David Spade revealed that he passed up a chance to do a sequel to the hit 1995 movie Tommy Boy, which he did with the late Chris Farley, just two years ago.
“I was pitched a Tommy Boy 2, which was our kids are together,” Spade said in an interview on Monday’s episode of comedian Theo Von’s This Past Weekend podcast. “And I’m like, I just can’t find a scenario with no Farley.”
Spade’s Saturday Night Live costar died Dec. 18, 1997, of a drug overdose. He was 33 and was credited in only a couple more films.
During his interview, Spade said this one was supposed to be “our kids, and it was about them, and then I was going to come help them on the road or something.”
Even if Tommy Boy‘s in the title, he determined that such a project would “be too much of a sell out.”
He added, “Listen, it was about Christopher.”
But, he said, “it would have been a blast” to do one right after the first movie, which was about traveling salesmen Tommy Callahan III (played by Farley), and Spade’s Richard Hayden teaming up to go on the road in an attempt to save Callahan Auto Parts. The underachieving Tommy and his father’s uptight assistant encounter a series of hilarious scenarios.
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Chris Farley attends a movie premiere in 1997
In his conversation, Spade noted that, although he and Farley hadn’t done a sequel, he and his close friend had worked together again in the movie Black Sheep, which was “the same type of movie.” The comedy was released the following summer and directed by Penelope Spheeris, who’d helmed Wayne’s World.
Spade said they should have just kept Tommy Boy director, Peter Segal, for a sequel then, but he wasn’t available. (Segal directed My Fellow Americans, a comedy with Dan Akroyd, Jack Lemmon, and James Garner that was released in 1996.)
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Spade gave a glimpse of Farley, with whom he shared the SNL stage from 1990 to 1995, in December 2022, as he and fellow alum Dana Carvey marked 25 years since Farley’s death on their Fly On the Wall podcast.
“Chris, he was always sort of in awe of literally every other cast member. Just going, ‘So funny. Phil’s [Hartman] so great. Oh my God.’ And then everyone’s like, ‘Wait, you’re the great one dude,'” Spade recalled. “Or even [John] Belushi. There’s a point when I said, ‘Actually, I think you’re better than Belushi.’ He’s like, ‘Shut the f— up.’ I’m like, ‘I’m telling you, it’s been long enough where I’m starting to flip.’ We grew up loving Belushi, of course. And I’m like, ‘It’s getting close, dude.'”
See his conversation with Von above.
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