OT: Fanta to NBC

[nomar]

I'm still holding onto a small grudge about an article he wrote when Hurley was keeping us in suspense last summer, basically arguing that Hurley should go. It was content for content's sake, as if he was required to weigh in on the hot topic of the week even though he had no special insight, and it also seemed like he said what he said, in spite of his love for MCBB and respect for UConn, because he thought (wrongly, it turned out) he was reading the writing on the wall.

All that said, he seems like a good dude, he's always prepared, and his enthusiasm for MCBB is infectious, and I'm happy to see all of that rewarded.

 

[prankster]

John Fanta will be played by Drew Cary in the movie

 

[CL82]

John Fanta will be played by Drew Cary in the movie

Only because Chris Farley has died.

 

[millertime7774]

Fanta killing it on the Saturday night football updates, he's the best!

 

[Bongo Fury]

Did I see him at a Hartford Athletic game? Or was it a doppelgänger.

 

[nomar]

Only because Chris Farley has died.

All kidding aside, apparently Josh Gad is playing Farley in a biopic

 

[Lafayette]

And I giggle anytime anyone leaves Fox… [nonpolitical commentary]

 

[CL82]

All kidding aside, apparently Josh Gad is playing Farley in a biopic

Interesting. It seems like a bit of a reach for him.

This:

Versus this:

 

[superjohn]

All kidding aside, apparently Josh Gad is playing Farley in a biopic

Paul Walter Hauser is playing Farley, Josh Gad is directing.

 

[CL82]

Paul Walter Hauser is playing Farley, Josh Gad is directing.

Seems like a better choice:

It'll be interesting to see. The character he played in Richard Jewell, a good movie by the way, was a lot different.

 

[Waquoit]

Did I see him at a Hartford Athletic game? Or was it a doppelgänger.

I didn't see him but I met Rob Stone an an Athletic game.

 

[nomar]

Seems like a better choice:
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It'll be interesting to see. The character he played in Richard Jewell, a good movie by the way, was a lot different.

He's a fantastic actor (he was also a serial killer in Black Bird on AppleTV and Shawn Eckhardt in I, Tonya) but man it's gonna be hard to replicate Farley's specific charisma.

 

[nomar]

Paul Walter Hauser is playing Farley, Josh Gad is directing.

I saw a headline and thought, I guess he's fat enough

 

[BigErnMcCracken]

All kidding aside, apparently Josh Gad is playing Farley in a biopic

I cannot stand that dude. He lives in my neighborhood. The term "Karen" was invented for people like him.

 

[superjohn]

I saw a headline and thought, I guess he's fat enough

Lolz.

I was just talking about Farley a couple weeks ago with my friend. He was Farley's friend and assistant. His job as assistant was just to hang out with Chris every day and try and keep him out of trouble as best he could which was an impossible task. He's known Farley since he was a kid because Farley was his camp counselor. The camp wasn't your typical camp, they were there the whole summer and they were there for many summers. The stories he has of Farley as a teenager and as an adult are ridiculous and he loves talking about him but there's been a void in his life ever since Chris passed...

If you ever read about Farley's death it says his brother Tom found him. My friend is best friend's with Tom and they went to check on him, my buddy found him first and had to tell Tom to come into the room. Chris had his rosary beads on him. I hope the movie delves into the camp in Wisconsin and his religion, they were both central to Farley's life.

 

[superjohn]

Seems like a better choice:
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It'll be interesting to see. The character he played in Richard Jewell, a good movie by the way, was a lot different.

I first read it as Paul Walker is playing Chris Farley. It didn't make much sense but I would've loved to have seen it.

 

[Dove]

I cannot stand that dude. He lives in my neighborhood. The term "Karen" was invented for people like him.

Karen

 

[nomar]

Lolz.

I was just talking about Farley a couple weeks ago with my friend. He was Farley's friend and assistant. His job as assistant was just to hang out with Chris every day and try and keep him out of trouble as best he could which was an impossible task. He's known Farley since he was a kid because Farley was his camp counselor. The camp wasn't your typical camp, they were there the whole summer and they were there for many summers. The stories he has of Farley as a teenager and as an adult are ridiculous and he loves talking about him but there's been a void in his life ever since Chris passed...

If you ever read about Farley's death it says his brother Tom found him. My friend is best friend's with Tom and they went to check on him, my buddy found him first and had to tell Tom to come into the room. Chris had his rosary beads on him. I hope the movie delves into the camp in Wisconsin and his religion, they were both central to Farley's life.

I loved him. A force of nature.

In December 1997, I was flying home from Europe after studying abroad and traveling afterward. I remember telling my then girlfriend on the flight how said it was that Chris Farley was going to die early; we had s whole conversation about him. We landed and saw the news. It's not like I was Nostradamus. He was burning the candle at both ends and the middle. I'm sure all your buddy's stories are true.

 

[nomar]

I cannot stand that dude. He lives in my neighborhood. The term "Karen" was invented for people like him.

He's got this earnest theater-kid thing that doesn't resonate with me. I also didn't think he was good in the original Book of Mormon, unlike Andrew Rannells, who was fantastic.

I liked him enough as Olaf in Frozen. Maybe it helps that I can't see him.

 

[superjohn]

I loved him. A force of nature.

In December 1997, I was flying home from Europe after studying abroad and traveling afterward. I remember telling my then girlfriend on the flight how said it was that Chris Farley was going to die early; we had s whole conversation about him. We landed and saw the news. It's not like I was Nostradamus. He was burning the candle at both ends and the middle. I'm sure all your buddy's stories are true.

I was at a high school party when I found out. My friend called the house crying and said Chris Farley died. Weeks later my friend tracked down Farley's parents phone number and called them. He actually talked to Farley's mom and told her Chris was his hero and he was moving to Chicago to do comedy and that's what he did.

I had it mixed up, my friend Ted was with John Farley when he found Chris, John is the youngest brother and is/was Ted's best friend. Ted wasn't working so Chris asked him to be his assistant.

Some of the stories he has are about Chris acting like a maniac and then going up to people before they leave and telling them he would like to apologize for Ted's behavior.

I weirdly have even more random connections to Farley. My brother is friends with two brothers from college who also became my friends and they also spent their summers at the same camp I mentioned. They said they would cry when the summer was over because they had to leave their counselor, Chris. I mentioned this to Ted and he said of course he knows them. Ted and the Farley's would go to their parents summer lake house. I've also gotten to know the musician Ike Reilly through the years and he was another close friend of Farley from their time at Marquette.

All the stories are the same, everyone absolutely loved Farley.

If he could've kept it together there's no limit to how enormous of a star he would've been and it wouldn't have just been comedy.