Bob Odenkirk hated Chris Farley’s ‘Chippendale’ sketch, knew pal would die young

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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.) In the book, the “Better Call Saul” star remembers a particularly poignant moment with the “Tommy Boy” actor after both attended a memorial service for a deceased Second City alumna at the Improv group’s theater.

Odenkirk was there with his then-girlfriend Claire, and Farley, who had snuck in two bottles of wine, got drunk and began “tossing furniture through the air.”Odenkirk offered to walk the inebriated Farley home; when they got there, Farley then proceeded to overturn the furniture in his own apartment.

He was so loud that Odenkirk’s girlfriend, who was waiting outside, considered calling the police.The actor writes that he just kept talking to Farley in the hopes of defusing the chaotic situation.