1 00:00:03,200 --> 00:00:05,840 Speaker 1: Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and hello again to everyone out 2 00:00:05,880 --> 00:00:08,559 Speaker 1: there in Hollywood Lands. It's time for another dip into 3 00:00:08,560 --> 00:00:12,080 Speaker 1: our archive of insane stories from the intersection of Hollywood 4 00:00:12,080 --> 00:00:15,040 Speaker 1: and true crime. This week, we're bringing you our episode 5 00:00:15,080 --> 00:00:18,080 Speaker 1: on Chris Farley. We lost Chris Farley twenty eight years 6 00:00:18,120 --> 00:00:20,919 Speaker 1: ago this month. He was just thirty three years old. 7 00:00:21,440 --> 00:00:24,239 Speaker 1: There was something so irrepressible about him, like he was 8 00:00:24,320 --> 00:00:27,320 Speaker 1: forever this little kid trying to make you laugh, and 9 00:00:27,360 --> 00:00:30,440 Speaker 1: he got the laughs easily. His humor was very much 10 00:00:30,440 --> 00:00:33,559 Speaker 1: a predecessor to someone like Tim Robinson, humor that came 11 00:00:33,600 --> 00:00:37,000 Speaker 1: from embarrassment or frustration, the humor of an every man 12 00:00:37,120 --> 00:00:40,000 Speaker 1: exasperated by the world around him. And just like one 13 00:00:40,040 --> 00:00:43,879 Speaker 1: of his predecessors, Robin Williams, that humor was part of 14 00:00:43,920 --> 00:00:47,600 Speaker 1: his DNA. It seemed bottomless, like a fountain of inspiration 15 00:00:47,880 --> 00:00:50,680 Speaker 1: that he drew from day after day, skip after skip, 16 00:00:50,880 --> 00:00:53,600 Speaker 1: movie after movie. And so it was a real shock, 17 00:00:53,760 --> 00:00:55,720 Speaker 1: just like it was with Robin, to find out that 18 00:00:55,760 --> 00:00:58,280 Speaker 1: there was in fact a bottom and a real emotional 19 00:00:58,320 --> 00:01:01,120 Speaker 1: and mental burden that he was simply not able to support. 20 00:01:01,840 --> 00:01:04,160 Speaker 1: I hope you dig this episode on the Great Chris Farley, 21 00:01:04,360 --> 00:01:05,600 Speaker 1: and then I hope you will join me later this 22 00:01:05,640 --> 00:01:07,759 Speaker 1: week when we talk about the episode in more detail 23 00:01:07,959 --> 00:01:08,720 Speaker 1: in the Rap Party. 24 00:01:15,200 --> 00:01:18,520 Speaker 2: This episode contains content that may be disturbing to some listeners. 25 00:01:18,880 --> 00:01:23,320 Speaker 2: Please check the show notes for more information. Hollywood Land 26 00:01:23,480 --> 00:01:27,640 Speaker 2: is a production of Double Elvis. Here Here the Lake 27 00:01:27,720 --> 00:01:28,360 Speaker 2: gard Blue. 28 00:01:40,680 --> 00:01:45,440 Speaker 3: The stories about Chris Farley are insane. He plowed through 29 00:01:45,440 --> 00:01:50,400 Speaker 3: a plate glass window fifteen stories above downtown Chicago. He 30 00:01:50,480 --> 00:01:53,200 Speaker 3: was kicked out of college for burning down a girl's house. 31 00:01:53,920 --> 00:01:56,920 Speaker 3: He disappeared with two playboy models at a hotel in 32 00:01:56,920 --> 00:01:59,960 Speaker 3: Los Angeles and woke up the next morning in Hawaii 33 00:02:00,520 --> 00:02:04,320 Speaker 3: after a blackout binge. He modeled his career on an 34 00:02:04,520 --> 00:02:08,040 Speaker 3: iconic dead comedian and followed his path straight to an 35 00:02:08,040 --> 00:02:13,560 Speaker 3: early grave. And Chris Farley made great comedy, the kind 36 00:02:13,560 --> 00:02:15,960 Speaker 3: of comedy that, as one of his teachers once said, 37 00:02:16,280 --> 00:02:19,120 Speaker 3: made an audience laugh so hard they vomited and then 38 00:02:19,360 --> 00:02:22,560 Speaker 3: choked on that vomit. Unlike that clip I played for 39 00:02:22,639 --> 00:02:24,800 Speaker 3: you at the top of the show. That was not 40 00:02:24,880 --> 00:02:27,760 Speaker 3: great comedy. That was a fair youse. Sample from the 41 00:02:27,800 --> 00:02:31,640 Speaker 3: Library of Congress of Henry Reid performing Lake County Blues 42 00:02:31,680 --> 00:02:35,720 Speaker 3: in nineteen sixty six. I played you that clip because 43 00:02:35,720 --> 00:02:38,080 Speaker 3: I can't afford the rights to a clip from Steven 44 00:02:38,160 --> 00:02:39,600 Speaker 3: Spielberg's Amistad. 45 00:02:40,400 --> 00:02:41,240 Speaker 2: And why would I. 46 00:02:41,160 --> 00:02:45,520 Speaker 3: Play you that particular slice of historical Oscar bait cheese? 47 00:02:45,560 --> 00:02:46,480 Speaker 2: Could I afford it? 48 00:02:47,320 --> 00:02:50,520 Speaker 3: Because that was the number one movie in America on 49 00:02:50,600 --> 00:02:54,480 Speaker 3: December eighteenth, nineteen ninety seven, And that was the day 50 00:02:54,560 --> 00:02:57,920 Speaker 3: Chris Farley was found dead of a speedball overdose at 51 00:02:57,960 --> 00:03:02,880 Speaker 3: the age of thirty three. On this episode, plate Glass, Windows, 52 00:03:03,160 --> 00:03:09,160 Speaker 3: Houses on Fire, Blackout Binges, iconic dead Comedians, and Chris Farley. 53 00:03:09,919 --> 00:03:35,120 Speaker 3: I'm Jake Brennan and this is Hollywood lamb. Chris Farley 54 00:03:35,160 --> 00:03:38,600 Speaker 3: lined up at the fourteen yard line at Chicago's Soldier Field. 55 00:03:39,040 --> 00:03:43,440 Speaker 3: His castmates stood watching along with sixty one thousand screaming 56 00:03:43,520 --> 00:03:44,360 Speaker 3: Bears fans. 57 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:47,320 Speaker 2: It was freezing December doesn't. 58 00:03:47,160 --> 00:03:50,960 Speaker 3: Fuck around in Chicago, but Farley was sweating and just 59 00:03:51,040 --> 00:03:54,800 Speaker 3: his flannel shirt and his Bear starter jacket. The Walrus 60 00:03:54,880 --> 00:03:57,600 Speaker 3: mustache plastered to his upper lip for the pregame show 61 00:03:57,720 --> 00:04:01,480 Speaker 3: was beginning to peel off in his aviator's sunglasses had 62 00:04:01,480 --> 00:04:04,640 Speaker 3: fogged up. The center waited for Farley to give the 63 00:04:04,680 --> 00:04:08,040 Speaker 3: signal to snap the ball, but Farley wasn't ready. He 64 00:04:08,080 --> 00:04:09,480 Speaker 3: had to come up with the bit first. 65 00:04:10,920 --> 00:04:13,640 Speaker 2: Chris Farley was at the game and character as one. 66 00:04:13,480 --> 00:04:16,400 Speaker 3: Of the super fans, a Saturday Night Live sketch about 67 00:04:16,400 --> 00:04:18,560 Speaker 3: a Chicago sports show that was a huge hit in 68 00:04:18,600 --> 00:04:21,800 Speaker 3: the Whitney City, such a huge hit that Farley and 69 00:04:21,839 --> 00:04:23,800 Speaker 3: the others had been invited to do a pregame and 70 00:04:23,839 --> 00:04:28,160 Speaker 3: halftime commentary for an actual Bears game. In character, they 71 00:04:28,160 --> 00:04:31,279 Speaker 3: were emceeing the halftime point after kick contests along with 72 00:04:31,320 --> 00:04:34,200 Speaker 3: the Bears regular announcer when the announcer turned to Farley and. 73 00:04:34,160 --> 00:04:36,240 Speaker 2: Said, Hey, why don't you give it a try. 74 00:04:37,240 --> 00:04:40,520 Speaker 3: Farley's background was an improv a comedy world where you 75 00:04:40,640 --> 00:04:43,719 Speaker 3: didn't say no, you said yes, and that's what the 76 00:04:43,720 --> 00:04:45,040 Speaker 3: improv gurus taught you. 77 00:04:45,440 --> 00:04:45,760 Speaker 2: Yes. 78 00:04:45,960 --> 00:04:49,240 Speaker 3: And before the other guys could respond, Farley said they 79 00:04:49,279 --> 00:04:52,719 Speaker 3: were in Down on the field, Farley, beer in hand, 80 00:04:52,760 --> 00:04:54,000 Speaker 3: finally gave the signal. 