Rare Pre-SNL Footage Surfaces of Chris Farley Performing Iconic Role in 1990

Watch Rare Footage of Pre-SNL Chris Farley Performing Iconic Character (Gawker)

Before Chris Farley starred on Saturday Night Live, he was a featured improv performer at Chicago's famous Second City. And while there, alongside Bob Odenkirk and Tim Meadows, Farley began perfecting his beloved SNL characters.

On Monday, Second City uploaded a grainy VHS video from July 1990, the same year Farley began his run on SNL, but three years before he would debut his beloved character Matt Foley, a "motivational speaker" who lives in a van down by the river. The video shows an early glimpse of Farley's Foley, as he enters the stage two minutes in, telling the children: