This week, in honor of comedy legend Chris Farley, fellow SNL alums, family, and friends gather on the Fly On The Wall podcast in a two-part series celebrating twenty-five years since his untimely passing at the age of 33.
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It’s been 25 years since comedy great Chris Farley passed on December 18, 1997, and this week on the Fly On the Wall podcast, hosts Dana Carvey and David Spade, along with special guests Adam Sandler, Mike Myers, Conan O'Brien, Chris Rock, Kevin Nealon, members of Farley's family, and more, celebrate Chris through stories and memories of the late Saturday Night Live icon over two episodes.
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At one point, Chris Rock says that although the SNL experience was especially competitive, there was none of that when it came to Farley. "It was just like, he's Michael Jordan and give him the ball," Rock says. "Definitely give him the ball," Spade agreed. "Literally never had one bit of like, 'Hey, this guy doesn't write sketches. Why is he in everything? Hey!'," Rock remembers. "None of that. None of, 'Why is he in nine things and I'm in one?' 'Cause he's better than you. That's why."
Farley was a five-season veteran of SNL, appearing from 1990-1995, and took to the big screen with his fellow castmates in flicks like Billy Madison, Tommy Boy, Black Sheep, and Beverly Hills Ninja.
"Un-hateable," Spade says of Farley, and Rock agrees. "He's un-hateable and he's this guy that, he's just always himself, you know what I mean? In a good way," later wondering how things could have turned out had he still been with us. "It's sad when our friend's not here, but it is curious to [think] 'Wow, what would that guy have done?' When I see Sandler in something like Uncut Gems, it's like, 'Yeah, Farley could have done that,'" Rock says. "He's literally that level of actor, and that level of like, you just felt for that guy. Okay, whatever ride Chris Farley was going to take me on, I was definitely ready to go on it."
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