Bob Odenkirk recalls how, many nights, he would watch his comedian pal Chris Farley “stumble off into the night after killing it onstage and my mind would write ‘Taken from us too soon!’ and all that.”
It’s just part of the heartbreaking picture of the late “Saturday Night Live” star that Odenkirk paints in his new memoir “Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama” (Random House).
The two met in the late 1980s while performing at the famed Second City Chicago comedy club. Odenkirk sadly admits that it was clear Farley would die young — and that there was an “inevitability” about watching his friend’s career soar and knowing that it would ultimately crash and burn. (Farley would die in 1997 of a drug overdose.)
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