Fact-Checking Chevy Chase’s Claim That He Slept With Bob Dylan

Author

Alyson Lewis
February 01, 2025

Welcome to the Cracked newsletter!

This issue is about ‘South Park,’ schemes and scammers, January’s funniest tweets, Ryan Reynolds, Chevy Chase, and much more.

Was this email forwarded to you? Subscribe here.

Justin Baldoni's media team will have to come up with some stronger hit pieces if they think they can weasel their way out of this current PR disaster.

As every gossip outlet in the English language continues to proclaim in explosive headlines designed to make heads spin in the check-out line, the It Ends with Us star and director is currently embroiled in the most high-profile celebrity feud with former co-star Blake Lively and her husband Ryan Reynolds since Bette Davis and Joan Crawford turned the set of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? into a war zone. Lively accused Baldoni of sexual harassment and creating a toxic work environment on It Ends with Us in a lawsuit filed late last year, and Baldoni has since shot back with dizzying $400 million defamation countersuit against Lively, her publicist Leslie Sloane and Reynolds, whom Baldoni's lawyer believes created the character of Nicepool in Deadpool & Wolverine just to make fun of his client's man bun.

Last week, I mentioned to a couple of friends that I was going to a press screening for You’re Cordially Invited, the trailer for which came out last month.

One commented that they hoped everyone in attendance had gotten high to survive it. The other said simply that it looked really bad. In that it’s a straight-to-streaming romcom — it drops on Prime Video this Thursday — I could see why they were apprehensive. My concern bloomed into alarm when I walked into the theater and found myself confronted by a full-screen image of the poster, which depicts a horrified Reese Witherspoon looking on as a muddy Will Ferrell wrestles an alligator. Then I had a great time watching a film that was almost entirely unrecognizable from its representation in its promotional materials. I am here to tell you You’re Cordially Invited has been done SO dirty by its marketing team that I’m legitimately kind of mad about it.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone Nearly Killed Off This Core ‘South Park’ Character to Make More Room for Butters

This Is the One ‘SNL’ Sketch With 100 Million YouTube Views

22 Viral Videos People Don’t Realize Are Fake

40 Random Bits of Duty-Free Trivia That Will Be Waiting for You Wrapped in a Weird Bag Upon Arrival

Rob McElhenney Reminds Us That Nobody Watched ‘It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’ for the First Decade

38 Schemers, Scammers and Loophole-Exploiters That Got An A for Effort But An F for Fraud Charges

60 of the Funniest Tweets from the Month of January 2025

Here Are the Most Emotionally Devastating Episodes in Sitcom History

4 Moments From ‘The Simpsons’ That Prove Bart Is Secretly the Smartest Character

35 Hilarious Kid-Friendly Jokes to Share With Your Little Class Clown

Fact-Checking Chevy Chase’s Claim That He Slept With Bob Dylan

21 Things We Can't Believe You Can Legally Own

5 Failed Attempts to Americanize Hit British Sitcoms

Rob McElhenney Says He Forced the ‘Abbott Elementary’ Cast to Curse on ‘It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’

Lorne Michaels Thought That Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi Would ‘Make Fools’ of Themselves as The Blues Brothers

Fact-based news without bias awaits. Make 1440 your choice today.

Overwhelmed by biased news? Cut through the clutter and get straight facts with your daily 1440 digest. From politics to sports, join millions who start their day informed.

TWEET OF THE DAY