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Dana we have a special episode today this is a reflection on the hilarious
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and very celebration as well celebration Chris Farley two-parter Chris Farley
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obviously one of the naturally funniest person you could ever meet in your life and we got a lot of his friends together
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and family together and we had talks about him and it goes to a lot of
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different places and uh we told everyone you know let's share some light-hearted stories anything you can think about him anyone you want to say and we had a lot
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of people call and say can we can we be a part of it and it was 90 lighthearted but now and then you can't help it if
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you're talking about someone that you know really affected everyone's life that is on the podcast uh that's going
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to be chiming in you realize you can't help but get choked up at times it's just the way it is it was 25 years ago
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this month and that is baffling to me that it is that is that long and doesn't
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a day go by where you don't think about them and uh so we tried to do this
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respectfully um we had some fun because Chris was fun and like David said we we do have people
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talk to to his addiction and and uh how he died and and so we just hope you
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really like it it's uh yeah there's a few heavy moments and we got uh you know just kind of goes up and down you know
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that's just what happens when you talk about someone and I think this is uh a good Dana for younger listeners or SNL
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people just there's a lot of people I know that don't even know Chris Farley I see people that go oh you know Led Zeppelin and they're like I know his
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face if I saw him I don't I know the name I just I can picture him and I'm like well that's actually a band uh you
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don't know Pink Floyd they're like dude I don't even know pink all right I'm like oh you are young so
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it's just a way that Chris Farley is someone we just think you know and you might not and if you've heard about them
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this is a great place to just hear the thoughts of everyone who's very tight with them and then you'll hear about
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sketches you might want to look up or movies and I think it's a good opportunity for everyone just to talk
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out loud if you know him you get to kind of revisit I I feel like I know Chris better
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um just after doing these interviews uh just hearing from all the different people who knew him and worked with them
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so so here you go is Adam Sandler he obviously you know
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Adam and we were all on SNL together at the same time he knew Chris in and out
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Chris loved him we had so many laughs together and here's his thoughts
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how's that how's your act right now you know because it did you have to do all new from your special
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I did I did about all the stand up is ain't on the special and then I do uh the things I do from
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the special I do to Farley tune yeah and then I do grow old with you and I think
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that maybe one other song I don't [ __ ] remember but uh I like the electric Farley I I just I I hadn't
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really just objectively watched you play electric guitar in a while so that
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really made me laugh a comedian quote unquote is then shredding is shredding
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you know it's like that just so you did the electric on the tour right with the Chris Farley yes that's the favorite
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yeah yeah it's a fun part getting the whale all the way on a guitar but then all of a sudden finding yourself way off
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key and people going making it worse and just faking it and just like grind it you know you don't know where you are in
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the fretboard remember when we played dogs I got to shred a lead on that that's right drums
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when me you Marley Mike Myers everybody was doing funny [ __ ] now yeah yeah and I
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was I was on the drum kicking it down laying it down you guys would wander off I'm gonna go [ __ ] these guys man I'm
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just doing Boom Boom come back to me you come back to me God damn what was dogs a
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sketch well if dogs was like a we did like a Seattle band yeah it's like
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little dogs yeah what do you mean trying to remember it was a [ __ ] smack
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it never ends dude you wanna hear one that my [ __ ] laughs and kill
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[ __ ] was the uh Brady Bunch versus Partridge Family
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oh it's amazing I saw it on Instagram or Twitter the other day I watched the whole thing I go yeah this is hysterical everyone's in it oh you I I guess Dana
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was uh Keith Parker I was David Cassidy Keith Parker yeah yeah and Spade was
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buried in the [ __ ] drum set as like one of the baby [ __ ] partridges and then I kept sticking my head like when
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when Dan was talking I'd find the camera on the side like this hello so I'm still in this
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but listen accidentally you listen to the 70s on uh XM radio and they play a
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Partridge Family tune they're all incredible yeah oh yeah yeah they got the harmonies are perfect they are
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irresistible Pops I had one on that sketch Adam Bomb and I
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say it and they don't even give me a courtesy close-up I watch my phone I go what the [ __ ] they didn't even cut to me
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you just hear me in the back oh hey man we gotta get this next tune out and I'm like that was me dude
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barley was Reuben Kincaid they were blocking that David and Lauren was screaming
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stay wide stay wide barley was Reuben Kincaid and he was just nodding like
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yeah this is a good sound there's too much ham too much ham on in
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one space we've got to stay wide too many showboaters looking for the lens by
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the way Dana when Santa I have to say to start off this barley step with Adam's um
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Farley song I'm glad you kept it in because it's so good there's more pictures in it audience is totally like
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you could never not do that song gut punch they don't even know what's coming it's funny and it's sad and then it's
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everyone just like stops in their tracks and goes oh my God because you know they're laughing the whole night and
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they get hit with that thing and then everyone walks away going that's the best thing maybe it's in delicate to say
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but it's actually it's a very nice tune and it's a great song it's like a really sweet the chord changes and the melody
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it's just it's a good good it's very Neil Young very Neil Young yeah a lot of G's and a minors and exactly
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no freaking uh uh uh they they just love seeing Farley up on the screen I mean
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let's go every time you say his name it's so nice and can you guys when you
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see it even though you've done it a lot I mean every every night I assume there's just a little bit of a lump in your throat or it just get some you
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can't never get away from that feeling right with the pictures of Chris and you're right you're right it well when
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we first would do it three years ago whenever whatever we'd be on the road back when we first started playing far
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at least tune I would uh uh uh get watered up uh uh and and
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shaking boys almost every night now now that I've already done it and um I I
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like the crowd I knows it's coming and stuff it's not I don't have that same like I'm gonna cry
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right now but when they cheer for him it makes you cry that's when you tear up
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people oh that's so [ __ ] great man that they still go like that or what he
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meant to their life and uh the the visuals up there when they see Farley and see all the insanity and I literally
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I don't I'd probably say maybe 10 good references of what he did maybe 15 and
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then you go well there's actually about [ __ ] a hundred more and he was only on the show for what four or five years
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yeah yeah like I I do believe he's got the best and I I've I said uh Chris Rock
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a minute ago the best best of tape just for sheer power you know
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and it was I don't know the time because I left in 93 and you know he'd done the
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Patrick Swayze one but then you know van down by the river and others there just was an explosive this and a sweetness uh
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it was just a one-off Chris you know wow the whole world was pulling for every movie made uh yeah he he was ridiculous
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I I you know boys we're supposed to come up with like one story to tell about Chris right that's great if you have one
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yeah I I don't know what to say because I got I got a lot of them I wouldn't say
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because he they're [ __ ] bananas but but uh but um it's it's funny I just uh
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hurla he just told me a funny one because I said what am I gonna talk about with Farley I I already said everything yeah and he goes and he goes
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I remember one time it's not really it's not really like a Farley story but he goes I remember one
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time uh it was like a show was right about to start and I was running somewhere and I
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go where you running to and Hurley he goes oh I'm going to find fire that I go oh yeah what are you gonna tell how
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Farley he goes well I was gonna tell him to take it down a little bit in this one part of the skit and I go
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and he's in early he goes and you put your arm around me and you said don't do that
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why why why not I'm just one he goes he said I go for your own safety
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he's gonna kill you and anyone around you exactly yeah yeah [ __ ] I remember
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that by the way that Farley's song Adam I went in the dress room every night all five shows I remember oh yeah you did
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well you you didn't want to cry or you did well it just me off guard even one line from it you know what I mean like I
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don't know which one but any of them so I I think I say that that I miss watching you [ __ ] with Spade
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there's a lot of them right once I just hear the beginning it's such a cool guitar beginning I go oh no that's it
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and then I go in the back just almost by uh yeah reflex I just go I'm just gonna go back here because I don't want to get
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into it and I don't and I am I'm still a little immune to it like you are like you're saying but it just it just you
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can't help plus the song is so like hauntingly well done that all of it and I don't see the pictures for sure but I
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know you got one in there of Norm now which is cool yes all mandate at the very end geez I say uh I wish
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you're still here you and I said you and I say and you me and Norm we're getting
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on a plane to go shoot grown-ups three right and but we have this shot uh it's
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from Billy Madison and it's and it's Chris and uh Norm sitting next to each
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other eating sandwiches on the side of a bus and and there and Farley's just
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laughing his balls off being a nut as the bus driver and and Norm looks like he's smiling along with him but
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remember [ __ ] Norm always loved Farley Beyond it oh yeah well
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God man he would always just phrase [ __ ] so nice about how grateful Ali was and how how about it wouldn't [ __ ] Farley
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would be doing a skit in in some [ __ ] part of 8h where you're
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not supposed to like the bad part would be they don't hear you as good and Visually done under the bleachers under
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the bleachers whatever and you'd hear his [ __ ] boys blasting out and destroying nothing could stop him he had
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such a good voice and we were talking about the with that voice when he would play distress for Laughs I did a sketch
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once with Chris and it was such a good sport I don't know who wrote it but he's like a fan of Ross Perot and I'm like
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yeah I'm the greatest okay you know he's like so he won My Autograph or something at some point Ross Perot says something
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like well I'm a I'm your king I'm I'm whatever and so Chris got on all fours
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and I was riding him and then he's doing his father and I'm going all right go picky boy go
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picky boy and I'm spanking his ass and he's so committed he just blew the roof
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off with just being under distress I can't you can't oh yeah I cannot mimic
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his energy or that power but that gear he had man [ __ ] yeah that's right you know Adam I
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think you would uh understand this when people just in the last year or so asked me when he did that Chippendale sketch
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you know how could you let that happen because if he was took his shirt off and stuff and they go that's so rude that
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you would make fun they go why didn't you stop that I go first of all you think I'm gonna stop a guy from doing a
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sketch it's going to blow through the roof like I'm gonna go and I'm a I'm a feature player he was a cast member it
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was very new it was his fourth show and it didn't even also didn't cross my mind all I thought was this sketch is gonna
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[ __ ] crunch yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah it did but I'm like that's not my place I'm supposed to go like yeah yeah
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oh this is gonna ultimately hurt you and break your heart and yeah you never thought like that you just he was so
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comfortable with taking the shirt off and everything else off his clothes off and [ __ ] being uh
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loose and he he yeah yeah looking back at it I'm sure you go oh [ __ ] he was in
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out of pain and that was the way he was dealing with it maybe I don't [ __ ] know but uh he he he there wasn't one part of you
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that you'd be like oh I don't know Chris it's no longer exactly I don't know if that's gonna make you feel good I don't
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think at that point that Chris was much heavier than a lot of guys in the audience really really truly I mean he
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was heavy but he was so [ __ ] athletic in that yeah yeah he was moving and and
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he was just an athlete uh who was I he we were at Mohawk one time for a weekend
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a retreat yeah our Retreat the best and he was the funniest part of that always
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but but uh we were playing football he [ __ ] grabbed me one time and like
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we weren't playing tackle but he grabbed me and like pretended he was going to tackle me and every [ __ ] vertebrae
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popped in my body and I was just like good God he grabbed me so hard and squeezed and uh yeah he was he was a he
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was a brawler remember when Jay Moore kept saying I could out wrestle you oh yeah I would not get involved in this
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and then jaymore they were by the elevators uh 17 on a writing night of course when
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everyone's doing anything but right and then uh Jay Moore and Farley's getting so mad because he goes I could take you
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and then I think Jay Moore goes at his legs and trips him down and pins him
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like right away because he wasn't ready and then he crawled on the elevator and it shut and Farley started screaming and
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Jay's like I pinned you and it cut and he went bananas because he got paid and
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I was like oh my god get away from Farley because he's gonna kill the next person
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whoever walks out of the Holy Ground just snaps Marcy in half
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foreign I remember he told me a story one time I don't have no the exact
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thing but uh I was in Madison one time with him and
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then uh he just talked about this story goes I said hey we were talking about
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fighting or something he got in some fights and [ __ ] he goes and he pointed to the spot we were walking he goes well
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like and me and the boys did a number of some fella right there one time like
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that I thought oh really what happened he goes oh let's see I think that fella
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said something bad about my sister I couldn't have any of that or something like that yeah
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I like the idea of having boys me and the boys decided I want to have some
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boys we gave him a whooping we didn't take uh kindly to that kind of you know
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action with uh younger sibling you understand and it was a shallow grave we did not dig it too deep because we
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actually wanted the police to find him and interviews because we know how to
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tell fibs in the South I'm just gonna do that character for the rest
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understand you gotta understand now Adam Sandler is what you call a superstar
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there are stars and then the super stars and mega stars now that's a Beyonce and
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these other kinds of people they do stadiums on multiple nights of Billy eilish and what what have you but Adam
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Sandler is a Bonafide Superstar but a mega star is another level but I never thought against him never been
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against you he's been working towards it he's graduating from [ __ ] and he's going
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to be doing stadiums in Berlin next time usually look at that boy he loved Adam man loved Adam he was like in awe the
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guitar actually one of the best things he did was Lunch Lady Land oh my God that was amazing he was the lunch lady
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yes we you know what's funny boys we did a video for MTV together first
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we did a video oh for Life Lady Land yeah Lunch Lady Land he played the lunch lady in the video
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it's somewhere and uh we did like a cool like uh a neat looking uh uh video that
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kind of was like in the style of uh Pearl Jam or something like that back
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back in the day we took like the lunch lady video very serious and Farley was doing the funniest [ __ ] in that he I
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think he came by for I think it was a one day video shoot and he was a a madman and then uh
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and then he did it on the show when and kicked ass that was the best thing about being in a skit with farther you just
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felt safe you're like well he'll [ __ ] kill yeah yeah let's let whatever this thing's gonna be
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just fine but he'll he'll destroy and I'll [ __ ] ride the wave with him it was like it being in the perfect wave he
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would set up a a nice whatever the [ __ ] it was he set this great pick for you
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you'd be able to throw a layup in and go like hey I scored but meanwhile he did all the work you know and he would love
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to unprofessionally try to make you laugh or anyone laugh in the middle of this as he when he gets close to your
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head and he crosses his eyes or something because he goes Davey I can cross my eyes but the camera only sees
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one eye and so I can cross him and they'll never see it and I'm like God what are you planning because he thought
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the ultimate Victory is if you laughed you know he's always telling you magical power but he almost broke well he almost
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broke you and pepper boy with his had one lime well thank you pepper it was a 10 minute sketch we were out there yes
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yeah he played it he went big on that I wish early he told him to take it down on that one
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he he did this other one what the [ __ ] else did he oh we used to
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do that corn skit zaggets and uh oh yeah yeah yeah he dressed like an old woman
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and I was an old man and stuff and he would always he'd always grab my knee in in the
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middle of his line so try to shake me and [ __ ] I couldn't help but laugh I just I laughed every time I was with him
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I left her in Billy Madison so much when he was the bus driver we had like the light was going down we had
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a few few minutes to shoot a scene and he was out of his mind staring at me in
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the face and going whatever he was doing and that I and the camera was on the left side I just kept making my head
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stairway off to the right because I couldn't ruin the take but uh we're laughing the whole time oh and he I told
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you on the tour when he goes that Veronica vote he like stops you with his hand and then you're kind of looking
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away smiling because I go were you gonna laugh because he's going he's one piece of Base
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from experienced dude oh yeah he's like yeah and and
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does that for a half hour oh you know what he was turning dark red on the on
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the bus and [ __ ] yeah yeah yeah it's hard hard not to every story about him you're smiling he he was ferocious but
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even his bad moods looking back at Adam you laugh your ass off with how viciously bad a mood he would get and
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even he would laugh at it when I remember I'd come in and you too David you you guys [ __ ] had more than
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anything but I would call him uh call him on a bad mood I'd be like something what happened are you all right you know
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like if you called him out on it and then he could just break into an uncontrollable laughing fit me like yeah
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okay yeah you're right yeah I was being a little pissy there oh my God one time he left me the most violent voicemail
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and it was terrifying and I went to work and he goes David did you get my joke voice I go
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what what joke voice is so psychotic and he goes
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David don't tell Lauren I go I'm not telling anyone I went right
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to the [ __ ] police dude me and him used to do [ __ ] uh
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prank phone calls together oh yeah and yeah and Bernie's voice and Bernie's
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voice and uh and do it for for like an hour at a time in the offices
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yeah just like sitting in our office calling random hotels setting up well
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you said we used to call like uh we used to call like like uh hip uh
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places like uh what the [ __ ] was it llamabas or those kind of cool places
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yeah yeah I like the Rainbow Room yeah whatever yeah just places that I
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would go to and we would [ __ ] ask Bernie uh tell him to set up uh we need
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a table tonight you know yeah ain't some Superstar is coming you know
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uh I need a table for Madonna tonight for 25.
