Adam Sandler
jD, Matt, and Thomas are back and joined by the returning Veronica Villanueva to discuss the career of Adam Sandler. Check it out!
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[0:42] All right. Thank you so much, Doug DeNance. It is great to be back here.
Season five is underway, and there's no better way to ring it in than by asking you to wipe those feet before you come inside the SNL Hall of Fame, which is a podcast.
It's a weekly affair. In each episode, we take a deep dive into the career of a former cast member, host, musical guest, or writer, and add them to the ballot for your consideration.
Once the nominees have been announced, we turn to you, the listener, to vote for the most deserving and help determine who will be enshrined for perpetuity inside the hall. That's thegame.
That's what we play here every week. We've been doing it for four years, four seasons, and we're going to continue doing it until we've exhausted the pool of potential nominees.
So there's that. This week, we are talking about Adam Sandler, and I can think of no better person to kick off this conversation than our friend Matt Ardill.
I'm walking down the hallway. I am tight to the wall where the outer wall, where the east wall meets the north wall, forms a corner, and that is, of course, the trivia corner, Matt's MinutiaMinute. Let's go.
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[1:59] Oh, Matthew, how are you doing? Hey, JD, I'm good, and yourself?
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[2:03] I am great, thanks for I'm really excited about this week's episode.
It's the first episode of the fifth season, and that's pretty cool.
Uh, we're starting off with a great one.
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[2:17] Yeah, it is. It's got some great guests. Uh, and you can't start with a more interesting character than, than this, uh, Adam Sandler.
That's right. Height five foot 10, born September 9th, 1966.
Uh, he first took the stage at 17, uh, when his brother pushed him into doing standup and he did not turn back after that point.
Jeez. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I can't imagine at 17 what you would do, but yeah, he did it.
He attended NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, graduating in 1991.
And you'll note that's a year after he started at SNL.
He was still going to school when he started at SNL as a writer.
The thing is, he's incredibly prolific in a lot of ways.
He's got 88 film credits, 63 producer credits, 29 writer credits and 37 soundtrack credits you can pretty much thank his wedding singer film right that one yeah um but yeah he has 21 filmsthat have been that he's been involved in that have grossed over a hundred million dollars and many of those are produced by his happy madison production company the the highestgrossing happy madison film is growing grown-ups with $272 million in box office with an $80 million budget.
[3:44] So even factoring in another $40 million for marketing as the standard, that walked away with a pretty penny in his pocket for that film.
I bet. Now, he was 35th on 2003's Power 100 list.
He's the second highest earning actor in both 2011-2012, next to Leonardo DiCaprio, earning $37 million and is estimated to have a net worth of up to $500 million as of today.
So he's done pretty good for himself.
Not bad, huh? Not bad, yeah. Now, his first acting role, though, was as Theo Huxtable's friend, Smitty, on The Cosby Show.
[4:28] And that was, yeah, so it was kind of an ignoble beginning, a little bit part.
He followed that by roles on MTV's game show Remote Control before scoring his first film role in Going Overboard in 1989.
One of his earliest roles was in an ABC After School special credited as Drug Dealer.
Yeah, I just can't think of a less convincing drug dealer, but it was ABC After School special.
When he does film, he tries to make sure any scenes that are being filmed on location are near a gym that has a basketball court.
So he can go and play basketball between sessions of filming.
He basically is just a dude who loves the people and things that he loves.
[5:24] So he tries to fit in his friends and, and, and music and things that he loves into every film.
So he's big Van Halen fan, a police fan and the sticks fan. And he, In his movies, he's made sure to include those, like Big Daddy had Babe by Sticks.
Every little thing she does is magic in The Wedding Singer and That's My Boy.
[5:52] His character asks the teacher he had a crush on in 1984 to go to a Van Halen concert at the local stadium with him.
And the film features And the Cradle Will Rock and Dance the Night Away Twice and Ice Cream Man.
Wow. Yeah, he really does try to incorporating the things he loves in there.
He's also a big wrestling fan, frequently and frequently referencing it in his films like Billy Madison, Waterboy and Big Daddy.
He he's widely considered to be just a pretty good dude. His friends with former colleagues continually supports them, finding them places for them in his movies.
