"SNL's 2025 Cast Massacre Echoes the Night Chevy Chase and Bill Murray Nearly Killed Each Other"
Update: 2025-08-31
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As Saturday Night Live fires half its cast in 2025's shocking "creative restructuring," we reveal the violent origin story of SNL's toxic culture: February 18, 1978, when Chevy Chase and Bill Murray's backstage fistfight left blood on Studio 8H's floor. From "Medium talent!" to thrown punches minutes before airtime, from John Belushi's cocaine-fueled attempts to break it up to Gilda Radner's tears, this is the fight that established SNL's brutal survival-of-the-cruelest mentality. Marcus Reid connects the dots from that legendary brawl to today's cast bloodbath, exposing how Lorne Michaels has fostered five decades of competition and cruelty. Featuring the bitter aftermath—Chase's Hollywood exile, Murray inheriting his enemy's worst traits, and why every SNL generation cannibalizes itself. As 2025's fired cast members pack their dressing rooms, we reveal why the ghost of Chase-Murray still haunts 30 Rock, proving that at Saturday Night Live, the real comedy is how much the comedians hate each other.
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