81 00:04:54,400 --> 00:04:58,200 Speaker 2: The center snapped the ball. Farley barrowed forward a massive momentum. 82 00:04:58,400 --> 00:05:01,800 Speaker 3: As he approached the ball, he landed flat on his face. 83 00:05:02,080 --> 00:05:05,200 Speaker 2: His body kept going. He slid across the frost like turf, 84 00:05:05,320 --> 00:05:08,000 Speaker 2: His beer spilled, his aviators hung onto his nose for 85 00:05:08,080 --> 00:05:11,960 Speaker 2: dear life, and the crowd at Soldier Field lost their shit. 86 00:05:12,960 --> 00:05:15,599 Speaker 2: Farley's cast me to realize they'd fucked up when they 87 00:05:15,680 --> 00:05:18,520 Speaker 2: let him go first. You didn't want to follow Chris Farley. 88 00:05:18,839 --> 00:05:21,240 Speaker 3: You didn't want to follow Chris Farley on stage, and 89 00:05:21,360 --> 00:05:23,800 Speaker 3: he sure shit didn't want to follow Chris Farley to a. 90 00:05:23,760 --> 00:05:26,719 Speaker 2: Second bar, or a third or God help you, to 91 00:05:26,800 --> 00:05:27,599 Speaker 2: an after party. 92 00:05:29,240 --> 00:05:32,159 Speaker 3: The first hour of drinking with Chris Farley was fun, 93 00:05:32,400 --> 00:05:34,880 Speaker 3: and the second hour was the best hour of your life, 94 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:38,160 Speaker 3: and the rest of the night was pure hell. Farley 95 00:05:38,160 --> 00:05:40,600 Speaker 3: hoisted beers at the game and the super fans went 96 00:05:40,640 --> 00:05:43,320 Speaker 3: out to dinner afterwards, where Farley packed away food and 97 00:05:43,360 --> 00:05:44,320 Speaker 3: tossed back liquor. 98 00:05:44,800 --> 00:05:47,440 Speaker 2: He begged the guys to hit another bar. Instead, they 99 00:05:47,440 --> 00:05:48,120 Speaker 2: got in a cat. 100 00:05:47,960 --> 00:05:49,960 Speaker 3: With him and drove him back to his hotel, and 101 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:51,760 Speaker 3: they walked him up to his room told him to 102 00:05:51,760 --> 00:05:54,440 Speaker 3: sleep it off. Tomorrow they were flying back to New York. 103 00:05:54,640 --> 00:05:57,919 Speaker 3: Tomorrow was the start of another week at SNL, and 104 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:00,640 Speaker 3: they figured that was the end of Farley's night. But 105 00:06:00,720 --> 00:06:03,479 Speaker 3: Chris Farley had plenty of other friends in Chicago, friends 106 00:06:03,480 --> 00:06:06,159 Speaker 3: from his days with the Second City Comedy True he 107 00:06:06,200 --> 00:06:08,520 Speaker 3: got a hold of another improvet and convinced her to 108 00:06:08,520 --> 00:06:09,799 Speaker 3: meet him out at a bar nearby. 109 00:06:10,360 --> 00:06:11,000 Speaker 2: She didn't know what. 110 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:12,960 Speaker 3: Kind of mileage Farley had put in that night, but 111 00:06:13,279 --> 00:06:15,880 Speaker 3: she clocked it quick. It wasn't long before she took 112 00:06:15,880 --> 00:06:17,839 Speaker 3: Farley back to his hotel for the second time that 113 00:06:17,920 --> 00:06:20,360 Speaker 3: night and tried to put him to bed. She didn't 114 00:06:20,360 --> 00:06:22,000 Speaker 3: want to leave him alone, but she didn't want to 115 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:24,880 Speaker 3: stick around either. Chris Farley ripped into the mini bar, 116 00:06:25,320 --> 00:06:27,880 Speaker 3: nips of liquor went down his throat like Godzilla, snacking 117 00:06:27,880 --> 00:06:31,279 Speaker 3: on fleeing civilians, and his friend suggested he slowed down. 118 00:06:31,320 --> 00:06:33,760 Speaker 3: But when she looked at Farley, she didn't see the 119 00:06:33,800 --> 00:06:36,560 Speaker 3: affable goofball who was the darling of Second City in 120 00:06:36,720 --> 00:06:40,920 Speaker 3: snl audiences. She saw an animal couldn't get enough booze, 121 00:06:41,160 --> 00:06:44,760 Speaker 3: enough food, enough sex. Chris Farley put his head down 122 00:06:44,800 --> 00:06:47,320 Speaker 3: like a raging bull and charged at her with all 123 00:06:47,400 --> 00:06:49,560 Speaker 3: the speed and momentum he put into running at the 124 00:06:49,560 --> 00:06:50,960 Speaker 3: football at Soldier Field. 125 00:06:51,640 --> 00:06:55,000 Speaker 2: But this was no bit. She jumped out of the way. 126 00:06:55,040 --> 00:06:57,960 Speaker 3: As Farley kept going, his legs smacked into a waste 127 00:06:57,960 --> 00:07:00,280 Speaker 3: tied radiator in front of a picture window. This stretched 128 00:07:00,360 --> 00:07:03,400 Speaker 3: up to the hotel room ceiling. His upper body kept going, 129 00:07:03,520 --> 00:07:07,200 Speaker 3: crashing straight through the plate glass window. Farley hung there 130 00:07:07,240 --> 00:07:10,280 Speaker 3: like a rag doll, dangling over a fifteen story drop, 131 00:07:10,760 --> 00:07:14,320 Speaker 3: blood and broken glasses everywhere. His friend stood there in shock. 132 00:07:14,680 --> 00:07:17,360 Speaker 3: Farley teetered on the radiator before pushing himself back. 133 00:07:17,200 --> 00:07:17,800 Speaker 2: Into the room. 134 00:07:18,120 --> 00:07:21,320 Speaker 3: He looked around, dazed. His shirt was drenched in blood, 135 00:07:21,560 --> 00:07:25,880 Speaker 3: his arms sliced open from shoulder to wrist. His friend screamed. 136 00:07:26,240 --> 00:07:28,760 Speaker 3: Farley apologized, even if he was too drunk to know 137 00:07:28,840 --> 00:07:30,080 Speaker 3: what he was apologizing for. 138 00:07:30,680 --> 00:07:33,280 Speaker 2: His friend ranged the front desk call an ambulance. 139 00:07:33,840 --> 00:07:36,200 Speaker 3: Then she threw her arms around Farley and struggled to 140 00:07:36,200 --> 00:07:38,600 Speaker 3: get him down to the lobby, where she assumed help 141 00:07:38,640 --> 00:07:39,320 Speaker 3: would be waiting. 142 00:07:39,920 --> 00:07:40,559 Speaker 2: But it wasn't. 143 00:07:41,080 --> 00:07:43,920 Speaker 3: No one had called anyone, if no one had done anything, 144 00:07:44,440 --> 00:07:47,000 Speaker 3: and with Farley hanging on her shoulder, she struggled to 145 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:50,400 Speaker 3: make her way outside and held a cab Northwestern Hospital 146 00:07:50,480 --> 00:07:53,679 Speaker 3: emergency Room. A cabby could live his whole life waiting 147 00:07:53,720 --> 00:07:55,680 Speaker 3: for the moment he gets to be the hero, and 148 00:07:55,760 --> 00:07:59,160 Speaker 3: this driver stepped up. He swerved and sped through Chicago 149 00:07:59,240 --> 00:08:01,280 Speaker 3: streets like he was driving a getaway car. 150 00:08:01,120 --> 00:08:03,800 Speaker 2: With hell on his tail a block from the hospital. 151 00:08:03,840 --> 00:08:05,640 Speaker 2: Faced with the one way going the wrong way, the 152 00:08:05,680 --> 00:08:06,600 Speaker 2: cavey said fuck it. 153 00:08:06,880 --> 00:08:08,600 Speaker 3: He shot through and skid it up next to the 154 00:08:08,640 --> 00:08:12,040 Speaker 3: curb in front of the emergency room. They rushed Farley upstairs. 