice.

Straight up??? 🤣I didnt think children would watch this but they guess it just goes to show you, you never know.

How can I get into fragrances?

I recognized it immediately! I’ve been playing that the last few months!

"In comes MURRAY with the chair!! Chase is down!! Blood is everywhere and tears are flowing! Chase cries as murray works his legs with a sledgehammer, the crowd breaks out in tears of joy seeing chase finally brought down to size, perhaps even for the last time ever!! He's out!! His eyes roll back in his head, his pants fill with whatever it is that comes out of a dead person when they full release and jim leans over chases fresh corpse and asks, "you okay vern?" The crowd goes wild! GOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLL!!!!!! DING DONG THE WITCH IS DEAD!!!!!!!!"

@@RDFspaniard gawd, yer hysterical, man!

I'm going to guess that's because he was never meant for Hollywood, but we are sure glad he got there!

Katherine, you are trash. He was actually quite an intelligent guy.

Katherine McChesney your so Rude!

He wasn't a very nice individual was he? Don't know much about him nowadays.

He was a total asshole but not lovable like Letterman. Letterman would take a knee and play the fool. Chevy was trying to act like a BBC presenter

@@buffbenjones6137 don' wanna know.

Did you catch him as a prince on 'Rosanne' ? He was magnificent! hope somehow he's reading all the love we're sending him here.

I could listen to Jim play that all day. Imagine sitting on the porch on a summer night and listening to him.

And from The (legendary) Carter Family came the precious apple of Johnny Cash: June Carter Cash. (Country boys...ain't we smart?)

Mother Maybelle Carter has a unique guitarist. Because she did have someone to accompany her she worked p a way to play the lead and rhythm at the same time.

Yessir that is the old wild wood flower.

Chase is a douche. Always has been. He would have made a great Rat Pack, character.

Shows how Jim is the better man not some slithering snake like the Chev is.

He's like seething at points and betrays his psychology with the theater count and concerns of being "upstaged."

@@illnickdotcom seemed more like he was responding glibly to the question. And the upstaging comment seemed like inside joke with the actress, hence the wink at the camera. I got the impression that Chevy was talking down to Jim the entire time, including the question about the seats, which comes off like a real insider prick brag only someone in-the-business would make. The whole interview seemed like an attempt to make Jim seem out of place or like he didn’t belong. The crack about “kids love ya”… repeatedly calling him a hillbilly with that stank on it. Jim was able to judo roll all of it. Water off a duck’s ass. Maybe you’ve never had an entitled slob with connections and status talk down about your humble roots, but we know it when we hear it.

Very well said. Jim was a huge talent and a sweet man.

I fucking agree, fully! Chevy was so mean with his undertones of envey and jealousy it was so gut churning for me to watch!! But Jim held his beautiful chin up high and didn't let Chevy Chase get the best of him great on Jim's part!!!!

I saw Maybelle Cater play and sing "Wildwood Flower" live - March 1968 in Memphis.

He only had one character

How long did Chevy Chase's Show last? I vaguely remember hearing about it, and then, seems like it was gone.

@@ronaldshank7589 Apparently with good reason

Chase also says, "I've only seen you do that Vern guy..." right out of Jiminy Glick....

CHEVY CHASE IS A PRICK FROM THE WORD GO...TREATS PEOPLE LIKE SHIT

All insults aside, Chase was not a good interviewer or host and he was never comfortable in the format. His show was canceled after only a month. But I do think alot of these other comments are a bit too far

+Collin Morris Chevy was satirizing the pompous interviewers, he was soo good at it that many didn't get it.

Don't agree on this one. Chevy was just really stiff outside the boundaries of scripted comedy, and his interactions with live humans illustrated that. The sad irony is that some of his best comedic moments were total improvisations - unscripted, but executed within the confines of parameters the writers (which he sometimes was) laid out for him. Love Chevy, heard he's a prick, but he's also a national treasure, and to see him pseudo-pander to Jim Varney was cringeworthy. Jim was a rare dude. How about that dulcimer playing? Who the hell knows how to play dulcimer these days other than maybe Jeff Mangum?

I don't think Chevy is being condescending, I think he is more frustrated with trying to perform in the talk show medium so is coming off uncomfortable. Needless to say, his show didn't last long.

I do agree that Chase sucked as an interviewer, but "swallowed up by history" is a bit harsh. Vacation, Christmas Vacation, Caddyshack and Fletch are still talked about, about as much as Ernest films are. I do agree that Ernest P. Worrell is clearly more timeless than Chase's characters though.