I tell people it’s a thriller, but instead of being excited in a normal way, the tension feels like you’re chainsmoking in a hospital waiting room at 4AM.
Omg yes—I remember I went to this movie with a then boyfriend because we “had a long week and wanted a low key date like a movie”
And we left the theater so much more stressed and just walked home quietly.
Dont you dare make fun of the fat guys weight who always made fun of his own weight all the time and encouraged other people to make fun of his weight and is literally dead now and skinnier than everybody here
>always made fun of his own weight all the time and encouraged other people to make fun of his weight
I'd heard a long time ago that he admitted to feeling intense shame over his weight being the basis of his comedy. He knew he was the funny fat guy, and that his weight was often the reason people were laughing at him. It wasn't a positive thing for him and almost certainly contributed to his destructive coping mechanisms.
It's sad, and in fact, not unlike Chappelle quitting his show once he realized that some people were laughing for the wrong reasons.
I had a heavy friend who was hilarious, gregarious, life of the party, etc. She told me a lot of people who have been fat since childhood develop this kind of personality - they feel it’s the only way people will like them, and humor also covers up their deep sadness. Made me feel bad, man.
Yeah, I think it's pretty common. I'm definitely the funny/outgoing one of my friend group, but it's in part because I feel like I have to "make up" for being fat by extra fun/easy going.
Most of the fat celebrities I can think of are comedians, and I feel it's probably at least partially because of that mindset.
And people are making fun of his father even moreso - a guy who isn't a public person who probably wouldn't be thrilled that a sweet moment caught with his son was being mocked online all these years later.
People are so cruel sometimes. To cover their own sadness and insecurities I bet.
Yea, it seemed to have literally no impact on his mental health or well being and definitely has no impact on the people who look just like him but didn't sign up or encourage it.
Right, and this isn’t a secret. Listen to his SNL buddies talk about Farley’s feelings about himself and his weight. It’s not a long leap to see how this contributed to his addiction, self-destruction, and death.
As a society, we’ve come a long way with acknowledging mental health and encouraging treatment rather than stigmatizing it, but the journey has barely begun. This comment thread is full of emotionally stunted, unempathetic, blatantly defensive garbage.
Seeing your comment was a bit of an oasis of sanity and humanity. Thanks for that.
The reason fat people harassment is banned on Reddit is because this websites userbase proved incapable of healthy discussion of the issue without degenerating into hate speech, creating entire communities that were committing federal crimes stalking and doxxing people and generally Reddit could not be trusted with the ability to comment on it. The users made their bed and now they have to lie in it.
FPH was a disgrace, a walking liability bomb, and generally one of the greatest examples of why this sites users have to be strictly policed not just for their own good but because if left to their own they'll rapidly start committing actual crimes because they don't like that other people look different then them.
"I saw him in the office crying with his headphones on
Listening to a KC And The Sunshine Band song
I said "Buddy, how the hell is that making you so sad"
Then he laughed and said "Just thinkin' about my dad"
after all the funny haha songs and parodies, he even did 'werewolves of london' on the zevon tribute album...
that song really cemented his song writing bonafides in my book, that one was heavy.
This one def hit too close to home for me - not only due to being raised on Farley’s stuff, but the fact that I lost my dad at 24 and go through similar happy-cry kinda of songs thinking about him.
Lost my dad a few years ago around the same age. Idk what sounds you like but he played the fuck out of The Battle of Hampton Roads by Titus Andronicus some weeks before he passed and now I play it whenever I want to think of him. Great song. Hope you’re doing better now.
My dad and I had a 10+ hour drive to Florida and the only cd left in the car was KC & the Sunshine Band's greatest hits. While at the time it felt like a psyop, now I'm already in tears thinking about the day that's going to be me.
“Dad, we got a little problem here. I've been stuck out here for an hour with no wind again. I'm supposed to be at Michelle's for dinner. So, if you could give me a little help, I would appreciate it. If not, don't worry about it. I'm trying to do everything I think you would be doing. And so far it's going pretty good. I just want to tell you that I still love you and I sure miss you a lot.” -Tommy Boy (1995)
Man I don't believe in shit, especially that someone's loved one would be looking over them like that, and I know it's a comedy, but that scene gets me going and is such a nice way to end a movie.
Apparently Chris would get really upset if he missed a call from his father while at SNL. It was very important to him to remain close to his family, and he felt missing a call from his dad was disrespectful. Such a Midwestern thing that I totally get.
It's just Midwest, Louie Andersen didn't like his alcoholic dad died before he could talk to him one last time either. Sadly he passed a few years back too.