155 00:08:12,200 --> 00:08:14,240 Speaker 3: He was still drunk, drunk en up the list of 156 00:08:14,280 --> 00:08:15,720 Speaker 3: the flap of skin on his arm. 157 00:08:15,600 --> 00:08:16,960 Speaker 2: And peer into the gash. 158 00:08:17,360 --> 00:08:19,720 Speaker 3: But once they had him settled in, Orderly came by 159 00:08:19,800 --> 00:08:23,040 Speaker 3: to check on him. He recognized Farley right away. Shit 160 00:08:23,440 --> 00:08:26,800 Speaker 3: is not the guy from Saturday Night Live. It was 161 00:08:26,920 --> 00:08:30,720 Speaker 3: Farley's friend. Confirmed, and you got to keep it quiet, absolutely, 162 00:08:30,800 --> 00:08:34,560 Speaker 3: said the Orderly, And he did, because in Chicago people 163 00:08:34,559 --> 00:08:37,160 Speaker 3: looked out for Chris Farley. Word of the incident never 164 00:08:37,160 --> 00:08:40,520 Speaker 3: made it back to New York. Order Lauren Michaels, Farley's boss, 165 00:08:40,920 --> 00:08:43,440 Speaker 3: put it put a scare into Chris Farley, a scare 166 00:08:43,440 --> 00:08:46,000 Speaker 3: big enough that he kept clean for the weeks that followed. 167 00:08:48,360 --> 00:08:50,720 Speaker 3: When the crew had Saturday Night Live began to put 168 00:08:50,720 --> 00:08:54,640 Speaker 3: together their annual Christmas episode, Farley was still clean and 169 00:08:54,720 --> 00:08:57,960 Speaker 3: his Chicago's secret was still safe. He pitched a sketch 170 00:08:58,000 --> 00:09:00,800 Speaker 3: at the writer's meeting, which was rare. Farley was more 171 00:09:00,800 --> 00:09:04,640 Speaker 3: of a performer people wrote for him. Everyone liked the sketch, 172 00:09:04,679 --> 00:09:08,080 Speaker 3: but Farley was convinced it would flop. All anyone wandered 173 00:09:08,120 --> 00:09:10,040 Speaker 3: from him was to see the fat guy fall down, 174 00:09:10,400 --> 00:09:12,600 Speaker 3: and he sulked the rest of the meeting, and when 175 00:09:12,640 --> 00:09:15,240 Speaker 3: they took a break, Farley walked out of thirty. Rock 176 00:09:15,559 --> 00:09:17,959 Speaker 3: hailed a cab and trecked up the Hell's kitchen to 177 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:22,720 Speaker 3: score some heroin. The new guys at SNL that year, 178 00:09:22,960 --> 00:09:26,640 Speaker 3: Chris Farley, Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, and David Spade didn't 179 00:09:26,640 --> 00:09:27,640 Speaker 3: get their own offices. 180 00:09:28,040 --> 00:09:28,920 Speaker 2: They were paired off. 181 00:09:29,480 --> 00:09:32,439 Speaker 3: Spade found the drugs in Farley's desk, little bags of 182 00:09:32,480 --> 00:09:35,440 Speaker 3: white powder. Spade wasn't even much of a drinker. He 183 00:09:35,480 --> 00:09:37,000 Speaker 3: didn't know what the bags were, but he knew it 184 00:09:37,040 --> 00:09:38,560 Speaker 3: was a shit that there shouldn't be in the office. 185 00:09:39,040 --> 00:09:40,160 Speaker 2: He called Farley out. 186 00:09:40,400 --> 00:09:43,679 Speaker 3: Farley was high, I dare that snarky little pipsqueak tell 187 00:09:43,720 --> 00:09:45,439 Speaker 3: him what to do, and told Spade to get the 188 00:09:45,480 --> 00:09:48,480 Speaker 3: fuck out of their office. Spade thought Sama could talk 189 00:09:48,520 --> 00:09:51,760 Speaker 3: Farley down, but Sama got the same reaction. They didn't 190 00:09:51,760 --> 00:09:53,960 Speaker 3: have a choice and they had to go tell the boss. 191 00:09:54,800 --> 00:09:58,360 Speaker 3: Lauren Michaels was torn up he loved Chris Farley. Everybody 192 00:09:58,360 --> 00:10:00,920 Speaker 3: loved Chris Farley, but Michael's was the one who discovered 193 00:10:00,960 --> 00:10:02,880 Speaker 3: him on a stage in Chicago and brought her to 194 00:10:02,920 --> 00:10:06,679 Speaker 3: New York. Just like Spade and Sadler, Lord Michaels didn't 195 00:10:06,679 --> 00:10:07,480 Speaker 3: have any choice. 196 00:10:07,800 --> 00:10:11,720 Speaker 2: They're going to have to fire him. After all, he'd already. 197 00:10:11,400 --> 00:10:13,800 Speaker 3: Done the fat guy and the bodyback routine once and 198 00:10:14,559 --> 00:10:41,680 Speaker 3: he wasn't gonna do that ever again. Chris Farley had 199 00:10:41,720 --> 00:10:45,000 Speaker 3: two approaches when it came to girls. One was the 200 00:10:45,200 --> 00:10:47,680 Speaker 3: aw shucks routine, where he scuffed his shoe on the 201 00:10:47,679 --> 00:10:50,440 Speaker 3: ground and said, gee, you sure are pretty, until the 202 00:10:50,480 --> 00:10:52,720 Speaker 3: girls decided he was a sweet teddy. 203 00:10:52,400 --> 00:10:55,840 Speaker 2: Bear they wanted to take home. And the other approach 204 00:10:56,240 --> 00:10:57,160 Speaker 2: was to make them laugh. 205 00:10:57,920 --> 00:10:59,920 Speaker 3: But Chris Farley didn't always know where the line was 206 00:11:00,080 --> 00:11:02,520 Speaker 3: us So when he had a crush on a girl 207 00:11:02,559 --> 00:11:05,400 Speaker 3: down the block from his house at Marquette University, he 208 00:11:05,480 --> 00:11:06,640 Speaker 3: decided a prank was. 209 00:11:06,600 --> 00:11:08,120 Speaker 2: The way into her heart. 210 00:11:08,400 --> 00:11:11,199 Speaker 3: Farley's house was a scene out of Animal House. It 211 00:11:11,360 --> 00:11:14,960 Speaker 3: was infested with rats, it reeked of stale beer. Farley's 212 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:17,160 Speaker 3: room was disgusting, even by the standards of the rest 213 00:11:17,200 --> 00:11:20,160 Speaker 3: of the place. If you saw a rat outside Farley's room. 214 00:11:20,400 --> 00:11:23,160 Speaker 3: It was probably on its way to Farley's room. His 215 00:11:23,280 --> 00:11:26,800 Speaker 3: housemates put him by the bathroom, knowing sometimes Farley was 216 00:11:26,840 --> 00:11:28,720 Speaker 3: too lazy to leave his room to take a piss, 217 00:11:29,840 --> 00:11:31,480 Speaker 3: even proximity. 218 00:11:30,800 --> 00:11:32,040 Speaker 2: To the john didn't do the trick. 219 00:11:32,320 --> 00:11:34,520 Speaker 3: Farley pissed in jars and emptied them when he was 220 00:11:34,559 --> 00:11:38,800 Speaker 3: feeling up to it, But anyway, that crushed down the block. 221 00:11:39,080 --> 00:11:41,480 Speaker 3: She'd been to parties at Farley's house and she wasn't 222 00:11:41,480 --> 00:11:44,760 Speaker 3: impressed when the shy got bit didn't pan out. Farley 223 00:11:44,760 --> 00:11:47,920 Speaker 3: decided to get her attention with a joke, specifically a 224 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:50,240 Speaker 3: cherry bomb left on the windowsill of the house where 225 00:11:50,280 --> 00:11:52,959 Speaker 3: she and her friends lived. If you know anything about 226 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:55,920 Speaker 3: cherry bombs, which Farley apparently didn't, you know, they don't 227 00:11:55,960 --> 00:11:58,839 Speaker 3: just smoke, They spit sparks, and the sparks make the 228 00:11:58,920 --> 00:12:02,760 Speaker 3: cherry bomb spin spin right off the window sill onto the. 229 00:12:02,720 --> 00:12:06,120 Speaker 2: Couch, which caught fire and took half the house along 230 00:12:06,160 --> 00:12:06,360 Speaker 2: with it. 231 00:12:07,520 --> 00:12:10,960 Speaker 3: Thankfully, no one was hurt, but Farley freaked the fuck out. 232 00:12:11,120 --> 00:12:13,920 Speaker 3: He fled Wisconsin, skipping out for Illinois until the cops 233 00:12:13,920 --> 00:12:15,840 Speaker 3: agreed to let him off with a charge of dangerous 234 00:12:15,960 --> 00:12:19,040 Speaker 3: use of firearms and a light fine. But the incident 235 00:12:19,040 --> 00:12:22,360 Speaker 3: met Chris Farley couldn't graduate. It didn't tear him up 236 00:12:22,360 --> 00:12:24,559 Speaker 3: too bad, though, In addition to not being much of 237 00:12:24,600 --> 00:12:27,600 Speaker 3: a ladies man, Farley was less than an all star student. 