How we killed Chris Farley with laughter - Standard-Examiner
27, 1990, to be exact — the great minds behind Chippendales had a problem: They needed to hire a new male stripper. With two candidates for just one job, there was only one solution: a dance-off to the strains of Loverboy’s “Working for the Weekend. And dance they did — Barney defying his unmitigated corpulence by matching Adrian bicep flex for bicep flex, crotch pump for crotch pump. Of course, Chippendales’s dilemma was completely fictional — and completely ridiculous. But, like Chevy Chase’s pratfalls as President Gerald Ford or Tina Fey’s turn as GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, the Chippendales dance-off between hunky Patrick Swayze and roly-poly Chris Farley was downloaded directly from “Saturday... And after Farley’s untimely death by drug overdose in 1997 at age 33, the Chippendales sketch became a monument to Farley’s genius — a coda for a master of physical comedy preserved on videotape seven years before he succumbed to his unsustainable... But now, as the nation reviews Farley’s legacy with Spike TV’s documentary “I Am Chris Farley,” which aired Monday night, the Chippendales sketch has taken on tragic tones. Source: www.standard.net
