Adam Sandler's Chris Farley song is genuinely moving and yes, I'm crying

[NelsonG]

No dust here, just real, honest-to-goodness tears.

Adam Sandler returned to the Saturday Night Live stage on May 4 as the show's host and he brought along a very special surprise: a song dedicated to his former SNL castmate, the comic great Chris Farley. No jokes; just a simple song about remembering his old, departed friend.

Farley and Sandler came up together on SNL in the 1990s. It was a creatively fertile period for the sketch series, which at the time included a cast featuring legends like Chris Rock, Phil Hartman, Dana Carvey, and Mike Myers.

Farley was a being of pure manic energy, not unlike another SNL great, John Belushi (who makes a cameo in Sandler's song, along with John Candy). Like Farley, Belushi lived fast and hard until he died at a young age. Both were 33 when they left us, and in both cases it was a cocaine-fueled "speedball" overdose that took them away. Read more...

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