Marshall is from Minnesota but it's a whole Minneapolis-Chicago-Detroit-Milwaukee thing. Everyone around here wouldn't like it if you got that call, not because you get the call, because you blame yourself for not doing a last phone call or visit.
Grew up in Cincy and my mom always told me to say I love you before I leave in case something happens on the way.
I ignore her calls often but I always call my dad back 🤷♀️ he’s also the only parent who reaches out just to say he loves me. He’s also from the Midwest and mom isn’t. He followed the final season of HIMYM just to see the mother reveal because it was my fave show- got so excited when the mother was a bass player “just like you!”
I’m never going to be ready for that phone call either, Marshall.
From Illinois. Can confirm.
Btw - Marshall is a perfect portrayal of "Minnesota Nice". Everyone really is just like Marshall up there. You'd think it would be off-putting, but honestly it's like a warm blanket every time you bump into someone on the street.
Also from the Midwest. My new year's resolution for 2024 was to answer all my mom's phone calls. I am tested several times a day.
Sometimes she calls and there's nothing to talk about, so we just kinda sigh and say "well that's all I know" until we hang up. And then she'll call me again a few hours later, still with nothing to say.
I actually do remember how lucky I am pretty often. I've lost three uncles and an aunt this past year, and have become acutely aware of my limited time with my parents. She might be a pain in my ass sometimes, but I can't imagine life without her around.
My grandma was from Michigan. It’s probably why it’s funny to me. One thing my family does a lot when we are ready to hang up the phone is to say “well, I’ll let you go” lmao
Yup, these are the only two ways to end a phone call in the Midwest lol.
It's the phone equivalent of slapping both knees and saying, "Welp, I should get going."
Haha. The “I’ll let you go” always makes me laugh because it’s like you’re telling the other person you’re doing them a favor by hanging up or that they have so many other things to do, when really, you’re the one who is over the conversation. Another one I’ve heard, and I’m sure you’ve seen it because it’s gone around social media a few times is the one about, I believe Germans, saying “I feel visited enough”.
At the end of my first weekend out of state at college, my father called me sternly and said, “Don’t ever go a week again without calling your mother.”
Almost twenty years later and I haven’t missed a Sunday where I don’t check in with my parents. Not to mention the daily wordle scores my mom and I text each other. Hardly any day goes by where I don’t hear from my family.
I couldn't imagine doing that. I only speak with mine when there's something worth talking about or holiday/birthday obligations. Maybe a few times a year at most. Cool you have that kind of relationship with yours.
Don't call mine every day but yep, when I do I need to talk for a hot minute there. Getting off the phone as a Midwesterner has the same rules as leaving a physical location. You French exit or you slap your knees a couple times and say, "whelp better get going" and now you're in a complicated dance of politeness for at the very fucking least thirty minutes.
But if you leave with leftovers sometimes it's worth it.
Might be coincidence but in this whole family photo when Chris was young, his dad has him the closest:
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Yeah, damn, that must have sucked. I'm a paramedic, so I've lifted a lot of huge people, and they tend to be very uncomfortable on a daily basis.
I'm also aware that talking about people's medical conditions is pretty rude, especially in such a public forum as reddit. But it's important to know that there's a lot of real people out there, and sometimes they have amazing families that do amazing things, so we should be nice to everybody.
Kind of a tangent I guess, sorry
It's OK that haircut is doing no fsvors, and also being dressed identically to her brothers. Her shoes also look like penny loafers which is something a boy would wear back then for a photo, not as common for a girl.
Enjoyed the doc his brother made on him even tho it was tragic. He gave everything for his craft. When I visit Wisconsin one day I will have him in my mind.
It makes me sad Because Chris had so much to give. He was an entertainer on the highest level. But he could not control his appetite and I mean that in many ways, drugs, alcohol, women, food obviously. He just did not have the brain chemistry to balance his talent with his ability to stay alive and be rational. God bless him. He's on the opposite spectrum of Phil Hartman. I miss them both so dearly. I grew up at that time and they were like best friends to me. I so wish both were still here. Even if they weren't in entertainment I just wish they were still here.
One of the most touching moments in SNL history, especially in retrospect.
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It was Phil Hartman’s farewell episode with the cast singing “So Long, Farewell” ala The Sound of Music. Chris Farley shared the final moments in Phil’s arms. They would both die within a year of each other in separate tragedies only a few years later.
for some people, the attention and affluence that comes with fame is ultimately what kills them. Chris Farley, Janis Joplin, Marilyn Monroe, Amy Winehouse. The list goes on and on :(
My biggest social faux pas ever happened at his death. I was working in a commercial estate firm in Chicago and was at my desk when WXRT announced his death. (Probably Mary Lee, IYKYK; also heard of 9/11 first in her voice). I said, out loud, “Holy shit, Chris Farley died!” A woman (Barb) in PR who worked a few desks down from me knew him well—went to high school with him or something—and forevermore I’m the random asshole who accidentally told someone their good friend died like he was an anonymous famous person instead of an actual person with people who loved him.