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25 and that would be like oh geez that's right in the heat of everything that's a
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lot of I am if you want me to tell Madonna [Music]
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you that's a lot of people we need to table
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for City now she likes green beans have them ready and that is that's
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Bernie pearlstein the talent manager of all Hollywood who's that was very a big
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Santa Claus guy who would if he had to knock heads together was a huge person
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yeah that's a funny take on her we uh are lucky enough to have Mrs
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Farley on uh Chris's mom and his oldest brother Tom um and they're gonna tell us a couple
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things you we might not have known about Chris oh my gosh here we go Tom what hey don't
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scare Mrs Farley David come on mother oh hi Mrs Farley
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hi you look very you look adorable I
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wanna I wanna meet your dermatologist you look incredible you wouldn't like them
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now he faded after he worked on me [Laughter]
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so what's up you're the only ones that can do a split screen and I can't see either of you I know um but anyway no
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there you go don't hurt your neck uh and I won't hurt mine okay this is Mrs Farley Dana is the only one that sends
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me a Christmas card every year she's so sweet birthday yep sure it was either a Christmas card
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or a birthday David you had a 50 50 chance and and you blew it no no I was
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tricking her to see if she still got her wits about her and you knew it at all all but anyway I would forget either one
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of you you've got your marbles I can tell just by looking at you I'm going to
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start before I rev you guys up right and you don't even have to rev up and really do anything okay uh I when Dana you know
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I always eat early and I always eat quickly when we go out so we always tell the story about Mrs Farley that we all went to dinner once and um we were all
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piling into the sushi or whatever restaurant or the or the ivy or something and we're all sitting down and
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I go to the waitress uh we'll get crab cakes and maybe a Caesar and she goes oh
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we're ordering and then you I I need a menu I haven't even sat down yet I
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related everyone thinks it so every time I start to order someone goes over order we're ordering so soon because we would
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have normally we'd sit for 15 minutes talk get the menus but of course I was
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rudely called out and uh I was really ordering and then she was very sweet to
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say oh I'll order I just don't I'm not seated or I don't have a menu also but now you should know that David now he
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calls the restaurant while he's driving there and I have done that so the food is at the table when he arrives oh David
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that's that's like that's like something Meghan Markle might do when a man's gotta eat a man's Gotta Eat David Spade
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ladies and gentlemen absolutely well moms knows that when it's go time when it's time to eat you know in our family
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so listen I'm I patented a new product on Shark Tank it's called the yuck bag
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oh
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oh what I want to ask Mrs Farley because you have five five children and you're
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feeding them what was your go-to meals that you would serve your family anything in the can oh oh in cans I
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can't we had we had five in our household as well 1500 square feet five kids yep four boys and a daughter and
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yeah there was a lot if my mom was busy and I had a friend come over she would say pancake batter in the fridge for
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dinner help yourself yeah perfect so we'd have pancakes for dinner sometimes my mom was big on fish sticks oh I like
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those too yeah oh yeah I like those two and well uh the batter kind of I didn't
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quite go with the pancakes because I never left the stove mom was the casserole from a casserole era and
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casserole like macaroni and cheese casserole we had those I have a nice hamburger
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helper oh absolutely absolutely well it was gone before I even sat down and I
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have to guess again you're the skinny one because you're working and then you get the you get the last dibs in the
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food and it's there's nothing there's any left was there a fire sale in our house there was if we had sweet cereal
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like Corn Pops or Sugar Smacks or that my brother Mark we called him the human garbage disposal he would pour the whole
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thing and would you it'd be a giant Bowl you would do cake batter in and he would eat the whole thing so there was a race
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for the sweets in our household Well yeah if you got to be fast if you're going to get absolutely absolutely Dana
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I didn't know you had one one uh sister and a sister yeah three older brothers
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yeah a younger sister ah and my dad was a high school teacher my mom was a preschool teacher and we were very
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barely middle class but we had a lot of fun oh but we had we baked uh we go to
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the bakery and get the day old and sometimes the two day old oh and put them in the freezer to eat you know so
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I'm sure you guys had tastes the same yeah so you had a lot of did you have a
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side of beef in a freezer in the in the garage or something one time Tom my husband Tom I have
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different brought a side of beef home and there was no place to put it I had a
00:28:19
small freezer except the dinner table beef like crazy no we didn't have a big
00:28:25
freezer yeah so that was difficult he just brought home a side of beef and
00:28:31
handed you a machete and yeah go to it mom was he good with was he good at
00:28:36
chores around the house or lazy well that was the problem dad would send us all all the boys out
00:28:43
like go shovel the walk or rape the leaves and it would end up with like a huge fight because somebody was yeah we
00:28:52
were all coasting and slacking oh so lollygaggers and gold brickers we did it
00:28:57
we had the same thing we'd have to go out and we would balance the tools oh you know we just had and then when he'd
00:29:03
come out the front door we'd just go like we're raking you know yeah you did that too Tom yeah we're at it Dad we're
00:29:10
doing it yep Poor Boys should have taken us 45 minutes we were out there all
00:29:15
afternoon long yeah yeah just just trimming hoeing lawn mowing all of these
00:29:22
oh no no no lawn mower he doesn't put it that that's a dangerous look yeah that's heavy equipment that's not that would be
00:29:28
bad dad was a little nervous about that power more in the in the hands of the boys no we couldn't do that one doubling
00:29:36
not bad but uh we're just telling the story that Chris told me once when you were a typical story driving around and
00:29:44
uh dad was driving all of you and he goes mom pull over I'm hungry I'm starving and you go Christopher you just
00:29:51
ate an hour ago and yeah good boy yeah yeah yeah a lot that always puzzled me
00:29:59
because we'd have a late breakfast or something 12 o'clock on the dot where's lunch where's lunch and I said it's a
00:30:06
safe what are you talking about but it says that my watch is 12 o'clock I said what kind of you know the mind says I've
00:30:14
got to eat it's 12. that's my mom the cook says no yeah the cooks got to take
00:30:21
a rest so is there anything you guys remember you wanted to say about anything you thought of that was
00:30:27
interesting story funny story it doesn't matter anything you know I had a funny I had a question I was thinking because
00:30:32
Mom all week was like what are they gonna ask like you know what I've got a question I
00:30:37
have a question like for like 20 years we were like used to Chris's you know
00:30:43
all you know we were you know that was part of our life we were totally used to it I'm like my question is like
00:30:50
what was what was your first impression like like when this when that this got
00:30:55
delivered through into your world yeah this hurricane yeah uh I met him at the
00:31:02
Omni Hotel we were I was a feature player writer and I had done four shows
00:31:07
and I came back over the summer and Chris and Chris Rock were hired
00:31:13
that's where they put us up soup was like eight bucks and Rob Schneider kept ordering and I go don't charge that
00:31:19
Salon we'll get fired immediately so I saw I'd heard about Chris I heard his audition was funny I heard he was good
00:31:25
and I met him that first day and uh we will I think we walked over together and
00:31:31
we just gravitated he wasn't uh terrifying at first oh oh no yeah he's the most lovable like
00:31:41
fun happy Madison Wisconsin guy and then uh we Midwest or yeah I just went over
00:31:48
and I was in Arizona we talked about that and we and then we just sort of bonded but he really took to everyone
00:31:54
everyone loved him right away uh I think the funnier part is the people that
00:32:01
that went to college with him and he was a little bit of a boozy Susie I if I may
00:32:06
be so bold um and those people going I'm sure if
00:32:12
you took a poll who will not make it in Show Business in this school they would say well not him he's not gonna go
00:32:19
anywhere he's too crazy and then he's the one that blows up the biggest they must have been shocked
00:32:25
but yeah but he was just so yeah they always talk about like they saw that he
00:32:30
was definitely destined for himself he was different but yeah he's the only cast member I remember meeting Chris and
00:32:39
was really just Charmed by him and he was making me laugh so I invited him home for dinner my wife and I had an
00:32:45
apartment on 84th and Broadway I said you've got to meet Chris so she cooked a meal and we went over there and hung out
00:32:52
with them and we just it and for that evening we just met Charming as you two
00:32:58
are Midwestern Charming values and humility you know um so we just um took a liking to Chris
00:33:06
right away and then as time went on I noticed his explosive Talent you know
00:33:11
the way he could go from zero to a hundred and he had a rhythm with his voice I think he knew exactly what he
00:33:17
was doing comedically at the very very small very smart about how how the land jokes how to move himself around
00:33:24
and so yeah I was just Charmed by him like I'm Charmed right now did you ever tell you the story before that Omni
00:33:31
moment that you just described what happened before that no so I was working
00:33:37
in New York I worked at Paris turns this so I had an office on Park Avenue and Chris rolls into town staying just up
00:33:42
the street and then we had lunch and he's about to go back to the hotel and
00:33:48
he goes uh you know I don't have any you know I don't have a paycheck yet can can you you know lend me he was just coming
00:33:54
off of starvation at Second City sort of like can I borrow some money I'm like okay so I go to my you know the ATM and
00:34:02
you know the 300 I had in there I'm like all right you can have here's 150 I know
00:34:07
you know you're good for it he goes dad said I should go to you know walk up Fifth Avenue where's that I'm like just
00:34:12
right up there oh so he walks up and I get a call like a half hour 45 minutes later it's like yeah Tom I I I'm gonna
00:34:21
need more money I'm like what do you mean you're gonna need more money I'm like I was just walking on Fifth Avenue
00:34:27
like Dad told me and I saw these guys playing cards I'm like oh no were they
00:34:33
like yeah and they were like playing this game and everyone was winning I'm like yeah okay they're all all together
00:34:40
no and I'm like and some guy first thing goes he goes do you know where the car
00:34:46
you know the card is and Chris goes yeah and he goes how much you got and I go what did you do he goes I put down 150
00:34:53
like the whole nut really you just jumped around like I lost it all I'm like okay all right come back I'll give
00:35:00
you the other I'll give you the under 150 in my account and now walk up Madison this time
00:35:08
oh man that is definitely like Green Acres or just a fish out of water he
00:35:15
learned sure yeah I'm sure you're on a Hee Haw but you know you're uh Mrs
00:35:21
Farley you were you were such a good solid person over there I think he learned a lot and very polite to
00:35:26
everyone he was very sweet to everyone and I got that from home and uh he had
00:35:31
his things but down deep he was very good boy and everyone was uh really
00:35:37
gravitated yeah well he knew how to test me that's for sure
00:35:42
I could see through that like five or five or six year old Chris
00:35:48
what would he do what was he was he easily would he like go take a time out
00:35:54
or oh no that was a vacation for him a timeout oh
00:35:59
sure that wasn't anything and then when I'd get these calls from from Edgewood High or school where he was
00:36:07
um they said Mrs Farley Christopher's been naughty on the bus again I said oh
00:36:12
that's bad and what do they do well they explained and I said oh dear it says yes
00:36:18
you he'll be uh not able to ride the bus for a week and I said who are you
00:36:24
punishing here me I had to drive half across town every day
00:36:29
because of his Antics Shenanigans Shenanigans I like how we keep it vague
00:36:36
he was doing some crazy things on the bus on the bus right right was but he got into Marquette University
00:36:43
right I mean so he got his school work together fair and squared he it was he
00:36:50
could do it if he wanted if we wanted yeah he could do it he wasn't any dummy he could work people yeah you're right
00:36:56
yeah he didn't he would go up the host and go are you an A.A I am too and I go
00:37:01
Chris how many times do you have to find some common ground so you can go have a dinner with Sharon Stone he's like I
00:37:07
know he just fine I have problems to you no no
00:37:13
oh boy mom you don't understand me you
00:37:19
really don't understand me I said yes I do Chris oh yeah his mother wasn't born yesterday
00:37:26
I guess but we had we had good times though good times yeah
00:37:32
it was his youth was fun it really was fun no totally yeah yeah it was usually
00:37:38
big time Big families uh you guys would play games and run around if it was a snowy day I'm sure you would barrel with
00:37:45
laughter at times that's why I turn the furniture upside down and put sheets all over it yeah oh yeah all that yeah the
00:37:53
the forts the forts yeah and was there a movie like Tom do you remember were
00:37:58
there movies like we had Jason the Argonauts and certain movies that would come on television we'd all gather around a wizard of oz
00:38:06
big yeah so there was he was scared easily I think though
00:38:13
well the wicked witch is was one of the most terrifying characters I think they watched it ten times over but I was the
00:38:21
bad water oh we don't go oh I would say bedwetter too my oldest my older brother
00:38:27
my parents got a machine in the catalog and they put the the plastic sheet on he was on the upper bunk and it had a
00:38:33
little machine so then what is yours I know but he went to bed so hard he
00:38:40
ruined the machine he broke it the first well he went so much he would sleep walk open the refrigerator door and go pee
00:38:47
pee pee in into in the refrigerator so Tom I mean I I went to bed too and sometimes I'd wake up realize I wet it
00:38:54
and then I would just get to the side of it and go back to sleep yeah yeah I would go to the bathroom
00:39:00
towel put that down I had a lot of serenities a lot of friends so it just
00:39:05
meant we were deep sleepers that's all oh is that what it was oh yeah this is like a very deep cut off all liquid no
00:39:12
liquids after six o'clock and that didn't that didn't work no no yeah no I