To the point, Chris Rock, when recording his Never Scared special in 2004.
[6:41] Dedicated the performance to his father, Julius Rock, Monteria Ivey, a radio personality and comic, and Stan Sandler, Adam's dad.
Dad oh weirdly though he was almost willie wonka uh one of the roles he was considered for was tim burton's uh willie wonka instead of johnny depp oh that would have been nice itwould have been a very different movie i can only imagine he purchased goldie hawn and kurt russell's home after attending a new year's eve party there as a as a guest he and he's just anall-around lover of comedy.
He did a comedy album in 1993, They're All Gonna Laugh At You. Which is a great record.
[7:27] Great record. We featured it on my podcast comedy album Book Club years ago.
It's a work of sketch comedy tradition.
It features many SNL cast members, but it also used all original Foley work, creating special effects using classic techniques used in radio and not stock sounds.
So he loves his friends, he loves comedy, he loves music, and is just a pretty good dude.
Yeah, I think so too. It's going to be interesting to hear what Thomas and Veronica have to say. Maybe we should hit that now.
Yeah, that'd be great. All right, let's go downstairs and talk to Thomas Senna and Veronica Villanueva.
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[8:31] Yes, that's right, J.D. and Matt. Thank you so much for the introduction.
And this is the first episode, well, the first nominee we're covering in Season 5 of the SNL Hall of Fame. I'm so excited.
We're kicking it off with the biggie, Adam Sandler, crowd-favorite Adam Sandler.
And to do that, I'm joined, I had to ask her back. So, my friend, wonderful guest from last year, Veronica Villanueva, who was my guest for Lady Gaga in Season 4. So good, Veronica.
I had to ask you back. You're my lead-off guest for Season 5.
A scooby-doo-dooby. Thank you.
Is that your Adam Sandler? Yeah, a scooby-doo-doo.
Sabadoo. There we go. Yeah, we got to start off right.
Thank you for joining me. You did such, and I would tell you if you sucked.
Oh, thank you. I would hope so after all these years that you'd be like, you know what, Veronica?
You suck. And that's all right. It's not you. It's me.
Yes. It's all you. But you were awesome on the Lady Gaga episode.
Thank you. We got good feedback.
So I had to ask you back, and you were back for Adam Sandler.
Woo-woo. I'm very excited to talk about Adam Sandler. Like, wow, this is a real honor, and thanks for asking me back. I'm very excited.
[9:53] He's amazing. I can't wait to see what we discuss. Yes.
All of us SNL fans have very fond memories of Adam Sandler.
As comedy fans, you and I, we grew up in the 90s. We're children of the 90s.
This is right in our wheelhouse, Adam Sandler.
Yes. We got to see him in his prime. We got to see it from beginning to 90 to 95.
Wow. That was us. We got to see him hatch out of the egg as a little Adam Sandler, and we got to see his career blossom.
So that's what 90s kids remember, as they say.
So do you know, do you remember having any recollection about how you first became acquainted with Adam Sandler?
I do. I really do. I remember seeing Siren Live and seeing Adam Sandler.
I don't think he did like a, he was probably very early on. He was in the background.
And I said, I've seen this guy before.
And because, again, like we talked about last time, I didn't grow up with cable.
So I was very much like there was a limited set of TV shows that I've watched.
So when I saw Adam Sandler, he was probably in the background of a skit.
And I was like, is he on the Cosby show?
[11:03] He was, I think that's Smitty from the Cosby show. He's Theo's friend.
And I remember being like, I know this guy, you know? And so that was one of my first memories.
But then, of course, the thing that really stood out to me was when he would sing on Weekend Update.
Like that to me is like signature, like what stands out mostly in me first thinking about Adam Sandler in Saturday Night Live.
That's a deep cut. uh adam sandler like a guest role that he had early in his career i love it yes it really i couldn't i remember him just hanging out and he would wear kind of similar clothesthat he wore on saturday night live with like the cap and of course like the little flannel you know and that's why he it was like he just i just remember seeing him be like oh there he isyeah i remember him i don't know you said you didn't have cable but did do you were you aware of a show called remote.
