We hope as you enjoy your weekend you’ll also find some time to kick back and survey some of the best writing from around the web.

• The Big, Funny, Tragic Life of Chris Farley, by Ian Crouch for The New Yorker.
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  • “Dressed in a blazer and khakis, like a reporter for a prep-school newspaper, Farley stammers and gasps for breath. Those who knew Farley insist that this was the clearest expression of the real person: shy, nervous, almost childlike in his reverence for the people around him. (The comedy writer Tom Schiller called him a “secret, angelic being.”) At the end of the sketch, he asks Paul McCartney, “Remember when you were in the Beatles, and you did that album ‘Abbey Road,’ and at the very end of the song, the song goes, ‘And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make’? You remember that? Is that true?”.”

• The Compton Sessions: How Dr. Dre Created His Comeback, by Jayson Green for Pitchfork.
  • “What Phil Jackson is to Basketball, that’s what Dr. Dre is to talent and Music. He made me change my perspective on what I can create.”

• Humor: Donald Trump Through the Ages, by John Flowers, from McSweeney’s.
  • “The ancestry of Donald Trump stretches back to the Ancient World. Listen, as several of Trump’s forebears recount some of the most famous moments in history.”

Enjoy your weekend and we’ll see you next week!