00:39:17
I might well you might have had we didn't wet the bed unless yeah unless
00:39:23
on college for other reasons he became a bed wetter later yeah some of us do it
00:39:28
earlier either way there's a lot of bed works too tired to wake up new mattresses a
00:39:36
lot of new mattresses in The Farley household you know Mama Farley when we were he lived at the Bromley Dana is
00:39:42
that where you lived the problem yes the Bromley 84.84 moved in there and Broadway and I think Myers lived there
00:39:48
too and maybe Dennis but it was a very nice I live with main cast members in my
00:39:53
building where do you live what kind of [ __ ] do you live yeah he's always
00:39:58
[ __ ] fighting me about something but it's always just like for fun but I go I know he goes you got to come check it
00:40:04
out it's like over there and I notice there's no shower curtain oh so the
00:40:10
bathroom's soaking wet and he goes I go yeah I go you don't have a shower curtain he goes who needs that are you a
00:40:15
girl oh I mean I I get that it's a hassle to go buy one he goes yeah you
00:40:21
want to go buy one for me I go no and he goes then there's no shower curtain he goes yeah I don't know what he's talking
00:40:29
about so he just has water everywhere a bit of a slob that's all those little things it's just a titch
00:40:37
because that was so opposite of me I'm like yeah and we had to share a bedroom like oh you're like that Felix and uh go
00:40:44
totally and finally I just said that's enough like that find another like we had to like find like another Roman
00:40:51
house and he went behind the furnace that was scary right yeah yeah yeah that
00:40:57
was oh yeah great grand wonderful neatest guy in the world no but Tom is Tom is so that must have been
00:41:05
not good yeah I mean yeah yeah we had all the boys downstairs I always
00:41:13
describe I I spent my whole life trying to like live up to expectations [ __ ] told the line all and look behind me and
00:41:20
this guy is like not only just tripping and falling over the line but like making friends everywhere and I'm like I
00:41:26
didn't I never got that like he's getting he's failing upward every
00:41:33
time he does something wrong he gets more famous and you're like wait what's going on dressing right I'm studying I'm
00:41:38
meat and he's just the opposite and have ten times more friends everyone loves
00:41:44
them you know he had that green coat I think and he'd go to church and he'd all he'd always go to church though he'd
00:41:49
always yeah get that tie on I don't care if he's coming straight from the club you're going to church and he would just
00:41:54
put the tie and tight everything was tight oh really tight they put an overcoat and a sweater and a tiger god
00:42:01
damn how do you get so many layers you can't move I like to feel hugged and then he would go oh man and then he'd go
00:42:08
to church and come back I mean he he did look sharp though he'd all up you taught him that he would doll up for dinner
00:42:15
yeah I know he looked like layered him yeah he was always there that ever
00:42:21
happened like last year when I sent you the Tommy Boy jacket David yes like the worst thing I
00:42:29
ever did so I had Chris's Tommy Boy jacket and it was sitting in storage I'm like you know what this is It's just
00:42:35
sitting in storage this is David's movie too so I like very sweet yeah as soon as my son Tommy to walk it over but before
00:42:41
I did that I'm like I was hanging in my on my on my door I'm like huh and I took
00:42:46
it up put it on and I was like damn it that was like it didn't fit I'm like now I'm the I'm the big guy in the little
00:42:53
code really hard yeah that was about a
00:42:58
difficult you know what's funny I told Dana that I said you know Chris during Tommy Boy because I have that jacket and
00:43:03
I really appreciate it because it's up on the wall here in the podcast room uh it's just like the coolest thing in the world to have the actual jacket from
00:43:10
Tommy Boyd and he uh he was not that huge in Tommy Boy I mean I was pretty
00:43:17
Teensy or thinner shoulders petite yeah he had big shoulders but yeah even he
00:43:23
couldn't fit I mean I think it was gaining more toward the end like he gained more weight but yeah back then he
00:43:28
was sort of known as huge and fat or whatever but he wasn't he's just kind of bigger and of course the word agile
00:43:34
we've heard on everyone we've interviewed he's very athletic very yeah you knew that yeah the look was his arms
00:43:41
were massive it was just so much like huge muscle arms like he goes this he goes like this
00:43:46
you like that [Laughter]
00:43:52
he lift weights or was it natural I mean when did he get all those muscles from it was from rugby or you know yeah yeah
00:43:58
he was born with big big shows always lifting weight okay yeah he was a big weightler wrestler oh okay like that but
00:44:07
we lifted weights a few times together at the Bromley came over and there was a weight room there yeah he could bench a
00:44:13
hell of a lot of weight hey lady yeah put two 50s on
00:44:21
just organically strong yeah uh yeah David was more David and I are more
00:44:26
miniature that way you know I don't know I love the word miniature well I was
00:44:31
138 when I was made Wayne's World one whoa I think I was 138 on uh SNL yeah
00:44:38
135 Club well I'm almost as much as you oh
00:44:46
we're tiny people here no you look tougher than me you can you're fast you can move in your feet you can swing with
00:44:53
a wooden spoon in her hand yeah yeah oh absolutely would you whack them with a wooden spoon oh I went through more
00:44:59
Wooden Spoons and it wasn't cooking yeah was it out of the blue Tom and you just
00:45:05
hear whack what I do or we just no we knew no look we know it was coming yeah yeah I would run to the drawer and open
00:45:12
the drawer and they go
00:45:20
so you were the authoritarian in a way I mean you were not afraid to get those
00:45:25
kids in life no yeah no dad would be young dad was just the voice you know you just he was the first he would send
00:45:33
you like he would stop your blood from just by yelling The Voice he was very respectful of the dad oh yes
00:45:42
he was very yeah Chris was not very close yeah yeah
00:45:47
well it was all new to us all the SNL and this oh it's the strangest U-turn
00:45:53
idea yeah I I I I yeah it's such a strange uh a bizarre thing to happen to
00:46:00
your son well be on TV all of a sudden isn't it I mean well your brother it's
00:46:06
crazy yeah my my uh father when I brought him out from after my mother and
00:46:13
brother died I brought dad over here to Madison and
00:46:18
um that was in 90 five or three 93 and Chris had been on
00:46:26
Saturday Night Live I think since 91 a couple of years nobody had showed the
00:46:32
show to him in in his Nursing Home in Boston so we were out here and I said
00:46:38
Dad Christopher's on television I said let's let's watch a rerun here it was
00:46:44
during the day and he looked and he kept looking at the screen he's
00:46:50
is that is that Chris I said what's he doing up there what's he doing up there
00:46:56
well he's on a show Dad on television
00:47:05
because Chris was always being Chris and my grandfather my Boston Irish
00:47:10
grandfather would always like you're gonna be a bum yeah just quit doing that you're gonna jump yeah you gotta get a
00:47:17
job you got to get an education Chris would laugh it's hysterically loved that he loved it when poppy would call him a
00:47:24
chopper yeah I think he said that when he would even have movies he would read and you know
00:47:31
his dad your your husband Tom was not in Showbiz he's just a normal guy and he goes dad what do you think about this
00:47:37
one he goes sounds like horseshit like like he'd say you're gonna jump
00:47:44
around like a clown in this one he's like yeah then he'd call governments and go I don't think I want to do this when he's like what what you're already doing
00:47:49
and he goes no my dad didn't like it I know but uh but that was a good one with
00:47:56
poppy he he never he couldn't understand that one did he understand how did he live long
00:48:02
enough to understand how wealthy Chris became because that's a different thing when the Benjamins they didn't get that
00:48:08
yeah they can't believe you're getting paid for this stuff that's what they can't believe yeah yeah like they pay
00:48:14
you to do this that was always my thing it was like I
00:48:19
would see like this these skits that I've been seeing him do like Chippendales he's been doing that since
00:48:25
grade school I'm like dancing like that yeah yeah yeah breaking out like you know we that
00:48:33
you know in college we had a bar and the band would go all right we're gonna take 15 minutes break and they'd go and pipe
00:48:39
music in and we'd look back and Chris would be the only one on the dance floor doing this you know doing this stuff not
00:48:45
now he's with Patrick Swayze you know kept his pants up he kept his pants up
00:48:50
yeah he did like take his clothes off for some reason oh I know
00:48:55
would he take his diaper off as a toddler oh he just always taking his
00:49:01
clothes off yeah yeah I find those all over the house yep so funny all right
00:49:08
well is there anything else you guys want to say we just can you call me Marianne okay well I I
00:49:15
I took David's Cube Mrs Farley but I I wanted to call you Marianne because
00:49:20
you're the boy you hear me David of course you're talking to a fellow cast member
00:49:26
here you know oh yeah she was on there Thursday special what was the sketch that you did with Chris
00:49:33
did you do a little dance or a little did you have to do an introduction or something oh that was yeah yes yes
00:49:39
but I was always when I was watching from my side I was like you know everyone was like oh Chris you know I'm
00:49:45
staying alive then you see like Mom and Chris and you see you like you would it was so distinct like where that Comfort
00:49:52
on stage and POI like Mom was just like here you know like came out from Madison Wisconsin and like put her on stage in
00:49:59
SNL and like no this is I had butterflies
00:50:04
yeah you got plus you're very funny until the luncheon was Trump that was
00:50:10
that that was a good one remember that was that what happened yeah he was at
00:50:15
our luncheon oh how funny I don't remember that Donald Trump yeah it was
00:50:21
upstairs like all the all your mothers all the mothers were gonna be huge we're gonna have crab cakes we're gonna do
00:50:26
terrific let me tell you Marianne they don't make him like you anymore and we're gonna be coming there very soon
00:50:31
thank you a great older brother I want to tell you that right now oh he's waiting you're
00:50:38
perfect Dana you are perfect yeah all the mothers all the mother
00:50:44
let me get your number just in case somebody asked him who his hairdresser was that was good oh good he said it's a
00:50:51
weed whacker it's a secret oh yeah my mom Dana on that one she first of all she loves uh Marianne but I love her my
00:50:59
mom was so excited I think she was sick though because she goes I wasn't gonna let that stop me and she goes she broke
00:51:04
on hives on the way home you know they had to get an ambulance when she got him she was covered in eyes she was so either nervous or excited anyway from
00:51:11
the Mother's Day special yeah so they sat her next to me and they had yeah remember she got worse when she was yes
00:51:17
so she's such a trooper her joke was she sits with me and they go she goes I'm
00:51:22
Davey's Fades mom and we I got divorced from his dad when he was four years old
00:51:28
and a lot of kids grow up thinking when their parents get divorced it's their fault in this case it was his fault
00:51:37
that's a nice joke we had the best time and I remember your
00:51:43
darling mother too Dana Oh Billy sweetheart Billy yes yes she she was
00:51:50
such a sweet woman yeah beautifully you get along with everyone though I bet Marion that was genius bringing those
00:51:57
ladies together I don't know where I don't know why they don't do it anymore it was so smart I was surprised when I yeah I was surprised when I first heard
00:52:03
Mother's Day special because I thought we're Saturday Night Live we're Rebels and Pirates but then it ended up being one of the greatest
00:52:09
segments on the show so yeah we all clicked and stayed you know in touch
00:52:15
ever since yeah Chris Rock's mom was there I remember there's a lot of them yeah yeah I used to have some something
00:52:21
I remember one one time uh what when we were practicing
00:52:26
we were all jammed in an elevator and we had to go up to the second floor for
00:52:32
some reason and wait and then come back down and rush out of the elevator well
00:52:37
we had to do that over and over and it was one o'clock in the morning and about the sixth time
00:52:45
we were going up to the second floor again and I said to the girls it was my
00:52:50
fault I said girls we're not getting back on that elevator
00:52:56
the elevator's going down without us and it went down and the doors open no no
00:53:03
they panicked where are the mothers and that we all laughed our heads off we
00:53:10
thought great is cool enough is enough is enough right so you were at a little
00:53:16
bit of Rebel in you as well the Apple didn't fall too far it comes from absolutely of course yeah
00:53:24
that's great now come on I went to the Sacred Heart Convent and I had I was a child of Mary
00:53:31
I was a very sweet wonderful girl that's the impression I'm getting thank
00:53:39
you I'm coming to Wisconsin I'm going to book a date David and I are going to come in there and we're just gonna hang
00:53:45
out with you good what's the closest town with the airport that could take private chests Madison
00:53:57
I come down we'll see
00:54:02
we'll sump on one of these you know I've done stand up a time or two we're gonna go together we're going to do
00:54:08
driven things let me tell you and as Joe Biden would say come on folks we gotta do this is the people my father lost his
00:54:15
job no joke I'm not kidding around here so I was just doing a little bit oh
00:54:21
you're good you're really good we all we're all good and we just thank you for the when you're looking for you too
00:54:28
thank you I worked on my lighting for six hours uh but yeah such a pleasure to meet you
00:54:36
both on this interview and share your thoughts with with the great Chris Farley and uh oh you're just lovely
00:54:43
people and you're Midwest I don't know I just I kind of fall in love with you during this year both of you but anyway
00:54:51
um God bless well I love this show yes yes and David and I are doing this together
00:54:59
and we love we love interviewing our friends and well it's really working it's great it's gonna get up tonight
00:55:17
she is funny uh Dana she's so hilarious
00:55:26
next up is Rob Lowe who was in the movie The Great movie Tommy Boy with David and
00:55:32
Chris and he has some very funny and interesting stories Rob Lowe is like water you know the
00:55:39
thing about water
00:55:48
the quickest lawn we've ever had that's an actual quote I did not make
00:55:53
that up you're not ever underestimate the value of me telling you the value of
00:55:58
water that was the extension that was your score it was a six degree Rob have you
00:56:06
ever thought what do you say Dana when he when he left he goes you know Steve said when you retire
00:56:13
where are you going and I said I'm going up you know whatever he had some place and he goes will there be funny people
00:56:18
there and he goes I never thought of that I'm around funny people every day of my life which is true yeah and he
00:56:24
goes whatever what if I wasn't at some point and I go God that hit me too I go [ __ ] that's true everyone I know is good
00:56:31
look we're talking to Rob Lowe funny just talked to Sandler funny everyone we turn everyone's funny and then you go oh
00:56:38
that happened that happened when we were casting Wayne's World one do you remember that uh uh inflation adjusted
00:56:45
400 million dollar Global uh movie but anyway um but I remember inflation adjusted as
00:56:52
Big Rob don't tell me you don't go back and go that was a [ __ ] hit but I remember we're talking about that
00:56:58
character that Rob did so brilliantly in the show and Lauren said uh Rob Lowe's available
00:57:04
you know and Mike and I looked at each other and said hell yeah so anyway the rest is history the great wrong the rest
00:57:10
is history uh is joining us as we celebrate our friend Chris Farley and uh
00:57:16
here we are and uh how are you rob how's your day I know you're you're working right now right I am um
00:57:21
I'm on uh I'm shooting season four of fire Town damn it's already season four
00:57:28
season four and we come we're on in uh uh end of January we begin on the air
00:57:34
and um I'm on the set I'm in my trailer um I told everybody on the set walk away because I'm doing something
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important you I am going to talk to to my two buddies about uh my third buddy
00:57:47
that's what we're doing that's what we're here for well rob you can open with a story about him or we can just talk about it whatever you want to do we
00:57:53
can talk about your interaction where did you first meet him and what were your thoughts I I remember there's certain people you
00:58:00
vividly remember the first time you you meet them no no disrespect to either of you and I love you and your legendary
00:58:06
figures I don't remember the first time I met you I do remember the first time I met Farley it was at Lauren's wedding to
00:58:15
Alice whoa and I was headed out to the porta potty
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and there was this large person
00:58:27
sweating buckets stuffed into a Madras stuffed we know what Madras is Right
00:58:33
