Matt Foley: Van Down By The River - SNL 

The truth is too painful....

there's an entire RU-vid genre of how to live in your van

Scary, isn't it?

@@binkymagnus i tried it for 4 months and I fucking miss it.

How many degrees of separation between living by the river and say, Mar A Largo?

When the Ad-Libbing begins, they're Toast..I think that Table collapse was unknown to all. Spade looked totally shocked.. Tim Conway busting up Harvey Korman was GOLD. They would tape twice, one for TV, and a backup..Conway would make little changes from one to the other..keeping the Cast Mates off guard..😜

Yeah, watching this live Chris looked so damn manic & outrageous. You could just tell by those 2 keeping their hands over their heads they were struggling to keep a straight face. I don't blame them a bit. It just made me laugh even harder than I was already laughing.

yeah i love how christina is trying to hide her face with her hair as she was about to crack up

This is one those things that people say to emphasize something, but is totally over the top...lets face it, the favorite part of this skit is Chris Farley. Without Chris Farley, this skit...would be nothing. Just nothing. :) (I did find it hillarious that they tried to keep it together, but lets not kid ourselves)

@Peter Kocic I completely disagree. David Spade trying not to laugh is considerably more funny than the actual Cris Farley delivery.

whats all this waterfront property? you get freight rail adjacent.

Learn to fish and never go hungry

@@robertwilliams3322 theres an over fishing epidemic you scum

Rent free...not paying some sleazeball slumlord!!!

2024, a steady diet of Government Cheese, and a bunkbed in a shelter down by the river.

yet he basically lost that battle here.. he was super close to completely breaking character at one point for sure

We all do.

The Glue.

The older i get, the more people I miss

@@ILLUMINATED-1 Right?!💔

Yea if I’m not mistaken wasn’t it in second city Chicago

@@Daniel-ep5bq Exactly. Second City had one of the original stage performances posted here for a little bit, But made it private. I copied it several different places before that happened though 😁

That's amazing and epic in a way that only odenkirk and Farley could make it

Was shocked to learn Bob odenkirk was on SNL as a writer, Don't remember him ever being in a sketch though.

He wasn't a sketch player on SNL, but he was the dad in it at Second City where they first showcased it.

I always thought that the table breaking was improvised. Like he legitimately tripped, and he just happened to have the presence of mind to go "whoopsie daisies, we're going to have to clean that up later together!" to make it look like it was still in character.

That's not true

Yes, him and the stage hands were the only ones that knew! It made the bit that much better when Spade was seriously concerned when he broke the table! RIP CF!

Yes, you can see Christina mouthing, "Oh my God!"

Really bc Dave is the only one who really seems concerned

💚

I saw this live (on TV, not in the studio) and I just remember at one point hearing static ... it wasn't a technical problem, I was laughing that hard. How Christina Applegate held on to deadpan her line is a mystery.

@@TacoBellManager Comedy GOLD🤣

❤❤ R.I.P. Chris Farley

Many of the skits from those comedic genius during the days of Chris Farley, Adam Sandler, David Spade, Jim Carry, Will Farell, etc. became the gold standard of iconic comedy. “Van by the River” “Jacuzzi Life Guard” “More Cow Bell” “Night Clubs” (precursor to Night At The Roxberry) all hilarious.

I Quote it every day

Just watched it again.Almost broke a rib laughing!

I had to look it up for a laugh because I am currently living in a honda civic down by the river dreaming of buying a van to live in down by the river.

30 years later, you mean. 40 years later, you will be 8 years deceased.

30 years. I thought I was older than I remembered there for a while 😅

Agreed! This wouldn’t be funny at all if it were anyone other than Farley!

I highly disagree, I think the script was written by a regular Bill shakespear

Agreed. Hartman was really good too.

Comedy is just as much about delivery as it is about material

That's something I've noticed about pretty much every SNL sketch: the writing tends to be "okay" at best, but it's the quality of the performers that make sketches like these absolute classics.

RIP Phil Hartman (The dad in this skit) too. Two of the best comedians of the nineties.

For real! Miss him to this day. Phil too!

I live in a van down by the river, so in a way he still lives IN A VAN DOWN BY THE RIVER!

@@RacingVagabond cheers man 🍻

And my heart LIVES IN A VAN DOWN BY THE RIVER

Saul Goodman wrote this???

@@themakerstoolbox9688 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2D1nl23DfmQ.htmlsi=oBLrFNoEG3nd8JoB

Better Call Saul!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Then there's no way Matt Foley could afford to live in a van down by that river.

I used to live in Naperville, not a bad river to live in a van

Oh yeah he was targeting Spade most of the time. Just trying to give him hell lol

And that my friend is a defining characteristic of true comedy

Chris did that to Adam Sandler too lol

Just like how Tim Conway would always try to break Harvey Korman in The Carol Burnett Show. He'd succeed almost every single time.

Even going so far as to pick him up, yeah...

You'll have plenty of time for doobie rollin'...when yer livin' in a VAN....down by the river!

Classic lines!!!!!!

This is actually sad when you remember that Chris died because of his drug addiction

@@SoggySlopster he didn’t die from marijuana, silly

@@SoggySlopster Yeah coke will do that...”doobies” will not

Pure comedy gold. And you notice the whole cast aren't reading cue cards like you see most of the latest skits on SNL nowadays. They did a little thing like REHEARSAL and became familiar with it. That's what makes a good skit really special.

@@spotter121877 They're actually supposed to read from the cue cards, it's just that not everybody is good at not making it obvious. What's on them can change at any point up to the last minute. This is how John Mulaney, when he was a writer, famously kept getting Bill Hader to break when he played Stefan-he'd add new, outrageous things to them just before the segment that Hader had never seen before, and he found it impossible not to react to what Mulaney came up with haha. Rehearsal only starts on Thursdays, so they wo Rehearsal only starts on Thursdays, so they only have a few days to learn the lines, and they can change at any point before the sketch, basically. They've said that they've even had times where up until Weekend Update started, they were changing things. So the cue cards are essential to the show. :) There's a cool video on the channel about the cue cards, actually! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3djg59JUrmc.html

Literally didn't chuckle once. I genuinely don't understand the humor.

Exactly! I've watched this after really bad days( at work, etc) and it never fails to cheer me up. I'm very tempted to call this perfection and I'm unsure if people would disagree with that statement. lol

​@@tj12711Regardless of whether you laughed, the whole notion is hilarious beginning with the "intervention" concept within an otherwise moral family as well as the stereotypical motivational speaker who has no real world job and repeats cliches. On top of that, Chris's whole character was unprecedented. Anyone in the comedy business knows this was unprecedented gold and will always be a standard.

Because there's only one.

Exactly!

We will. Everyone can be replaced.

Guaranteed

John Candy was another great to bad they both died so young. Eugene Levy is another great comedian that is still around fortunately.

That is indeed a very fun fact

You also notice how he has a very similar fashion style to Saul Goodman. Interesting.

Bob is such a comedy genius, so many people don't know he wrote for SNL

Mr. Show with Bob and David is still one of the best things Odenkirk has ever done. Imagine if they could have got Farley on that show!

Someone must have listened to bob odenkirk on the Howard stern show

Fun Fact: The reason the kids "broke character" and were chucking so much, wasn't entirely because of Chris Foley's antics. No. To the left, Julia Sweeney had broken first, and was laughing hysterically. The cameraman even saw her start, and had panned her out of the shot entirely. If you look closely, you can catch glimpses of her going, and of David Spade watching HER break, not Chris Farley. It was a rare break she regrets to this day.

I absolutely love watching actors break! David Spade was cracking me up.

@@1vw4me yeah I was just reading about that. It brought me back to the sketch

The rest of the cast & guest hosts trying not to laugh makes these skits even funnier. Still miss Chris Farley. From every thing I've heard he was a sweetheart in real life who always had time for his fans. Just sad he couldn't beat his own demons. We could so use a little of his kindness & sense of humor right now !!

@@1vw4me Who could regret laughing their keister off in a room with Farley

Could you call it; synergy? I would.😆

I’m putting my serious face on!

RIP Phil

And he would have plenty of time to make the best crystal meth...WHEN HE'S LIVING IN A VAN DOWN BY THE RIVER!!!

I WAS JUST THINKING THIS but that he probably would have played hal in Malcolm in the middle. The role almost seems written for him. Him and Cranston have the same kinda demeanor, something about this scene made me realize it

@@Batchall_Accepted he would have been awesome as both. I would have loved to seen what he would have become post-SNL. He was a phenomenal actor and he was just starting to truly break into films when he died.

Still shocked his coked up bitch murdered him in his sleep.

no that's just the algorithm

athul nair algorithm is triggering because this skit is frequently visited, because this skit is Legendary.

Its becasue we dont want to live in a van down by the river

and... 10 million views in Oct 2019

@@athulchand8302 Nah not the algorithm, this sketch is like 15 years before youtube existed, and it isn't a 10 minute video titled "I spent $50,000 on a cheeseburger, you won't believe what happened next!" with a red circle in the thumbnail

Ask my wife she laughs every time I start to take it off.

