Matt Foley is a fictional character from the sketch comedy program Saturday Night Live performed by Chris Farley. The character was created by Bob Odenkirk. Farley had performed the character in other comedy groups before being a cast member on Saturday Night Live.
Matt Foley is a motivational speaker, and is everything that somebody in that position should not be: abrasive, clumsy, and down on his luck. Farley named the character after one of his Marquette University rugby union team-mates, (Father Matt Foley, former pastor of St. Agnes in the Little Village Community of Chicago, who is currently an army chaplain serving in Afghanistan). The character was popular in its original run and is now considered one of Farley's best characters. Plans for a film version with David Spade in a supporting role were interrupted by Farley's unexpected death in 1997.
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“Everything that ever walked or crawled on the face of the earth, swum the depths of the ocean or soared through the skies left its imprint here.”
—Robert M. Fresco, and Jack Arnold. Dr. Matt Hastings (John Agar)