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TIL Chevy Chase is the only SNL cast member to be banned from ever hosting SNL again. “He once suggested a sketch, In 1985, where Terry Sweeney (an openly gay cast member), had AIDS, and the sketch showed viewers how much weight he lost every week.”

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