[11:57] Control no no it was a game show it was colin quinn was on it too so colin quinn is a sidekick okay and then a guy named uh ken ober was the host and so it was just like thesethree people they were the contestants they would sit in like lounge chairs and answer questions about tv and there were all these things and adam sandler was one of the guys who wouldcome out and like sing a question or perform a question yeah or something like that so that's where i first remembered adam samler was on remote control you have to look up old videosthis is like a goofy late 80s show him doing the hustle yeah you know yeah exactly that's where he made his bones is on the cosby show in remote control yes that's interesting and he hasalready prior to this huge presence that you're like i know you you know yeah yeah huge presence people people warmed He was kind of like the guy next door.
He's like a everyman kind of guy. Did you, one of the other things too, and this was out when he was already on SNL.
[13:01] I don't know if you listened to any of his comedy albums. Oh, my goodness. That was the first comedy album I ever listened to.
And my gosh, there's just so many songs. And I'll be honest, I'm particular, they're all going to laugh at you.
Okay. My favorite song to this day, I quote it at least maybe once a month, maybe sooner, is Food Innuendo Guy.
Because somebody says, celery stick, I'm going to slip my celery stick up the back of your drink.
Like that comes up or you know your cream of mushroom i'm making some enchiladas and i'm like i need a cream of how i mean oh my goodness yes those and i was a kid you know wewere kids back there we were like coming of age and like that was hilarious like that was just raw 11 what were we listening to where were our parents i know right exactly there's somuch stuff that i'm like Like, all right.
Yeah, we probably shouldn't have been listening to Adam Sandler's comedy albums, especially They're All Gonna Laugh At You. That came out in like 93.
So the one, of course, I like the buffoon, the different sketches that had the buffoon.
The most juvenile thing that still makes me laugh to this day is a sketch called The Longest Pee.
Oh, yes, yes. That's the dumbest thing probably that makes me laugh to this day.
But yes, but you know what? Even just that little pause.
[14:26] Keeps going you know and it just gets you every time it gets you every time i i even though i'm a girl a female like i've never had that kind of crazy pee but i've heard a lot of dudestalk about that crazy pee and it's just hilarious where he's like oh my god yeah he's like scared for his health yes yes i like what the hell happened to me too i think that was that was myjam uh sean lynch and i used to listen to oh my gosh blast from the past yes yes all the time joining the cult the goat steve polychronopolis like all these were like burned into people ourage all this stuff's burned yes it is yes we're like the one where he's like you're not high you're smoking like pencil shavings he's like i am so high right yes these weird because like i gaveyou pencil shavings yeah yeah oh must have been this beer that i've drank and i'm so drunk yeah yes and those things for us yeah it was just like it was ingrained in our childhood whichi'm so thankful for every day i know that you know uh there's all these different decades or whatnot but the 90s were pretty freaking awesome especially saturday night live like they had itbooming that was like.
[15:41] For me, the A-team All-Stars, through that whole entire time, there was just so many characters that were brought up, created, and we got to see that live in its infancy and thengrowth.
Yeah, it was such a good time to be an SNL fan. So Adam Sandler on SNL, he joined the cast officially in the middle of season 16, already a stacked cast.
Already Phil Hartman, Dana Carvey, Mike Myers.
I don't know if Jan Hooks. I think Jan Hooks is maybe still there at the time.
I don't know. I forget if they overlap. They kind of overlap. Yeah.
Kevin Nealon. There was just such a good cast that Adam joined in.
So I wanted to start off, Veronica, by asking you where we should start off as far as Adam Sandler's SNL career.
What sketch, character should we start off with as far as Adam Sandler on SNL?
One of my favorite ones is the Pepper Boy one with Dana Carvey.
And the whole entire, you know, how he started off as this meek, sweet guy who's under, you know, his wing for Senor Marco. And it was just hilarious.
[16:54] On my chocolate mousse? No, thank you. Say when. No.
Hey, cut it out. Come on. Say when. No, come on. Say when. No, come on.
Say when. Say when. Say when.
