In the weeks leading up to February 16's three-hour 50th anniversary celebration on NBC, the team behind Saturday Night Live ...

Well, not exactly, but the Bridesmaids star was dressed as Matt Foley — the absurd motivational speaker played by Chris Farley on Saturday Night Live — when she first encountered Spade and ...

The Rev. Matt Foley, former pastor of St. James Parish in Arlington Heights -- and whose name was borrowed for a recurring “Saturday Night Live” character in the 1990s -- is the subject of an ...

The young Chris Farley was a Nose tackle for Madison Edgewood High School and had Maturi for a coach. While Maturi coached the high school football team, the lineman and later SNL alumn studied his ...

During his tenure on SNL, Farley created such popular and memorable characters as motivational speaker Matt Foley, the tongue-tied host of the Chris Farley Show, and the Chicago-bred fan of “The Bears ...