238 00:12:28,240 --> 00:12:30,079 Speaker 3: His friend said there was only one book he ever 239 00:12:30,080 --> 00:12:34,160 Speaker 3: finished at college, Wired by Bob Woodward, the tawdry biography 240 00:12:34,160 --> 00:12:38,400 Speaker 3: of comedian John Belushi. Farley's inability to know where the 241 00:12:38,400 --> 00:12:41,120 Speaker 3: lines were would dog him his whole life, or whether 242 00:12:41,160 --> 00:12:43,680 Speaker 3: it was booze, or drugs or women. In his first 243 00:12:43,679 --> 00:12:47,000 Speaker 3: season on Saturday Night Live, working the Teddy Bear Angle, 244 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:49,319 Speaker 3: got him accused of groping an extra in a sketch. 245 00:12:49,760 --> 00:12:53,800 Speaker 3: It was handled in house, and Farley apologized profusely. He 246 00:12:53,920 --> 00:12:57,520 Speaker 3: was famous for his apologies. The writers at SNL started 247 00:12:57,600 --> 00:13:01,720 Speaker 3: referring to the groping as Farley's Fatty incident, a reference 248 00:13:01,760 --> 00:13:04,760 Speaker 3: to the portly silent film comedian whose career was derailed 249 00:13:04,760 --> 00:13:08,280 Speaker 3: by an arrest for a depraved manslaughter. Arbuckle was acquitted, 250 00:13:08,320 --> 00:13:11,920 Speaker 3: but the studios wouldn't touch him for years afterward, and 251 00:13:11,960 --> 00:13:14,959 Speaker 3: the writers got Farley amped up about the incident, convincing 252 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:16,880 Speaker 3: him he was going to get served in a civil suit. 253 00:13:16,920 --> 00:13:19,240 Speaker 3: Any day, if a stranger came up to him on 254 00:13:19,280 --> 00:13:21,520 Speaker 3: the streets, it was probably a process server and he 255 00:13:21,520 --> 00:13:24,200 Speaker 3: should take off running. They even dummied up a fake 256 00:13:24,200 --> 00:13:26,440 Speaker 3: subpoena and got one of the Seinfeld writers to chase 257 00:13:26,480 --> 00:13:29,520 Speaker 3: Farley down with it out front of thirty Rock. Farley 258 00:13:29,600 --> 00:13:31,600 Speaker 3: was so upset that the writers couldn't bring themselves to 259 00:13:31,600 --> 00:13:33,880 Speaker 3: tell him the truth for months, and when they did, 260 00:13:34,240 --> 00:13:36,880 Speaker 3: they asked what he did with the fake subpoena. Crying, 261 00:13:37,120 --> 00:13:40,120 Speaker 3: Farley said he burned it. None of the writers ever 262 00:13:40,120 --> 00:13:44,160 Speaker 3: brought up the Fatty Arbuckle incident again. After the dishonorable 263 00:13:44,200 --> 00:13:48,000 Speaker 3: discharge from college, Chris Farley moved home to Madison, Wisconsin. 264 00:13:48,440 --> 00:13:50,840 Speaker 3: He worked for his dad in sales and frequented local 265 00:13:50,920 --> 00:13:53,920 Speaker 3: improv shows. One night, he got drunk enough to go 266 00:13:54,000 --> 00:13:56,520 Speaker 3: up to the Troops director and barely able to stand, 267 00:13:56,559 --> 00:13:59,120 Speaker 3: he mumbled that he wanted to audition, and the director 268 00:13:59,200 --> 00:14:01,120 Speaker 3: told Farley to come to the rehearsal the next day 269 00:14:01,160 --> 00:14:04,080 Speaker 3: to try out. Farley showed up with a case of beer. 270 00:14:04,520 --> 00:14:06,920 Speaker 3: But he was good when he was clean, and he 271 00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:10,839 Speaker 3: kept clean for shows after shows, though not so much 272 00:14:11,440 --> 00:14:13,200 Speaker 3: like when the director was giving him notes on his 273 00:14:13,280 --> 00:14:16,080 Speaker 3: performance after a show, but stopped midway when he realized 274 00:14:16,120 --> 00:14:19,000 Speaker 3: Farley was guzzling an entire bottle of rum while they talked. 275 00:14:19,800 --> 00:14:21,880 Speaker 3: Farley was with the Troop in Madison for a year 276 00:14:21,920 --> 00:14:25,280 Speaker 3: before he started disappearing on trips to Chicago. Everyone knew 277 00:14:25,280 --> 00:14:27,440 Speaker 3: what was up. Farley was ditching them to hang out 278 00:14:27,480 --> 00:14:30,400 Speaker 3: at Second City, the legendary improv troupe that had launched 279 00:14:30,400 --> 00:14:33,320 Speaker 3: the careers of Bill Murray, John Candy, Dan Ackroyd, and 280 00:14:33,360 --> 00:14:36,440 Speaker 3: of course, John Belushi. Farley eventually got a spot on 281 00:14:36,520 --> 00:14:39,160 Speaker 3: Second City's farm team, where he was an instant favorite. 282 00:14:39,600 --> 00:14:42,240 Speaker 3: It wasn't long before he joined Second City's main company. 283 00:14:42,920 --> 00:14:45,120 Speaker 3: Most people think of Chris Farley as the fat guy 284 00:14:45,240 --> 00:14:47,200 Speaker 3: taking a fall, and he could take a fall like 285 00:14:47,280 --> 00:14:50,760 Speaker 3: nobody else. Chevy Chase, a legendary pratt fall guy in 286 00:14:50,800 --> 00:14:53,640 Speaker 3: his day, asked Farley what he used to break his falls. 287 00:14:54,280 --> 00:14:57,120 Speaker 3: Farley's answer was shocking. He didn't use anything. 288 00:14:57,480 --> 00:14:58,320 Speaker 2: He just crashed. 289 00:14:59,280 --> 00:15:01,760 Speaker 3: Any comedian, I'll tell you, Chris Farley was a master 290 00:15:01,840 --> 00:15:04,960 Speaker 3: of physical comedy. He was big, but he was mostly muscle. 291 00:15:05,440 --> 00:15:08,760 Speaker 3: He'd been a football player and a competitive swimmer. His 292 00:15:08,920 --> 00:15:12,840 Speaker 3: size hit amazing physical dexterity. At a Chicago bar with 293 00:15:12,880 --> 00:15:15,960 Speaker 3: the Second City cast, he chatted up some girls, asking 294 00:15:15,960 --> 00:15:18,600 Speaker 3: where they worked. When they asked what Farley did, he 295 00:15:18,640 --> 00:15:21,560 Speaker 3: said he was an aerobics instructor. Then the girls laughed 296 00:15:21,560 --> 00:15:25,040 Speaker 3: at him. Surely he was kidding, Farley shrugged. It wasn't 297 00:15:25,080 --> 00:15:27,440 Speaker 3: the first time girls had laughed at him. He launched 298 00:15:27,480 --> 00:15:31,120 Speaker 3: into a perfect backflip, sticking the landing. Yeah, you know, 299 00:15:31,600 --> 00:15:37,240 Speaker 3: aerobics instructor. Behind him, his castmates were rolling. Farley loved 300 00:15:37,280 --> 00:15:40,440 Speaker 3: Second City. He loved Chicago, close enough to home, but 301 00:15:40,520 --> 00:15:42,960 Speaker 3: a bigger pond. Eddie loved the idea that he was 302 00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:45,960 Speaker 3: walking in the footsteps of his idol. Farley even found 303 00:15:45,960 --> 00:15:48,160 Speaker 3: a pair of John Belushi's old boots in the Second 304 00:15:48,160 --> 00:15:51,680 Speaker 3: City Theater and wore them non stop for two years until. 