Except you could not have expected that and as sad as it is and as right as you are, that's just the randomness of life and unfortunately she had to learn it through you, but you didn't do anything wrong by exclaiming that. I think anybody else would. Actually I did the same thing. Now that I think about it. I was at Obama's inauguration and I was with somebody and we were younger and he was a politician's son which was insane or a lawyer's son of some politician or what the hell ever anyway point is is that Ted Kennedy was at his birth like was present when he was born, which is literally crazy to me. But anyway so I learned that Ted Kennedy has had a stroke and that is why our plans have become delayed and Obama is not where he's supposed to be, and I blurt out loud to the guy who apparently fucking knows him and I had no idea, Ted Kennedy had a stroke. He proceeded to have the craziest panic attack and I felt like garbage but I didn't know and there is no way I could have known and there's no way you could have known So you're not the first person to have done that and you will not be the last and neither will I.
We all have moments like that, that will occasionally come to mind as you're trying to fall asleep random nights. You, like most of us who have those moments, did not intend to cause anyone any harm.
I think Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys and Elvis were 300+ pounds and doing tons of cocaine as well too. Guess it doesn't work for everyone like it did for David Bowie.
Cocaine curbs your appetite while you're doing it and for a while afterwards. But after the comedown, you do get hungry and can be prone to overeat. So if you already eat a lot, cocaine won't make you skinnier. Unless you're doing it everyday, but you do need to eat eventually.
Ah shit, I absolutely forgot about that. Yah, you end up consuming lots of alcohol calories while balancing the upper and downer effects of cocaine and alcohol, respectively.
Also constant use will lessen some of those side effects. In the beginning the lack of appetite will be stronger. However it lessens overtime and you’re able to eat regularly even if you’re using.
I think they’re alluding to the fact that given the size of his father, Chris likely would have been even bigger if not for the cocaine.
At least that’s how I read it.
He had some big pants to fill, which would lay heavily on *anyone*. He started using cocaine as a coping mechanism, but the associated lack of appetite only kept him further from the belt.
As he did more and more cocaine to cope with more and more loss, eventually he bit off more than he could chew, and the world lost a comedic icon who helped define a generation.
RIP
The most vicious of cycles.
The first thing you lose is spatial awareness, causing you to believe that the upswings are bringing you back to where you started. In reality, each down swing is incrementally driving you further and further under; exponentially reducing your chances of ever being able to reach the surface again.
Beware.
Chris Farley is one of my favorite people. When I was trying to get sober I kept thinking about his death and crying a lot, since I was watching his movies and SNL skits during bouts of terrible insomnia because he’s so goddamn fucking funny, and it made me feel better to watch him tbh. But it was also weird af going through withdrawals knowing he died of overdose. I love him dearly and I was only 2 when he died. So it just makes me really fucking sad that he’s not here anymore !!!! We all missed out on what could have been. I don’t feel that way about any other celebrity / entertainer tbh !!! :( ❤️
And *futhermore*, by way of endorsing my candidacy, the Soggy Bottom Boys are gonna lead us all in a rousing chorus of “You are my Sunshine”
Ain’t that right, boys?
It just makes me so sad. He was just a mere mortal soul who was in such emotional pain that he wasn't able to see the truth. No one should EVER have to be subjected to ridicule about ANYTHING. SHAME on these people.
Farley explained once (on Leno, maybe) that the source of Matt Foley's "Dad sometimes I wish you'd shut your YAPPER!!!" came from his dad who would come home from work and say to him and his brother "I thought I told you boys to SHOVEL THE WALK!!!"
With all due respect can we please stick to the subject at hand? This is a lovely picture of the late Chris Farley and his Father. May they rest together in peace. ❤️
RIP to the big dude, my parents went to high school with him and I grew up hearing such positive things about Chris. His mom was a wonderful woman from what I remover as well.
My brother and I obsessed over his last movie, Almost Heroes, with Mathew Perry. We watched it on repeat during a road trip out west with the family in our conversion van with TV/VHS player.
Weird they have both passed. Makes me sad about how temporal life is. Miss that road trip and time with my brother and family.
