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After their cleaning lady finds pot in the house, parents (Phil Hartman, Julia Sweeney) hire motivational speaker Matt Foley (Chris Farley) to talk to their teens (David Spade, Christina...
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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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Essentially, Foley was the very antithesis of a good motivational speaker: abrasive, loud, clumsy, and down on his luck. Farley named the character after one of his Marquette University rugby union teammates of the same name who is currently in the US Army as a Roman Catholic Chaplain. A film version of the character with David Spadein a supporting...
Foley appeared in eight Saturday Night Live sketches. Each sketch usually started with Foley being brought into a specific situation by someone to speak to a group. In addition to appearing disheveled, overweight, and unstylish, he would yell, disparage, display cynicism, and give a clearly negative motivational message. Foley's trademark line was ...
Farley portrayed the Matt Foley character at the 1994 Rose Bowl, delivering a comedic "motivational speech" to the Wisconsin Badgers football team. (Farley was a Madison, Wisconsin native.) His speech apparently worked: Wisconsin defeated UCLA 21-16.
October 30, 1993 (Host Christian Slater)December 11, 1993 (Host Sally Field)February 19, 1994 (Host Martin Lawrence)Foley (Introduction): Now let's get started by giving you a little bit of a scenario of what my life is all about. First off, I am 35 years old, I am thrice divorced, and I live in a van down by th...Foley (Repeated Line): I live in a van down by the river!Foley (Repeated Line): Well, la-dee-freakin'-da!Foley: I don't know? Well, that and a nickel will get you a nice hot cup of jack-squat!Chris Farley and David Spade made plans to make a movie base off of this character. Sadly Farley had died before they can start doing a movie.Farley reveal in interviews that he had base the character off of his own father.When Matt returns to talk to the kids after they throw eggs at houses on Halloween he says, "I am the eggman. Koo Koo Ca Choo." This is a reference to The Beatles song "I Am The Eggman" from their...After his kids (Christian Slater, David Spade, Melanie Hutsell) get caught egging houses on Halloween, a father (Phil Hartman) hires Matt Foley (Chris Farley...
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Jun 6, 2023 · Then came May 8, 1993. On this day a nationwide audience got to witness "Matt Foley: Van Down by the River," a Saturday Night Live sketch that just might be the best in the show's...
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Apr 6, 2024 · Her season 18 episode in 1993 marked the debut of Chris Farley's Matt Foley, the motivational speaker character he initially developed as a member of Second City.
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