305 00:15:51,440 --> 00:15:52,160 Speaker 2: I fell apart. 306 00:15:53,400 --> 00:15:55,920 Speaker 3: Second City gave him the chance to work with Dell Close, 307 00:15:56,160 --> 00:16:00,240 Speaker 3: a legendary improv director. In one of Belushi's mentors, sat 308 00:16:00,280 --> 00:16:02,680 Speaker 3: a simple mantra when it came to comedy, try to 309 00:16:02,760 --> 00:16:03,520 Speaker 3: kill the audience. 310 00:16:03,800 --> 00:16:04,680 Speaker 2: Fucking kill them. 311 00:16:04,880 --> 00:16:06,840 Speaker 3: I want you to make them laugh so hard that 312 00:16:06,920 --> 00:16:10,120 Speaker 3: they vomit and choke on it. As Farley rose through 313 00:16:10,120 --> 00:16:13,360 Speaker 3: the ranks at Second City, he kept his appetites under control. 314 00:16:13,880 --> 00:16:16,600 Speaker 3: On the rare occasions he showed up for a performance drunk, 315 00:16:16,960 --> 00:16:19,880 Speaker 3: his castmates gave him hell. Farley would come back the 316 00:16:19,920 --> 00:16:22,520 Speaker 3: next day with those sad eyes and apologize and all 317 00:16:22,600 --> 00:16:25,880 Speaker 3: what would be forgiven. After the shows, though the brakes 318 00:16:25,880 --> 00:16:28,560 Speaker 3: were off, he threw chairs around at an after party 319 00:16:28,600 --> 00:16:31,320 Speaker 3: in a drunken rage. He picked up an entire couch 320 00:16:31,360 --> 00:16:33,520 Speaker 3: and chucked it across the room. And there was no 321 00:16:33,680 --> 00:16:35,720 Speaker 3: talking to him, no calming him down when he got 322 00:16:35,760 --> 00:16:37,480 Speaker 3: like this, and you stayed the fuck out of the 323 00:16:37,520 --> 00:16:39,280 Speaker 3: way and waited for the switch to flip back. 324 00:16:40,080 --> 00:16:41,479 Speaker 2: When Farley finally. 325 00:16:41,120 --> 00:16:43,960 Speaker 3: Stopped, he held a chair over his head. He looked 326 00:16:44,000 --> 00:16:46,400 Speaker 3: around the wreckage he created. Then he looked over at 327 00:16:46,440 --> 00:16:49,400 Speaker 3: his friend Bob Odenkirk, a fellow Second City cast member, 328 00:16:49,440 --> 00:16:53,760 Speaker 3: with those sad, apologetic eyes, Odie, he said, do you 329 00:16:53,760 --> 00:16:55,160 Speaker 3: think Beluci's in heaven? 330 00:17:00,240 --> 00:17:03,200 Speaker 2: Right back after this, we're were were. 331 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:11,320 Speaker 3: Chris Farley had been in New York for two days 332 00:17:11,359 --> 00:17:14,199 Speaker 3: and he hadn't bothered to call his brother. This was 333 00:17:14,240 --> 00:17:17,520 Speaker 3: a bad sign. Farley knew which people cared about him 334 00:17:17,520 --> 00:17:19,800 Speaker 3: in New York, and he also knew which people would 335 00:17:19,840 --> 00:17:22,399 Speaker 3: let him get away with shit, the hangers on and 336 00:17:22,440 --> 00:17:25,800 Speaker 3: the so called friends. So to his brother if he 337 00:17:25,880 --> 00:17:28,240 Speaker 3: hadn't called and meant that Farley was hanging out. 338 00:17:28,080 --> 00:17:30,720 Speaker 2: With people who wanted to see him feed his appetites. 339 00:17:31,760 --> 00:17:34,439 Speaker 3: So Farley's brother showed up at the hotel, and Farley 340 00:17:34,440 --> 00:17:37,320 Speaker 3: looked happy to see him. He apologized for not calling sooner. 341 00:17:37,560 --> 00:17:39,360 Speaker 3: There was Illumino waiting and they were on their way 342 00:17:39,359 --> 00:17:41,879 Speaker 3: to thirty Rock. They just had to make one stop. 343 00:17:42,800 --> 00:17:45,200 Speaker 3: In the limo, Farley introduced his brother to the kid 344 00:17:45,280 --> 00:17:47,639 Speaker 3: NBC had assigned to keep him on the straight and narrow. 345 00:17:47,960 --> 00:17:49,840 Speaker 3: From the frazzle look on the kid's face and the 346 00:17:49,880 --> 00:17:54,080 Speaker 3: manic energy coming off Farley, it clearly wasn't working. Farley 347 00:17:54,119 --> 00:17:55,840 Speaker 3: told the driver to take them to one hundred and 348 00:17:55,840 --> 00:17:58,879 Speaker 3: tenth Street, a piece of Harlem real estate so notorious 349 00:17:58,880 --> 00:18:02,000 Speaker 3: for drugs and prostitutes. They wrote a fucking song about it, 350 00:18:02,440 --> 00:18:05,080 Speaker 3: and the NBC guy protested, but the driver wasn't taking 351 00:18:05,160 --> 00:18:09,240 Speaker 3: orders from some kid. At the address, drugs and women 352 00:18:09,320 --> 00:18:12,040 Speaker 3: beckoned from every corner. Farley got out of the car, 353 00:18:12,280 --> 00:18:14,679 Speaker 3: this would just take a minute. He disappeared into one 354 00:18:14,680 --> 00:18:18,399 Speaker 3: of the buildings. Twenty minutes later, he emerged, his eyes 355 00:18:18,440 --> 00:18:21,800 Speaker 3: wide and his gaze sky high, a woman on each charm. 356 00:18:22,240 --> 00:18:24,159 Speaker 3: The NBC kid opened the door for them and they 357 00:18:24,200 --> 00:18:27,119 Speaker 3: squeezed into the limo between Farley and his brother. The 358 00:18:27,280 --> 00:18:29,880 Speaker 3: NBC kid sputtered as the driver took them to thirty Rock. 359 00:18:30,560 --> 00:18:32,520 Speaker 3: Farley left the women in the lobby with his brother 360 00:18:32,760 --> 00:18:35,919 Speaker 3: while he schmoozed with the younger SNLL cast members. Farley 361 00:18:35,960 --> 00:18:38,159 Speaker 3: was a hero to them. They treated him no differently 362 00:18:38,240 --> 00:18:40,480 Speaker 3: than the fans and hangers on who encouraged Farley to 363 00:18:40,480 --> 00:18:43,000 Speaker 3: come out for a beer, come upstairs and blow a line, 364 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:45,720 Speaker 3: and come to the after party. It got so bad 365 00:18:46,000 --> 00:18:47,280 Speaker 3: the show's producer. 366 00:18:46,920 --> 00:18:47,520 Speaker 2: Called a meeting. 367 00:18:47,880 --> 00:18:50,600 Speaker 3: If anyone helped Farley, if any of you helped Farley 368 00:18:50,640 --> 00:18:53,280 Speaker 3: get drinks or liquor or anything, you were going to 369 00:18:53,280 --> 00:18:53,880 Speaker 3: be a part. 370 00:18:53,720 --> 00:18:56,000 Speaker 2: Of helping him die. That was the message. 371 00:18:57,480 --> 00:18:59,720 Speaker 3: Farley's brother gave up trying to make small talk with 372 00:18:59,760 --> 00:19:03,320 Speaker 3: the win. He bailed, and the next day, Wednesday, he 373 00:19:03,400 --> 00:19:06,719 Speaker 3: showed up at Farley's hotel to stage in intervention. Farley 374 00:19:06,720 --> 00:19:08,639 Speaker 3: refused to come down and see him. He put a 375 00:19:08,680 --> 00:19:11,840 Speaker 3: do not disturb order on his phone. Chris Farley didn't 376 00:19:11,840 --> 00:19:14,560 Speaker 3: know it then, but he would never see his brother again. 377 00:19:16,359 --> 00:19:19,360 Speaker 3: Up in Studio eight h Lauren Michaels was busy trying 378 00:19:19,359 --> 00:19:22,520 Speaker 3: to save Chris Farley's life. That was the idea when 379 00:19:22,520 --> 00:19:26,240 Speaker 3: he invited Farley back to host Saturday Night Live. It 380 00:19:26,320 --> 00:19:29,720 Speaker 3: was nineteen ninety seven. After the box office success of 381 00:19:29,760 --> 00:19:33,159 Speaker 3: his buddy comedy Tommy Boy. Farley left SNL to pursue 382 00:19:33,160 --> 00:19:36,520 Speaker 3: his film career, but his most recent two films, Black 383 00:19:36,520 --> 00:19:39,639 Speaker 3: Sheet in Beverly Hills Ninja, tanked at the box office. 