Madras is a particular pattern um colorful uh sport coat
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and pacing up and down and I just like wow they I better see if Lauren has
00:58:47
security because this is this person can't be invited I've come to find out that that was Chris Farley so we had no
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interaction but he made such a visual impact on me and then um the next time I
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met him um he was doing a bit in was it Wayne's World one or two Dana
00:59:05
um I God wasn't even both of them I think he was in both he was like backs yes it was first he was backstage at
00:59:10
Alice Cooper yes it was backstage and I was like hey you're the Porta-Potty guy from Lauren's wedding
00:59:16
great you're doing a little thing in the movie good for you and um then
00:59:23
um of course um Farley became a very big star and Lauren
00:59:30
and I were playing tennis with the late great Bernie brillstein and Lauren said
00:59:35
um uh there's a new idea for a movie uh it's you and Farley as as brothers oh
00:59:43
right right and I went that's super funny and then I didn't hear anything about it for months and months and
00:59:49
months and then Lauren's like so the movie is coming together and uh we want
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to talk to you about it and now it was uh they realized that Spade is way more funny than me so Spade was uh the this
01:00:01
the second banana but I still was the brother and Tommy Boy as you know and
01:00:06
then I you know then we had great great stories I have great stories of shooting with you spade and with with Farley do
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you remember that were you there the day we went to the steakhouse together do you remember that dinner at all barbarians yes barbarians it's in
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Toronto yeah yeah Toronto so you know Farley loved eat loved his steak and
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so I remember he ordered two two
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full porterhouse steak so porterhouse is a New York steak and a filet on the bone
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he ordered two of them and then this was like an old school Steakhouse like really super old school with the the
01:00:48
vinyl leather red booze and and they serve you um butter that's in these like squares
01:00:57
with that you have to peel off paper on top yeah the paper top squares right yeah he he put a square of butter
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on top of every bite and the bites were generous how many
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pounds of meat are we talking about approximately between the two Porter houses so you took like are they 16
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ounce I'm sure there are 18 ounces yeah I'm sure yeah and so a square on ever not
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every steak every bite and I was so horrified
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and I look I remember looking over at Spades Paige just gave me that look like what are you gonna do you know what I mean and and I said Chris what is
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happening and I'll never forget it he held up his Fork steak on the fork
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Butter Square on top of the steak and just
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[Laughter]
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sit down and gullet and did it kind of look like a little hat on this you know he was right right
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it was a little butter hat yeah it was a butter hat that's very Chris yeah
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Rob was there for the great tuna sandwich debacle actually you know the
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reason that's right you were the reason okay what's the tuna sandwich I'll play along tuna sandwich debacle oh Danny
01:02:20
you're not gonna pull that out of me so what happened I'm intrigued by the title I'm begging you Spade well I think we've
01:02:27
talked about it with Rob before but you know he he we were always on edge we were flying back and forth from SNL and
01:02:33
every two days you know doing read through on SNL then we fly after read through it and we'd shoot for Rob uh
01:02:40
unfortunately was sort of had to deal with this schedule with us because we were going back and forth so he'd maybe do a scene with Bo Derek and then we'd
01:02:47
come into a scene with him and and then uh we were getting short on patients with each other just with everything you
01:02:52
know just stressful and um and then he felt sick the short version is he felt
01:02:57
sick and he goes I I don't feel good and we got to shoot in the morning I'm just gonna go right to sleep and so I got in
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and Rob was there and I think we talked and said let's grab a beer or something we went just to the Four Seasons just to
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the bar one drink and went in like we got to shoot at 5am or whatever so it was it was absolutely nothing and the
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next day he's glaring at me in the in the mirror in makeup you know he can Bank off the mirror and see the other
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guy and I'm like hey everybody and he's just staring at me and he's biting his lip you know he does that Dana like you
01:03:28
know you're in trouble and he goes how's Rob Lowe how's Rob Lowe I go what's going on and
01:03:34
he goes how's Rob Lowe I go where's Rob Lowe I don't know I don't is he in today and then everyone sort of like backs off
01:03:41
because you know it's like gonna be a fight I'm like I don't know what's going on he goes you we find out as he was mad
01:03:48
that Rob Lowe and I went on a date basically without him and uh we didn't call him and I said but you said you're
01:03:54
sick you said you don't call me because I'm going to bed and he goes you [ __ ]
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call me when you have beer with Rob Lowe you run it by me and I go what and so then he run it by me yeah
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hey no I'll say no and I go okay and then we're on the set and he keeps staring at me and I'm
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freezing waiting to enter with Rob Lowe who's inside with I think Brian Danny and Bo Derek and the scene and I'm
01:04:21
shaking because it's [ __ ] 12 degrees and I'm on the bottom of these stairs or whatever and I'm biting this tuna
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sandwich and he's staring at me and he's so mad that I'm not fighting back he just walks over and steps on my hand and
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my sandwich and crunches everything I go what the [ __ ] and then I threw my diet coke on him and then he pushed me down
01:04:38
the stairs and then they go action on the walkie and we both freeze and then
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we both just walk into the scene and then I was the push that cracked first because I'm just staring
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but there's too much going in my head like what's going on then so I just go uh and then Pete the director goes line
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for spade and then I go like I know my lines I just like I don't know what's going on we're in the middle of a fight
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so I uh I left and went to my trailer and then I think uh Rob or someone
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talked to Chris and then he went to his Trail just a big mess on the set I go this set's gonna be closed down it was
01:05:11
closed down for about 20 minutes and then they're like we gotta golf Lauren get the [ __ ] back to the set and figure
01:05:17
it out we're like I remember it I remember it like it was yesterday I can see it I can see him with those he
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always wear those awful Red Wing boots remember God awful boots and those tuna crunchers
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I remember them yeah he crunched your tuna I mean my fingers so what was it
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like from your point of view hearing about this like the the stars are fighting I think David's leaving out a
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very Salient point and this is what sent Chris over the
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edge I think Chris probably would have been okay with us you know just down in the bar catching up but my favorite
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collection of it is we went to the hot tub we went to the jacuzzi oh
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mistake we went to jacuzzi and the notion of you and I in a Jacuzzi
01:06:07
without him was too much for him to bear yeah oh yeah the fun the funny picture
01:06:13
the fomo was he was foaming with fomo he couldn't [ __ ] deal and uh I said it
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was even fun I was trying to really it was literally like an affair and we got caught and I was trying to back my way out of
01:06:28
it and he's like you're lying and then later when he would talk about it did
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you touch him did you kiss him where you wish Rob Lowe was on our flight so that
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was for about a year of uh him mad he was proprietary about oh yeah yeah and and you know but I
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think he he loved Rob being in the movie and he did love uh and he loved Beau of course
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and uh the movie really just we got lucky we got Farley
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24 hours a day which was a gift it was a gift you know what's insane is as you
01:07:03
know we all do lots of things and you never know what's gonna stick but Tommy Boy
01:07:10
when we were doing Wayne's World I I we kind of knew that was a thing and I mean we didn't know it was gonna be a big hit
01:07:15
but we it was like whatever but Tommy Boy was always this kind of it wasn't a very Saturday live-esque
01:07:22
movie really because I had way more heart than that and but Tommy Boy has become as you know
01:07:28
this this just unbelievable part of people's lives I was I I was getting to
01:07:33
know Jonah Hill recently and Jonah in all seriousness not a bit we'll tell you that it's his
01:07:41
favorite movie of all time period period yeah it's my nearest things about
01:07:49
Tommy Boy Pete Siegel says every he's a director he goes every job I've ever gotten is just all I have to see on the
01:07:54
resume is Tommy Boy and that's all he goes you got it you can do it if you can do that
01:08:00
watch it again I remember it being just really a special movie but Matt really I
01:08:07
think I need to see it tonight something happened in that movie The Chemistry Between the cast and you know
01:08:14
it really was it set Chris up right Chris is uh all his strengths were on display yeah so it was like a coming out
01:08:20
of introducing everyone that doesn't watch us now to Chris and um backed up by Rob and me and Beau and
01:08:27
Brian and everybody just sort of orbiting around him and just letting him
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do but it was smart they got hard in there and they got the bagpipes and there's just some things there you don't
01:08:39
see coming and and then it all works out so I don't know what it was but it got
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we got really uh lucky what do you think it is Rob what do you think the magic is
01:08:49
I I think it's what uh when I because I asked Jonah that unless Jonas one of the smartest funniest dudes around he's a
01:08:57
great actor I mean great actor director now yeah yeah brilliant and so
01:09:03
I asked him that it's his favorite movie of all time so like what is it and he goes he says
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for me it's like that scene where Chris is alone sort of
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praying in the sailboat yes because I remember he goes I remember it making me cry
01:09:21
in the theater and you know and listen I love I love our Wayne's World and I love our Austin
01:09:27
Powers movies but they are making you cry yeah and and I think that was the
01:09:33
Special Sauce yeah and Chris had that gear you know that empathy likability whatever you want to call it
01:09:40
you know that you would take that ride with him effortlessly but I remember that scene myself as being kind of like
01:09:46
whoa this is this is unique for a comedy with so much great slapstick or physical
01:09:51
comedy in it man with a little coat I mean that's oh yeah was that it did he
01:09:56
rehearse it or did he surprise you with that um you know Pete uh Pete has a lot of stories and I think we
01:10:03
see it all from our own recollection and some are different because they just are I don't know what you never really know
01:10:10
what's the real but I remember certain things and I remember but I remember doing that at work and um and then in the movie
01:10:17
Sometimes when there was flat spots because it was a movie about brake pads that uh they were there there was room
01:10:23
for like hey maybe we could spice up this brake pad speech and say
01:10:29
housekeeping or we could say you know something else that and Pete was very good about saying try it like I don't
01:10:36
know or even sometimes people would say especially I think with housekeeping he's like I don't really get it but
01:10:43
and try it if you guys think and if it doesn't work we take it out and that was a big agreement like let's just try stuff and it doesn't work take it out
01:10:48
and that's how a lot of movies have done it since and maybe before that but it's a great way to do it because if you have
01:10:53
an extra couple minutes throw every [ __ ] thing against the wall while you're all lined up you're all in makeup you're all there you'll never be there again try anything you
01:11:00
can and he did we got so much out of Chris of uh just coming remember he came to the door Rob
01:11:07
I don't know if you're there that day so I go housekeeping he comes up and the big decision was he's in tighty whities
01:11:14
with like Garanimals on him or something and the next one he's just in a towel
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the next one he drops down he's totally naked right so we had to pick which is the funniest one so we just do the same
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scene over and over and then you go it's so sad because they're all funny two are gonna get scrapped no one will ever see
01:11:31
them I saw Daily's years later I think Pete had and it was him swinging his
01:11:39
dick around because when they go they don't yell cut he goes oh Richard oh
01:11:45
hold me or whatever don't run for your feelings and then I slam the door and and he turns the camera and he swings
01:11:51
his dick around he goes hi Sherry Lansing [Laughter]
01:12:01
I'm like Chrissy what if she's why she has to watch dailies or she watches some
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or someone's like oh so funny well Robbie thank you for talking to us we all love Chris and I know you did and uh
01:12:13
yeah you're a big big part of that uh memory especially with Tommy Boy I mean that's the one thing believe me I hear
01:12:20
about it every day too people come up to me all the time and stay uh did you ever eat paint chips as
01:12:27
a kid that's a big one big one yeah I mean there's a there's a lot of
01:12:32
them this these shoes are worth more than your life there's a lot of a lot of good quotes by the way what
01:12:39
about I mean I mean we're talking about Chris but Rob's unsung laughs because Chris you can't even get attention from
01:12:45
him but your shirt getting sucked off I when I saw the dailies I go you're out of your [ __ ] mind is that how how did
01:12:51
you do that I couldn't believe that's not a trick didn't you just do it that that's one of my proudest I'm like
01:12:58
real it's one of my proudest comic moments it's it's so dumb it's like this
01:13:05
cool guy gets so humiliated and then tries to shrug it off it it was so it it
01:13:10
was a really elaborate special effect and they that shirt really does get ripped off of me it's not CGI it's
01:13:18
nothing and you're talk you're with Julie Warner right that's right I'm with Julie roner trying to hit on her and I'm
01:13:23
just this scuzzy sleazy dirt bag and and I'm like well I guess I'll catch you
01:13:29
later baby and my shirt gets sucked up one of those pneumatic you know those
01:13:34
old school pneumatic male tubes where they go Shoop and goes up yeah they come
01:13:39
off the top of you I don't really you know it literally just goes I have a button-down shirt in it it's the button
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and then goes it's a double whammy that's funny about it yep it's off me and then it's up the [ __ ] tube it's
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one of my favorite physical things I've ever I got to do Jonah Hill has good taste like that is brilliant yeah all
01:13:58
right love you boys talk to you soon Eric Newman was an assistant to Chris
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and I on the movie Tommy Boy he is now a big producer on shows like narcos
01:14:10
I don't know what did we did we met in 93 right or die already we met in 91 91.
