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Adam Sanders Chris Farley song is genuinely moving and yes Im crying
https://mashable.com/article/adam-sandler-chris-farley-song-saturday-night-live/
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No dust here, just real, honest-to-goodness tears.
Adam Sandler returned to the Saturday Night Live stage on May 4 as the show’s host and he brought along a very special surprise: a song dedicated to his former SNL castmate, the comic great Chris Farley. No jokes; just a simple song about remembering his old, departed friend.
Farley and Sandler came up together on SNL in the 1990s. It was a creatively fertile period for the sketch series, which at the time included a cast featuring legends like Chris Rock, Phil Hartman, Dana Carvey, and Mike Myers.
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Become a founding memberFarley was a being of pure manic energy, not unlike another SNL great, John Belushi (who makes a cameo in Sandler’s song, along with John Candy). Like Farley, Belushi lived fast and hard until he died at a young age. Both were 33 when they left us, and in both cases it was a cocaine-fueled “speedball” overdose that took them away.
Sandler’s moving tribute to his friend is colored by personal reminiscences that offer some insight into the kind of person Farley was behind the scenes. It’s all been covered before, of course, and in much greater detail, but it’s hard not to be swept away by the music’s aching emotion.
Unsurprisingly, the song was greeted warmly by a frequently nostalgic internet, with social media quickly buzzing in the hours after Sandler’s surprise performance.
Chris Farley died before FB and Twitter existed but he’s trending at the top of twitter! U deserved it Chris! ❤️ pic.twitter.com/kWPZjLtcpY
— Doug Martin (@misterdmm) May 5, 2019
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