@@icemule but you laugh every time she takes out the spatula.

It's Chris Farley dude! He could make anything hilarious!

@@SH00T_TH3PUMP he had a rare killer comedy instinct - like the bobby fischer of comedy

😂😂😂

One was hilarious and one was Farley.

@@kaisercc wow what a spicy take hey everyone lets all gather around and take a look at this guys hot spicy take how impressive and contrarian, i wish i was cool enough to have such an epicly unique take

@@yeetusyourmeetus epically*

...not much to aspire to. Empty lives and premature deaths, one of them from drugs. 🤢

@@MisstyG How was Phil Hartman's life empty? He was very successful. His only downfall was his fatal decision to marry Vicki Omdahl

He talks about this skit in a book he did. Hilarious.

I don’t know if you noticed but Christina Applegate kept covering her face cuz she was cracking up just as much lol

Honestly though, even if this were real and they were kids how would you not be cracking up?

If it we're me I couldnt keep a straight face

@@SenorWetback I did and she looked an awful lot like android 18

Because today wokism has destroyed comedy.

​@ystebadvonschlegel3295 define "wokism"

they said the same thing 30 years ago when this came out. Farly was a genius.

That’s so awesome. What was he like?

Ok

Hilarious! I hope this is true.

That's a long story

That's awesome!!

IS*

According to David Spade, when they did this sketch during dress rehearsal, Chris Farley said all of Matt Foley's lines in a normal speaking voice. The yelling took both David and Christina Applegate by surprise during the live taping, hence them trying to hide their laughter.

“Kids”

Didn’t they originally write this together for SCTV

I love love this skit so so so much Chris we lost him so early 💔 God bless

Same

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

He fixed his belt so much everyone up in heaven has a pair.

"Attached to a wing and hoof cast drinkin through a straw"

@@TheDuskOfAnEra of belts

You mean Chris Farley

Probably from all that time living as a Bundy.

She just -barely- pulls it off!! Look at that smirk!!

Shout out to Christina Applegate

And she makes Chris' brain reset for a second

@@slayerfan2 she really did. It was like Chris knew that was her line and yet, with her delivery it made them all struggle for a second to remember where they were: In a van down by te RIVER!

Thank You Bob Odenkirk for creating this Awesome Character✝ 💕

Apparently, he didn't talk like this during the rehearsals, and it was only when he came out on stage that he put on the voice! I think this caught the cast members, especially David and Christina off guard, and added to their amusement!

That was the coke

Proves dance and ballet lessons can help anyone...

he was an athletic dude. fueled by other stuff, too.

For someone his size he moved very well

@@bjbetti beat me to it

Nah, they're not dead. They've just gone home.

And John Candy

You are no Ron Burgundy

Their living in a van down by the river up in the sky bub.

Last of a dying breed

Agreed

Facts

I can probably do that. I just need the same energy as Chris farley lolol.

Jk. Nothing can compare to Chris Farley

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Its the glasses lifting and lowering that really puts that line over the top.

Yup

We can be sure that Shakespeare never lived in a van down by the river.

That’s my favorite line lmao

Showed this to my daughter learning Shakespeare in school. "Why did he call him Bill instead of William?" You don't know Chris Farley 's humor...

Literally a smartass remark I'd have pulled

Total professional

Meanwhile David just couldn't hold it and made it even harder for her.

I love the way she keeps her head in her hands because she’s about to laugh

She pulled a Kelly Bundy. She has a new show too.

He would fuck with spade hard..... Was very common on n off set.

@@jamesrucki4558 they were best friend, that's what you do. Spade didn't even go to his funeral because he just couldn't handle it. I understand although it's kinda messed up. I've been to enough to understand.

treefrog904 Very true. I’ve learned that everyone grieves differently, it’s not worth judging.

Christina Applegate also broke character.

David was POWERLESS to Chris's antics. It brings to mind the way Tim Conway "tortured" Harvey Korman. Or the way Burt Reynolds tormented Dom DeLuise! :-)

Thomas Payne greatest sketch is massive head wound Harry or hot tub life guard Jim Carrey

@@BradyA1124 he was talking about SNL sketches

@@obsolete8210 Um.. "Massive Headwound Harry" (Dana Carvey) S17E6, "Jacuzzi Lifeguard" (Will Ferrell, Jim Carrey) S20E21

"Debbie Downer At Disney" is my all-time favorite, but this Chris Farley/Matt Foley one is right near the top.

