Noam Galai / Getty Images for CNN Chevy Chase is defending his reputation following the premiere of a damning documentary about his life. The original Saturday Night Live star, along with the director CNN’s I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not , sat for an interview with The New York Times in which he again insisted that he is “not racist.” Chase played Pierce Hawthorne on the sitcom Community for four seasons from 2009 to 2013, until he allegedly used the N-word to criticize a storyline involving a blackface puppet and abruptly quit the show. Chase told the New York Times that he was “misunderstood” at the time. Read more at The Daily Beast.