Saturday Night Live: The Best of Chris Farley (1998) (TV)

Directors:

Beth McCarthy-Miller
Dave Wilson
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Writers:

Andy Breckman &
Tom Davis ...
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Genre:

Documentary | Comedy

Plot:

A compilation of the best Saturday Night Live sketches as a tribute to the late Chris Farley, one of SNL's greatest Stars.

Plot Keywords:

Motivational Speaker | Compilation | Actor Playing Multiple Roles | Pop Culture | Eight Word Title

Cast

Chris Farley	...	Himself (Various Characters) (archive footage)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Mackenzie English	...	25 Appearance
Christina Applegate	...	Various Characters (archive footage) (uncredited)
Dave Attell	...	Audience Member (archive footage) (uncredited)
Alec Baldwin	...	Quiz Kings Contestant (archive footage) (uncredited)
Jim Breuer	...	Cyclist (archive footage) (uncredited)
Dana Carvey	...	Various Characters (archive footage) (uncredited)
Ellen Cleghorne	...	Various Characters (archive footage) (uncredited)
Macaulay Culkin	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Jeff Daniels	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Siobhan Fallon	...	Herself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Janeane Garofalo	...	Quiz Kings Contestant (archive footage) (uncredited)
Ana Gasteyer	...	Cyclist (archive footage) (uncredited)
Phil Hartman	...	Various Characters (archive footage) (uncredited)
Jan Hooks	...	Various Characters (archive footage) (uncredited)
Melanie Hutsell	...	Various Characters (archive footage) (uncredited)
David Hyde Pierce	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Victoria Jackson	...	Roseanne Arnold (archive footage) (uncredited)
Michael Jordan	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Michael Keaton	...	Grandson (archive footage) (uncredited)
Nancy Kerrigan	...	Herself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Laura Kightlinger	...	Quiz Kings Assistant (archive footage) (uncredited)
Norm MacDonald	...	Green Beans (archive footage) (uncredited)
Steve Martin	...	Himself (Various Characters) (archive footage) (uncredited)
Paul McCartney	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Michael McKean	...	The Devil (archive footage) (uncredited)
Tim Meadows	...	Various Characters (archive footage) (uncredited)
Lorne Michaels	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Dennis Miller	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Jay Mohr	...	Various Characters (archive footage) (uncredited)
Mike Myers	...	Various Characters (archive footage) (uncredited)
Kevin Nealon	...	Various Characters (archive footage) (uncredited)
Sarah Jessica Parker	...	Angela Tucci (archive footage) (uncredited)
Chris Rock	...	Various Characters (archive footage) (uncredited)
Deion Sanders	...	Captain (archive footage) (uncredited)
Adam Sandler	...	Various Characters (archive footage) (uncredited)
Tom Schiller	...	Knorben Knussen (archive footage) (uncredited)
Rob Schneider	...	Various Characters (archive footage) (uncredited)
Martin Scorsese	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Molly Shannon	...	Cyclist (archive footage) (uncredited)
Sarah Silverman	...	Chop Suey (archive footage) (uncredited)
Christian Slater	...	Son (archive footage) (uncredited)
Robert Smigel	...	Carl Wollarski (archive footage) (uncredited)
Jimmy Smits	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
David Spade	...	Various Characters (archive footage) (uncredited)
Patrick Swayze	...	Adrian (archive footage) (uncredited)
Julia Sweeney	...	Various Characters (archive footage) (uncredited)
George Wendt	...	Bob Swersky (archive footage) (uncredited)
Fred Wolf	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

Directed by
Beth McCarthy-Miller		(as Beth McCarthy)
Dave Wilson
Tom Schiller		(segment "Shillervision: Coffee")
James Signorelli		(segment "Paris Skating")

Writing credits
Andy Breckman		&
Tom Davis		&
James Downey		&
Hugh Fink		&
Al Franken		&
Jack Handey		&
Steve Koren		&
Norm MacDonald		&
Ian Maxtone-Graham		&
Michael McCullers		&
Tim Meadows		&
Marilyn Suzanne Miller		&
Lewis Morton		&
Adam Sandler		&
Rob Schneider		&
Robert Smigel		&
Bonnie Turner		&
Terry Turner		&
Fred Wolf		&
Christine Zander
Allen Covert		uncredited
Tim Herlihy		uncredited
Dennis Miller		uncredited
Jay Mohr		uncredited
Bob Odenkirk		uncredited
David Spade		uncredited

Produced by
Ken Aymong	....	supervising producer
Leslie Carangi	....	producer (segment "Schillervision Coffee Commercial") (as Leslie Carangi Kelley)
Stacey Foster	....	coordinating producer
Tom Gianas	....	producer
Lorne Michaels	....	executive producer
Tanya Ryno	....	associate producer
Robert Smigel	....	producer

Film Editing by
Nicholas S. Mallardi

Makeup Department
Joe Rossi	....	makeup artist

Production Management
Leslie Carangi	....	unit production manager: second unit (segment "Schmitt's Gay") (as Leslie Carangi Kelley)
Gary Considine	....	executive in charge of production

Sound Department
Chris Seeger	....	post-production audio
Jay Vicari	....	post-production audio

Editorial Department
Mark Jankeloff	....	editor: video tape

Other crew
Robert Caminiti	....	associate director (as Bobby Caminiti)
Stefani Cohen	....	script supervisor
Sharon Haskell	....	title sequence
Samantha Scharff	....	production coordinator

Production Companies

• Broadway Video
• National Broadcasting Company (NBC)

Distributors

• Europa Filmes (2000) (Brazil) (VHS)

Also Known As:

Runtime:

Brazil:50 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Company:

Broadway Video

Trivia:

According to the Katakana at the beginning of the skit, the name of the Japanese game show that Farley's character Larry Templeton appears on is "Quiz Kings".

Quotes:

Chris Farley:Remember when you were with the Beatles and you were supposed to be dead, and there were all these clues, like you play some song backwards and it'd say, like "Paul is Dead" and everybody thought you were dead and, um, that was a hoax right?
Paul McCartney:Yeah, I wasn't really dead.

Movie Connections:

Edited from "Saturday Night Live: George Steinbrenner/Morris Day & The Time (#16.3)" (1990)

Soundtrack:

Pleasure Drive

A nice tribute

Chris Farley (Tommy Boy, Beverly Hills Ninja, Almost Heroes) was a great comic. He had a grasp of physical comedy that he didn't get full credit for. He came to Saturday Night Live during the same time as Adam Sandler, Phil Hartman, and David Spade, and left about the same time to pursue a film career. Adam Sandler is now a guaranteed money maker for studios, and David Spade has made good on television, as did Phil Hartman before his tragic death. So many great comedic actors have died before their time, and Saturday Night Live has had more than their fair share of them, that it's tempting to put Chris Farley as another person on the list and leave it at that. But I think he deserves some special mention. In the skits on this disc, The Best of Chris Farley he often worked alongside these other actors and stole the scenes; and many times you could tell the others couldn't help but laugh at his antics even when they were supposed to be serious.

Chris Farley was not only a big man, who thought that much of his comic appeal came from his size, but he was incredibly athletic and showed the grace and agility of a much thinner dancer. Besides being one of the best at pratfalls and other slapstick humor he often showed that agility in sketches where he would dance, figure skate, or do martial arts. That he had so many gifts makes it all the more sad that he died so young. We can only wonder what might have been.

Saturday Night Live: The Best of Chris Farley is another in the "Best of" line but in this case is also a tribute to one of my favorites from the cast who is no longer with us. In that respect alone I would recommend this disc, but it has its own merits as well.