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Chris Farley Visted All That in Kenan Thompson’s First Brush With SNL—Watch

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For most longtime Saturday Night Live fans, the notion of Chris Farley and Kenan Thompson appearing together in a sketch feels like something akin to fantasy football. The two were never castmates: Farley left the show in 1995, and Thompson didn’t join until 2003, five years after Farley’s death.

And yet, it happened—just not on SNL.

The collaboration took place on Nickelodeon’s All That, the kids’ sketch series where Thompson was a cast member from 1994 to 1999.

Unlike Saturday Night Live, All That was pre-taped and typically used its celebrity guests sparingly, often limiting them to a single segment. When Farley appeared on the show on January 25, 1997, he did so during one of Thompson’s recurring sketches, “Cooking With Randy.”

Thompson’s character was a teenage cooking show host obsessed with chocolate. This time around, Randy welcomed a guest into his kitchen: Chef Farley, a cook with similar energy but a very different obsession: ketchup. The sketch quickly devolves into a mishmash of chocolate and ketchup, creating a mess of the set. Farley, as one would expect, goes all-out, covering himself in chocolate sauce and ketchup before diving head-first into a giant cake.

In a moment that evokes Farley’s motivational speaker Matt Foley, Chef Farley warns Randy: “Look, kid. You’ve been eating chocolate all your life, and all you got to show for it is a new crop of zits!” He further shouts, “Pretty soon you’re gonna wake up Sunday morning after stealing grandma’s Frango Mints out of her candy dish. You’re gonna end up in rehab a chocoholic!”

More than 24 years later, Thompson would reflect on his time with Farley on the podcast People in the ‘90s, calling the experience “one of the greatest days I’ve ever seen.”

“I learned literally a wealth of career knowledge in three hours, just watching a pro take direction. But also, do what he wanted. It was amazing,” Thompson added. “Chris was immediately funny, giving everybody what they expected.”

While the five-plus minute sketch is no “van down by the river,” it is a remarkable look at Thompson’s first brush with Saturday Night Live. Five years later, in October 2003, he’d begin his tenure at SNL, where he’s now the longest-running cast member in the sketch show’s history, currently in his 23rd season.

For Farley, “Cooking With Randy” would be one of his final television appearances. In October 1997, he’d return to SNL as host. Farley died on December 18 that same year.

Watch Thompson and Farley’s All That sketch below.

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