384 00:19:40,160 --> 00:19:43,159 Speaker 3: His struggles with drugs and alcohol were all over the press. 385 00:19:43,840 --> 00:19:46,359 Speaker 3: SNL was one of the few things Farley cared about. 386 00:19:46,800 --> 00:19:49,800 Speaker 3: When Michaels temporarily fired Farley from the show years earlier 387 00:19:49,840 --> 00:19:52,480 Speaker 3: for using heroin, it served as a wake up call. 388 00:19:52,880 --> 00:19:55,320 Speaker 3: Farley got clean, stayed clean. It was back on the 389 00:19:55,359 --> 00:19:56,120 Speaker 3: show after. 390 00:19:55,920 --> 00:19:56,560 Speaker 2: A few months. 391 00:19:57,320 --> 00:20:00,440 Speaker 3: But now Michaels was watching Farley fall apart all over again. 392 00:20:00,920 --> 00:20:02,399 Speaker 3: He was sure he could bring him back from the 393 00:20:02,440 --> 00:20:05,080 Speaker 3: brink if he gave him a hosting slot. Farley would 394 00:20:05,080 --> 00:20:08,240 Speaker 3: clean up. Chris Farley wouldn't dare fuck up an episode 395 00:20:08,240 --> 00:20:11,200 Speaker 3: of Saturday Night Live. It meant too much to him 396 00:20:11,720 --> 00:20:14,280 Speaker 3: and By Thursday that week, just two days before the 397 00:20:14,320 --> 00:20:16,959 Speaker 3: show went live, there were calls to fire Chris Farley 398 00:20:16,960 --> 00:20:19,120 Speaker 3: from the hosting gig. It was too late to turn 399 00:20:19,160 --> 00:20:21,320 Speaker 3: back now, the scripts were written, the sets were built. 400 00:20:21,520 --> 00:20:24,680 Speaker 3: The Lord Michaels refused. Farley would pull it out. Michaels 401 00:20:24,680 --> 00:20:26,960 Speaker 3: was sure of it, and if he didn't, the shock of. 402 00:20:26,960 --> 00:20:29,440 Speaker 2: Seeing himself fuck up on live television. 403 00:20:29,160 --> 00:20:32,159 Speaker 3: Would scare him back into rehab. Michaels was willing to 404 00:20:32,200 --> 00:20:35,160 Speaker 3: take an episode of SNL to save Chris Farley's life, 405 00:20:35,600 --> 00:20:37,920 Speaker 3: but that didn't mean Lord Michaels didn't call Chris Rock 406 00:20:37,960 --> 00:20:40,800 Speaker 3: to fly in to be on hand in case everything 407 00:20:40,800 --> 00:20:41,640 Speaker 3: fell apart. 408 00:20:42,200 --> 00:20:42,840 Speaker 2: Which it did. 409 00:20:44,520 --> 00:20:47,800 Speaker 3: In the opening sketch, Michael's, Tim Meadows and Chevy Chase 410 00:20:47,840 --> 00:20:50,040 Speaker 3: debated whether Farley was in any shape to host. 411 00:20:50,680 --> 00:20:51,840 Speaker 2: Cut to Farley. 412 00:20:51,520 --> 00:20:54,320 Speaker 3: Passed out in a dressing room, drenched and flopped sweat, 413 00:20:54,400 --> 00:20:57,840 Speaker 3: his voice a weak croak. After an uncomfortable bit where 414 00:20:57,840 --> 00:21:00,359 Speaker 3: he groped a younger cast member and eerie echo of 415 00:21:00,359 --> 00:21:04,680 Speaker 3: his Fatty Arbuckle incident, Farley burst onto the stage only 416 00:21:04,760 --> 00:21:07,680 Speaker 3: to find they'd called in Chris Rock to host the show. 417 00:21:08,680 --> 00:21:11,960 Speaker 3: Rock grinned and introduced his friend to wild applause. Rock 418 00:21:12,040 --> 00:21:14,240 Speaker 3: stood by as Farley flubbed his lines into the sad 419 00:21:14,280 --> 00:21:15,800 Speaker 3: imitation of one of his old bits. 420 00:21:16,480 --> 00:21:17,680 Speaker 2: The sketch was cut. 421 00:21:17,480 --> 00:21:20,400 Speaker 3: From reruns, one of only a handful of SNL sketches 422 00:21:20,400 --> 00:21:23,280 Speaker 3: erased after they aired live. The rest of the show 423 00:21:23,320 --> 00:21:26,679 Speaker 3: didn't fare much better. Farley missed more lines. He seemed 424 00:21:26,720 --> 00:21:30,000 Speaker 3: listless after a sketch that required Farley to perform on 425 00:21:30,040 --> 00:21:33,159 Speaker 3: an exercise bike. Norm McDonald had a stretch out weekend 426 00:21:33,280 --> 00:21:36,239 Speaker 3: update way too long, begging the audience to laugh at 427 00:21:36,240 --> 00:21:39,120 Speaker 3: a bomb joke. It helps Farley have a little rest, 428 00:21:39,320 --> 00:21:43,280 Speaker 3: Norm smirked. At the after party, Chris Farley sought out 429 00:21:43,359 --> 00:21:44,240 Speaker 3: Lorm Michaels. 430 00:21:44,600 --> 00:21:46,640 Speaker 2: I was funny and I wasn't, not Boss. 431 00:21:46,640 --> 00:21:51,159 Speaker 3: Lorm Michaels lied, Yes, you were like Michaels predicted. Farley 432 00:21:51,200 --> 00:21:53,760 Speaker 3: got a wake up call after the SNL debaco. He 433 00:21:53,880 --> 00:21:55,800 Speaker 3: tried to keep his shit together. He was in and 434 00:21:55,800 --> 00:21:59,080 Speaker 3: out of AA and overeaters. Anonymous, food and booze were 435 00:21:59,080 --> 00:22:01,639 Speaker 3: linked for him. If he slipped up and ate too much, 436 00:22:01,760 --> 00:22:04,040 Speaker 3: he said fuck it and fell off the wagon. He 437 00:22:04,160 --> 00:22:06,800 Speaker 3: hired sobriety guards to just follow him around and make 438 00:22:06,800 --> 00:22:09,720 Speaker 3: sure he didn't get drunk. But everywhere he went people 439 00:22:09,760 --> 00:22:11,879 Speaker 3: wanted to get drunk and high with him. They wanted 440 00:22:11,880 --> 00:22:14,480 Speaker 3: the cartoon version of Chris Farley. But he couldn't be 441 00:22:14,560 --> 00:22:21,600 Speaker 3: that guy anymore unless somebody asked, really nice, Chris Farley 442 00:22:21,680 --> 00:22:23,879 Speaker 3: was clean the day he ran into David Spade in 443 00:22:23,880 --> 00:22:26,720 Speaker 3: a hotel restaurant in la The two had a falling 444 00:22:26,720 --> 00:22:29,240 Speaker 3: out a year earlier when Farley started dating a girl 445 00:22:29,320 --> 00:22:32,440 Speaker 3: Spade liked. Farley was trying to mend fences. He said 446 00:22:32,440 --> 00:22:35,200 Speaker 3: they should work together again. All anybody wanted from him 447 00:22:35,240 --> 00:22:38,320 Speaker 3: was another Tommy boy. Farley wanted more serious roles, but 448 00:22:38,600 --> 00:22:41,399 Speaker 3: he also needed to work. Work was the only thing 449 00:22:41,480 --> 00:22:44,359 Speaker 3: keeping him off the drugs and the booze. Spade was 450 00:22:44,359 --> 00:22:46,160 Speaker 3: in a good mood. He couldn't stay. 451 00:22:45,920 --> 00:22:47,520 Speaker 2: Mad at Farley. No one could. 452 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:50,159 Speaker 3: Farley sent his sobriety guard to the hall so he 453 00:22:50,240 --> 00:22:53,480 Speaker 3: in Spade could talk in private, and the conversation didn't 454 00:22:53,520 --> 00:22:55,280 Speaker 3: get far before a couple of women came over to 455 00:22:55,320 --> 00:22:59,320 Speaker 3: the table, not just any women, playboy models doing. 456 00:22:59,080 --> 00:23:00,000 Speaker 2: A shoot in the hotel. 457 00:23:00,840 --> 00:23:03,000 Speaker 3: They asked Farley in Spade to come up and party, 458 00:23:03,240 --> 00:23:05,720 Speaker 3: and Spade said no, He'd never been a party guy, 459 00:23:06,040 --> 00:23:08,639 Speaker 3: not even when he was in SNL Bad Boy. Farley 460 00:23:08,640 --> 00:23:11,560 Speaker 3: looked at Spade, eyes pleading. They both looked over to 461 00:23:11,560 --> 00:23:13,879 Speaker 3: the hallway, where the sobriety guard checked his watch. 