What SNL sketch had Chris Farley awkwardly interview celebrities such as Paul McCartney?

The SNL sketch featuring Chris Farley awkwardly interviewing celebrities such as Paul McCartney was “The Chris Farley Show.” Farley played a nervous, exaggerated version of himself, stumbling through questions and often asking guests whether they remembered scenes from their own films.

The recurring sketch premiered on October 5, 1991, with Jeff Daniels as the guest. Martin Scorsese appeared in the second installment, and Paul McCartney was the guest in the third and final broadcast version on February 13, 1993. Farley’s McCartney interview became especially memorable because he was visibly overwhelmed by the former Beatle’s presence.

The sketch is sometimes confused with other celebrity-focused SNL segments, including “The Barry Gibb Talk Show,” which starred Jimmy Fallon and Justin Timberlake, or “Coffee Talk,” hosted by Mike Myers’ Linda Richman. Those sketches have different formats and characters; Farley’s signature combination of nervousness, irrelevant questions, and “That was awesome” belongs to “The Chris Farley Show.”