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Robert Smigel Defends Chris Farley Chippendales 'SNL' Sketch

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Robert Smigel on Wednesday dropped by The Howard Stern Show, where he defended a classic Saturday Night Live sketch he wrote, which starred the late Chris Farley.

Stern brought up that the Chippendales sketch — which featured Farley and the latePatrick Swayze dueling for a spot in the male striptease show — has come under fire in recent years for perhaps adding to Farley's self-destructive behavior. (The comedian died in 1997 of a drug overdose.) Smigel told Stern that the sketch is misunderstood. "I was in a debate about it with some people who wrote Chris Farley's book, which was everyone weighing in on Chris' life and what happened to him,"Smigel said.

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