462 00:23:14,440 --> 00:23:16,680 Speaker 2: Gone. Spade told him, I can buy you a couple 463 00:23:16,640 --> 00:23:17,080 Speaker 2: of minutes. 464 00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:20,720 Speaker 3: In a surprising burst of speed, Farley was out the 465 00:23:20,720 --> 00:23:23,760 Speaker 3: door with the models gone before his keeper noticed. The 466 00:23:23,800 --> 00:23:25,480 Speaker 3: sobriety guard came back to the table. 467 00:23:25,680 --> 00:23:26,159 Speaker 2: Where is he? 468 00:23:26,880 --> 00:23:29,240 Speaker 3: Spade played dumb. I think he went to the bathroom, 469 00:23:29,640 --> 00:23:33,200 Speaker 3: which one Spade shrugged. The sobriety guard glared at him, 470 00:23:33,440 --> 00:23:37,080 Speaker 3: you fucked this. Spade knew the guy was right, he 471 00:23:37,080 --> 00:23:40,120 Speaker 3: didn't know how right, because they couldn't find Chris Farley anywhere. 472 00:23:40,359 --> 00:23:43,320 Speaker 3: He wasn't in the hotel, he was gone. The next 473 00:23:43,440 --> 00:23:46,920 Speaker 3: day he called his dad from Hawaii. He actually bought 474 00:23:46,960 --> 00:23:49,920 Speaker 3: plane tickets for himself and the models and flew off 475 00:23:49,960 --> 00:23:52,560 Speaker 3: to Paradise for a blacked out bing, which that lasted 476 00:23:52,640 --> 00:23:55,959 Speaker 3: days and cost him thousands. When he woke back up 477 00:23:55,960 --> 00:23:59,359 Speaker 3: in Chicago with no memory of where he'd been, Farley 478 00:23:59,400 --> 00:24:02,080 Speaker 3: went into rehar and then he broke out a rehab. 479 00:24:02,440 --> 00:24:04,120 Speaker 2: He ended up in a Chicago psych. 480 00:24:03,920 --> 00:24:06,080 Speaker 3: Ward, and when a friend came to see him, he 481 00:24:06,160 --> 00:24:08,760 Speaker 3: was starting lines of cocaine off a paper towel rack. 482 00:24:09,200 --> 00:24:11,560 Speaker 3: The orderlies had smuggled it in for him. They didn't 483 00:24:11,560 --> 00:24:14,200 Speaker 3: give a shit about Farley's health. They wanted The wild Man, 484 00:24:14,400 --> 00:24:15,359 Speaker 3: the cartoon version. 485 00:24:16,160 --> 00:24:19,040 Speaker 2: All anyone wanted from Chris Farley was to see the 486 00:24:19,040 --> 00:24:20,160 Speaker 2: Fat Guy fall down. 487 00:24:37,080 --> 00:24:41,000 Speaker 3: Nothing says be liss celebrity like appearing at a Planet 488 00:24:41,040 --> 00:24:45,960 Speaker 3: Hollywood opening in Indianapolis on a Monday night, a tourist 489 00:24:46,040 --> 00:24:49,119 Speaker 3: trap for movie buffs. The chain was launched in nineteen 490 00:24:49,200 --> 00:24:53,280 Speaker 3: ninety one by Bruce Willis, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Demi Moore, and 491 00:24:53,359 --> 00:24:57,600 Speaker 3: Sylvester Stallone, but six years later, in nineteen ninety seven, 492 00:24:57,800 --> 00:25:02,000 Speaker 3: the glips and glamour were long gone. Still, ten thousand 493 00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:05,560 Speaker 3: people waited behind barricades on North Illinois Street, pressed up 494 00:25:05,600 --> 00:25:08,080 Speaker 3: against one another in the heat, hoping to catch a 495 00:25:08,119 --> 00:25:11,119 Speaker 3: glimpse of Hollywood's finest and they were treated to a 496 00:25:11,160 --> 00:25:15,119 Speaker 3: harmonica performance by Bruce Willis aka Bruno for all you 497 00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:18,320 Speaker 3: fans of Bruce's short lived Motown Records career free t 498 00:25:18,520 --> 00:25:22,119 Speaker 3: shirts handed out by aging rocker Stephen Stills in the 499 00:25:22,200 --> 00:25:25,440 Speaker 3: very public explosion of Chris Farley. 500 00:25:25,640 --> 00:25:26,600 Speaker 2: Farley was a hit. 501 00:25:26,640 --> 00:25:30,480 Speaker 3: Celebrity pregame party, goofing around with Luke Perry and Stephen Baldwin, 502 00:25:30,760 --> 00:25:33,240 Speaker 3: mugging for the cameras in a bright red planet Hollywood 503 00:25:33,320 --> 00:25:35,600 Speaker 3: racing jacket. But by the time he got to the 504 00:25:35,640 --> 00:25:38,359 Speaker 3: actual opening, he'd been doing lines of coke and shots 505 00:25:38,359 --> 00:25:41,960 Speaker 3: of his fellow celebs for hours. Sweating bullets and gack 506 00:25:42,040 --> 00:25:44,680 Speaker 3: to the gills. Farley tried his drunken best to give 507 00:25:44,680 --> 00:25:47,439 Speaker 3: the crowd what he thought they wanted. He did pratfalls. 508 00:25:47,600 --> 00:25:50,040 Speaker 3: He shouted till he was red in the face, and 509 00:25:50,040 --> 00:25:52,720 Speaker 3: as the night wore on, the pratt falls became less 510 00:25:52,720 --> 00:25:56,960 Speaker 3: scripted and more accidental. The shouting lost its playful side. 511 00:25:57,320 --> 00:26:01,040 Speaker 3: Explotives crept in along with that mean, violent Farley got 512 00:26:01,040 --> 00:26:03,600 Speaker 3: in the depths of a binge. The crowd was getting 513 00:26:03,600 --> 00:26:05,960 Speaker 3: what they came for, but Farley's friends saw the things 514 00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:08,120 Speaker 3: had gotten out of control that no one could pull 515 00:26:08,160 --> 00:26:08,600 Speaker 3: them away. 516 00:26:09,040 --> 00:26:10,320 Speaker 2: He was out a fox to give. 517 00:26:10,720 --> 00:26:12,399 Speaker 3: He brushed them all off with a line that was 518 00:26:12,480 --> 00:26:16,199 Speaker 3: cornier than the Hollywood memorabilia behind glass on the restaurant walls. 519 00:26:16,840 --> 00:26:19,840 Speaker 2: I want to live fast and die young, and. 520 00:26:19,920 --> 00:26:22,720 Speaker 3: The tabloids heard the whole thing, and they painted a 521 00:26:22,760 --> 00:26:25,560 Speaker 3: picture of a star on a suicidal binge, and that 522 00:26:25,640 --> 00:26:30,320 Speaker 3: embarrassing performance hosting Saturday Night Live confirmed it. But Farley 523 00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:33,840 Speaker 3: wasn't exactly barrowing down the field toward death. He had 524 00:26:33,880 --> 00:26:36,560 Speaker 3: periods where he was clean, and he recorded lines for 525 00:26:36,600 --> 00:26:38,399 Speaker 3: a new animated feature called Shrek. 526 00:26:38,840 --> 00:26:39,840 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right. 527 00:26:40,320 --> 00:26:42,800 Speaker 3: Chris Farley was originally cast to be the voice of Shrek, 528 00:26:43,119 --> 00:26:46,520 Speaker 3: long before Mike Myers came on board. The film's title 529 00:26:46,520 --> 00:26:49,720 Speaker 3: Ogre was even inspired by Farley, a monster tired of 530 00:26:49,720 --> 00:26:52,600 Speaker 3: being type cast for the way he looked. And there 531 00:26:52,600 --> 00:26:56,720 Speaker 3: was another project too, Farley's dream project. Earlier that year, 532 00:26:57,080 --> 00:26:59,960 Speaker 3: he had a meeting with David Mammon, the legendary Chicago's 533 00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:03,040 Speaker 3: screenwriter and playwright. Mim had had an idea about a 534 00:27:03,040 --> 00:27:04,560 Speaker 3: biopic of Fatty Arbuckle. 535 00:27:04,960 --> 00:27:06,960 Speaker 2: He wrote the film screenplay for Farley. 