Episode #213 |12.24.24

Chris Farley: Raging Bulls, Insatiable Appetites, Dead Comics, and a Four-Day Plunge off the Edge

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In this episode

Everything about Chris Farley was larger than life. His comedy, his laughs, the risks he took in front of a live studio audience – they were all bigger than anyone else's. So were his appetites. Not just for performance, but for life. He plowed through a plate glass window, 15 stories above downtown Chicago. He was kicked out of college for burning down a girl's house. He disappeared with two Playboy models in Los Angeles and woke up the next morning in Hawaii. He modeled his career on an iconic dead comedian – even following the comic's path, straight to an early grave.

Sources

The Chris Farley Show: A Biography in Three Acts, by Tom Farley and Tanner Colby

Live from New York: An Uncensored History of SNL, by James Andrew Miller and Tom Shales

Saturday Night’s Children: Chris Farley (1990-1995)

Chris Farley: The Wild Ride and Sad End (Rolling Stone)

David Spade’s Stories about Chris Farley (Howard Stern)

Chris Farley's sad, drug-fueled final days (EW.com)

Chris Farley (Inside Edition)

Disgraceland is a podcast about musicians getting away with murder and behaving very badly. It melds music history, true crime and transgressive fiction. Disgraceland is not journalism. Disgraceland is entertainment. Entertainment inspired by true events. However, certain scenes, characters and names are sometimes fictionalized for dramatic purposes.