Chevy Chase. A note.

4H Youth Conference Center in Chevy Chase, Maryland.

There's been some recent enquiry about the name of the golf course appearing here in recent posts, i.e, Chevy Chase.

Chevy Chase is a town in Maryland.

Chevy Chase the alleged comedian is actually named Cornelius Crane Chase and almost certainly named himself after the well known and upper crust Maryland town.

I'm not upper crust and I'm not defending Chevy Chase, Maryland, which had appalling racial discrimination practices at one time.  I'm not defending the alleged comedian Chevy Chase either, who isn't funny, but whom is rather one of those Harvard figures foisted upon the public by those who think Harvard humor is funny, which it isn't.  Indeed, after an initial introduction, he came up on Saturday Night Live which is mostly a cesspool of Harvard unfunny comedy.

Chevy Chase is, in some ways, an early example of what Adam Sandler would later become.  A signal that, if he's in it, don't watch it.  It'll be stupid, and not funny.  He's one of those people decreed to be funny by the conspiracy of social declaration which, at any one time, declares certain people to be funny, even though there's not a single living human who thinks they are.  Charlie Chaplin is one such figure, in addition to Sandler. The same thing applies, fwiw, for music.  James Taylor provides such an example. Nobody likes his music, but people pretend they do, as other people are pretending they do.

And hence, a light introduction to the two Chevy Chases.