George Wodicka I LOVE the Disney Debbie downer! That’s also on my top 5 list.

Probably outlast our comments 😅..which isn't a bad thing 😊😊

Might I ask why?

@@TheMeMeGuy2 It has a song called "Down By the River"

@@userJanus3003 makes sense I guess

That’s a great point! I’ve watched this a million times and hadn’t noticed!

@@richardlacey4923 ... duh ...

You understood the sketch!!

Ok. What else happened?

Sad that they couldn't have done the same with Joe, Jill and Hunter.

Lol when they hugged at the end it was a genuine reaction to wtf chris Farley just did to them on live tv

Farley even chuckles a bit after he gets up after smashing the table

Apparently they didn’t actually know what the sketch was going to be, they weren’t even given lines for most of it

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Tom F. No I don’t even know what your trying to do

Bob Odenkirk wrote this?

@@TheEpicProportion, he did indeed. The character of Matt Foley began at Second City in Chicago (with Chris Farley as Foley), and SNL used it a few years later. Oddly enough, Bob had left SNL before the sketch aired.

Hey everybody I happen to know Bob Odenkirk wrote this sketch. Ain't I amazing and special and wonderful? Love me everybody! Looooooooove MEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!

He cooked meth in a van down by the river

Lol same

4 hours is an insane amount of time to wait. DMV isn't even that bad.

It's funnier when you've seen it before. It all makes sense.

I think it’s how it’s delivered so casually 😂.

Watching David try not to totally lose it is the best

Thank You to Bob Odenkirk for creating this character ✝💕

Living in a van up in heaven.

2 of the greatest SNL members ever

Like everyone is talking about Chris Farley but Phil Hartman's appearance is more painful to me 😖😣.

Well said. Add norm, prob Sandler, spade..its Lorne Michaels that did thos

@@ms.rstake_1211 I know, could never predict both would be dead in a few years. So tragic. Remember all the comedy though . Rip Chris and phil

his soul tranfered recently 20 million unemployed people covid 19

@@gasdorficmuncher9943 oof

wait he's dead?

Yes

@@mynameberamen1779 Yeah, he passed away from an overdosing on a "speedball". He had a really bad drug and alcohol addiction. Its sad that most of the people who try to make us laugh are the ones who need the most help and to laugh themselves. John Belushi, Chris Farley, and Robin Williams, may they rest in peace.

ZachDanny23 it was the cocaine. Lol

Can you blame him I mean he lives in a van down by the river

That was very much on purpose. One of the SNL writing staff had mentioned to Chris that he was going to hurt his voice talking like that. Chris told him not to worry about it.

ZachDanny23 kool lookin cat ! My cat looks the same✌😎🐈

* Much like Michael James Wixted on that horrible The Smith Family sitcom. OMG was that lad ever annoying. ♣

Thank you for giving words to that! This makes me laugh every time.

My mans is just squatting the whole time lol

The belt adjusting is probably the funniest thing but that's hard I didn't think the sumu body language was necessary but it says so many things right that it doesn't bother me

Just goes to show how much Farley wanted to make you laugh --- just the words alone were hilarious but he needed to add that extra kick to bring it up a level

I love how he keeps his legs apart as though hes man spreading. And such a great man spreader Chris Farley was 😁

never gets old!

@H Goode OR....It's a fitting comment when you are sarcastically impressed with someone while being a Farley fan. Don't be a douche,be fun.

I use “ my buddies, my pals , my amigos “ sometimes. Chris Farley. What a legend.

Your la dee da probably sounds like this... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-st21dIMaGMs.html

I use the line "I wish you could just shut your big YAPPER"

@@derekmartinez7134 i said that to my boss one time and i got written up

4:02 umm well then how do you explain THIS???

Maybe that's one of the meanings of trickle down economics,if so a lot of us folks are trickling down to living "IN A VAN DOWN BY THE RIVER!"

ha! These days it's called living sustainably and economically...lol

I'm saving up so I can live on a boat right now lmao.

Yes, everyone's living in tiny houses made from old school buses.

Some good cheese back in the day!

Agreed

Used to get that cheese in the commissary on base when I was stationed in West Germany in the army. I thought it was pretty good, actually.

