Here are the biggest Saturday Night Live feuds you forgot existed

Live from the New York Post, it’s the biggest feuds from “Saturday Night Live.”“Saturday Night Live” has helped some of the comedy world’s biggest stars get their start, but audiences may not remember the on and off-air turmoil in between.Why did Bill Murray call out Chevy Chase on Season 2? What made Dana Carvey believe Mike Myers stole his Lorne Michaels impression? Well, with Season 50 swiftly approaching on Sept.

28, it’s time to look back on all the messy moments.Season 2 of “SNL” was back and better than ever when the premiere episode aired Sept.18, 1976.

Chevy Chase returned to host, but Murray didn’t hold back when confronting the man he had replaced about being a jerk on the show.It started with insults that quickly turned into shouts, as Murray, 73, sneered at Chase, 80: “Go f–k your wife.I hear she needs it.” The “National Lampoon’s Vacation” star fired back, targeting the “Caddyshack” actor’s complexion by saying his face looked like something astronaut Neil Armstrong had landed on.According to Laraine Newman’s account in the 2015 book “Live From New York,” that insult turned the fight physical.

“It was ugly,” she recalled.“I’d never seen guys fighting like that, let alone people I knew.”So yes, technically, the “Wayne’s World” stars have called a truce, but only after being estranged for years.Dana Carvey, 69, believed that Mike Myers, 61, didn’t give him adequate screen time in the “Wayne’s World” movies and also stole his Lorne Michaels impression.

Every detail to be in fact, including the pinky to the mouth, for Dr.Evil in the “Austin Powers” films. “When I saw Mike do it, I did kind of go, ‘Hmmm…’” Carvey, who was on ‘SNL’ for seven seasons in the late eighties, told Howard Stern in 2017.

“But it’s a long time ago and look, it’s a really funny affectation because it’s so specific.”This three-way feud was nothing short of dramatic.Le...

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