Chris Farley would have turned 58 today...
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That’s an impressive cartwheel for such a big guy.
I am more impressed with the run carrying a full grown man up and down stage stairs, through two double doors, and throwing him perfectly into a small rectangular dumpster.
Still possibly the best SNL sketch of all time.
One of those people I remember exactly where I was when I heard the news of his passing....
Lesser known but high quality Farley skit. 😂
Back-to-back cartwheels, no less.
My brother and I met him at O'hare. We were huge fans and had no filter and he was a few slots ahead of us in security. Back then security was some private outfit mostly composed of badly English speaking surly Indian fellas and gals. So we started yelling Chris, Chris. He turned around and did his one finger salute greeting that he did. So we broke line and got the stupid in flight magazine signed haha. I still have that somewhere. Dude never shied away from fans. Had plenty of demons but good guy.
We could have had Farley, but instead we're stuck with you as our overweight comedian.
This one, Matt Foley and the Chris Farley Show with Paul McCartney 3 of the Top 10 SNL sketches of all time.
This is still my favorite although all posted are very good.
That was a great one. My favorite skits on SNL are the ones where the other actors can’t keep it together due to laughing and Spade and Applegate were a train wreck the entire time.
Fun fact
Bob Odenkirk talks about writing classic Chris Farley ‘van down by the river’ sketch
Talking to Howard Stern about his days as a “Saturday Night Live” writer, comedian Bob Odenkirk revealed the origins of the classic sketch he wrote for Chris Farley in which Farley plays motivational speaker Matt Foley, who lives “in a van down by the river.”
He was a really interesting guy too.
He remained a devout believing Catholic throughout his life, while living a decidedly not Catholic lifestyle. He would like go to mass or confession, and then do lines with hookers (off hookers?) at night. While that is not being a "good Catholic" I don't think that's all that unusual of a struggle for Catholics. And the religion is pretty much designed around that central conflict (although few of us can live Farley's lifestyle).
With the rise of Protestant evangelicalism as the default image of Christianity, there's a lot of focus on hypocrisy, and exuding your faith from every pore all the time in every single thing you do and every word out of your mouth, and that there's a special perfect life you can lead if you just love Jesus enough.
Traditionally Catholic teaching recognizes our fallen nature and the struggle and it's kind of built into the whole thing. But the more modern approach by people since evangelicalism became dominant, is that if you struggle with certain sins or with understanding or accepting certain aspects of the faith, you shed the whole thing, lest you be labelled a hypocrite.
So it's interesting to me that Farley didn't shed his faith, he struggled with it. And as Catholics, we're supposed to struggle with it until we get it as right as we can, and nobody gets it all the way right. That aspect of him resonates with me a lot, even though his lifestyle is obviously an extreme example.
He remained a devout believing Catholic throughout his life, while living a decidedly not Catholic lifestyle. He would like go to mass or confession, and then do lines with hookers (off hookers?) at night. While that is not being a "good Catholic" I don't think that's all that unusual of a struggle for Catholics. And the religion is pretty much designed around that central conflict (although few of us can live Farley's lifestyle).
With the rise of Protestant evangelicalism as the default image of Christianity, there's a lot of focus on hypocrisy, and exuding your faith from every pore all the time in every single thing you do and every word out of your mouth, and that there's a special perfect life you can lead if you just love Jesus enough.
Traditionally Catholic teaching recognizes our fallen nature and the struggle and it's kind of built into the whole thing. But the more modern approach by people since evangelicalism became dominant, is that if you struggle with certain sins or with understanding or accepting certain aspects of the faith, you shed the whole thing, lest you be labelled a hypocrite.
So it's interesting to me that Farley didn't shed his faith, he struggled with it. And as Catholics, we're supposed to struggle with it until we get it as right as we can, and nobody gets it all the way right. That aspect of him resonates with me a lot, even though his lifestyle is obviously an extreme example.
RIP in peace. His part in Dirty Work is one of my favorites.
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