The Chris Farley ad controversy wages on – by now you’ve seen the DirecTV Chris Farley ad, featuring a scene from Tommy Boy (“Fat Guy in a Little Coat”), with the late Farley and very-much-alive-and-collecting-a-paycheck David Spade.

David Spade isn’t backing down on this one – while many weigh in on the Chris Farley ad controversy as being in poor taste, Spade maintains it’s a great tribute and that Farley’s family gave the okay to do the DirecTV ad.

According to David Spade, he says of the Chris Farley ad controversy: “These commercials are cool. They’re well done. They’re clever. And that they would include ‘Tommy Boy’ in that company, I thought was very flattering.”

Further, Spade says Farley would have supported the DirecTV commercial: “Oh, my God if [Chris] was here, I guarantee he’d be stoked that this little movie is included. The movie is important to me, and I would hate to offend [anyone] because that’s one of my favorite things I’ve ever done. So I would apologize to someone who took it that way.”

As for the controversy surrounding David Spade doing the ad for a buck: “I wouldn’t want anyone to get a whiff that I’m trying to get something off Chris.”

And the Farley family is cool with it too, with Spade noting: “When DirecTV came to me and the Farley family with this idea about ‘Tommy Boy,’ we talked and thought it would be a cool way to remind people just how funny Chris was. It is a clever homage to my friend and a movie that we loved doing.”