ays at Second City. Farley also performed impersonations of Tom Arnold, who gave Farley's eulogy at his private funeral; Andrew Giuliani, Jerry Garcia,Meat Loaf , Norman Schwarzkopf , Dom DeLuise, Roger Ebert, Carnie Wilson, Newt Gingrich, Mindy Cohn, Mama Cass, Hank Williams, Jr. , and Rush Limbaugh were among the celebrities and real-life figures he portrayed. [16] Off-screen, Farley was well known for his pranks in the offices of Saturday Night Live. This would refer to Sandler and Farley making late-night prank phone calls from the SNL offices in Rockefeller Center , with Sandler speaking in an old woman's voice and Farley farting into the phone and mooning cars from a limousine. He was also known to frequently get naked and do various stunts for laughs. Chris Rock once claimed that he probably saw Farley's private parts more than Farley's girlfriend did. [17][18][19] Sandler told Conan O'Brien on The Tonight Show that NBC fired him and Farley from the show in 1995 . [20] Film career [edit] During his time on SNL, Farley appeared in the comedy films Wayne's World , Coneheads, Airheads, and uncredited in Billy Madison. He also appeared in the Red Hot Chili Peppers music video for "Soul to Squeeze" which was a song featured on the Coneheads soundtrack. After Farley and most of his fellow cast members w ere released from their contract s at Saturday Night Live following the 1994 –1995 season, Farley began focusing on his film career. His first two major films co-starred his fellow SNL colleague and close friend David Spade. Together, the duo made the films Tommy Boy and Black Sheep. These were a success at the domestic box office, earning around $32 million each and gaining a large cult following on home video. [21][22] The two films established Farley as a relatively bankable star and he was given the title role of Beverly Hills Ninja, which finished in first place at the box office on its opening weekend. [23] However, drug and alcohol problems interfered with Farley's film work, and production of his final film, Almost Heroes, was held up several times so Farley could enter rehab. [24] After his death on December 18, 1997, his final completed films, Almost Heroes and Dirty Work , were released posthumously. Unfinished projects [edit] Farley was originally cast as the voice of the title character in the movie Shrek , recording about 80 –90% of the character's dialogue, but died just before recording was finished. A story reel featuring a sample of Farley's recorded dialogue was made public in August 2015. [25] In August 1998, he was replaced by one of his SNL colleagues, Mike Myers. [12]