[17:15] Yeah yeah that was uh that was in his last season that was season 20 which was a weird season this was like one of the standout sketches to me of season 20 like dana carvey cameback to host so uh chris farley made a memorable like minute appearance in that uh there's a funny story with this like what uh with as far as chris farley like i guess he was filming maybetommy boy or black sheep or one of those things he flew out he really didn't have to to do snl that week he was still on the cast and he didn't have much going on on the show so chrisfarley said if i'm going to be in this sketch i'm going to make it memorable so so he put on this like loud affectation in the beard and you could see in this sketch that he caught adamsandler off guard to say adam sandler he had to like turn his head yeah he had to turn his head away so he wouldn't laugh but that's because chris farley was like why thank you pepper likeit was just this over the top you can hear dana carvey being like don't break you know what i mean, and even dana carvey like he said that like all week long that chris farley was just likeoh thank you pepper boy and like they were not expecting.
[18:26] At all. Oh, my gosh. Yeah, that was the show, the camaraderie between like Farley and Sandler.
But you were but you hit on something as far as like Adam playing shy and timid really well.
And I noted that when I watched the sketch again, like this is one of my favorite examples of Adam playing like a very timid character, but doing it so, so well.
Like that was kind of an Adam Sandler trademark, Veronica. Oh, 100%. Like when you think of Adam Sandler, I'm talking about from SNL and to Billy Madison and beyond, like he hasthis ongoing thing.
And like you're saying, like the boy next door, like he's the underdog.
You want to root for him and all his characters really have that kind of common thread.
Read and so it's just such a sweet enduring thing that when you see him right away you're like i've been there i felt that way like that's thank you for pointing out that i'm not alone yeaheven even something like obviously with pepper boy he's starting a new job and somebody's teaching him the job we've all been there maybe maybe not to that level or situation but yeahright no nobody's ever made me use a pepper grinder for that but um but uh we could all relate he was like very relatable in that sense like even in a goofy character like that like he waslearning this job he wanted to do so well he didn't quite have the tools to do it and it just played out so.
[19:56] Hilariously like the way he was able to play with everybody in that sketch like janine garofalo oh meadows like yeah they were all in that sketch yeah and like i like how at the endlike again end going the whole underdog thing is that at the end they got electric pepper grinders and so they went and opened up their own pepper store and i think carlo adam sandler'scharacter ended up getting pepper lung it's like that is hilarious you know but they kept going you know so yeah but the shy and timid thing like the hurley boy oh let's talk about thehurley boys yes yes Yeah, Adam was just so good again in that, like, oh, like, just kind of like the very timid, relatable guy.
Hello. Let me feed your dog. Please, if you go away on vacation, let me feed your dog.
Your dog needs food.
I could give him that food.
Please, let me feed your dog.
[21:02] Vaughn, let the boy feed your dog!
[21:06] Playing opposite Chris Farley's bombastic nature. You know, Tim Hurley was his roommate at NYU.
[21:14] And so it's kind of loosely based off, I'm sure, a character that they produced or created.
But the great thing was that he's like, just, yeah, just let me walk your dog.
Let me just, you know, just really nicely. and yeah and there's chris farley like like making those dad sounds you know like just let the boy walk your dog please let me live with you and ijust but the biggest the funniest one is like you know here is adam sandler saying like let me shave grandma's beard and then you know mr o'malley chris farley's like did you think aboutwaxing it takes you know stubble comes back it's pretty thick if you wax it'll be three to four months before you have to hit it it's just i loved it and you know and it was just hilarious thatwhole entire it makes you feel awkward and weird but it's hilarious yeah exactly adam was just so good at that and with his counterpart again chris farley like adam knew exactly how toplay it with somebody so so larger than life on screen like Like Chris Farley, you could tell Adam knew exactly what he needed to do in that sketch. That was so great.
There was another one real quick showing off his kind of timid nature.
And it was Canteen Boy. Tell me, Canteen Boy.
[22:40] What was the craziest thing you did all last week?
Uh, well, uh, uh, last Wednesday, uh, you know, the city's redoing the sidewalks over on River Road.
Well, I leaned over the guardrails and I wrote in the wet cement, Cheryl Teague has big boobs. Wow.
[22:58] Wow. Canteen boy. You're, you're just a regular psychopath.
