Chippendales Audition (1990)
A sketch where everyone else plays it straight so Chris Farley can give it 2,000 percent as Barney, a young man determined to be a Chippendales dancer.
Some — including the brilliant former SNL writer Bob Odenkirk — believe that the sketch was cruel to Farley. But listen to his many friends in interviews on Dana Carvey and David Spade’s Fly on the Wall podcast and you’ll hear that Farley was very much on board with the premise of the sketch — and no one has ever been more committed to a sketch.
The sketch works not because of the jokes about Farley’s weight, but because of how sweetly and sincerely everyone plays the situation.
Key line: “I wish I could just flip a coin and be done with it, but we can’t. We’re Chippendales.”