Warden, Rickles and Chase do Dirty Work

Veteran humor-meisters Chevy Chase, Don Rickles and Jack Warden have signed on to fill out the cast of MGM’s pic “Dirty Work,” a skewed comedy about a spiteful loser who opens a successful business providing revenge services, the studio announced Monday.

Comedian/actor Norm Macdonald — who in recent years delivered a mix of demented news items from behind the Weekend Update anchor desk on “Saturday Night Live” that Chase first chaired — co-wrote the “Dirty Work” screenplay with Frank Sebastiano and Fred Wolf. Macdonald will star in the lead role as the loser who finds his true calling as a revenge specialist.

Chase, Rickles and Warden will perform opposite Christopher MacDonald, Artie Lange and Traylor Howard.

“Dirty Work” is a fast-track project set to start shooting Thursday in Toronto. It will be directed by Bob Saget, the former “Full House” star and host of the longrunning “America’s Funniest Home Videos.”

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It will be Saget’s first feature directing job, though he previously helmed the television drama “For Hope.”

Robert Simonds is producing “Dirty Work” and Brad Grey is exec producing.

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