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Dec 25, 2022 · It premiered on Saturday Night Live in 1997, with Farley's character Matt Foley as an eccentric motivational speaker who was "living in a van down by the river." The skit is renowned for...
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"Matt Foley: Van Down by the River" begins in a traditional American living room of the early '90s, with SNL's perfect everyman,Phil Hartman, sitting on a couch to the left with cast mate Julia Sweeney. On the couch to the right sits another cast mate and Farley's best friend, David Spade, as well as that week's Saturday Night Live guest host, Chri...
The character of Matt Foley wasn't a Saturday Night Live creation. It didn't start in 1993. No, it found its roots in 1990, in the famed Chicago improv group, The Second City. It's where many future SNL greats got their start, from Bill Murray and John Belushi, to Tiny Fey and Amy Poehler, and more recently, Cecily Strong and Aidy Bryant. It's wher...
Chris Farley and Bob Odenkirk are forever linked due to Matt Foley. Odenkirk has always had great things to say about Farley over the years, though he did make headlines last when he criticized the SNL "Chippendales Audition" sketch in his memoir, Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama, saying, "It was a huge bummer to me to see that scene get on the air and g...
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Mar 23, 2023 · Bob Odenkirk wrote the famous sketch which features Chris Farley as Matt Foley, a motivational speaker who lives in a van down by the river.
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Apr 4, 2024 · Chris Farley as Matt Foley motivational speaker telling the kids "I live in a van down by the river," @CinemaClipsCanvas
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Matt Foley is a fictional character from the sketch comedy program Saturday Night Live performed by Chris Farley. Foley is a motivational speaker who exhibits characteristics atypical of someone in that position: whereas motivational speakers are usually successful and charismatic, Foley is abrasive, clumsy, and down on his luck.
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May 8, 1993 · A look back at Chris Farley's 'Saturday Night Live' character Matt Foley, the motivational speaker who lived in a van down by the river.