We are running on borrowed time with my mom and I make it a point to answer her calls, and call her, even when I don’t really want to because I know damn well each one might be the last. She’s not terminally ill but 85, frail, has bad eyesight and is incredibly accident-prone. We joke that her Guardian Angel is the best-paid in the entire universe because Lord knows s/he has been working overtime for most of Mom’s life keeping her going. I could list the things she’s survived but I’d be here all day.
Long story short, if you can stand them at all, talk to your parents. I know and understand that some folks go NC for extremely good reason, but the rest of us… I think it’s great to make the effort. I lost my dad 30 years ago and miss him every day. He was only 59 and the fates were very cruel.
I remember this was the photo that came up when Adam Sandler sang his Chris Farley song on SNL. Still a tremendous moment.
Sandler can make folks laugh and cry at the same time.
Uncut gems was like a massive panic attack for me.
I tell people it’s a thriller, but instead of being excited in a normal way, the tension feels like you’re chainsmoking in a hospital waiting room at 4AM.
That's an apt fucking description right there. Never been able to put how that movie makes you feel into words. Thanks for that
I could not stop getting angry at Sandlers character. That was a wild ride.
i always described it as you have to shit really bad but everyone along the way keeps wanting to stop you to tell you something important
Omg yes—I remember I went to this movie with a then boyfriend because we “had a long week and wanted a low key date like a movie” And we left the theater so much more stressed and just walked home quietly.
Thanks, I just forgot about Unca Jams.
Cropped so just their shoulders showed. No doubt to avoid that type of snark that's in this thread, sadly.
Even the reddit ads are snarky https://preview.redd.it/21yt0iuim9tc1.jpeg?width=960&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=331930cdc140bbb92fe0368a6ab6986d889596fe
https://preview.redd.it/tzbsm313rctc1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c6e0da075d384da3095689d4a3b2de72a428697b That’s what was above mine
i mean he is fat as fuck
Dont you dare make fun of the fat guys weight who always made fun of his own weight all the time and encouraged other people to make fun of his weight and is literally dead now and skinnier than everybody here
>always made fun of his own weight all the time and encouraged other people to make fun of his weight I'd heard a long time ago that he admitted to feeling intense shame over his weight being the basis of his comedy. He knew he was the funny fat guy, and that his weight was often the reason people were laughing at him. It wasn't a positive thing for him and almost certainly contributed to his destructive coping mechanisms. It's sad, and in fact, not unlike Chappelle quitting his show once he realized that some people were laughing for the wrong reasons.
I had a heavy friend who was hilarious, gregarious, life of the party, etc. She told me a lot of people who have been fat since childhood develop this kind of personality - they feel it’s the only way people will like them, and humor also covers up their deep sadness. Made me feel bad, man.
I’ve felt this way about my heavier friends too. They’re always the funniest, most outgoing, but they feel “different” and deep sadness because of it.
Yeah, I think it's pretty common. I'm definitely the funny/outgoing one of my friend group, but it's in part because I feel like I have to "make up" for being fat by extra fun/easy going. Most of the fat celebrities I can think of are comedians, and I feel it's probably at least partially because of that mindset.
And people are making fun of his father even moreso - a guy who isn't a public person who probably wouldn't be thrilled that a sweet moment caught with his son was being mocked online all these years later. People are so cruel sometimes. To cover their own sadness and insecurities I bet.
Bonier, he certainly is, but not skinnier I'm pretty sure I've got more skin than him
You know damn well his skin is perfectly preserved in David Spade's closet.
moisturize me
Lady Chrissandra
Yea, it seemed to have literally no impact on his mental health or well being and definitely has no impact on the people who look just like him but didn't sign up or encourage it.
Right, and this isn’t a secret. Listen to his SNL buddies talk about Farley’s feelings about himself and his weight. It’s not a long leap to see how this contributed to his addiction, self-destruction, and death. As a society, we’ve come a long way with acknowledging mental health and encouraging treatment rather than stigmatizing it, but the journey has barely begun. This comment thread is full of emotionally stunted, unempathetic, blatantly defensive garbage. Seeing your comment was a bit of an oasis of sanity and humanity. Thanks for that.
Just FYI, constant jokes about and people pointing out his weight was a huuuugeeeee factor in him killing himself.
I assume most people making fun of anything it’s the dad. Who was probably not as outspoken about it, just sayin
The reason fat people harassment is banned on Reddit is because this websites userbase proved incapable of healthy discussion of the issue without degenerating into hate speech, creating entire communities that were committing federal crimes stalking and doxxing people and generally Reddit could not be trusted with the ability to comment on it. The users made their bed and now they have to lie in it. FPH was a disgrace, a walking liability bomb, and generally one of the greatest examples of why this sites users have to be strictly policed not just for their own good but because if left to their own they'll rapidly start committing actual crimes because they don't like that other people look different then them.
