Terry slated Chevy Chase's appearance in his two autobiographies, 2000's "Is it me?" and 2006's "Mustn't Grumble". Discussing how his chat show was edited when it was on Saturday nights, but had long since been live at this stage, Terry noted: "Live, you are trying to make bricks without straw. This is tough, but it is also what imparts the frisson. Even the editing suite could not save Chevy Chase. There was just nobody at home ... I was probably ringing the wrong bell."
Terry also stated that "Whenever I asked him a question, he would smile benevolently and wink roguishly at the studio audience, but not a word came from his lips. Obviously that was enough to reduce American audiences to helpless hilarity, but our lot were bemused. I think he may well have thought he had delivered himself of a blinder, it just didn't get past his teeth."
Terry also stated that "Whenever I asked him a question, he would smile benevolently and wink roguishly at the studio audience, but not a word came from his lips. Obviously that was enough to reduce American audiences to helpless hilarity, but our lot were bemused. I think he may well have thought he had delivered himself of a blinder, it just didn't get past his teeth."
Wogan fell to 88th place in the charts this week, with the two episodes broadcast averaging 4.6 million viewers.