So I'm reading this book called The Chris Farley Show, which is a biography of his life done by Tanner Colby and his brother Tom Farley, Jr. And who is quoted in Chapter 4 but Charna!
Chris studied with her at ImprovOlympic before he made it to Second City. This is the same place where she taught people like Mike Myers, Vince Vaughn, Jon Favreau, Andy Richter, etc. Here's an excerpt of the book, typed by meeee. (You can check the book out [URL="http://www.amazon.com/Chris-Farley-Show-Biography-Three/dp/0670019232/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1221616287&sr=8-1"]here[/URL]! A must have if you're a Farley fan).
Charna:
"One night after a couple of weeks, Chris came up to me with Pat Finn and said, "Let me go on stage! Let me play tonight!"
"You?" I said. "God, no. You're definitely not ready."
He started getting violent. He was banging his fists on the wall above me, like, "Let me go! Let me go on stage! I'll be great! You'll see!"
"I'll tell you when you're ready to be on stage," I said.
He was just not hearing it. After a good seven minutes of his badgering, I finally got fed up myself. I said, "All right, I'll tell you what. You can go on stage and play tonight, but if you're bad you will never get on my stage again. Do you wanna take that chance?"
Before I even finished my sentence, he was bounding out into the room to tell the guys he was going on. Everyone was looking at me like, "Are you crazy?" But he got up there and was absolutely hilarious.
The good thing about it was that when he got back to class, he started to calm down. Once I'd let him go on stage, he'd lost that need to prove something. From then on he was really willing to learn and get better.
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She's quoted throughout this chapter (Ch. 4). I searched for her further on the interweb and actually found her blog, as well, talking about The Real World and her experience on it. Not sure if anyone else posted it before, but here it is: [URL="http://blogs.iochicago.net/charna/wordpress/index.php?s=real+world"]Charna[/URL]
