Biography: Chris Farley Had Feelings

Biography: Chris Farley Had Feelings
The Chris Farley Show, an eponymous new biography about the late comedian and SNL alum, spells out something his unrelenting drug abuse should have clarified for everyone years ago: He actually didn’t enjoy being made fun of for being hugely overweight and he only allowed it so that people would like him.

Chris Rock blames Farley’s undoing on his deep-seated need for approval. “‘Chippendales’ was a weird sketch. I always hated it,” says Rock, “The joke of it is, basically, ‘We can’t hire you because you’re fat.’ There’s no comic twist to it. It’s just [bleep]ing mean. A more mentally together Chris Farley wouldn’t have done it, but Chris wanted so much to be liked. As funny as that sketch was … it’s one of the things that killed him.”

Click through for the now infamous “Chippendale sketch.”

Published 4/22/08 by


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