Chris Farley

Chris Farley

In the late 90s, Chris Farley’s career was reaching its peak. He had been one of the top Saturday Night Live performers of the decade, where he’d brought a frat-boy charm to characters like the depressive motivational speaker Matt Foley and chunky Chippendales dancer Barney. His movie career was also beginning to take off, with roles in films such as Wayne’s World and Dreamworks’ Shrek (for which he had recorded nearly 90% of the dialogue for the title character). However, like John Belushi before him, he had numerous problems with drug and alcohol abuse, and his life was tragically cut short by a fatal cocktail of morphine and cocaine in his home in Chicago’s John Hancock Center in December 1997. It seems that just as 27 is an unlucky age for rock stars, 33 is an unlucky age for SNL actors…