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so what years were you on SNL well I was I was a I had been a PA on Wayne's World
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yeah so I how okay but I wasn't you know
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I was I was you know there was a privileged group of Pas um that were assigned to you I kind of
01:14:36
had Mike um and so I I was you know getting him shocked I would see uh I remember actually
01:14:44
because it was so fun to think back on that time with this assignment you know
01:14:50
with Chris in mind but I thought about Wayne's World I was thinking about you know seeing you it was always like uh it
01:14:55
was like you were putting on a show for the people around you I was not one of them I was would walk past and watch you
01:15:03
um making everyone laugh when I was going to get a sandwich for Mike damn something yeah I remember that yeah I
01:15:08
remember that I would make everyone laugh and I see you walk by and yeah what's up with Newman
01:15:14
um but anyway well party on thank you thanks for joining us thanks
01:15:20
for having me I I came to the show in the 93-94 season
01:15:27
and I think you had just left or were leaving yeah
01:15:32
like in spring or something right before the McCartney episode where Chris did his yes so when you write this uh you
01:15:40
know wait Dana you left during the season yeah we didn't have it no one's playing
01:15:46
instruments singing I'm not dancing with Lauren you just kind of go out the back door they go good yeah good riddance
01:15:51
later look my choices around that time is for another podcast let's just say that I I was a pretty
01:15:59
naive young man but um so you got there and you're you're you're working on the show yeah it was
01:16:05
Lawrence I think Lauren's idea was because I wanted to you know I wanted to make movies and and uh I I didn't you
01:16:13
know I didn't know then that TV would become what it became I was like well I want to go you know movies are where
01:16:19
it's at and I uh and I went I came to the show I think his idea was I would get to know the cast
01:16:27
um and then I would you know help him make his movies and you know Lauren as he does now you know then he had
01:16:33
tremendous power he was able to he was the only producer for whom you could
01:16:39
make a movie during the the SNL season and he would just kind of make it work and you know I came out there uh and and
01:16:47
we were developing Tommy Boy at the time and and the plan was uh during the
01:16:54
season we'd make that movie and and he was able to arrange um a way where and it was a it was
01:17:01
brutal and David you'll remember the the our our plane our little jet we had that was the shittiest private plane that uh
01:17:08
oh I hate bad privacy they're terrifying these were it was it was it was an MRI
01:17:15
with wings yes basically what was it but was it a prop plane no is it an actual
01:17:20
little was it what a layer layer 35 or something they're 55 yeah or like a
01:17:25
Cessna like smaller or something yeah but I mean ej3 the 90s and so I mean
01:17:31
this thing was like barely uh flight rated um yeah we would get on it you know this
01:17:38
our schedule was basically hey Newman why don't we get on because it's so small it's just me probably me you and
01:17:44
Chris yep and he he sort of had to keep an eye on us and then um I get on the
01:17:49
pilot shake my hand and we get done and Chris gets on and they go uh-oh no they would they would maybe have to
01:17:56
sit in the back or something yeah balance yeah they want to make sure the weight's all perfect go ahead well that
01:18:02
was really my job Lauren said to me he's like you know look after uh David and Chris but really Chris you know it was
01:18:08
like it wasn't really doing it everyone has a lord everyone that was good that was really good
01:18:15
because it was understated but but very real it's funny you know Rob Lowe has a really good Lord by the way you have a
01:18:21
phenomenal Lord I know um but his Lord's really good and it's kind of what he
01:18:27
chooses to say with it that's so good because there are certain things that just sound like they'd be you know
01:18:32
things learn to say but that was you know really you know it's really about Chris you know he's you know and at the
01:18:38
time and I you know not a lot of people remember that this sort of period of
01:18:44
Chris from like I guess it was must have been 93 to 96 when we made these movies uh David and Chris and me
01:18:51
and the others Chris was totally sober in this period uh you know if he that's
01:18:56
what I I thought because he seems so great and Tommy Boy I couldn't imagine he was using no yeah he wasn't bloated
01:19:03
in the face or like bleary and just on point we were and we were together all the time because my job was to look
01:19:10
after him David was uh I don't know if this has changed I doubt it has David is
01:19:16
the only actor I've ever worked with uh even since who was looking to get out of
01:19:22
scenes anytime David should say Hey what if what if my guys what if my guy's not
01:19:28
in this scene and uh and I remember you know we would
01:19:34
we would take this plane you know on the schedule basically was we would fly to Toronto on you know from
01:19:42
Teterboro Airport in New Jersey we'd fly to to um Toronto and we would shoot
01:19:48
Monday Tuesday Wednesday morning we would fly back for the read through we would do the read
01:19:55
through yeah then we get back on the plane fly up for flashbacks shoot
01:20:00
Thursday Friday and I think Friday night we would come back and join rehearsals or you know
01:20:07
Chris and David would um I would just watch and uh and then do the show and then oftentimes we would I
01:20:13
don't know why we would rather than go back to our apartments and go to sleep on Sunday we would fly back Saturday
01:20:19
night after the show and we did that wow yeah we did it for you know at least you
01:20:27
know you know sometimes Newman I remember one time we did that we had to fly back
01:20:32
after the show I think we just did but Sunday morning we had a Sheen and Tommy Boy where Rob
01:20:39
Lowe we're inside an auto plant it's zelinski yep and Rob Lowe gets hit in the balls and yeah we only had that I
01:20:46
think first yeah for Sunday so we I think we shot 24 hours that was one night we broke some rules because we
01:20:52
just kept shooting and I'm like I think we're are we gonna keep going and they went like Sunday from 7 A.M then they
01:20:58
went to 7 P.M then it went and I was like oh boy that was the Aykroyd that was the oh
01:21:03
yeah that was it because we only yeah it was a functioning plant that we could only shoot on Sunday yeah it was it was brutal and uh it was fun
01:21:11
and and at that I was probably 22 years old so I could uh youth really helps in those situations yeah it was because I'm
01:21:18
getting tired just thinking about it but that's it was brutal crazy and I thought uh you know we had this this plane and
01:21:24
and it was you know in those days you could smoke on the plates of Chris smoked anywhere uh and we would you know
01:21:32
play checkers I don't know why didn't and checkers to me isn't even really a game it's more it's kind of like playing
01:21:38
like coin uh coin toss it's like you know it's like a Time killer for children I guess there's not a 12 move
01:21:44
ahead thing and there's no Bobby Fischer of of checkers yeah right but for some reason
01:21:53
we would play I never played with David because he was you know he knew it was a waste of time but Chris well he was a chess champion yeah David it was the old
01:22:00
saying I was playing chess and they were over there we go and I David was plotting to get
01:22:06
out of scenes while you guys are playing I was highlighting the script going they don't need me in this I don't need to
01:22:12
have that entrance I beat Chris like 10 times in a row I
01:22:17
mean just literally is like yeah oh man and you know he started getting madder matter and then at one point he screamed
01:22:24
at me he's like you never move your back road he took the Checker uh
01:22:30
he would get uh and his you know he had he was very aware of his sort of you
01:22:35
know how funny his temper was so it always kind of become a joke but yeah David you remember when uh when David
01:22:42
again trying to get out of work or at least knowing when work was coming David would ask me for a day out of days uh
01:22:48
schedule oh yeah I love that and uh day out of day yeah so the day of the days is it you know as you know for those who
01:22:56
don't know is it's as it's a single piece of paper it has sort of a almost a
01:23:01
graph on it that I will tell you like when you're working you can look at it you can find the app Monday through
01:23:07
Friday Spade Works Farley works yeah it's not yeah and they're not that easy to read
01:23:12
unless you you know know how to read them but so David and I are I've got one and David's got one
01:23:18
and uh and Chris sees that like here's this thing that he doesn't have and he
01:23:23
he tears mine out of my hand and he says he says from now on anything David Gets
01:23:28
I get and he looks at it turns it sideways can't like can't
01:23:35
figure it out and then he's upside down and then he pretends to fall asleep
01:23:41
to um I remember one one night we were flying on the plane it was for some
01:23:46
reason David you weren't there you successfully gotten out of whatever it was that we wanted to do yes and uh
01:23:52
we're on the plane and you know it's three in the morning and it's dark
01:23:58
and the you know I'm I'm asleep or at least you know half asleep my eyes closed and
01:24:04
the light turns on and I can I can hear Chris let trying
01:24:11
not to laugh so I'm like oh like I don't know what this is gonna be and I turn over and Chris is laying stretched out
01:24:17
on the chair next to me totally nude and he had taken on orange clothes and he
01:24:23
was and he was waiting for me to notice him but like you know it was the most you know uh botched joke ever but it's
01:24:30
really really want to check her over his dick he um if you've done this it needs
01:24:36
a hat thing to me before before we started uh Tommy Boy
01:24:42
there was even you know you know you guys have talked a lot about about SNL on the show obviously and and you know
01:24:48
so people know that there's a dress rehearsal and then there's a sort of an hour in between you know and then
01:24:54
there's a then the live show and they're virtually the same show except things get cut
01:24:59
um based on time or performance and Chris had gotten
01:25:04
uh a sketch cut that he was excited about and and I remember I saw him
01:25:10
outside of Lauren's office um on on the on the ninth floor you know the one the office is just above eight
01:25:16
you know the I guess it's the ninth floor and he was a Christmas upset and he and
01:25:23
I was in the hallway with him alone and he said you know what [ __ ] this like I'm done [ __ ] this and you know the show was
01:25:28
starting and and he walked out of now down the
01:25:34
hallway to the elevator press the down button and got into the elevator and and I got
01:25:40
in with him because I was like you know it was I it was a little bit like my favorite year you know like I had to follow you know uh Peter o' Tools around
01:25:48
and I couldn't yeah yeah exactly and I I couldn't you know I didn't have a cell phone
01:25:54
um but we get into the elevator and you know at 30 Rock they have all the monitors in the show I can see that the show is started and Chris and I are now
01:26:01
going down the L you know we're in the elevator we've we've exited in the lobby and I said Chris what you know where
01:26:07
what are you doing like we're you know do you have like maybe you know there's the monologue and then like you're in
01:26:13
the first sketch and he's like I'm gonna go to I'm gonna go to 8th Avenue and score like I'm like [ __ ] this we're gonna go to the Blarney
01:26:18
Stone I'm like no no no we're not I can't like this is you know this is this will be bad for you it'll be really bad
01:26:24
for me Chris will be fine you'll get fired yeah exactly and I'm like and I don't know how like yeah we passed the
01:26:30
security guards downstairs they're like hey why is Chris Farley in some type of costume walking out Steve dresses a
01:26:37
pilgrim and then yeah exactly I think he was like a bumblebee or something and then uh and everyone's like is this like
01:26:43
part of the show I'm like no I'm like it's not part of the show and I and I don't know how to call for help and we
01:26:49
get out on the Fifth Avenue and um he uh and he hails a cap and I'm like
01:26:57
I'm Chris please don't do this and he's like nah [ __ ] this the cab pulls out he opens the door and
01:27:03
I'm thinking do I go with him do I run upstairs I can't I don't know I wouldn't even know who to get to and he opens the
01:27:11
door and then he's like I'll just [ __ ] with he shuts it and we get back in the elevator go upstairs and he goes
01:27:16
out right in time to go on uh the sketch and I had forgotten it it was so traumatized it's a practical joke until
01:27:24
yeah it was the meanest stress the joke everybody was but I think after that
01:27:29
because that was before even time ago I think he was like okay this guy can I like this guy like he's you know he went
01:27:34
on the whole ride with me and I didn't lose it no I didn't lose it so you're 22 years of age and what do you I mean the
01:27:42
psychological Jujitsu that you're being asked to to be knowledgeable about I mean I guess Lauren intuited that you
01:27:48
had kind of a high social IQ or something because that's yeah I mean like like a lot I would say like most of
01:27:55
the people who have my job like by the way my daughter Sarah has my job now it's Saturday live of 30 years ago oh
01:28:02
really hi Sarah yes hi Sarah is she out trying to score with one of the performers is she watching she watching
01:28:09
Colin Jones yes basically yeah she's uh she's I think she's attached to the
01:28:16
writers which is probably safer than being attached to the talent as I know Dana whenever they said where's Farley
01:28:23
and they go he went down to Ninth Avenue everyone knew what that meant there was a there was a person's name that when
01:28:29
they said he's with that person I go oh boy because everyone knew that was it was the Blarney Stone I think or one of
01:28:35
those Blarney Stone yeah but I had I think you know I had been a you know a
01:28:41
family friend of Laura my dad and Lauren you know my dad was the musical guest of the second show your dad is uh yeah you
01:28:50
know you thought you're from uh that's what I didn't know if you wanted me to say but you're from a famous family so at least you have been around it enough
01:28:58
to know something so you're not just totally no I wasn't like a 22 year old regular no not not regular but I I uh I
01:29:06
actually really appreciate uh I guess appreciates throwing bad
01:29:11
behavior is sort of entertaining to me it always has been you know I would encounter it um uh and and so when it
01:29:19
happened attitude yeah I just never you know I never it you know I was I was
01:29:24
never shocked by it I did uh I did work very hard like I I and I felt like I had
01:29:29
sort of the the advance I remember the first day of Wayne's World you know and I was in college as the summer you know
01:29:36
it was a summer thing you know I had to go meet Lauren at the parking gate at Paramount you know where
01:29:42
he had driven and he was driving one of those like new 500 Mercedes the two door you know the convertible that no one had
01:29:47
yet and it was like beep beep over here I don't use the parking card you know so
01:29:52
I I go out there and I stand you know and the guard you know yeah it's like hey you can't do that I was like trust
01:29:58
me like I I can it's you know I have to I have to and so you know I I use the
01:30:05
card to let them in and uh he's like what's going on you know like give me you know like like basically like brief
01:30:11
him but I brief him while he continues driving at about 12 to 15 miles an hour
01:30:17
so I'm running alongside and talking with Lauren telling Lauren like well today you have this and I think he's
01:30:24
like I like this this guy's you know he'll he'll do it you know I'll send him in and I think I was sort of a you know
01:30:29
uh uh you could kind of send me into the machine gun I guess and I think maybe he can do that and so I and I at SNL you
01:30:36
