ENGLISH LIT 344 / COMEDY & SATIRE Who's Who in American Comedy
Farley started as a comic with Chicago's Second City and went on to join the cast of Saturday Night Live. He appeared in a number of comedic films in the 1990s before dying of an overdose in 1997. His comedy was extremely physical, as seen in this clip of Chris in a sketch with Patrick Swayze spoofing the Chippenadles.
[For more details on Chris Farley, check his listing in Wikipedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Farley], but note--this is one of the rare times I can accept the use of Wikipedia as a source. I have found that most of the information there about these people is reliable.]
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