...it was free 😊

@@jefffriedmann1482 shit I’m about to make a grilled cheese with some now

He was an amazing guy! He was loved by all his co-workers. They said he was just as funny off camera and really cared a lot about everyone. He would always be trying to make strangers laugh when they'd all hang out, which they did often

@@lightbeforethetunnel he was loved by everyone not just his coworkers

@@ACOGLMT556 Yes, that's true. I would have said "only his co-workers" if that's what I meant. I just pointed out the co-worker thing because usually people have some co-workers they don't get along with as well as others but all of them seemed to like him. Chris Farley was a great guy and went to church every Sunday! He knew Jesus is the most high and we was right. Maybe this is why he was so likeable, he understood unconditional love like Jesus taught us

Up there with Jeff Buckley and the greatest of the greats

Trivia tidbit, he is acting like a guy his dad knew growing up.

Three kids,three....close though.

Sir Sumumabitch Pretty sure there are only two

thezec yeah you never call David Spade a kid

"titans of comedy"................ now that's fucking comedy in itself buddy!

thezec lol yeah

Thats a typical day for me.

@@Razorgeist do go on

AKA... A cover for the fact that he's tweeked out of his fucking mind on cocaine.

Something about basements and long stretches of time reminds me of Parasite and Pink Flamingos

Basement = green room backstage

Dated a girl that looked her as trashy Kelly Bundy

No shit. It's an actual miracle that she wasn't in a puddle of tears by the end of this sketch.

@@snidelywhiplash ya never heard of Hannibal Burress?

Best talk show ever

@@warrentransue3507 Eric Andre the best

Well, he was El Nino, which is Spanish for "The Nino".

As that coffee table found out... 😂

i acutally knew him back around '89. He was a friend of a friend and he came over to play D&D one time.. This clips brings me flashbacks lol

@J P D&D is Dungeons and Dragons. A sit down "pen and paper" role playing game.

YES HE FUCKING WAS!!!!!!!!

True!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

They're mad because they are living in a van down by the river

No, I just don't find any of it funny.

@@thomhardcastle9897 well la de fricking dah

Up to 4K people now that are stuck on a steady diet of government cheese...

His cheeks were defibrillating trying not to laugh or smile! He looked like an alien.

🤣👌

It started right away with David Spade forgetting to take his eye-shadow off from the sketch before, as can be seen during some closeup shot.

Applegate also tried to fight back and break Farley by throwing him some curveball. "I wanna live in a van down by the river" I don't think that was in the script.

more like Christian was uncomfortable because david hit on her back set a lot and came out with the hand on the leg technique

Saw an interview with Christina Applegate, where she said she had to cover her face from the audience and kept saying to herself, "Don't look at him, Don't look at him, Don't look at him!" She said she about lost it a couple of times and had to muster up everything just to say her lines.

Let's give a quick shout-out to Christina Applegate.

Rip 2 legends 🐐🐐

well ladi fricking da...were u living in a van..by the river

You got to see this AND midnight oil?? That's not fair

I doubt it

@@kershaw79 dan , i wish you would shut your damn cakehole !!!! haha

That’s cool.

He also knew how to mix a speedball. Or… maybe not.

I stole that line as a catchphrase.

Whoopsa daisy 😂😂😂

@@azchick7938 GOTTA GET BACK ON THE RIGHT TRACK

I still use it when my kids go but Dad I wanted to do this

@@azchick7938 yes!

what if it was purple

She was great in this sketch 🤣

A timeless beauty.

BIRD UP

*vomits*

Hahaha 😆 😂 good one!!!

Truth haha!

Got me. Totally didn't see that coming. Good job!

Better than living in a river down by a van

😂😂😂 It's a goal now to live in a van down by the river

Brian Ashe yeah in this scene he was only 14

Blaagnarth The Destoyer he was 29 in this scene

talktome nah dude.

Blaagnarth The Destoyer this came out in 93 David Spade was born in 64. Plus he looks way to old to be 14 here

He's joking, people.

Excellent at it . John Ritter, Lucille Ball and Tim Conway were pretty amazing as well 💕

@@jeffreymiller9808 Don't forget Dick Van Dyke and Jackie Gleason.

I'm ahead of life then because im living under a tree by the beach🤣😂🤣😂

@@JosePerez-mw4gm Dreams do come true! Someday I will be there too.

@@miketee8415 the only thing I'm missing now is that van...lol

@@JosePerez-mw4gm , love the beach! Best wishes!!! Be happy!

Those customized vans are pretty comfortable

One of my favorite lines ever. She's so fucking hot dear lawd

Gotta eat the lettuce. Just straight up eat the lettuces...

Hannibal Burress and Eric Andre are so proud right now...lol

By that time she'd had plenty of practice rolling her eyes.

Bird up