know it was it was a great you know I know that I was telling my daughter that that when you're there even if it's a
01:30:43
great year everyone talks about how shitty the show if you're on the show everyone's like oh yeah we were you know we're not and you don't realize you're a
01:30:50
partner not cool anymore no and then you look back to see you know it was you
01:30:55
guys and it was drop and it was you know uh I think Rock had just left but it was you know Sandler who I saw yesterday at
01:31:01
a farm shop um and uh it was Mike and and it was
01:31:07
Phil's last year on the show it was just phenomenal like Golden Era of the show but when you're in and it's always kind
01:31:13
of you know I I always thought that when I came back to guest house I was just in a room hanging out with Farley David
01:31:19
maybe Rock um and Sandler and they were just so [ __ ] funny I just thought they were
01:31:25
the funniest group of people and so talented and smart so this whole that's why they got the name the Bad Boys yeah
01:31:32
right it was a it was but then it was Saturday night dead yes there was that you know I guess there was a review and
01:31:39
they're also there had been a book had come out that it sort of you know I I went to see Lauren a couple weeks ago
01:31:45
because you know to visit my daughter and it's unchanged you know pretty much really yeah and yeah he's yeah he
01:31:52
figured it out you know his attention and never never did a new theme never did a new format he was very smart about
01:31:59
his brand it's what Newman do you remember Dana when uh uh the New York
01:32:05
maybe you just left the New York Magazine yeah I remember that R was embedded with us yeah and then the guy
01:32:11
rat [ __ ] us and wrote a bad article and everyone was on nah yeah up on 17
01:32:17
going that's when Farley and Santa were like let's go beat the [ __ ] out of this guy and there was definitely a long
01:32:23
conversation about what how to do that because yeah Farley was leading the charge
01:32:30
Chandler yelling I think it wasn't risk getting fired but everyone was so felt
01:32:35
so betrayed I remember the nasty article that was I that was that year because I remember that guy was around yeah um I
01:32:42
don't know and I'd never seen anybody let in like a Monday meeting or really on the inside everyone's kissing his ass
01:32:48
and then he's like these [ __ ] [ __ ] and we're like oh boy uh oh this we just got welcome to showbiz do
01:32:55
you remember David when do you remember when we saw Bon Jovi at the airport do you remember that
01:33:01
it's great so so we're so we have this like I said we had this shitty little plane jalopy and you gotta barely hold
01:33:09
you know okay it's like wings like hey guys can what if you hold on to that
01:33:15
so so we have to duct tape the wings one more round yeah and every once in a
01:33:21
while we would get a different plane but it was never a better plane but one day we're at but we're on the way back to
01:33:26
SNL from from the back way back to New York and we're in that little private Air
01:33:33
Terminal and this beautiful plane is wheeled out like this it's like a G4 or brand new at times Gulf Stream and uh
01:33:41
and we're like wow like like clearly like you know whoa our plane was like
01:33:46
that plane had a baby yeah and so we think for a minute maybe that's our plane and then they're like no no that's
01:33:52
not your plan and out walks Jon Bon Jovi and the other bunch of the only other guy whose name I know uh Richie Sambora
01:34:00
yeah and they're yeah that's their plane they're rock stars yes and they see Chris and David and you know the way
01:34:07
that famous people always kind of know each other like oh hey man this is like you know what's up and writer On Cue
01:34:13
our plan comes out and fragility looks at it and goes is that catch your plane and they're like yeah you know kind of
01:34:21
you know like already race for you know the sound effect and it's like that and he's like oh he's like wow you guys
01:34:27
should you should come with us like you know and we're like and at that point you were kind of insulted and and and
01:34:33
you know Chris is like no no no we're we're good dude and Bon Jovi goes well
01:34:40
good luck and gets on his plane and by the way and a number of years later I
01:34:46
don't think David I ever told you this a number of years later I had a meeting with Bon Jovi you know his manager I think was Michael Michael rodenberg or
01:34:52
somebody said hey will you meet John he said you know he's he's acting and and he's not a bad actor at all
01:34:58
and I had this meeting with him and I reminded him like you know yeah we I
01:35:04
said I met you at the airport with you know uh Farley in Spain he's like and he
01:35:10
immediately was like you know what he goes I think about that sometimes because I think I came off sounding like
01:35:16
a dick and I seriously didn't mean to the moment I got on the plane I was like why did I say that and I was like wow
01:35:21
like wow turns out great guy you know like he even gave a [ __ ] or even
01:35:27
remembered yeah yeah so yeah it was probably an awkward joke because he probably was kind of comedians who were
01:35:32
famous are intimidating as well yeah because they have X-ray vision they're seeing the whole playing field but uh
01:35:38
God that's amazing yeah that was cool it was fun we used to go to uh uh what was The Barbarians Chris always wanted to go
01:35:45
to and then by the way every by the way barbarians has come up about times I know of course it was like hysterical
01:35:52
what was so great about it I mean just dark and it was in proximity to a strip yeah oh Brass Rail which is a brass rail
01:35:59
but I also think that like it was it must have been comforting I think Chris came from that kind of place in terms
01:36:07
like where the steakhouse was the you know when the yuck bag yeah when the
01:36:12
family would go out to dinner you know on a special occasion they would go to this you know red leather beef chuck you
01:36:18
know steak place yeah exactly um but yeah it was he would and then we would always end up with The Brass Rail
01:36:24
when we go to the Brass Rail Dana so we get per diem right so if people don't know you get like money to spend for
01:36:30
food on a movie so let's say we get 700 bucks for the week and then we're stuck on the movie so much it's fun because
01:36:36
it's free actual cash that no one can get their greedy mitts on we just get to keep it but you don't spend it that much
01:36:42
because you're you're always on the set so we go to the Brass Rail and he goes David come with me I don't want to go
01:36:48
there again dude he goes just two seconds we'd walk and he'd immediately take a VIP dance I just sit there for 45
01:36:54
minutes and then he comes back and he goes all right I'm tapped out let's go
01:36:59
and then we'd go and I go you spent all your prettier he goes David if you don't spend it you have to give it back I go I
01:37:06
don't think that's not true he goes give me yours I'll spend it for you I go no no he had a such a funny
01:37:13
relationship with you David wait say these little innocent things to you all the time you guys fought I don't know I mean
01:37:20
remember when you guys had yeah they were fighting on during uh Tommy Boy and what was the fight basically about
01:37:27
uh David I mean there was definitely a girl somewhere in there I can't remember exactly what that was more black sheep
01:37:35
but yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah when did he step on your sandwich that was Tommy Boy no actually there was a problem during
01:37:43
yeah on Tommy Boy for that um but he oh yeah he Stepped On My Sandwich the great tuna salad yeah
01:37:50
called me and said but Chris step on David's sandwich I said yes and his
01:37:56
[ __ ] hand yeah and that was really the problem and then he threw me down
01:38:01
the stairs but yeah that was that too but you're a light and you're Scrappy but Dane I didn't say this part so Fred
01:38:07
Wolfe is one of the writers he he uh he was on set writing a lot of jokes and he comes in my my thing and Barley's so mad
01:38:16
and he doesn't know what to do because Fred's like you can't beat up his face he's in the movie and you can beat him
01:38:21
up but just don't because he knows you can we all know you can and you're that anger and and he goes I know I know and
01:38:28
he and he walks away but he's so mad Skippy walks by and out the window he
01:38:35
full form shoulder tackle skippy for absolutely no reason as hard as he can to the ground because Skippy was 350.
01:38:42
yeah and he had to find someone his size that's all he heard in his head so he just decks him
01:38:48
and then gets up and walks away and lights a cigarette and Skippy's on the ground because he just had to get it out and
01:38:56
then he would calm down we go let's go back to the set it was really weird to go back to set after having a fight and going this is just our life what Eric
01:39:04
what do you say I feel like he was incredibly uh uh agile like you know he was a big guy but man like he could
01:39:11
really ice skate he could do he was like incredibly athletic and and you know I
01:39:16
could see him putting you know all of his weight behind a shoulder like that a knocking a giant guy sure
01:39:23
the guy saying hi Chris yeah yeah absolutely no doesn't see it coming at
01:39:29
all maybe Chris knew something we didn't know yeah it was on the future yeah on the horizon I think Skippy was getting
01:39:35
me back for that we had a uh I remember you and and Chris and I were sitting uh
01:39:42
in our chairs I even I think I even got a chair at that point I think it must have been far enough into the production
01:39:48
where I had finagled my own chair but and we're sitting with Brian Denny he you know in between takes it was at that
01:39:54
house and and then he was like reading a book or something and he looks over at these
01:40:01
three idiots sitting next to him and he's like so uh what are you guys up to for uh what's next for you guys we're
01:40:07
all like wow we don't know no idea he's like oh I'm doing the big one this fall
01:40:12
and and we're like the big one he's like salesman and so David and I are like oh
01:40:18
cool salesman and Chris goes what salesman he says Death of a Salesman and
01:40:23
then Chris goes what's Death of a Salesman no he had no idea but he was he was a uh
01:40:33
he did this thing you know he was he did his thing with me he it started as like uh uh because I do think he you
01:40:40
know I I felt Chris did believe that I was gonna do things in my you know I
01:40:45
think he he he sort of said you know you're gonna you're gonna make it um which I appreciate it it's all all you
01:40:52
want to hear when you're a kid um and though I wasn't much younger than he was uh but you know in terms of what
01:40:59
he had already accomplished like I was you know I was nowhere and and he had this thing he would do where he would
01:41:05
pretend uh that I like it already I had made it
01:41:11
and many years later he was 10 years on or whatever and his career had gone into
01:41:16
the toilet and so he was you know running into me trying to get jobs trying to get like you know work and
01:41:24
talking about like you know yeah you know things haven't been so good for me you know and he and he went really deep
01:41:30
with it like you would talk about like you know a kid that he found out he had that he hadn't yeah
01:41:37
yeah it's so funny his big scenarios thing he would go maybe I'm gonna act
01:41:43
like I'm a waiter and you act like you want this food but we don't have it yeah and then we would just do that in the
01:41:48
office for [ __ ] to kill time yeah but you get the funniest things out of that oh it's the best and he would cry he
01:41:55
would get himself like like at his own like love imagined predicament of how
01:42:01
bad things have gone for him and I remember he had done you know he got paid on cable guy there was like cable
01:42:07
guy thing where like he yeah he did not do it and then he got offered
01:42:14
uh this is during Black Sheep um yeah you know where he got offered Beverly Hills Ninja remember that yeah we
01:42:21
remember Fortune six million yes we just talked to cravoy oh really oh good yeah
01:42:26
and yeah I I remember I mean you know and I'm a fan of Brads but like I remember saying like don't do Beverly
01:42:33
Hills I was like why why are you gonna do that I guess I was such a Lorne loyalist I was like anything that was
01:42:38
outside of the Lord um uh uh well well you know there was a mess with black sheep and then he could
01:42:46
have done cable guy that summer yep and then they went you know he went to Jim Carrey but he was going to get a nice
01:42:51
chunk for maybe three for cable guy which was huge and then here comes crevoy with six and I was just we were
01:42:57
all going whoa that was when it was funny or just remind me that's what Griffith screamed
01:43:03
I had dinner with Griffiths the other night and Earth screamed at me he called me and and uh because I had said
01:43:11
I had sort of offered an opinion as to why that happened it's like you know it's like Lord he remember Chris was
01:43:17
pissed that cable guy had somehow gotten away from him and he he blamed Lauren or
01:43:22
he blamed you know I think he had to do black sheep yes he had to do black sheep yeah and I said to him I said well you know
01:43:30
like I basically said something which I you know was the last time I ever said you know now I have so many friends who
01:43:35
were representatives and like the worst thing you can do is get in between a client and the rep by saying hey your
01:43:41
guy didn't read the contract or something and I just but I was you know young and I said that and boy Adam
01:43:46
Bennett called me first and you know he was the soft touch and he was like you you made a mistake and you know you got
01:43:52
like and then he was the jab and here comes the right hook blasted me like really it was I still remember it what
01:43:59
the [ __ ] you guys doing yeah basically do me a favor say the [ __ ] out of our business basically
01:44:05
um but yeah that was a big mess but it was I think they they Lauren wouldn't push or Paramount wouldn't pull Black
01:44:12
Sheep an extra summer but you know we have one summer to shoot something you know Paramount was rough though
01:44:19
like you remember they were rough on Pete Siegel oh yeah but they're also rough like I remember there was a Wayne's World 2 thing remember Dana
01:44:26
where they were gonna Sue Mike over some you know sort of passport to Pimlico
01:44:33
speeds were too lined up or something so we had to get the script together very
01:44:38
very quickly and we couldn't punt because we already had a tie-in with McDonald's so yeah it was the train left
01:44:43
the station and that's such great movie business it was fun behind the scenes
01:44:49
it's unreal yeah just for our audience I just want to say because people listening to this Eric Newman went on to
01:44:55
become a huge movie producer and television producer narcos I just think that's a nice context thank you his dog
01:45:03
young daughter Sarah is at Saturday Night Live so I I uh anyway we we should
01:45:09
have you for an episode I don't know what what more I I'll come
01:45:14
up with you seem to be a fountain of stuff around that show human it is so fun talking to you because it throws me
01:45:19
exactly right back on the plane and exactly how him turning that goddamn
01:45:24
sheet upside down and going you give me one [ __ ] while he's smoking while it's three feet of air sweating and
01:45:30
smoking and he turns it upside down and looks he doesn't even understand it then he just fakes and falls it was nice to
01:45:36
think about um him you know I I I as we all did you know I I loved him you know he was so
01:45:43
sweet he was amazing core you know and he laughed so hard at your jokes and he was so eager yeah he was a sweet guy
01:45:55
and now we uh we talked with Mike Myers who uh knew Chris in Chicago uh loved
01:46:01
him and um he's got some really really interesting and fun stories actually about the genius of Chris Farley
01:46:10
I want to thank Mike Myers uh for coming on today oh sorry any thoughts about our
01:46:17
our great friend Chris Farley one of the all-time funniest humans that walked
01:46:22
around on our planet oh he's uh Chris Farley was a genius uh just one of the
01:46:28
most naturally funny people I've ever met big heart kind person
01:46:34
um you know just uh somebody you couldn't stop watching you
01:46:41
