The first one that drew notice was the hilarious Chippendales sketch alongside Patrick Swayze. Farley took the show by storm when he got there in 1990. Cast members like Myers, Sandler, and Tom Arnold writers like Bob Odenkirk, Fred Wolf, and of course show creator Lorne Michaels. Almost no one is left out in the interviews. Matt Foley, Motivational Speaker debuts at Second City and people would show up just to see that sketch! It’s onward to SNL. From Marquette, he went to Chicago with friend Pat Finn to join Second City, the comedy group that produced some of the greatest SNL alums, including John Belushi, of whom people were reminded of in Farley’s presence.įarley dominated Second City, and we get to see footage of him doing routines we’d see and love on SNL in the future. We get interviews interspersed with his acting coaches, rugby teammates (one is a priest now), and fellow comedians/actors. He attended Marquette University, where he started taking improv classes. There are amazing parallels between his workings for his father, and the plot of his first film, Tommy Boy in 1995. His father owned an asphalt company, and he and his brothers would work for him. His brother Kevin (who looks and sounds scarily like him) introduced things. Spike’s documentary is incredibly thorough, featuring interviews from all the people you’d want to see from his childhood, through his rise to fame, to his unfortunate and all too early end. My friends and I had Farley and the gang. Folks older than I grew up with Murray, Aykroyd, Chase, and Radnor. My parents used to record SNL on VHS, and we’d watch as a family over breakfast Sunday mornings. Along with Chris, there was Adam Sandler, David Spade, Chris Rock, Mike Myers, etc. I was 8 when Farley and a young crop of would-be megastars joined the cast of Saturday Night Live.
Chris Farley has been dead nearly 20-years, but the impact he had on people my age has been an incredibly lasting legacy. I watched Spike TV’s documentary I Am Chris Farley that premiered last night.
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