I get to the set of NBC’s Community a little bit before sunset, the night they are going to set Chevy Chase on fire. The new comedy—about a misfit study group at a community college—does its location shooting on a real campus in Koreatown. Tonight, they’re shooting some nighttime shots for the second episode (the first one they shot after the pilot was made last spring), in which Chase’s character (Pierce, the lonely former CEO of a moist-towelette company) catches ablaze.

In this very funny new show—starring The Soup’s Joel McHale—Chase is making his first regular return to TV in years (he did a brief arc on Chuck last season). Now, in the name of comedy, he must burn.