Comedian Jay Mohr had an unforgettable memory to share about his late friend and fellow Saturday Night Live alum Chris Farley.
During a recent appearance on David Spade’s podcast, Fly on the Wall, Mohr recalled the time he bet Farley to defecate out a window, and the police got involved.
He said Farley entered the office he shared with Saturday Night Live writer Dave Attell, where the two turned to him and said, “at the same time, like creepy twins,” that they would pay him “$100 to shit out the window.”
Mohr recalled that Farley demanded the money upfront before he tried to do the “infamous stunt,” as Spade put it. But the police eventually got involved when they noticed someone sticking out of the window of the 17th floor. “We had to fill out a police report because they thought he was a jumper,” Mohr said.
“It was obvious right away that he didn’t have to shit at all, because he turned purple from effort,” he recalled. But Farley was eventually able to get a “Milk Dud”-sized stool that fell onto Mohr’s desk.
“And then there was nothing to wipe his ass with!” Mohr continued while laughing. “So he wiped his ass with his hand.” Farley then proceeded to chase Mohr and Attell around the 17th floor “with the shit on his hand.”
“Me and Dave Attell are running away side-by-side, and I’m like, ‘We’re not gonna make this,’” he recalled. “And I’m like two years removed from competitive wrestling, and Dave Attell is like a chain-smoking, miserable guy, and he fucking passes me like he’s on jetskiis.”
Unfortunately for Mohr, Farley eventually caught up with him.
Dana Carvey said stories like these show exactly how fun it used to be to work on Saturday Night Live in the ’90s. “For people listening who think being on Saturday Night Live is just a barrel of monkeys, you’re right, and this is an example because of how much fun it is.”
Spade agreed, noting, “The writer’s room was a very fun, late night, chaotic place.”
Mohr joined Saturday Night Live in 1993, during an iconic run for the show that included Farley, Spade, Sarah Silverman, and other notable comedians. Carvey had left the show by then after seven years on the cast.
Mohr admitted he sometimes leaves part out of the graphic story “out of respect” for Farley, who passed away in 1997 from a drug overdose.
“I always leave this part of the story out, out of respect, but you guys know how much, we can’t love anyone more,” he said of the comedian.
According to Mohr, that wasn’t the first time he and Farley got into it at the SNL offices. He recalled at least two instances in which they wrestled and Spade had to save him from Farley.