536 00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:09,680 Speaker 3: It would be the dramatic role Farley had wanted ever 537 00:27:09,720 --> 00:27:13,440 Speaker 3: since he left SNL, but the scene had planned Hollywood 538 00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:17,200 Speaker 3: in the SNL performance convinced studios that Farley was unhiable. 539 00:27:17,560 --> 00:27:19,600 Speaker 3: He had only gotten the voice work on Shrek by 540 00:27:19,600 --> 00:27:22,919 Speaker 3: agreeing to be constantly shadowed by a sobriety guard. No 541 00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:25,280 Speaker 3: one could get an insurance company to underwrite a movie 542 00:27:25,320 --> 00:27:29,360 Speaker 3: with such an unreliable star. As nineteen ninety seven wound down, 543 00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:32,800 Speaker 3: Farley and the studio reached an agreement they would make 544 00:27:32,800 --> 00:27:35,440 Speaker 3: the Fatty Arbuckle film once Farley could prove he'd been. 545 00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:38,560 Speaker 2: Sober for two years. Farley was ready to do it. 546 00:27:38,960 --> 00:27:40,560 Speaker 2: This film meant everything to him. 547 00:27:40,760 --> 00:27:45,120 Speaker 3: New Year's Day, he said, clean and sober, But first 548 00:27:45,440 --> 00:27:49,760 Speaker 3: he was entitled to one more binge. He came home 549 00:27:49,800 --> 00:27:52,960 Speaker 3: to Chicago in mid December and spent time with friends. 550 00:27:53,400 --> 00:27:56,320 Speaker 3: He went to mass, big Christmas cookies. He even went 551 00:27:56,320 --> 00:27:59,080 Speaker 3: to an AA meeting. As the week went on, however, 552 00:27:59,359 --> 00:28:03,639 Speaker 3: he missed playing with friends. On Sunday, December fourteenth, he 553 00:28:03,680 --> 00:28:06,720 Speaker 3: was playing to his audience in Chicago's bar scene. He 554 00:28:06,800 --> 00:28:09,200 Speaker 3: did shots with bears, fans, and frat boys who could 555 00:28:09,240 --> 00:28:12,080 Speaker 3: quote Tommy Boy in Black Sheep until last call and 556 00:28:12,160 --> 00:28:15,040 Speaker 3: wanted to keep partying with Farley all night. He was 557 00:28:15,080 --> 00:28:17,400 Speaker 3: scheduled for a haircut with a friend, but he blew 558 00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:21,120 Speaker 3: it off. Instead, he did more shots, tossed back beers, 559 00:28:21,560 --> 00:28:25,119 Speaker 3: ate massive meals, and let strippers drape themselves all over him. 560 00:28:25,920 --> 00:28:28,000 Speaker 3: His real friends called him up, begging him not to 561 00:28:28,040 --> 00:28:28,400 Speaker 3: go out. 562 00:28:28,720 --> 00:28:31,320 Speaker 2: Farley said, okay, he'd stay in that night, said he 563 00:28:31,440 --> 00:28:34,080 Speaker 2: was done, said he'd see them soon, and he said 564 00:28:34,080 --> 00:28:35,600 Speaker 2: he was sorry. 565 00:28:36,840 --> 00:28:39,640 Speaker 3: On Wednesday morning, after doing coke all night in the 566 00:28:39,640 --> 00:28:42,480 Speaker 3: Financial District, Farley was set up with a sex worker 567 00:28:42,560 --> 00:28:45,800 Speaker 3: named Heidi. They smoked crack and snorted heroin at her 568 00:28:45,840 --> 00:28:48,520 Speaker 3: place all day. Then they tried to go out to dinner. 569 00:28:49,080 --> 00:28:51,280 Speaker 3: Heidi determined Farley was in no shape. 570 00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:53,800 Speaker 2: To eat in a restaurant anyway, who was hungry. 571 00:28:54,360 --> 00:28:56,160 Speaker 3: Heidi and Farley went back to his place in the 572 00:28:56,200 --> 00:29:00,720 Speaker 3: Hancock Center. The Hancock was once a swinging shitigo scene 573 00:29:00,760 --> 00:29:04,200 Speaker 3: back in the sixties. Now Farley's neighbors who are too 574 00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:06,680 Speaker 3: old to care about his celebrity, and they barely interacted 575 00:29:06,720 --> 00:29:09,280 Speaker 3: with him except the bang on the walls when his apartment. 576 00:29:08,920 --> 00:29:09,640 Speaker 2: Got two rowdy. 577 00:29:10,080 --> 00:29:12,840 Speaker 3: From the decor, Farley's place could have belonged to one 578 00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:16,560 Speaker 3: of those formerly swinging senior citizens, like Planet Hollywood. 579 00:29:16,560 --> 00:29:19,560 Speaker 2: It was decked out in memorabilia Chicago. 580 00:29:19,240 --> 00:29:22,560 Speaker 3: Bears, Jersey, paintings of clowns, a picture of Farley and 581 00:29:22,600 --> 00:29:26,440 Speaker 3: Paul McCartney from the former Beatles, appearance on SNL. Remember 582 00:29:26,440 --> 00:29:28,200 Speaker 3: that that was awesome. 583 00:29:29,640 --> 00:29:31,680 Speaker 2: Farley hadn't slept in four days. 584 00:29:32,120 --> 00:29:35,240 Speaker 3: He and Heide kept drinking, kept snoting heroin and cocaine, 585 00:29:35,760 --> 00:29:37,480 Speaker 3: and they argued over the cost of what had become 586 00:29:37,520 --> 00:29:39,760 Speaker 3: a twenty four hour session, not to mention the cost 587 00:29:39,800 --> 00:29:40,440 Speaker 3: of the drugs. 588 00:29:40,880 --> 00:29:43,880 Speaker 2: Heidi got upset decided to leave. Chris stood up to 589 00:29:43,920 --> 00:29:45,920 Speaker 2: follow her. He tried to convince her to stay, but 590 00:29:46,040 --> 00:29:49,600 Speaker 2: he collapsed to his knees, wheezing. He rolled onto the floor. 591 00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:51,160 Speaker 2: The Heidi walked back over. 592 00:29:51,520 --> 00:29:54,320 Speaker 3: She stood over him as he panted for breath. Don't 593 00:29:54,400 --> 00:29:57,120 Speaker 3: leave me, Farley gasped. He passed out. 594 00:29:58,120 --> 00:30:00,600 Speaker 2: Heidi slid the watch out Farley's wrist and slipped it 595 00:30:00,640 --> 00:30:03,600 Speaker 2: in her pocket. On her way out, she stopped to 596 00:30:03,680 --> 00:30:06,480 Speaker 2: leave him. No, it were so much fun. Thanks for 597 00:30:06,520 --> 00:30:07,280 Speaker 2: a lovely time. 598 00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:15,080 Speaker 3: The next day, Chris Farley's body was found dead of 599 00:30:15,120 --> 00:30:19,840 Speaker 3: a speedball overdose, just like his hero John Belushi, two 600 00:30:19,880 --> 00:30:23,040 Speaker 3: month shive of his thirty fourth birthday. He even managed 601 00:30:23,080 --> 00:30:26,080 Speaker 3: to die at the same age. No drugs were found 602 00:30:26,080 --> 00:30:29,120 Speaker 3: in Farley's apartment as far as the press was concerned. 603 00:30:29,400 --> 00:30:32,440 Speaker 3: Farley's personal assistant was there when the Chicago police searched 604 00:30:32,480 --> 00:30:35,640 Speaker 3: the apartment, and whenever a cop found something illegal, they 605 00:30:35,720 --> 00:30:38,560 Speaker 3: passed it off to him and said here, Chicago looked 606 00:30:38,560 --> 00:30:42,200 Speaker 3: after its own, and Farley belonged to the second city. 607 00:30:42,720 --> 00:30:45,400 Speaker 3: The press didn't need the whole story of Chris Farley's 608 00:30:45,480 --> 00:30:50,520 Speaker 3: last brutal binge, a story that ought to be in pictures. 609 00:30:51,560 --> 00:31:09,520 Speaker 3: I'm Jake Brennan and this is hollywood Land. 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