""I know that there was a history between [Chevy and Yvette Brown] around race, and she got up and stormed out of there," said Chandrasekhar. "Chevy storms off, so the producer is like, 'We need Yvette in the scene, right?' I'm like, 'Yeah, she's in the next scene.' And he goes, 'Well, she won't come out unless Chevy apologizes to her.'""
""He goes, 'You know, me and Richard Pryor, I used to call Richard Pryor the N-word, and he used to call me The Honky, and we loved each other,'" Chandrasekhar recalled Chase saying. "And I'm like, 'I know, man, I love that bit.' I said, 'You know, can we just have a little apology?' He goes, 'For what?'""
"Chandrasekhar said Chase came "storming onto the set, and he goes, 'Who fucked me over?' ... 'My career is ruined! I'm ruined!' Like, it's a full meltdown. 'Fuck all of you!'" The director added that Chase "never ended up coming back after that.""
During a 2012 Community production night, Chevy Chase used the N-word toward co-star Yvette Brown, prompting her to leave the set. Production personnel sought Brown for the next scene and requested an apology from Chase before she would return. Chase initially denied saying anything, cited a past rapport with Richard Pryor while repeating racial language, and refused to apologize. After The Hollywood Reporter published a story about the incident, Chase reacted with a violent on-set meltdown, berating the cast. Production was halted, Chase issued an apology, and he did not return to the series.
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