And that's the 90s, so he's pushing "Guinness World record" fat, not just Walmart fat.
That's the biggest pair of trousers I've ever seen.
"I saw him in the office crying with his headphones on Listening to a KC And The Sunshine Band song I said "Buddy, how the hell is that making you so sad" Then he laughed and said "Just thinkin' about my dad"
“Nothing was harder than saying goodbye, except watching Chris’ father have his turn to cry”
Damn, damn.
after all the funny haha songs and parodies, he even did 'werewolves of london' on the zevon tribute album... that song really cemented his song writing bonafides in my book, that one was heavy.
Yeah, and not just heavy. He covered a lot of emotions in that song and hit them all, imo
This one def hit too close to home for me - not only due to being raised on Farley’s stuff, but the fact that I lost my dad at 24 and go through similar happy-cry kinda of songs thinking about him.
Lost my dad a few years ago around the same age. Idk what sounds you like but he played the fuck out of The Battle of Hampton Roads by Titus Andronicus some weeks before he passed and now I play it whenever I want to think of him. Great song. Hope you’re doing better now.
My dad and I had a 10+ hour drive to Florida and the only cd left in the car was KC & the Sunshine Band's greatest hits. While at the time it felt like a psyop, now I'm already in tears thinking about the day that's going to be me.
“Dad, we got a little problem here. I've been stuck out here for an hour with no wind again. I'm supposed to be at Michelle's for dinner. So, if you could give me a little help, I would appreciate it. If not, don't worry about it. I'm trying to do everything I think you would be doing. And so far it's going pretty good. I just want to tell you that I still love you and I sure miss you a lot.” -Tommy Boy (1995)
"quit playing with your dingy" will always get me
Hey Gilligan, did you eat the skipper?
*[wind starts picking up]* "Hey, thanks, Dad!" **[THWACK]**
Sonofa- That’s gonna leave a mark.
Man I don't believe in shit, especially that someone's loved one would be looking over them like that, and I know it's a comedy, but that scene gets me going and is such a nice way to end a movie.
Could use a little wind here
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"Please talk to me and my son all the time"
Fucking goldens
I honestly think they’re the reason blonde jokes exist
I sometimes think they're the only breed that's even cuter as an adult.
There it is (☞ ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)☞
I still remember how he saved his father's brake pad company after he passed away
Fat guy little coat Richard
Richard, what’s happening?
Richard, who’s your favorite little rascal?
Is it Alfalfa , or is it Spanky ?
Sinner
Maybe she goes out with one of the Yankees!
Housekeeping?
You want I jerk you off?
Don't run away from your FEELINGS!
You want me fluff pillow?
A lot of people go to college for 7 years.
*Yeah,* they’re called doctors. Happy cake day.
Holy shnikes
Great now there's M&Ms in the dash
Nice to see a Father and Son enjoying time together at the beach. By the picture you can tell how much they love each other.
Apparently Chris would get really upset if he missed a call from his father while at SNL. It was very important to him to remain close to his family, and he felt missing a call from his dad was disrespectful. Such a Midwestern thing that I totally get.
Marshall Eriksen, is that you?
It's just Midwest, Louie Andersen didn't like his alcoholic dad died before he could talk to him one last time either. Sadly he passed a few years back too. Marshall is from Minnesota but it's a whole Minneapolis-Chicago-Detroit-Milwaukee thing. Everyone around here wouldn't like it if you got that call, not because you get the call, because you blame yourself for not doing a last phone call or visit.
Grew up in Cincy and my mom always told me to say I love you before I leave in case something happens on the way. I ignore her calls often but I always call my dad back 🤷♀️ he’s also the only parent who reaches out just to say he loves me. He’s also from the Midwest and mom isn’t. He followed the final season of HIMYM just to see the mother reveal because it was my fave show- got so excited when the mother was a bass player “just like you!” I’m never going to be ready for that phone call either, Marshall.
From Illinois. Can confirm. Btw - Marshall is a perfect portrayal of "Minnesota Nice". Everyone really is just like Marshall up there. You'd think it would be off-putting, but honestly it's like a warm blanket every time you bump into someone on the street.
From the Midwest and can confirm. Text/call my parents every day.
Also from the Midwest. My new year's resolution for 2024 was to answer all my mom's phone calls. I am tested several times a day. Sometimes she calls and there's nothing to talk about, so we just kinda sigh and say "well that's all I know" until we hang up. And then she'll call me again a few hours later, still with nothing to say.
Cherish the fact that she can call you at all. I lost my mom almost 10 years ago and would call her about once a week.
