Chevy Chase Reunites with ‘Christmas Vacation’ Cast as He Announces Tour

This August has been a fun, old-fashioned family Christmas for Chevy Chase.

The actor, who starred as Clark Griswold in the National Lampoon’s Vacation film series, reunited with the cast of 1989’s National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation on Sunday, Aug. 17, at Fan Expo Chicago at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center. The reunion came as Chase gears up for a fall tour where he’ll be screening Christmas Vacation around the country.

On Sunday, Chase, 81, was joined by Beverly D’Angelo, Juliette Lewis, Dana Barron, Anthony Michael Hall and Randy Quaid. D’Angelo, 73, played Clark’s wife Ellen in the films. Quaid, 74, played Cousin Eddie in the films. Barron, 59, played the Griswold daughter Audrey in the first movie, 1983’s National Lampoon’s Vacation, while Lewis, 52, played Audrey in Christmas Vacation. Hall, 57, played the family’s son Rusty in Vacation; Johnny Galecki played the role in Christmas Vacation.

Chase expressed his pleasure at being reunited with his castmates on Instagram. “Great time this past weekend in Chicago at @fanexpochicago with old friends and new ones,” he wrote in the caption of a video that recapped his experience at the event. In the video, he embraced Quaid, Lewis and D’Angelo, took photos with fans and met up with other Expo attendees, including comedian Rob Schneider and actor Brendan Fraser.

Chase will take part in special screenings of National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation throughout from Nov. 20 to Dec. 18. Per his website, the Saturday Night Live alum will show the film in Daytona Beach, Orlando and Melbourne, Fla., Charlotte, N.C., Grand Praiaire, Sugar Land and Austin, Texas, and Newark, N.J. His wife, Jayni, will also take part in the conversations after the screening.

On Oct. 29, Chase will also be part of a 40th anniversary screening of his 1985 comedy Fletch in Monterey, Calif. 

Chase also shared back in May that he’ll be the subject of a 2026 CNN documentary titled I’m Chevy Chase, and You’re Not.

Last year, Chase and Quaid (whose brother is actor Dennis Quaid) reunited in another Christmas movie, The Christmas Letter. “I found the role very funny,” Quaid told PEOPLE about doing the movie, about a man who tries to one-up his friend’s Christmas letter. The actor added, “Chevy was doing it — so why not?”

“Chevy and I are best friends on and off screen — I laugh just looking at him,” Quaid said.

Back in 2022, D’Angelo told PEOPLE that when she was first approached to play Ellen Griswold, she wanted to turn it down. “I was so sure that I wasn’t the right person,” she said, in part because she had mostly done dramas, and because, at 30, she thought she was too young to play the mom of a teenager. But her agent told her it was “very funny,” and when she met Chase, she found they had “great chemistry.”

She added, “It was like meeting my brother.”