CHICAGO — In a quiet few minutes before he spoke to a full auditorium in suburban Niles on last week, Tom Farley talked about the default emotion — humor — of his boisterous Irish-American family in Madison, Wisconsin.
One of the biggest generators of laughs was little brother Chris Farley, whose meteoric entertainment career in the 1990s is the main draw when Tom Farley embarks on his speaking circuit to advocate for recovery programs for substance abuse and addiction, like this one organized by Niles Family Services.
“We were all very competitive, very funny, the whole family,” Farley said at the Thursday event. “When we were all together, people would just sit back and watch the Farley brothers entertain. My father (Tom Sr.) was like that. Chris, Kevin and John. For us, it wasn’t about the money, it was the attention.”