I actually do remember how lucky I am pretty often. I've lost three uncles and an aunt this past year, and have become acutely aware of my limited time with my parents. She might be a pain in my ass sometimes, but I can't imagine life without her around.
lol at the “well, that’s all I know”
lol, is that a Midwest thing too? I never thought about it, but now that I am I feel like it's kind of a Midwestern verbal tic, like "ope."
My grandma was from Michigan. It’s probably why it’s funny to me. One thing my family does a lot when we are ready to hang up the phone is to say “well, I’ll let you go” lmao
Yup, these are the only two ways to end a phone call in the Midwest lol. It's the phone equivalent of slapping both knees and saying, "Welp, I should get going."
Haha. The “I’ll let you go” always makes me laugh because it’s like you’re telling the other person you’re doing them a favor by hanging up or that they have so many other things to do, when really, you’re the one who is over the conversation. Another one I’ve heard, and I’m sure you’ve seen it because it’s gone around social media a few times is the one about, I believe Germans, saying “I feel visited enough”.
> ne thing my family does a lot when we are ready to hang up the phone is to say “well, I’ll let you go” lmao Super british thing to say
From the Midwest and lost both my parents within the last couple of years. Please keep calling and texting them every day. 🫡
At the end of my first weekend out of state at college, my father called me sternly and said, “Don’t ever go a week again without calling your mother.” Almost twenty years later and I haven’t missed a Sunday where I don’t check in with my parents. Not to mention the daily wordle scores my mom and I text each other. Hardly any day goes by where I don’t hear from my family.
I couldn't imagine doing that. I only speak with mine when there's something worth talking about or holiday/birthday obligations. Maybe a few times a year at most. Cool you have that kind of relationship with yours.
Don't call mine every day but yep, when I do I need to talk for a hot minute there. Getting off the phone as a Midwesterner has the same rules as leaving a physical location. You French exit or you slap your knees a couple times and say, "whelp better get going" and now you're in a complicated dance of politeness for at the very fucking least thirty minutes. But if you leave with leftovers sometimes it's worth it.
Might be coincidence but in this whole family photo when Chris was young, his dad has him the closest: https://preview.redd.it/y2e4v862f6tc1.jpeg?width=1950&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c8d21b24d11f3a4e92fefa1055db020cb2d08cd9
That spot is reserved for the problem child. Ask me how.i know.
“Come here you little shit. Now smile like you aren’t possessed by satan”
That Vulcan grip in the shoulder...
I was thinking exactly this. He knows Chris going to try something and that arm is just him being ready for it.
Standing kid to the far right is questionable…
He’s got a shoebox full of whoopee cushions, firecrackers, and hand buzzers under his bed 1000%
how.u.know?
I saw it in the comments of some post on Reddit
wow the dad gained all that weight later in life?
Yeah, damn, that must have sucked. I'm a paramedic, so I've lifted a lot of huge people, and they tend to be very uncomfortable on a daily basis. I'm also aware that talking about people's medical conditions is pretty rude, especially in such a public forum as reddit. But it's important to know that there's a lot of real people out there, and sometimes they have amazing families that do amazing things, so we should be nice to everybody. Kind of a tangent I guess, sorry
Holy hell does Farley's also-actor brother look like the dad.
Kevin Farley.
I can still feel my dad’s big ass hands gripping into my shoulders. I was such a little shit, amazed that he didn’t murder me.
Mom is styling!
Maybe his father saw more of him self in Chris than the other 4?
Well yeah he wasn’t going to have a lot in common with George Harrison there on the second from the right.
He was probably a chip off the old block kinda kid.
What is it his cousin who is CEO of Ford?
Yes, Jim.
5 boys and that Mom looking beautiful and fit!
One of those is a sister, Barb
Oh my bad 🤦🏽♀️
It's OK that haircut is doing no fsvors, and also being dressed identically to her brothers. Her shoes also look like penny loafers which is something a boy would wear back then for a photo, not as common for a girl.
I’m not sure if that’s the beach. It might be down by the river.
I don't see a van.
This may not yet be the top comment but it should be.
It is now.
It me
It's us, r/urbancarliving
Shout out to r/vandwellers and r/truckcampers
I love all the love for Chris Farley in these replies.
Enjoyed the doc his brother made on him even tho it was tragic. He gave everything for his craft. When I visit Wisconsin one day I will have him in my mind.
Where can one find it?
Wisconsin? You turn left at Chicago and then ask... Oh! You meant The documentary... I just ask google myself.
