Not really

Ignore that other commenter. He is, and there is no one like him. Truly a rockstar and a legend! Forever missed.

Coke, the magical power boost

@@FatimaSorianoOfficial have a snicker. CF would have lol at your “high ground “

IKR

For real, only Farley could troll a curtain and make it funny

Showing his improv background

Who knows what drugs he was on

Haha, made me laugh too when he attacked the "show biz curtain'. He was just unbelievably funny the way he committed to comedy.

Yeah, that was so unprovoked. The 'ol curtain was just hangin' there minding it's own. 😂

Norm was a very small part of SNL. A minor character. One dimensional.

@@tommackay7433 Wow you must be the life of the party, huh?

Got that right!

Explain to the folks at home what a minor character is.@@tommackay7433

​@@tommackay7433👈don't own a doghouse 😂😂😂😂

Max loved it too!!!!!

You might say that Chris performed with all the madness in his soul.

Glad he told me, hell Ive been playing drums for years. Wow, I could of been a Monk

Matt Foley name was from a Priest that Chris knew from Marquette and further was at St James in Arlington Hts Il...

Odenkirk wrote the Matt Foley character however Chris Farley brought him to life. Without Chris, Matt Foley would be just a character description on a page. The performance makes any character, not the description of said character.

@@1977TA Nobody asked you to quibble over semantics.

@@victorkong82How do you know I didn’t?

@@1977TA cuz odenkirk sucks

He played football and rugby in highschool and college

So light on his feet for a big boy.

@@roddydykes7053 Hockey, too.

😂

Down by a river!!!

😂😂😂

TY for that. I didn't know what he meant.

Thanks for the info. I didn't know that.

Dennis Miller (1992), Chevy Chase (1993), Jon Stewart (1994-95), Keenan Ivory Wayans (1997), Magic Johnson (1998). The '90s were full of failed late-night celebrity talk shows.

I don't know if I would really count Jon Stewart as fail because he went right from his show to hosting the daily show I looked it up kind of crazy he did 2593 episodes According to IMDB

So true, RIP

I just edited learned that today going down the YT rabbit hole

I feel the same way. Seeing this video is very uncomfortable. Mr. Farley clearly was an extremely talented performer who knew exactly how to make an audience roar with laughter. But it is also just as clear that he was very ambivalent about that comedy. I think he craved the laughter and the attention, but also felt shame at the manner in which he got that laughter. The downward eyes while saying things like "how dumb I am" and "hose tubby off" betrays his inner thoughts.

Well said. @@jeffreyharris3440

Sadly, there's a long list of comedians who suffered the same fate. I'm glad you speak out about your pain. All the best to you.

One of the funniest guys of all time, but you can sense he is not at peace with himself especially during the sitdown part of the show. I think Chris felt he had to be " on" all the time to feel accepted by others, even though he was already loved by millions of fans.

Read the Bible, so U2 don’t end up in hell like Matt Foley, a.k.a. Farley…… now he’s living in a van down by the lake of fire! Where everyone has chronic fatigue 24 seven and you’re 90 years old at the same time!

It does?!

I've got him by 8 years and it doesn't seem like that long ago I was watching that special cast of snl. Then of course Tommy boy hit. I actually have it on my phone SD card now. He was something special for sure.

I remember being 13 when I saw him and Adam Sandler doing the Sloppy Joe song on SNL, now I’m 43 and still can’t believe he’s gone.

@@hellsunicorn now there's no lunch lady down in lunch lady land.

@@djredshow Yes, and the world is poorer for it. No more sloppy joes. 😢

Isn't life a trip as you get older?

Or Max knew to come in without direction.

he was a student at the Improv in Chicago

How is anything about Chris Farley "underrated"? What is that, some new word you learned yesterday and now you're compelled to find new ways to use it, appropriate or not? Did you look it up first? Do you ever think about what you're saying before you say it? Do you think you're the only person who noticed Farley's timing along with the rest of his skills? Underrated? Farley was a beloved, talented, unique, and renowned comic. "Comedic timing" is what makes any good comic, great comics ALL have great comedic timing, you can't separate that trait from the rest of the talent because without it you don't have any talent at all. Are you the only person on the planet that doesn't get that the rest of us are well aware of Farley's comedic timing along with the rest of his skills? I think your grasp of the English language is overrated. Your comment is absurd and an insult to Farley's legacy.

He appeared perfectly timed at 1:35 largely because Max is a top drummer and able to respond instantly to any cue like the one when Chris points at the spot you're referring to. Max has to catch every cue that Bruce Springsteen gives him all night for 4 hours a night, every gesture. They do in fact rehearse these beforehand. I've been to a Conan show. I'm also in the music/entertainment business (45 years). Much of this is improv, but Max was on high alert for his own cues.

He should have seen a doctor. He looks like he is in real distress.

@@andynaz5631 hi as a kite on who knows what. Really miss him though. good guy and hilarious

He "winded himself" barely doing anything. Funny as hell but in incredibly poor health.

"Barely doing anything"?! Have you ever tried to capture an audience--and crew--on stage? Let alone the energy HE was putting out to project the emotion and the character!

@@cdsmithmail yeah it may not seem like it but playing that character he was playing is actually a lot especially for someone overweight. He was definitely doing a lot. I am thin and in shape and my heart rate would increase dramatically if I were out there running around like that.

If witty?

@@philwright2480 Was this needed?

billdover probably meant "as" not "if"...

No doubt about it

Fueled by coke

Cokane

Fattest cartwheel I've ever seen, that was awesome

Yeah he was a sneaky good athlete. Played competitive football and hockey growing up, and played rugby for Marquette University. The blue & yellow rugby shirt he's wearing in college at the start of Tommy Boy was his actual Marquette rugby shirt. Dude was more nimble than one would expect of a man that size.

Chris Farley never used drugs to enhance his performance as a professional. About 8 months after this appearance he was clean and sober and remained that way for three years.

He was reportedly doing a LOT of coke during this period.