The Gap Girls nearly went Hollywood!
David Spade starred in the repeating Gap Girls sketches on Saturday Night Live with Adam Sandler and Chris Farley from 1993 through1995 In the sketch, the funny trio played 3 woman Gap workers who didn’t take their tasks seriously, and would frequently neglect consumers to speak about kids and dating.
Spade states SNL developer Lorne Michaels wished to spin off Cindy, Christy and Lucy into a function movie.
“It didn’t happen, but it was when I thought movies were very easy to come by because I was delusional,” Spade stated on his Fly on the Wall podcast. “One summertime we did TommyBoy Lorne had a handle Paramount, it was sort of simple. The next summertime [Lorne] stated, ‘Why do not you people do Black Sheep? and the next summertime, ‘Maybe you people can do Gap Girls motion picture.'”
Spade and Farley starred in both 1995’s Tommy Boy and 1996’s Black Sheep, which assisted to raise the profiles of both comics.
As for why the Gap Girls motion picture never ever taken place? Well, Spade didn’t believe he might compose it.
“Things [the movie] had versus it were me composing it– which was most likely the very first thing,” Spade stated. “I was running out of sketch ideas that were four minutes long.”
