mike myers said Chris Farley would jump into the shower with him every Saturday at NBC’s 30 Rock and push him against the wall with his naked body. He recalled the routine from their Saturday Night Live years, when he showered on the 9th floor around 4:17 p.m. before the show went on the air.
30 Rock at 4:17 p.m.
Myers said the encounter was never a one-off. He said Farley popped up in the shower every time he was in there, turning a private pre-show habit into a weekly interruption. The detail lands with more force because it came from a period when Myers said his work schedule was already exhausting, with rewriting sketches and other demands crowding the day.
He first met Farley at Chicago’s Second City Theatre in the late 1980s, before both men later joined the cast of Saturday Night Live. That timeline makes the shower story less like a random anecdote and more like a glimpse of how close the two performers were while they were working under the same pressure at NBC.
Farley’s line in the shower
Myers said he tried to fight Farley off, but found the situation so funny that it kept him from hitting him very hard. He quoted Farley as saying, “Oh, Michael, I’ve always loved you. Just one kiss,” a line that fits the kind of physical, improvised bit Farley was known for in private as well as on camera.
The joke also carried a real boundary test. Farley was not just barging in; Myers said he was pushed up against the wall, which turns the story from backstage folklore into a very specific account of how far Farley would push a bit when he was around people he liked.
December 2022 tribute episode
Myers revisited the story in December 2022 during a special two-part podcast episode hosted by Dana Carvey and David Spade and dedicated to Farley on the 25th anniversary of his death. The setting matters because it places the memory inside a tribute, but the anecdote itself is the thing listeners walk away with: a weekly shower ambush at 30 Rock, repeated until it became part of the SNL routine.
For anyone tracking the Farley legacy, the takeaway is simple. Myers did not describe a mythic offstage legend; he described a repeating habit, on a Saturday, in the communal bathroom on the 9th floor, at about 4:17 p.m. That specificity is what keeps the story alive.
