“You guys were magic together,” explained Melissa McCarthy on the latest Fly on the Wall podcast. She’s referring to the chemistry between host David Spade and Chris Farley in their first hit comedy, Tommy Boy. “It’s a perfect movie. And you two together, you could see how much you loved each other. And then it was still so funny.”
The key, responded Spade, was nobody was watching. “That was one where it was low expectations, lower budget, throw Farley and Spade out there and let’s see what happens. And no one really was visiting the set,” he said. If either of the comedians had a funny idea they wanted to try? “Pete Siegel was the director, and he was like, ‘Let’s try it.’”
Things weren’t nearly as relaxed on the Spade/Farley follow-up, Black Sheep. “They go, ‘Oh, we got something here,’ even though it wasn’t like a huge,...
The key, responded Spade, was nobody was watching. “That was one where it was low expectations, lower budget, throw Farley and Spade out there and let’s see what happens. And no one really was visiting the set,” he said. If either of the comedians had a funny idea they wanted to try? “Pete Siegel was the director, and he was like, ‘Let’s try it.’”
Things weren’t nearly as relaxed on the Spade/Farley follow-up, Black Sheep. “They go, ‘Oh, we got something here,’ even though it wasn’t like a huge,...
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