know what I mean you you know he had that uh he was musty TV oh my God how corny but
01:46:48
yes you know what I mean and uh it's kind of true and uh because you were in Second City with him right or you were
01:46:54
in Chicago I was I wasn't in Second City with him I was waiting for my American Immigration to
01:47:01
kick in and um Dell close and Sharna Halpern were very very
01:47:07
gracious to allow me to work out while I was waiting for my second City American Immigration the kicking because
01:47:14
I was born in Canada and uh there I improvised a lot with Farley and and he you know he was
01:47:20
obviously super talented uh sometimes it was very dangerous literally people's
01:47:26
teeth would get knocked out and uh because he would get so animated it actually knocked someone yeah yeah I got
01:47:32
hit in the head a couple times um it was very different than the more kind of genteel comedy that I was um
01:47:40
used to in Canada and certainly in England where it's um a little more
01:47:46
verbal clever is a very important thing in British comedy and uh less important clever like
01:47:55
you know oh my God what a clever use of words and in America and I'm probably more
01:48:02
funny it's funny should it be clever fantastic uh you know I mean it's like kind of
01:48:09
like what's happening right now in the world of clapter where people will give you a round of applause for having said
01:48:16
something politically uh uh laughter clapter as opposed to
01:48:22
last yes fine fine choir preach to choir yeah and then get clapped yeah and uh I was
01:48:29
raised with laughter you know what I mean because something about being between America and England appreciate
01:48:36
clever uh crave laughter and Farley was pure laughter and uh
01:48:43
you know one of my strongest memories is which is what I love working with you
01:48:48
Dana when we made the movies is that you're funny and and David I've hung out with you very very funny off
01:48:53
for no other reason than we just enjoy having a sense of humor you know what I mean and yeah and there are comedians
01:49:00
I've met who are not those people and they look at you like it's we're not working now clown relax
01:49:07
[Laughter]
01:49:16
I have a 25 year old running bit with Will Ferrell and I had that with Farley
01:49:21
so every every on Saturday Night Live I used to have my dinner then I would on
01:49:27
Saturday on the day uh then I'd have my shower at exactly 4 17 or something and
01:49:34
Farley would always come to my shower completely naked with this big giant
01:49:39
body and he pressed me against the wall oh
01:49:45
we just wanted and I would I'd be not beat him but I
01:49:50
said go far to get the [ __ ] out of here get out get out and I just I couldn't hit him very hard because it was so
01:49:57
funny and every week I forgot yeah you think you would remember that every week but I was he's coming very very intense
01:50:04
Etc okay sure that over here that has to move over here that's going to get cut you know what I mean and uh and where
01:50:11
was the shower Mike I'm sorry where was this [ __ ] on nine no bathroom which is another thing that was on nine on the
01:50:18
ninth floor yeah on the eighth floor on the ninth floor you have these little tiny I don't know if it's still like
01:50:25
that but tiny cubbyhole dressing rooms yeah and then on right at the end of the
01:50:30
hall our communal men women bathroom yes
01:50:36
so I would I found at the time when nobody was was there
01:50:41
and it's like a hospital it was very much like a youth hostile and I dip it I
01:50:47
had everything laid out so that my shower was literally like 11 seconds long and every time Farley came in and
01:50:55
pressed me Mike don't run from yourself oh [ __ ] with total commitment so he was
01:51:01
stalking you he was checking the time as well it is knowing and he was ready for you that's hysterical I never remember
01:51:08
because you know the shows I think you had said at Dana best which is being shot out of a cannon flying to Tokyo
01:51:14
once a week you're so tired and yeah you go I'm only gonna ever do this show once in my life I might as well give it my
01:51:21
all but what else would I do I think it was a I'm I regret not taking a shower there I
01:51:28
should have done no I think I don't know if I took a shower the whole time I was honest I'm so tired I needed someone to
01:51:34
wake up you know and I yeah I'd come in and do rewrites uh Mike I have a
01:51:39
question uh that more of a statement I thought or as
01:51:45
an old sketch that she wrote It's a question with the statement wrapped in an indictment but go ahead yes yes you did one that was one of my
01:51:55
favorites I don't think it's enough Fanfare it might the Japanese game show and um you it was so funny already wrote
01:52:04
it I think you're in it um oh you didn't seemed like you was it handy maybe no God I can't think of his
01:52:10
name right now super funny rider he was a guest writer that week and he wrote it and made us all learn Japanese oh it was
01:52:18
unbelievable unbelievable and then Farley is the added ingredient that uh was so so great he's uh for people that
01:52:26
don't see it it's a purely Japanese game show he comes in off the street he thinks he's I think he's taking a few
01:52:33
Tokyo TV yeah but in fact he ends up as a contestants and part of the show is to
01:52:40
be electrocuted and humiliated and uh of course you know and he's
01:52:46
playing Wisconsin like the perfect like you talking Japanese to him and then someone cut someone's finger off when
01:52:53
they get the question wrong he's like oh wait I again I am not I don't speak
01:52:58
Japanese I'm not from here yeah we I I feel like I'm lost I
01:53:05
shouldn't be answering and I don't know what you're saying yeah yeah yeah what's
01:53:10
so doing yeah yeah we've talked about uh Chris's explosive Rhythm was always so
01:53:17
potent when he was in distress or being injured or anything where he was panicked he had that and it was very
01:53:23
musical I mean since you saw him a little more up close maybe in Chicago than we did but there there was a a high
01:53:30
intellect in a sense comedic IQ that Chris hadn't that he he knew he knew
01:53:35
what he was doing he knew how funny those rhythms were it reminded me of Kennison in a way when it screams Kennison had the staccato but Chris had
01:53:43
his own sort of well you guys sort of were doing it a second ago but yeah it was a very potent but he you know it's
01:53:49
kind of like he uh he had the humility the first thing about the English comedy
01:53:56
there's a little bit of uh you know I'm smart as well I'm not just silly and and
01:54:02
uh Canada and the USA uh are freed from
01:54:07
the need to prove to your audience that you have an intellect but it's required
01:54:12
you have to be smart enough to do comedy if yeah I mean people forget that just
01:54:17
if you're good that means you're smart because you are thinking 100 the 18 ways you shouldn't do it you're picking the
01:54:24
one that works so something's gone I've gotten a few reviews in my life that kind of ding me a little bit oh he's
01:54:29
just being silly yes yes if any pick anyone out of the crowd now go just be
01:54:35
silly you know and so because they're senior shows you know you conduct that crowd dude you know better than any
01:54:42
other comedian I've ever seen it's a perfectly timed and and it's a full show
01:54:48
but yes which when when it looks easy I think with Farley it looked easy and I
01:54:55
you know there's a lot of focus a lot of commitment but it does you know so but we don't need to know how it was made it was just great I mean yeah yeah you know
01:55:02
Mike what you were saying about Second City when he would commit
01:55:07
uh he would get on me and I think other people like he wanted the exact same
01:55:13
Commitment if he got a vibe that you weren't 100 in a sketch he was really into it so he was taught
01:55:20
he's like you get up there and you give it a thousand and you go to the crowd and you come in exploding into that
01:55:26
scene and so he had all these rules in his head and he would do them all and if he caught someone uh gold brick and yeah
01:55:33
he'd be like you know he'd get on your ass about which I like that is the second City training and a lot of that
01:55:38
is the late Del close who uh you know I've I've been fortunate to
01:55:44
ended Chris we had two big coaches in our life one is Lauren Michaels and uh
01:55:50
the other one is uh Dell close you know and uh and one of the things I think we all
01:55:56
kind of feel about Lauren is that he had a glossary of terms for that which didn't have a glossary of terms before
01:56:02
you know what I mean and uh for sketch comedy certainly there
01:56:07
isn't a day I don't quote um but you do too Dana I have I've learned a lot from you
01:56:13
definitely I can't believe that but at this point I think the student has
01:56:18
become the teacher now the people the student has become the older students
01:56:24
but Lauren does have a lot of phrases and lornisms I call Mike what are your
01:56:29
lornisms I haven't heard them all do you have any well the value of water is is one that is a biggie for people have
01:56:37
heard that but I remember you telling me about that one oh I went to his house never forget the volume of water as he's
01:56:44
pouring water from like three feet away from you he was a great poor guy he put that m still light like three three feet
01:56:52
in the air and just like it well I've never been to anybody's house that was totally
01:56:57
stocked you know me neither yeah and he had like every kind of cheese not just
01:57:03
cheese you know what I mean and uh he said well you know come over to the
01:57:09
house then he was like uh there's your thing I'll I'll talk to you
01:57:14
tomorrow and I'm like but what do I do tonight and there's no TVs and everything so I'm
01:57:20
like no okay so I just like walked around and against it you know and then
01:57:26
uh the next morning he's coming he just had a massage right now I had all the
01:57:32
same experiences and I was in the kitchen I was by myself and I was like am I allowed to go into the the fridge
01:57:38
I'm starving he goes have you eat and I said no um is there I said no no just help yourself
01:57:44
and then he put some stuff water and he goes uh do you drink water I was like yeah he goes there's nothing
01:57:51
like water and so I haven't spoke to any human being
01:57:57
do you breathe there's nothing like air do you breathe well beer is like water and as much as
01:58:04
both of them are liquids right and he went rock
01:58:11
and so I had them still light and uh I don't know I found a pay booth in town
01:58:19
and I called my brother Paul and was like oh my God and then uh on day three I had my
01:58:25
meeting with him Lauren saying right is one of the funny things that he always does sort of he should have been a game
01:58:30
show host and the answer is Toronto right and the answer is we
01:58:37
um you know with Rob Lowe we have tried to get when
01:58:43
we have dinner with Lauren is to try to get it right really in a cool I might tell you this the last time I was here I
01:58:48
know that's funny right is it's boring really is something that is embarrassing
01:58:55
and he's going to tell the next person that comes in his room and cool is now you have to leave
01:59:00
so it's right really cool right and there's one more play one
01:59:07
more I don't yeah you want to go in threes but uh exactly is when you're giving him information he may not have
01:59:13
heard and then he he claims that I guess so you know exactly exactly yeah
01:59:20
so we're watching the hockey game once with this kid and uh when you've got a pen a power play in hockey you can't see
01:59:28
the clock to see how much more of your power play you have but the goalie watches and when there's three
01:59:34
seconds to go he wraps his stick on the ground three times one two three and his son said why is the rapping the
01:59:40
stick and Lauren said uh where he's frustrated they haven't scored right and
01:59:45
I said well no actually it's telling them they have three seconds to go because they can't watch the clock anyway I knew
01:59:54
no no more if you had known you would have said there was three seconds to go
02:00:00
so you didn't know but I didn't I said well you know it's both it's both
02:00:05
because I didn't want to embarrass you so the kids are all grown up now and Chris what Chris would always say to David because they had such a unique
02:00:12
relationship uh talk about don't tell Lauren he was always oh yeah grab yeah
02:00:18
grabs you really David don't no shh no but he loved Mike and Dana oh boy he
02:00:24
would like [ __ ] they're [ __ ] killing dude he just couldn't believe even knew you guys when he came on dude Chris it
02:00:30
was overwhelming for all of us yeah yeah super overwhelming got there and he's and it's just going oh my God because
02:00:36
you guys were running the tables and well he was just excited to be he was in Wayne's World one and two and yes cameos
02:00:45
or whatever and you know I have his yellow security shirt from Wayne's World
02:00:50
two his brother just gave me oh really oh really crazy wow
02:00:56
I just got it two weeks ago it's super cool I missed Chris I think about him all the time and uh you know
02:01:04
for me there's a lot of Chris in Fat Bastard of uh this sort of oh yeah you
02:01:11
know my buddy's built for pleasure you know and uh
02:01:16
he's you know just trying to channel that uh
02:01:23
Brilliance you know what I mean and uh he was always very very nice to me and I know this guy sounded super corny but he
02:01:30
was super super nice to my mom not always meant a lot well he had a Midwestern Vibe about him and that is
02:01:37
sort of humility and and politeness and humbleness we got to talk to his mom and
02:01:43
brother and uh got to know a little bit about his childhood but he the party started when Chris came in the room and
02:01:49
if you'd say the mildest joke and he would sincerely just belly lit up so
02:01:54
hard and he shared one thing with you Mike he had more little superstitions about what he would touch but I remember
02:02:00
you had one that you wouldn't go on the main doors of 88 she would just go everyone in the main doors yeah Canadian
02:02:08
flag pole at 30 Rock yes Chris had a Chris had a few of those things I didn't know about the Canadian
02:02:13
every time you came in you went bump bump bump and then you came in the Rock then I had to look at the number 22 on
02:02:19
the lighting grid and when I hosted they gave me that number off the lighter grid and it's on my front door now
02:02:25
cuckoo Mike on uh Tommy Boy we were doing these Black Sheep too when we do
02:02:33
uh he's first of all you guys know he's very religious yes and so to combat his
02:02:39
craziness to scare him he before each take he'd spread his legs kind of wide
02:02:44
and then he'd pull up a pant leg on each side yes yeah before a take and I go and
02:02:51
so I was getting so sick of it that one day I go you know Chris you're asking
02:02:56
the devil to come out of hell and he goes no no no and I go no
02:03:05
it has to be invited into your life and you invite him I don't invite him because I don't want the devil and he
02:03:10
goes no that's not what I'm doing I go you're knocking on the top of hell and pulling your leg and saying come to me
02:03:16
and he goes you shut the [ __ ] up because he was so he was so superstitious and
02:03:21
then it scared him so he's like tentative about it so funny
02:03:29
Kevin neon one of the funniest guys out there had some overlap with Chris on the show and we all know Kevin and here's what he
02:03:36
had to say yeah let me tell you let me tell you something there you are with the
02:03:42
business
02:03:47
[Laughter]
02:03:56
Is that real German I kind of or Austrian right you lived in Austria for a year right over there yeah
02:04:07
and make sure your vehicle is
02:04:19
open has to Bruder nine Opera covers why suesta
02:04:25
that's do you have any brothers no I have three sisters you're like well it's not funny when I
02:04:31
do it the first time I saw Chris Farley I remember I was in the hallway of studio 8h and the elevator door opens up
02:04:38
and out comes Farley and he could not have looked more excited and he's taking
02:04:43
those kind of Farley steps and he's pulling his pants up like um Bollywood yeah motivational speech yeah he looks
02:04:50
at afternoon you know and uh he walks down the hall he was like a kid in the candy store I forget who was with him
02:04:56
