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TIL Jim Downey, who played the high school principal in Billy Madison, was a longtime writer on SNL. His famous “May God have mercy on your soul” speech at the end of the film was based on a speech Downey used to give to Chris Farley when Farley presented terrible ideas in the SNL writers’ room.

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