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He is the brother of comedic legend Chris Farley.

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Yeah.

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So it's interesting. Am I wrong to think that there has been a change in the way people allow comedians to do their work?

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Yeah. I just think after when comedians got back on stage, they were like, You're.

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Never going to- After COVID.

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After COVID, yeah. You're never going to hold back comedians. They're too rebellious of a group of people to be told what to do. So I saw it's going to come back. I definitely see that it was going to come back. And I think now we're starting to see it.

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But there was a period there where I felt like people were getting canceled. Comedy went completely lame. And we were talking about it a minute ago. You look at a guy like Donald Trump who is absolute manna from heaven, I would think, for Greenyans. And yet that people were... The comedys from out of about Trump was more angry and political and not funny.

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No, I mean, that's the worst part. It's just not funny. That's the biggest crime of all. But now I think that people just get... The more angry they get, the more they're going to tell some jokes. And I think it's going to turn... You can't keep them down. There's always going to be these comedians that buck the system, and they're just going to... And not now. You can go online. You don't have to play the Hollywood game, and you're going to lose your sitcom. But you can go online and do stuff. It's not going to be over.

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For you. The court gesture plays a very important role in society since the beginning of the time. You have to have that person that pokes fun at the system.

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Right, exactly. I remember the movie. It's a history of the world in Mel Book's class. And then the Emperor wanted to kill him because he told the wrong joke. I mean, it was happening back then. But yeah, you're not always in danger as a comedian. I mean, we call it bombing. I bomb so many times. And you get people that write in afterwards like, He did terrible and all that stuff. You just have to roll. It's part of the game.

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So one of my very favorite clips, and I remember when this happened, but because you didn't have the Internet, it didn't go viral, but it's of your brother doing an impersonation back in 1995 of Newt Gingrich. Watch this. I'm not.

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How about even though we had nothing to do with it, we take credit for ending the baseball strike, huh? Done. Motion to move nation's capital to Atlanta, Georgia. All right, CK. All right, pipe down. Now, look, we're cooking with gas now. How about second contract with America? I'm not telling you what it is. It's in this envelope. You decide all in favor? Aye. Aye. There you go. All right, term limits. You know what? Forget that. I have to talk to delay about this one. Okay.

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So could you see that happening today?

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No. I mean, he was nervous doing that. I remember just because he was like, Are they going to laugh? I don't know. But they turned out to be a pretty good crowd, and Newt turned out to be a really good sport about it all. But he was nervous going in there, I think, I remember, just because it was Congress. He didn't know they were going to laugh about it, but they did.

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So he was a big SNL star at that time. And it also makes you wonder if an SNL star today got asked to do something like this at a... This is a caucus meeting in one of the House committee rooms. Would that comedian, would that star, SNL star, get punished for doing that today?

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Yeah, probably. I don't know. It would go viral, probably. And so you'd get a lot more reaction. Like you said, we were talking earlier, that didn't go viral. That was in just regular cease man or something like that.

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I have to ask you one last question. So growing up, you and Chris, who was the funny parent? Was it your mom or your dad? They were both funny.

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They're both hilarious?

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Yeah, they were both in their own way. My dad, he was king of dad jokes. He liked really subtle wordplay stuff, but he'd always tease and that thing. My mom was just more silly. But we used to watch all the time, Saturday Night Live and then Carol Burnett. We liked both of them. We liked both of them. Then we liked Caddy Shaq and that thing. We watched Caddy Shaq probably a thousand times.

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It's so great. Well, thank you for what you do, and thank you for keeping it real. Thanks.

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