Still, Spade says, if he had to do it over again, he probably wouldn’t have made the commercial. “I wouldn’t want anyone to get a whiff that I’m trying to get something off Chris,” he says.

A new DirecTV commercial that places David Spade in a scene with Chris Farley from the movie "Tommy Boy" is causing some viewers to question whether the ad is in bad taste or not. In the ad, Spade ...

David Spade says he is shocked by criticism he's received about a DirecTV commercial that features a scene from Tommy Boy of him and the late Chris Farley — whom he says would "be stoked" to ...

In the ad, Spade says, "Great, I'm here with tons of fun, when I could be at home with my DirecTV … But no, I'm stuck with either cable or that (pointing to Farley). It never gets old.” ...