Chris Farley

El Nino is so notorious that Saturday Night Live portrayed it as an over-the-top wrestler.

Yeah, that was Chris Farley.

But the latest El Nino, it's so big, it's getting some new metaphors.

A super El Nino is on the way, or a super-sized El Nino is on the way, or a Godzilla El Nino.

Thanks for joining me on my very first show in the host chair.

Our team includes Molly Siegel, Rachel Sanders, Matthias Wolfson, Maggie McPherson, and Catherine Rolfson.

And just a note, that clip of Chris Farley on Saturday Night Live comes from the Live from New York subreddit, and it was originally broadcast on NBC in 1997.

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That's great.

The best description I could give is, like, Dom DeLuise was a step before John Belushi, like Chris Farley, the heavy guy over the top, just, you know, loud...

Just full of energy.

He made a few movies with Burt Reynolds, didn't he? They

Yes.

I could be wrong, but I detect an appreciation for Chris Farley and your sense of humor.

Oh, yeah.

Are you a fan? See, that's panic.

And while we're on the subject, do you know, yep, do you know Father Matt Foley? He's a priest in Chicago area.

He was a friend for Chris Farley.

And the Van Down by the River character was named after him.

Thank you and God bless, Father Joe.

I

actually did like the Chris Farley.

I said,

I just saw you on television.

And he was always fun.

Again, think of Chris Farley and John Belushi from Animal House and...

You know, Calhoun Auto Parts.

Was he a D lineman?

Here, there's a lot of union hall types who were Bernie Sanders voters in the Democratic primary in 2016 and Donald Trump voters in the general election in 2016.

It was a particularly narrow race in the primary where he beat Haley Stevens, who I wanted to win, if not only for the fact that I wanted the female version of Chris Farley's Matt Foley motivational speaker character to be on my television for the next couple of months.

I thought that was kind of fun.

It was a much more narrow race than people thought it was going to be based on the polling of all of that.

He's a streamer from California that lives in a van down by the river.

Do you guys remember Matt Foley from SNL, Chris Farley? In a van down by the river.

You remember that guy? I'm making fun.

It's not funny.

No, who would I get to play myself though? Uh, I can imagine what you guys are thinking.

What actors? No, I mean, the obvious choice is, uh, the guy who's about to play Chris Farley, um, Paul Thomas, uh, But I could also see like, oh, actually, no, I know who I want to play me.

It'd be Nick Frost, but he couldn't play young me.

But modern day me, yeah, it'd be Nick Frost.