The Chris Farley Show

The Chris Farley Show was a sketch from the American comedy TV series Saturday Night Live, which involved comic actor Chris Farley, as a parody of himself, interviewing various celebrities. Rather than ask his guest questions that had any popular significance, or allow his guest to plug a current project, he would invariably act nervously, and simply describe scenes from a film in which the guest actor appeared (or occasionally films that had nothing to do with the guest). After asking the performer whether he remembered this particular event, Farley would relate, "That was awesome." Other times, he would ask questions that were of little relevance, or made no sense at all. Invariably, he would say something he regretted and would smack his head and call himself an idiot. The skit accentuated Farley's shyness for comic effect.

Possibly the best known of these sketches was his interview of Paul McCartney, where Farley acted awestruck and giddy in the former Beatle's presence, repeatedly asking ridiculous questions, typically starting with "Do you remember when you were in The Beatles?" or "That was a hoax, right?" in reference to rumors of McCartney's death, to which he gives one (or few) word answers. Farley did ask one question that caused McCartney some discomfort, about his arrest at Narita Airport for possession of marijuana. When McCartney says he is ashamed of that event, Farley hits himself on the head and chides himself, to which McCartney says not to be so hard on himself and that he was asked the same question by Maria Shriver. Farley arbitrarily changes the subject by saying "Did you know she's married to Arnold Schwarzenegger?" then asks the legendary songwriter, "Did you see Terminator?" McCartney casually replies he is afraid he has not seen the film, then steers the conversation back towards music. As the sketch fades out, Farley once again brings up The Terminator, recommending it to be well worth McCartney's time.

In another episode, Chris interviews Jeff Daniels, in which he digresses and asks Jeff about "awesome" scenes from Die Hard.