maybe his brother or two of his brothers um gone maybe and and then we just kind of
02:05:03
got to know Chris we got to see how funny he was and how he would do anything for a laugh and it's almost
02:05:08
like he always needed to have you laughing he wasn't he didn't feel like he was enough just by himself and uh I
02:05:15
don't know where that came from but I blame his parents and um wasn't he also
02:05:21
an explosive laughed laugher not even that funny he was like he's
02:05:28
like yeah he was good at that and and he's around all these funny people I think he
02:05:34
did like it's always great when a comedian is also a laugher you know
02:05:39
because it's very disarming when someone laughs at your [ __ ] that's more fun everything's fun yeah I just kind of Nod
02:05:45
because I don't want to give the other comedian confidence yeah the worst is when somebody left the worst is when a
02:05:50
comedian laughs at his own jokes that's kind of annoying because he's like a laugh track for you
02:05:55
he's letting you know where the laugh should be the only thing I noticed about Farley
02:06:00
was when he laughed or he's excited he jerk his head he jerk his head quick to one side or the other or his head would
02:06:07
go in like a turtle you know yeah his shoulders would go up punch up and yeah but people loved him they just loved
02:06:13
they could they could feel his joy and his excitement I think and they were they were there for the ride
02:06:20
and I know that you spent Aid and uh and Sandler and stuff you knew exactly how
02:06:26
to egg them on you could get them to do stuff you know and have them turn on even higher the volume
02:06:33
yeah he loves getting laughs but talking about the the the
02:06:39
how he digressed in his you know being at Saturday Night Live I remember
02:06:45
he was in the hallway at Sandler's dressing room and I was coming out and he was got to be really loud and stuff
02:06:52
and I said Chris take it down a notch take it down a notch and somehow we got into the discussion about Belushi John
02:06:59
Belushi because you know as we all know he wanted to be just like John Belushi he wanted to emulate him and
02:07:04
unfortunately he did at the end especially but um he said well you know blue she
02:07:11
um did a lot of drugs and drank and stuff and I said yeah but look at how
02:07:17
much funnier he would have been without all that and look at how much more alive he would be today
02:07:23
really really but I think things just didn't really um
02:07:29
you know sit in his head that long he didn't really retain a lot of stuff that were kind of good advice for him but
02:07:35
I've never laughed harder than at the Chippendales dancer sketch with Farley I've never broken character on that show
02:07:42
but that was the one time I almost lost it and I had to keep looking down at my clipboard because every time I looked up
02:07:48
that belly was sloshing back and forth like a pool on a boat oh yeah and then I looked down at my clipboard and I look
02:07:55
up again and I see all the stretch marks going back and forth and I I just had to
02:08:01
uh I had to look down and man I just I was so relieved when it was over for the
02:08:06
people at home Kevin was uh what one of the three judges was it you Jan Hooks Maybe
02:08:12
yeah it was like American Idol we were sitting behind a table a long table and it was me Jen Hooks and Mike Myers
02:08:17
clipboard and Farley was auditioning to be a Chippendale dancer with just the
02:08:23
bow tie on the Cuffs no shirt and leather pants auditioning against Patrick Swayze who was you know rip fit
02:08:31
total six-packs perfect shade yeah and Farley gave it his all and he was
02:08:39
not going to walk away easily from his um from his loss and he kept dancing
02:08:45
after he realized he wasn't in and we finally had to say no that's I'm sorry I'm sorry it's over no no Kevin you're
02:08:53
you're so funny in that because it those sketches need someone like you when you
02:08:58
go Barney Barney it's over like you're so straight and Chris is kind of give
02:09:04
eyeballs at you like flirt with you like flirting with the judges yeah yeah you
02:09:10
like this one no no how about this move no it's over it's over yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah I know how was that I heard in retrospect go ahead I heard in
02:09:17
retrospect that he was uh no correct me if I'm wrong I heard this about a year ago that he was a little apprehensive
02:09:22
about agreeing to do that sketch because he was self-conscious it's uh two camps
02:09:28
in that right I think Bob owner Kirk has one thought on it and and Jim Downey did
02:09:34
not think Chris was upset about it or felt humiliated by I never heard a word
02:09:41
about it from Chris I wouldn't think he would be because you know he just threw himself around he like I said he would
02:09:47
do anything for love Kevin do you remember at read through did he I can't remember did he get up and do that I don't think so just so
02:09:54
people know we haven't mentioned this but I don't know if you guys were there but I I don't know if it was a regular thing with Chris but the writer's room
02:10:00
on the 17th floor at 1am and there's these double doors uh and it's where we
02:10:06
have read through and he just burst through and he was completely naked with kind of his legs crossed and giggling
02:10:13
you know that was just Chris so that's why I didn't think he'd be embarrassed about the Chippendale sketch because he
02:10:19
knew he he was moving in such a funny way and just crushing so I would assume he was happy about that but I I never
02:10:25
asked him well he's always naked he would always walk in room and then just pull his shirt off and pull his pants
02:10:30
down you go what are you what are you doing and if Kevin what about the move when he does something like that and you
02:10:37
go Lauren's only man he goes what and then he changes his whole demeanor and his head goes back and he goes no no no David please don't don't no dude you
02:10:45
know what he does really yeah really no really really or how about a read through you know where he sat over there
02:10:52
uh where you walk in and I didn't know about OCD because when you walk in we had shared that office uh and he'd walk
02:11:00
in he would flip the light on and off and then when he left he touched the ceiling twice or the top of the door
02:11:07
jamb and I always thought he was doing it to be funny and and when he would go to read through
02:11:13
when his was coming up he'd pull his wallet out and he'd be staring at the script and he'd just casually lick each corner of
02:11:20
each dollar bill and put it back in his wallet and I we didn't know what OCD was and on Tommy Boy each take he would lean
02:11:28
over and pull up one side of his pant leg and then the other and then uh and but he didn't like he wasn't seen if
02:11:34
anyone's looking he was doing it so uh just by wrote that's all he did and uh
02:11:40
yeah finally I didn't know we didn't know what OCD was it wasn't anything back then so I think that's what it was
02:11:46
looking back probably was I mean Mike had a mild form of that I mean I was walking with Mike to go 8h on through
02:11:52
the double doors and then all of a sudden he just bolts left and goes I don't go through the double doors I
02:11:57
don't know if that was for a particular season or whatever maybe it was more Superstition than OCD one of the things
02:12:03
that really stands out for me with Chris was how agile he was and light on his feet and
02:12:09
coordinated like we would play basketball over at Riverside Park and I was just astounded with how quick he was
02:12:17
and just good with the fakes and you know we even saw that in the skating rink at uh 30 Rock when he was skating
02:12:24
for one of those sketches just how a good an athlete he was even though he was on the plus side yeah he was such a
02:12:32
great asset Kerrigan sketch was uh was funny it was even funnier because he was
02:12:37
good it's very surprising right yeah yeah yeah very athletic basketball I
02:12:42
don't know if you know I know he played rugby in college I believe and he was a
02:12:47
lot lighter but I wonder how how
02:12:53
disappointed he was at his body size because he really was a thin person
02:12:59
inside that heavy body yeah what was it that was did you talk to you about this
02:13:04
David Boyd he didn't think he could be as funny if he got to more of a normal
02:13:10
weight you know he was scared that uh it was less funny unless you were fatter
02:13:16
because you know I think when he got all the way to sign alive to the top in quotes you know
02:13:22
as that and and every sketch you know they had a sketch called whale boy you
02:13:27
know at Second City and that sounds a little rough but you know if you're if you're that big and uh and you think
02:13:35
then it goes away you know uh something about it you go I can't lose it but you
02:13:40
know when he passed away I still have his Tommy Boy jacket here his family gave it to me and it's on my wall and
02:13:47
it's not that big I mean he was not I think when he passed away he was
02:13:52
honestly a hundred pounds heavier than during Tommy Boy uh he just last time I
02:13:58
saw him really got big oh go ahead go ahead that was it he just really got big but he wasn't he was bigger than me
02:14:05
in Tommy Boy but I was probably 135 pounds so it was a funny
02:14:10
juxtaposition there but in real life he wasn't some super fat you know I
02:14:16
remember the last time I saw him I was at uh brillstein gray management company
02:14:23
we both have the same managers that's a big floor up there it's like the whole floor and I was walking by one of the
02:14:29
conference rooms and I saw Farley he was back was kind of behind me or a side and I think he was smoking a cigarette and
02:14:36
he had like uh I think it was like a pink Mohawk or his hair was dyed pink and he
02:14:43
had a leather jacket on and he was kind of sweating and I didn't say anything to him because
02:14:49
you know I just I for some reason I didn't stop and say hi to him but um that was the last time I saw him
02:14:57
God it's hard it's you know it's funny and it's sad I don't I don't remember I don't think the last time I saw him
02:15:03
I was in Aspen remember the HBO Comedy that's the last time I saw him I sat next to him in that it was a whole
02:15:09
Saturday Night Live kind of reunion Like A Reunion yeah did you go to that one Kevin or was wearing bleachers yeah I
02:15:16
was there Lauren we went we went to a dinner so I see him and he's uh
02:15:21
he comes over to go to a dinner like let's say Steve Martin Martin Short Lauren they're all having a big long
02:15:26
table dinner you guys might have been there they said if you want to come down we have two seats
02:15:31
and when Chris got to my room to pick me up he was too [ __ ] up and I was like oh we can't go to this thing but he goes
02:15:39
we gotta go we gotta go and so we're walking down there all I'm thinking is I hope it's like a cast party where
02:15:45
everyone's just Milling about and we can kind of blend in but it was a sit-down long table dinner and they had our seats
02:15:51
toward the middle so we had to scooched down bye everyone and we're going to be trapped and I go Chris keep going we
02:15:58
scoot it down we kept going kept going out the other side and then I took him to the kitchen I go let's go in the alley I go we can't stay there we're not
02:16:05
having a three hour dinner with all like our boss and all these famous people
02:16:10
we're gonna get in trouble so we went out and then I went home and he found you
02:16:16
know he finds people that I wouldn't hang out with you know and they're all like kind of sketchy and
02:16:22
he goes I'm going to hang with these guys I go so I went to lunch the next day and he's in line for this lunch
02:16:27
place and he's with all these people but they haven't gone to bed so he's talking to me and his eyes are sort of going back
02:16:33
in his head and he's trying to focus and I go do you go to bed yet and he goes not yet and uh I go oh and then I think
02:16:39
we got back to LA and that was sort of the beginning of he lived near me but we didn't see each
02:16:45
other that much because he was always with a group of those guys you know and then it's it's it's not as fun for me because he's
02:16:52
easy to waste it or I don't want to hang with these guys they're all sketch and then you just get the news one day and
02:16:58
I'm like oh my God yeah but I don't remember you weren't very close to him you weren't close to him
02:17:03
near the end well I mean the last couple months it was I ran into him and we had read this
02:17:08
movie called the tree and that was going to be maybe our next movie and then he did ninja and
02:17:14
something else and I just happened to run into him and he goes hey everyone just talks about Tommy Boy uh
02:17:22
we gotta do another one this is stupid what are we doing because we weren't really fighting we just were both doing
02:17:28
our own thing and and he said did you read the tree and I said yeah I think that might that might
02:17:33
be a good one and he goes yeah and then it never happened because it
02:17:38
was just a few months later so but but yeah we were on our terms were
02:17:43
fine it was just really the crowd he's with I thought it would be a fan yeah I think
02:17:48
I think a lot of people like to latch on to someone that popular like that and Chris may not have been that astute to
02:17:56
the ass kissing that was going on and he was getting so much praise and attention from them it felt good I'm not a
02:18:02
therapist but that's my that's my you know you know when you walk down the
02:18:08
street in New York and people like Neil and Carvey you know they're eating outside and when they go they'd go hey
02:18:14
you know Spade have a drink you know they're just sitting right next to you and you walk by hey guys if anyone said have a drink when we were walking
02:18:19
together he would stop and drink or he'd walk around and go sit they go hey sit with us and then he would and they're
02:18:25
like oh my God he's actually doing it oh hey scoot over and then he would just drink and I go all right I'm gonna take off because it was just crazy fans that
02:18:34
were slapping his back and uh you know no cameras back then or that would have been insane but just like grabbing them
02:18:40
and he got drunk with everyone and I go uh so you could just see it he got so famous and he was so fun
02:18:46
and I was lucky to hang out with them and my friends are always like oh bring them bring them he's so fun he would
02:18:51
leave messages for my friends and their voicemails and they'd [ __ ] die a lot you know it was great so that's that's
02:18:57
the tough part if you don't that's hard for all of us to get through you know all the Temptations yeah
02:19:04
yeah you become a wind-up doll let's get the famous comedian Hi and then you know
02:19:11
yeah they want to be they want to be funny and you know so also Dana Winnie
02:19:16
when he's in rehab he I'm sorry Kim when he's in rehab everyone still wants to get him wasted he's an AAA and no one
02:19:22
gives a [ __ ] they want to be the ones that are with them when he got [ __ ] up even when he wasn't supposed to there's something well weird about that that's
02:19:29
devious yes Kevin yeah I sometimes wonder what
02:19:35
he would be doing now if he were still alive would he be like a huge
02:19:41
huge movie star doing all these crazy films and you know what films would he have done instead of other people that
02:19:48
you know prospered from it and um or would he still would he be canceled you
02:19:53
know would he be somewhere in a you know another job or something yeah Road Less
02:19:59
Traveled I don't I don't know you know but yeah Dana wonders how fat he'd be
02:20:05
I weigh everybody I think about celebrity net worth and actual weight
02:20:13
and the days of my thousand pound sisters Farley weighed about 250 you know it's
02:20:20
like they're like this guy was obese and you're like he really wasn't I mean I've seen there's we've made bigger since
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Harvey always checks out the uh celebrity Netflix yeah online she's
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right next to worth you just spoon worth and you go right back to weight and then I go celebrity lean mass versus body fat
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percentage that takes a little longer I checked you guys earlier today and I'll email you the results
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