CNN
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Adam Sandler will always be Chris Farley.
More than twenty years after Farley’s death, Sandler still becomes sad when he sings the “Chris Farley song”, a song he wrote for his late friend and comedian, who died in December 1997 of an overdose of drugs at age 33.
Sandler told the podcast “happy sad” that his musical tribute still makes him excite. He made the song as part of his Netflix special “Adam Sandler: 100% Fresh” and sang it in “SNL” when he was the host in May 2019.
“The first times, we played that song, I would destroy me and I really couldn’t sing it well because I would be very excited, and then I felt it and I could get it,” Sandler said in the podcast. “It’s weird, but when that song begins, I say: ‘Oh, f – k, okay, don’t cry and don’t do that.’ I have already sung him a hundred times, but I rock me.”
Sandler added: “I think it’s because we show a video of Chris and we see his face.” He also said that “listening to the crowd going crazy for Farley” makes him happy.
“Every show I make, with much, the greatest applause of the night is to talk about Farley and every time I mention its name, the audience goes crazy. It feels great,” he said.
