Tom Farley, Jr., THE CHRIS FARLEY SHOW co-author: Mr. Media Audio Interview

Losing a family member at the tender age of 33 is incredibly tough. It’s even more complicated when that young person lived his existence in a bigger-than-life way, like Chris Farley – and his trials and tribulations are witnessed by millions.

In his new book, The Chris Farley Show, Chris’s older brother, Tom Farley, Jr. – with help from co-author Tanner Colby - pieces together his late brother’s life in the form of an oral history with interviews from most everyone who encountered Chris. This includes family and friends from his youth, on through the “Saturday Night Live” family, and people from his hit movies, including Tommy Boy, Black Sheep, and Beverly Hills Ninja.

The book is an easy, breezy read, and was excerpted last month in Playboy.

You can LISTEN to this interview by clicking the BlogTalkRadio.com audio player below!

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R.I.P., The Original Shrek

"Shrek, in the Chris Farley version of the story, was unhappy at his place in the world, unhappy to be cast as the villain. For me, Chris's comedic persona was key to the creation of the Shrek character - a guy who rejected the world because the world rejected him."

- Terry Rossio, screenwriter of Shrek reminiscing about the life of the actor originally cast to provide the voice of the animated ogre. When Farley died suddenly, the role was recast and the character was brought to live by Farley's old SNL friend, Mike Myers. The anecdote appears in "The Last Days of Chris Farley" by Tom Farley Jr. and Tanner Colby and was published in the May 2008 issue of Playboy; it is an excerpt from the authors's forthcoming book, The Chris Farley Show.