Chris Farley

Watch Serena Williams bust her own lip at Australian Open

2013-01-18 08:16:00

Serena Williams was already playing on an ankle that she had rolled in an earlier round of the Australian Open. Then she smacked herself in the face with her racket during Thursday's action in Melbourne. Like Chris Farley said in Tommy Boy: Could've...

Lakers' great expectations become two tales of one city

2012-12-08 16:06:00

That didn't take long. On Oct. 30, one of the presumably most powerful teams in NBA history opened its season by marching on to a Staples Center floor ringed in blinding belief. On Sunday, one of the potentially most disappointing teams in NBA history...

'Saturday Night Live's' eight greatest stars

2012-05-13 04:36:11

Whitney Houston: Cocaine worsened heart problems, officials say

2012-03-22 16:35:52

Whitney Houston: Another Hollywood death linked to drugs

2012-03-22 21:35:35

Joyce Sloane dies at 80; beloved powerhouse of Second City improvisational theater in Chicago

2011-02-05 00:00:00

Joyce Sloane, the beloved maternal powerhouse of the Second City improvisational theater in Chicago, and the woman who found and nurtured such comedy giants as John Belushi, Gilda Radner, Chris Farley and Bill Murray, died of natural causes Thursday in...

Boys' basketball: New rankings

2009-12-07 04:34:31

Beam me up, Mr. Speaker: James Traficant is back!

2010-05-03 16:35:25

Second City's first-rate legacy

2009-12-06 00:00:00

It was born of University of Chicago nerds at the end of McCarthyism, back when cutting-edge comedy meant jokes about your mother-in-law. It fed on the slow Chicago burn of 1960s counterculture, even though the demons of drugs and alcohol took down more...

Sarah Silverman's wicked sass comes out in her new comic memoir

2010-05-12 16:34:56

Mitch McConnell to Rand Paul: Shut your yapper!

2010-05-25 21:35:22

Howard Stern back in spotlight after Gabourey Sidibe attack

2010-03-11 16:34:49

Danny Pudi ("Community") Also: Amy Madigan Doc Rivers (NBA player/coach) Chris Farley Dwyane Wade (NBA All-Star)

2013-03-18 17:19:18

The comedian weighed 296 pounds when he died of a drug overdose in 1997. Farley's career path was strikingly similar to that of John Belushi: Both went from Second City to "Saturday Night Live" to starring roles in films. And both were 33 when they died.

2012-12-09 14:37:00

Evanston native Pat Finn (right) is an alumnus of The Second City and ImprovOlympic in Chicago, where he worked and studied with Ian Gomez, Jon Favreau, Tim Meadows, Rachel Dratch and Chris Farley. He graduated from Loyola Academy in Wilmette, Ill., and Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wis.

2012-11-23 13:23:00