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I've even read that some believe it pkayed a significant role in his downfall. I'm not sure how true that really is, but it's sad and taints the skit for me.
I don't buy it, he was already hooked on heroin by then.
I thought I had heard that Farley hated that sketch as well, but I could only find this quote from Chris Rock about it:"'Chippendales' was a weird sketch. I always hated it...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. Chris wanted so much to be liked. As funny as that sketch was...it's one of the things that killed him."
That skit was on his fourth episode with SNL (1990) and he had a drug and alcohol problem before that with Second City. Maybe he didn't like the skit but it's not the reason he died of drugs. He was sober for three years (1994-1996) and fell off the wagon for reasons that had nothing to do with that skit. He was sober filming Tommy Boy and got acclaim from that movie for being more than a just a 'fat guy falling down' yet he still got back on drugs.
He did it for the fans. I am gonna enjoy the hell out of it or else he did it for nothing.
Is this even true? I thought the majority consensus was that he was a great comedian.
Wow, that's weird hearing that. He sounded good as Shrek, it's just hard to hear once we've heard Myers do it for so long.
cstu said:
Never heard of this.