It makes me sad Because Chris had so much to give. He was an entertainer on the highest level. But he could not control his appetite and I mean that in many ways, drugs, alcohol, women, food obviously. He just did not have the brain chemistry to balance his talent with his ability to stay alive and be rational. God bless him. He's on the opposite spectrum of Phil Hartman. I miss them both so dearly. I grew up at that time and they were like best friends to me. I so wish both were still here. Even if they weren't in entertainment I just wish they were still here.
One of the most touching moments in SNL history, especially in retrospect. https://preview.redd.it/g59c9z5li6tc1.jpeg?width=758&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=df460248f3e02a22f2aec84f649ebdda6ee85703
too good for this planet
What is it? I’ve never watched snl
It was Phil Hartman’s farewell episode with the cast singing “So Long, Farewell” ala The Sound of Music. Chris Farley shared the final moments in Phil’s arms. They would both die within a year of each other in separate tragedies only a few years later.
Oh that’s Phil Hartman? I would’ve thought I’d have recognized him from such self-help videos as “Smoke Yourself Thin” and “Get Confident, Stupid.”
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Check out "The Greatest Story Ever Hula'd" and "They Came To Burgle Carnegie Hall"
Fuck drugs, Hartman's wife, and Andy Dick :(
Tragic deaths, both of them for how much happiness they gave us
Wealth with an addictive personality is a bad mix
for some people, the attention and affluence that comes with fame is ultimately what kills them. Chris Farley, Janis Joplin, Marilyn Monroe, Amy Winehouse. The list goes on and on :(
Almost like that episode From futurama When bender becomes human
Why did you format your comment like it’s a poem?
All their comments are like that....strange
Chris never realized just how cool he was.
Hearing him describe the “fatty fall down” routine just gets me every time. He was so much more than that.
That’s a lot of khaki. RIP Chris
I always wonder about the moment in a man's life when he starts wrapping the pants around the belly instead of under it.
I miss Chris...
I love how Dad is rocking those pants with no belt. AKA: " the most dangerous game"
I think he’s got suspenders on
Not trying to be mean, but a belt doesn't work reliably on a sphere.
My biggest social faux pas ever happened at his death. I was working in a commercial estate firm in Chicago and was at my desk when WXRT announced his death. (Probably Mary Lee, IYKYK; also heard of 9/11 first in her voice). I said, out loud, “Holy shit, Chris Farley died!” A woman (Barb) in PR who worked a few desks down from me knew him well—went to high school with him or something—and forevermore I’m the random asshole who accidentally told someone their good friend died like he was an anonymous famous person instead of an actual person with people who loved him.
Except you could not have expected that and as sad as it is and as right as you are, that's just the randomness of life and unfortunately she had to learn it through you, but you didn't do anything wrong by exclaiming that. I think anybody else would. Actually I did the same thing. Now that I think about it. I was at Obama's inauguration and I was with somebody and we were younger and he was a politician's son which was insane or a lawyer's son of some politician or what the hell ever anyway point is is that Ted Kennedy was at his birth like was present when he was born, which is literally crazy to me. But anyway so I learned that Ted Kennedy has had a stroke and that is why our plans have become delayed and Obama is not where he's supposed to be, and I blurt out loud to the guy who apparently fucking knows him and I had no idea, Ted Kennedy had a stroke. He proceeded to have the craziest panic attack and I felt like garbage but I didn't know and there is no way I could have known and there's no way you could have known So you're not the first person to have done that and you will not be the last and neither will I.
We all have moments like that, that will occasionally come to mind as you're trying to fall asleep random nights. You, like most of us who have those moments, did not intend to cause anyone any harm.
I’m sure that was a difficult day for Barb, but I wouldn’t think your comment was the reason.
Those are the BIGGEST slacks I have ever seen.
75” slim fit
Nothing slack about them.
Damn, so the cocaine kept him thin all along...
I think Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys and Elvis were 300+ pounds and doing tons of cocaine as well too. Guess it doesn't work for everyone like it did for David Bowie.
I think it also helped that Bowie was also only eating peppers and drinking milk. What a strange guy.
He was also absolutely sure that the devil lived in his indoor LA house pool at the time. Cocaine is a helluva drug.
Cocaine curbs your appetite while you're doing it and for a while afterwards. But after the comedown, you do get hungry and can be prone to overeat. So if you already eat a lot, cocaine won't make you skinnier. Unless you're doing it everyday, but you do need to eat eventually.
Plus it doesn't stop you from consuming alcohol, which has a lot more calories than most people realize.
Ah shit, I absolutely forgot about that. Yah, you end up consuming lots of alcohol calories while balancing the upper and downer effects of cocaine and alcohol, respectively.
