During the time of Chris Farley Saturday Night LiveThe creator Lorne Michaels prohibits the late actor-comedian for “weeks at the same time” to help him with his alcohol and his consumption of drugs.
Susan Morrison, the author of Lorne: The man who invented Saturday Night Livemade a recent appearance on Dax Shepard’s Expert armchair Podcast, where she spoke about Michaels by changing her regulations on alcohol and drugs from the distribution of sketch and drug use after John Belushi’s death in 1982.
“When Belushi died, it really struck him,” she said. “And I think he had the impression, oh my God, all this approach to let people do their own thing at their own pace, it was the bad approach. We are a tribe, we are a group and we must expect each other.”
“So, when Chris Farley arrives, you know, 10 years later or anything, from the start, he has clearly had dependency problems,” said Morrison, adding that Michaels “would call him in his office and give him these discussions on alcohol consumption or drugs.”
She said Bob Odenkirk, who worked as a writer on Snl From 1987 to 1991, he said to him once Farley “would be delighted to be called in” The office of Michaels, although these are often difficult conversations.
“It was like the kind of thrill of being in the director’s office, but at the same time, you are in trouble,” recalls Morrison. “He couldn’t metabolize him, but Lorne had really changed his approach. He would prohibit Farley from the show for weeks at a time if he was too fucked up. And he sent him to a series of really difficult love rehabilitation places. And obviously, that didn’t do him for him.”
Farley, who was a member Snl From 1990 to 1995, died of a drug overdose in 1997.
