Odenkirk and Farley worked together on 'Saturday Night Live' and as part of the Chicago improv troupe Second City ...

Motivational Speaker Matt Foley was arguably Chris Farley's most famous character. For those who aren't familiar with Foley, he was a loud, boisterous, belt-straightening screamer who would try to ...

In a new video for People magazine, Bob Odenkirk opens up about how special the Matt Foley motivational speaker sketch is to ...

“Matt Foley is going to be on tonight; you've got to watch it,” he said. Foley turned in and heard his name on national TV for the first, but certainly not the last, time.

And Matt Foley — I don’t know if he used the name or not, but that is a name he came up with.” So Odenkirk went home and wrote up a sketch based around Farley’s coach persona.

It’s a VHS-quality recording of Chris Farley performing his iconic Matt Foley character at Second City back in July 1990, nearly three full years before the rambunctious motivational speaker ...

It's said that the world-renowned TV funnyman Bob Odenkirk worked directly with fellow gut-buster comedian the late-great Chris Farley to write the Saturday Night Live sketch character Matt Foley.

It's like a double inception. Matt Foley may be fictional, but Chris Farley made him real, and now Melissa McCarthy is bringing him back to life.

Saturday Night Live sketch "Matt Foley: Van Down by the River" L-R: Chris Farley, David Spade, and Christina Applegate. Image courtesy of NBC "I'm not laughing at me.