The Chris Farley Show: A Biography in Three Acts

By Tom Farley Jr., Tanner Colby

Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, Humor & Entertainment

The Chris Farley Show (2008) is an oral biography of comedian Chris Farley by his brother Tom Farley Jr. and Tanner Colby. Built from interviews with family, friends and colleagues such as Adam Sandler, David Spade and Lorne Michaels, it follows Farley from his childhood in Madison, Wisconsin, through Chicago's Second City and Saturday Night Live to film stardom in Tommy Boy. It also traces his struggles with drugs and alcohol and his death from an overdose in 1997 at age thirty-three.

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• Ryan Holiday: “The Chris Farley Show: A Biography in 3 Acts – Tom Farley Jr. (interesting way to structure a biography.”