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TIL Chris Farley hosted Saturday Night Live just two months before his death by a drug overdose in 1997. The opening skit for the episode had Farley trying to convince Lorne Michaels to let him host, telling him he was clean and sober. The skit, and his opening monologue were cut from re-runs

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