Name: The Tragic Life of Chris Farley
Uploaded: 2020-03-29T16:31:01.000Z
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the life of legendary funny man Chris Farley was one filled with laughter but also of pain and escape.

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They were taking a look at the tragic life of Chris Farley while skyrocketing up the ranks of comedy royalty in the nineties, Chris Farley was also struggling with drug and alcohol abuse in order to mask his feelings of inner turmoil, which ultimately brought his short life to an end at just 33 years old, Let's take a look.

Farley was born into a typical Midwestern middle class family in 1964.

He grew up in a suburb of Madison, Wisconsin, called Maple Bluff, where his father owned an oil company and his mother tended to the family.

He was an overweight child and ridiculed for its size.

But turning this situation into a positive, Farley used his size to his advantage on the high school football field, thus increasing his popularity but not really addressing the hurt he carried inside.

Also, in a move that would become his trademark comedic style, Chris found that he could often mitigate cruel jokes being made about his weight by first making jokes about it himself.

Thus, he relied on such fat jokes about himself to keep others from mocking him.

Once in university, Farley took one step closer to making comedy his profession.

When he enrolled in theater classes, he ended up double majoring in theater alongside communications and, well, as they say, the rest is history.

Farley kicked off his comedy career at the Ark Improv Theater in Madison, and it wasn't long before he was invited to join the famed second Sadie Theater in Chicago.

Look here, he team with soon to be SNL buddy Tim Meadows in hit sketches like motivational speaker and became a standout on the show.

Also, it was here that Farley was meant toward by improv legend Del Close, the same man who meant toward Chris's comedic Idle and John Belushi.

In a strange twist of fate, Farley and Belushi, employing similar communiqu and lifestyles, would both end up dead as a result of an overdose in their thirties.

But before that would happen, fame kept rushing at Chris hard and fast.

Soon he was called up to Saturday Night Live in 1990 after being discovered by Lorne Michaels.

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Setting will set the mood for any romantic rendezvous he'd made the big time on stage.

Farley was a force to be reckoned with, and his physical, chaotic style of comedy was a massive hit on TV, as seen in such sketches as Chippendales and Matt Foley, the motivational speaker.

I am divorced and I live in a van down by the river, like in our consecutive city.

Chris soon became a rising star on SNL and, along with other young comics like Adam Sandler, David Spade, Tim Meadows, Chris Rock and Rob Schneider, helped create a renaissance of the show in the early nineties.

But behind the scenes, Farley was spinning out of control John, a bit of a prankster and practical joker.

His behavior became wild and erratic offstage, and his drug and alcohol abuse began to affect His performance is on stage.

He was suspended from the show multiple times and forced to seek treatment for his addiction issues, but he could never stay clean.

There's a part of him that was really loving and caring and sweet when he reverted back to the addiction he turned.

He was even threatened with being fired from SNL should he not clean up his act, ultimately being unable to write his downward trajectory.

Farley, having angered NBC management, was fired in 1995.

Yet outsiders didn't know Farley was struggling with substance abuse as his film career took off.

That'll end your brashness field trip pretty damn quick.

After first making standout appearances and hit movies like Billy Madison and Wayne's World, he then went on to star in his own popular movies, like Tommy Boy and Black Sheep.

He was deeply unsatisfied with how black sheep turned out, however, as it was so similar to Tommy Boy, and this seems to have been responsible for a major downturn in his efforts to stay sober.

As a result, his next project, Beverly Hills Ninja, could not begin until he underwent rehab.

Unfortunately, it was to be a short lived rehabilitation period as Farley really fell into decline after making Beverly Hills Ninja one that he tragically would not be able to recover from Ninja was released early in 1997 and by the time Farley made his first ever SNL host appearance in October of that year, it was obvious to viewers that his health was in serious decline.

He had gained more weight, his voice was hoarse and cracking, and his face was red and flushed.

Okay, let's face it, I have ballooned up.

But no one expected that less than two months later, on December 18th in 1997 Farley would be found dead in his Chicago apartment as a result of a drug overdose from cocaine and morphine.

Also, coroner reports revealed that he was suffering with advanced Afro sclerosis, which is a narrowing of the arteries, and this ultimately played a major role in his passing.

At just 33 years of age, Farley left this world just like his hero, John Belushi, Young, famous and unable to escape the pitfalls of substance abuse.

You can hear the Angels laughing right now because of him.

His funeral was held in Madison, Wisconsin, on December 23rd and was attended by masses of people, including good friends Adam Sandler, Chris Rock and Phil Hartman.

What the future held for Farley can on Lee be left to the realm of speculation.

But we do know that he was originally the voice of Shrek.

He may also have been considering a turn towards dramatic roles such as portraying Silent Eric Median Fatty Arbuckle.

His tragic death brought all that to a close, but his legacy lives on, and Farley is still very much part of the public consciousness.

His movies continue to bring laughter and joy to the hearts of his fans, both old and new alike, and his friends and former castmates keep his memory alive with wonderful stories of the kind hearted comedian car.

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Chris's memory has also been kept alive in print and on the small screen as well, with a well received book about the comedian called The Chris Farley Show and a TV documentary entitled I Am Chris Farley.

The loss of Farley weighs heavily on Fanshearts to this very day.

He was just too lovable, and that's many people fell in love with him and adored him.

He provided endless hours of laughter and joy to people, and he was often described as an angel that would do anything for anyone except for himself, of course.

And that's truly the tragic part of this story.

The idea that his view of himself somehow resulted in his life coming to an abrupt end when it was far too short and contained so much potential still brings a tear to our eye.

More than 20 years after his passing along, I miss your laugh and your beautiful blue eyes hoax about, well, Mr Humanity.

Chris Farley will go down in history as one of the most iconic comedians of all time and of how his fellow comedians continue to pay homage to him.

To this day is any indication he is dearly missed.

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