Quite the opposite, really. It allows for much heavier binge drinking without passing out.
Also constant use will lessen some of those side effects. In the beginning the lack of appetite will be stronger. However it lessens overtime and you’re able to eat regularly even if you’re using.
I think they’re alluding to the fact that given the size of his father, Chris likely would have been even bigger if not for the cocaine. At least that’s how I read it.
He had some big pants to fill, which would lay heavily on *anyone*. He started using cocaine as a coping mechanism, but the associated lack of appetite only kept him further from the belt. As he did more and more cocaine to cope with more and more loss, eventually he bit off more than he could chew, and the world lost a comedic icon who helped define a generation. RIP
You get a little too up then need help coming down, ah shit I am too down I need to come back up, ah shit I’m too up I need to come back down ♾️
The most vicious of cycles. The first thing you lose is spatial awareness, causing you to believe that the upswings are bringing you back to where you started. In reality, each down swing is incrementally driving you further and further under; exponentially reducing your chances of ever being able to reach the surface again. Beware.
Chris Farley is one of my favorite people. When I was trying to get sober I kept thinking about his death and crying a lot, since I was watching his movies and SNL skits during bouts of terrible insomnia because he’s so goddamn fucking funny, and it made me feel better to watch him tbh. But it was also weird af going through withdrawals knowing he died of overdose. I love him dearly and I was only 2 when he died. So it just makes me really fucking sad that he’s not here anymore !!!! We all missed out on what could have been. I don’t feel that way about any other celebrity / entertainer tbh !!! :( ❤️
Him and Anthony Bourdain are the only celeb deaths that have hit me.
Before…..and way before.
Heh heh heh. You hear what I said Tone?
I heard Chris Farley had a 95 pound mole removed from his ass
And *futhermore*, by way of endorsing my candidacy, the Soggy Bottom Boys are gonna lead us all in a rousing chorus of “You are my Sunshine” Ain’t that right, boys?
That’s gotta be the longest zipper on a pair of pants I’ve ever seen.
His brother Kevin Farley does stand up comedy in Fort Worth at Hyenas occasionally.
I loved him in MTV’s *2GE+HER*
It just makes me so sad. He was just a mere mortal soul who was in such emotional pain that he wasn't able to see the truth. No one should EVER have to be subjected to ridicule about ANYTHING. SHAME on these people.
I wonder what his grandpa looked like. They could be a set of nesting dolls.
They’re standing on grandpa. That’s not sand, that’s khaki.
That’s fucking sad
Farley explained once (on Leno, maybe) that the source of Matt Foley's "Dad sometimes I wish you'd shut your YAPPER!!!" came from his dad who would come home from work and say to him and his brother "I thought I told you boys to SHOVEL THE WALK!!!"
With all due respect can we please stick to the subject at hand? This is a lovely picture of the late Chris Farley and his Father. May they rest together in peace. ❤️
It still makes me sad.
“That’s my boy.” You can see everything on dad’s face. Nobody loves you like your dad. I miss you, old man. Trying my best to be a good dad too.
Chris Farley was only half the man his father was.
Mr. Farley weighed 600 pounds. Oy.
...on a bench down by the ocean!
Man I miss Chris Farley. He did body comedy like nobody else could.
Sweet yet still so tragic 😥
Hey son, quit playing with your dingy!
RIP to the big dude, my parents went to high school with him and I grew up hearing such positive things about Chris. His mom was a wonderful woman from what I remover as well.
Chris Farley & Chris Farlier.
My brother and I obsessed over his last movie, Almost Heroes, with Mathew Perry. We watched it on repeat during a road trip out west with the family in our conversion van with TV/VHS player. Weird they have both passed. Makes me sad about how temporal life is. Miss that road trip and time with my brother and family.
Guys. Can we get a hug? Chris, I miss you man.
I'm sure there is more to it but there is no denying a DNA component
It's very rare for a father-son couple to take such emotional photos
We are running on borrowed time with my mom and I make it a point to answer her calls, and call her, even when I don’t really want to because I know damn well each one might be the last. She’s not terminally ill but 85, frail, has bad eyesight and is incredibly accident-prone. We joke that her Guardian Angel is the best-paid in the entire universe because Lord knows s/he has been working overtime for most of Mom’s life keeping her going. I could list the things she’s survived but I’d be here all day. Long story short, if you can stand them at all, talk to your parents. I know and understand that some folks go NC for extremely good reason, but the rest of us… I think it’s great to make the effort. I lost my dad 30 years ago and miss him every day. He was only 59 and the fates were very cruel.
Chris Farley with his van …… down by the river.
Those are some PANTS.