Editing Chris Farley (section)

===''Saturday Night Live''===
Along with [[Chris Rock]], Farley was one of the new ''Saturday Night Live'' cast members announced in early 1990.<ref name="yahoo"/><ref name="whs"/> On ''SNL'', Farley frequently collaborated with fellow cast members [[Chris Rock]], [[Adam Sandler]], [[Tim Meadows]], [[Rob Schneider]] and [[David Spade]]. This group came to be known as the "[[Bad boy archetype|Bad Boys of SNL]]."<ref>{{cite web|last1=Roberts|first1=Andrew|title=The Story Behind Chris Rock's Firing From 'Saturday Night Live'|url=http://uproxx.com/tv/2014/11/the-story-behind-chris-rocks-firing-from-saturday-night-live/|publisher=[[Uproxx]]|access-date=November 5, 2015|date=November 1, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Fallon|first1=Kevin|title=The Secrets of 'Saturday Night Live': Where Comedy Legends Are Born|url=http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/06/14/the-secrets-of-saturday-night-live-where-comedy-legends-are-born.html|newspaper=[[The Daily Beast]]|access-date=November 5, 2015|date=June 14, 2015}}</ref>

Popular characters performed by Farley included [[Matt Foley]], an over-the-top [[motivational speaker]] who frequently reminded other characters that he was "living in a van down by the river!" The character was created by [[Bob Odenkirk]] when he and Farley were performers at Second City. The character's name came from a longtime friend of Farley's who became a Catholic priest and currently serves as pastor at St. James Catholic Church in [[Arlington Heights, Illinois|Arlington Heights]], Illinois.<ref>{{Cite news| url=https://www.dailyherald.com/article/20150801/news/150809920/ | title=The real Matt Foley remembers his friend Chris Farley|work=[[Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, Illinois)|Daily Herald]]| date=August 1, 2015}}</ref> In early renditions of the character, Farley used other names, depending on whom he knew in the audience, until the real-life Foley went to the show and had his name used, at which point Farley felt the name best suited the character and refused to change it. Some of the mannerisms of the character were a combination of the positions Farley noticed his rugby teammates took on the pitch coupled with his high school football coach's habit of squatting down when giving pep talks and the voice his father used when he was angry.<ref name="dada">{{cite news|first=Sam|last=Anderson|url=https://nymag.com/arts/books/reviews/47039|title=Dada's Boy|work=[[New York (magazine)|New York]]|date=May 16, 2008|access-date=June 8, 2008|archive-date=August 19, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220819112936/https://nymag.com/arts/books/reviews/47039/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Other famous Farley characters included Todd O'Connor of [[Bill Swerski's Superfans]], a group of stereotypical Chicagoans who repeatedly shouted [[Chicago Bears|"da Bears!"]];<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/highlights/archives/2008/05/farley_exhibit.asp|title=New Exhibit: Chris Farley Remembered|publisher=Wisconsin Historical Society|access-date=June 8, 2008|archive-date=November 6, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101106094908/http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/highlights/archives/2008/05/farley_exhibit.asp|url-status=dead}}</ref> a would-be [[Chippendales]] dancer, in [[Chippendales Audition|a famous sketch]] that paired him with guest host [[Patrick Swayze]];<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theringer.com/tv/2020/3/31/21200801/chris-farley-chippendales-patrick-swayze-skating-snl-sketch|title=Chris Farley Should Be Remembered for His Grace, Not His Falls|first=Nate|last=Rogers|date=March 31, 2020|work=[[The Ringer (website)|The Ringer]]}}</ref><ref name=cnn>{{cite news|first=Henry|last=Goldblatt|url=https://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/books/05/07/chris.farley/|title='Chris Farley Show' stuffed with gossip|publisher=[[CNN]] |location=Atlanta, Georgia|date=May 7, 2008|access-date=June 8, 2008}}</ref> one of the "[[Gap Girls]]", who worked together at a local mall; a stereotypical [[lunch lady]], to the theme of "Lunchlady Land"' performed by Adam Sandler;<ref>{{cite book|first=Bill|last=Crawford|title=Adam Sandler: America's Comedian|publisher=[[Macmillan Publishers|Macmillan]]|location=New York City|date=2000|page=75|isbn=0-312-26282-5}}</ref> [[Bennett Brauer]], a ''[[Weekend Update]]'' commentator who often divulged his personal and hygienic problems via [[air quotes]]; and himself on ''[[The Chris Farley Show]]'', a talk show in which Farley "interviewed" the guest with poorly conceived questions or trailed off about subjects not germane to the guest.

Some of these characters were brought to ''SNL'' from his days at Second City. Farley also performed impersonations of [[Tom Arnold (actor)|Tom Arnold]] (who gave Farley's eulogy at his private funeral), [[Andrew Giuliani]], [[Jerry Garcia]], [[Meat Loaf]], [[Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr.|Norman Schwarzkopf]], [[Dom DeLuise]], [[Roger Ebert]], [[Carnie Wilson]], [[Newt Gingrich]], [[Mindy Cohn]], [[Mama Cass]], [[Hank Williams Jr.]], and [[Rush Limbaugh]].<ref name=wisconsin>{{cite web|url=http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/museum/artifacts/archives/003176.asp|title=Chris Farley's Black Sheep Jacket|publisher=wisconsinhistory.org|access-date=June 7, 2008|archive-date=June 10, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100610103041/http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/museum/artifacts/archives/003176.asp|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Off-screen, Farley was well known for his pranks in the offices of ''Saturday Night Live''. Sandler and Farley would make late-night prank phone calls from the ''SNL'' offices in [[Rockefeller Center]], with Sandler speaking in an old woman's voice and Farley farting into the phone and [[mooning]] cars from a limousine, and even once defecating out a 17th floor window. He was also known to frequently get naked and do various stunts for laughs, including imitating [[Jame Gumb|Jame "Buffalo Bill" Gumb]] from the then-current film ''[[The Silence of the Lambs (film)|The Silence of the Lambs]]''. Rock once claimed that he probably saw Farley's genitals more than Farley's girlfriend did.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://nymag.com/arts/tv/features/47548/index6.html|title=Comedy Isn't Funny|last=Smith|first=Chris|date=March 15, 1995|magazine=[[New York (magazine)|New York]]|page=7|access-date=June 8, 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Shales|first1= T. |last2=Miller|first2= J.A. |year=2002|title=Live From New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live|location=New York|publisher=Back Bay Books|pages= 379–380}}</ref> Farley, alongside Sandler, was [[Dismissal (employment)|fired]] by NBC in 1995.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/2010/01/21/2010-01-21_youre_not_alone_conan_obrien_adam_sandler_says_nbc_fired_him_and_chris_farley_fr.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100124044753/http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/2010/01/21/2010-01-21_youre_not_alone_conan_obrien_adam_sandler_says_nbc_fired_him_and_chris_farley_fr.html | archive-date=2010-01-24 | title=You're not alone, Conan O'Brien: Adam Sandler says NBC fired him and Chris Farley from 'SNL' | website=[[New York Daily News]] }}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/adam-sandler-talks-getting-fired-from-snl-bad-reviews-and-his-desire-to-play-a-villain?ref=scroll | title=Adam Sandler Talks Getting Fired from 'SNL,' Bad Reviews, and His Desire to Play a Villain | newspaper=The Daily Beast | date=12 September 2014 | last1=Stern | first1=Marlow }}</ref>