He walked onto Leno already sweating and admitted he was “definitely scared.” They played the Matt Foley clip first. Farley gave the credit to Bob Odenkirk, then to his dad; the kind of man who started quiet and built to a rage. “I thought I told you boys to... shovel the walk.” Then came Catholic school. The nuns pulled his mother aside and said, “Mrs. Farley, the students at school are laughing at Christopher, not with him.” Standup never worked. He said he was too dumb to write his own material, so it just became a staring contest. He’d look at the crowd and go, “What’d you say?” and they’d sit there waiting for the act. A Midwest kid who showed up in New York cocky, lasted about a month, and decided he had to go home. Then Wayne’s World, his first movie. They told him to point at the camera while giving directions. He pointed the wrong way, scooted back into frame, and they kept the take. He called it genius. Was that just a nervous comic filling time on Leno, or was it the whole Farley act in miniature?show more

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