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Chris Farley burned brightly as a comic actor, rising quickly to enormous fame as a television and movie star. Unfortunately, he also crashed and burned. Writer Tanner Colby and Farley’s brother, Tom Farley, have collaborated to tell Chris’ story through the words of those who knew him in the book “The Chris Farley Show: A Biography in Three Acts.” We talk with Tom and Tanner about the life of this gifted and troubled comic.
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