Joel McHale “Dislocated” Chevy Chase’s Shoulder During One Of Their “Multiple” Fist Fights On Set Of ‘Community’: “He Wanted Me To Punch Him As Hard As I Could”

Tensions between Joel McHale and Chevy Chase reached their boiling point while filming Community when McHale allegedly dislocated the comedian’s shoulder during one of their “multiple” fist fights on set.

McHale made the revelation on Michael Rosenbaum‘s Inside of You podcast, where he said he included an entire chapter about “how to fight” Chase in his book, Thanks for the Money.

He then clarified that he and the National Lampoons star fist-fought “multiple times” while filming Community, telling Rosenbaum, “There was pushing and shoving, yeah. It was advanced horseplay.”

He added, “It wasn’t fun. It would get a little contentious. I got in trouble one time because I injured him. I dislocated his shoulder.”

According to McHale, they were filming a boxing scene when Chase encouraged him to hit harder.

“He wanted me to punch him as hard as I could. I punched him in the hand with a left. Then he went down,” McHale recalled.

While they were on the topic, the Animal Control star also responded to Chase’s controversial appearance on Marc Maron‘s WTF podcast, during which he claimed Community “wasn’t funny enough” for him and said he “didn’t want to be surrounded by that table, every day, with those people.”

McHale fired back, “Yeah, well, feeling’s mutual about your attitude and you didn’t have to be there … This was not a prison sentence. We were not conscripted into a war. You were being paid a lot of money and getting free food all day long. So you could just walk away.”

The star also said he would “assume” that Chase is well-aware that “he could be an asshole.”

However, McHale wasn’t the only person in the room who had an unpleasant experience with Chase. Rosenbaum recalled meeting the Saturday Night Live alum through his “good friend” Beverly D’Angelo.

“We take a picture and I go, ‘Hey, it’s OK. I’m very forgettable.’ And he goes, ‘Don’t talk in my face,'” Rosenbaum remembered, to which McHale snarked, “So you saw the good side of him.”

Decider has reached out to Chase’s reps for comment, but did not hear back by the time of publication.