Lately I’ve only been remembering the lousy things about the ’90s: the atrocious fashion, post-grunge pop music, “Saved by the Bell,” the Macarena, and so on. Tina Fey’s Mutual Savings Bank commercial is a nice example of the decade sucking out loud.
The ’90s also killed Phil Hartman and Chris Farley, two people who worked their asses off to at least make the decade funny. Well, I guess the ’90s didn’t kill them, per se. That ignominy falls on as a shotgun-toting wife and enough drugs to kill a family of manatees, respectively.
Still, this 1994 clip of Farley and Hartman hosting a live call-in show on CNBC is a pleasant reminder of which of our memories are worth keeping from that woebegone decade. There isn’t anything explosive or hilarious in this clip, but it’s cool to see Hartman and Farley talk about “Saturday Night Live” and their comedic influences. Listen for Adam Sandler and David Spade on the phone a couple minutes in. By the way, thanks for that one, God. Hartman gets a trio of shotgun blasts from his drunk and coked-up wife, while Spade has spent the last decade wearing a conga line of Playboy bunnies on his head of wispy hair. That seems fair.
(thanks to Oski for the tip)
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The Colombian Coffee Crystals sketch may be Farley’s best work. YOU LIED TO ME!!!
As much as I love both these guys it’s almost hard to watch Chris so coked out while he tries to sit still.
CROTCH BAT!!!
Hey, thanks for taking my call.
Listen, Phil… I don’t want to scare you. I know you’ve been married to a lovely gal for about 7 years, but what’s coming ain’t gonna be pretty. In a couple of years your wife is gonna find herself with a nasty drug habit. And I know you love her very much, but that bitch is gonna be the death of you. So it might be time to either install a metal detector at your bedroom door or get her into treatment as soon as you can. We all know the crazy ones fuck the best so high five on that aspect. But seriously, ticking time bomb.
Chris…. Spade won’t be at your funeral. He just couldn’t do it.
The 1st decade of the 2000′s makes the 90′s look like a mythical cornucopia filled with lepricons and naked women with fat tits riding unicorns.
“The ’90s also killed Phil Hartman and Chris Farley,”
Shoulda been you Chris Kattan. Shoulda been you.
There was more entertainment value in that 7+ minutes than in “2 1/2 Men”s entire series. Life.so.unfair.