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Nervous or not, they did well enough to get invited back on theTonight Showover and over.
Chevy Chase, Roger Ebert, and Gene Siskel.Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show/YouTube
In time, they got comfortable with Johnnymaybe too comfortable.
For the first few minutes, everything went smoothly.
Then Carson steered the show directly into an iceberg.
Opposable Thumbs by Matt Singer.G.P. Putnam’s Sons
But is there something out there that is really so bad?"
“With your help!”
Chase shot back sarcastically.
That was another key reason for their talk show success: they were fearless.
‘that bang out of thing.
They sense that we are actually telling the truth about what we think about the movies."
Gene’s and Roger’s unflinching honesty was upending their audience’s expectations left and right.
And Siskel and Ebert had points of view."
That wasn’t the first time Siskel and Ebert criticized Chevy Chase to his face, either.
(They also reunited with their first producer at Opening Soon .
(They also took some shots at Chase’s performance in the appropriately titled Oh!
The rehearsal for the sketch had gone poorly and the producers wanted to trim it down.
Ebert grew concerned he had less lines than Siskel.
Then Siskel got upset that his role was getting diminished.