Oh, yes. So very, very timid, very shy character.
Um, but again, playing right into like a lot of, a lot of what we found endearing and relatable about adam yes i loved it that you know with the different canteen boy sketches like there'ssome where you know like the one with jeff goldblum it's like he's there they did he's and one with uh john goodman like he's the butt of the joke right because you know he's this canteenboy and the thing that i always have to put myself into perspective is that a lot of times adam sandler although he was an adult he is playing a teenager you know he's playing a young kidand there's other characters that you know he he does this so you have to put yourself there so with canteen boy you know he was just the butt of the jokes and everything like that but ilove the fact that he like had his you know his little bird sound that would come on and the snakes would come and everything like that but of course uh i'll be honest with you like the skitwith alec baldwin i.
[24:04] That is one of the most memorable most uncomfortable amazing skits that i can think of when you think think of Canteen Boy, Opera Man, but that one with Alec Baldwin washilarious.
How do you do with cringe humor like that? Like uncomfortable, cringe, kind of borderline.
SNL had to explain it away. I think in reruns, I think they had to put a disclaimer that, oh, Canteen Boy is such and such age, so this is less cinepro or whatever.
But how do you do with sketches that toe the line like that, Veronica?
I agree. I agree. And that's the The thing is that, like, if these skits came out now, like, and I'm sure we'll touch on the Denise show.
Like, if these skits came out now, I don't know what they would fly, you know.
But, again, here's where, this is where I see it is. This was pre-internet.
It was just a different time. And that's what Saturday Night Live is about, right? Like, just pushing the envelope and just, yeah, but now...
[25:03] It was cringy. Yeah, it was cringy, but I think the premise was comedically solid, honestly.
Yes. If you just kind of look at it, it was a comedically solid premise. But you're right.
When we talk about SNL from the 70s, 80s, 90s, even early to mid-2000s, it's almost with the understanding that some stuff might not age well.
Right. But in some ways, I like that they took the chances still.
And I do think it was a solid premise. But you're right.
That was the most memorable canteen boy by far it was it really was and it was just like and again us being kiddos like i just i it was just hilarious and just i think for also on the other sidewith alec baldwin that was like one of the ones that i remember him from the most memorable ones because he'd been on so many times but that's when i first started to be like who is alecbaldwin because i never saw any of his movies at that point and so he became i was like oh there There he is again.
He became one of my favorites. So that was a very memorable skit for sure.
And you probably never saw anybody with chest hair like that on television.
No. When he was all put on the low. Yeah. Like a carpet. Formative experience.
Yeah. I was like, that was like Robin Williams level.
He's up there. I had no idea. Yeah. We were like, oh.
[26:23] Yeah. So like that group. So I think Adam played the boy next door, meek, timid, shy, whatever you want to call it, like Pepper Boy, the Hurley boy, Canteen Boy.
I didn't snap that all of them ended in boy.
That makes sense because he inhabited like children almost or adolescents in these characters, a lot of his comedy.
Yes, yes, it's true. And like, that's the thing is, I know Brandon Frazier recently like interviewed him and it was one of those things where he likes playing that role because it shows that allhis characters, even again in his movies.
[27:06] They may be the underdog but somehow they still prevail they never give up so and you'll see that in the skits you know like um again kind of going out to the denise show yes stillhaving hope let's talk about that just maybe because that's one of my favorites yes shandorty amazing love it like it was such a sweet thing because okay let me just say this i rememberbeing in high school having crushes and you start to imagine you calling them and again this was pre-internet like i talked about you know yeah talking to them imagining you know howhe imagined like right now i'm pretending that denise's boyfriend's getting rough with her and i and i have to calm him come you know put him in his place and i just it was like the brainof an adolescent lesson.
Now's the point in the show where I call Denise and hang up.
So what's funny is that one of the, Adam plays this so perfectly because he announces the joke.
Like this is one of the few times where he says, here's going to, here's what's going to happen.
I'm already telling you the joke on screen, but the way Adam executes it, it still makes me laugh.
Yes. Like I'm going to dial six of the seven numbers and hang up. Yeah.
And you're exactly right. He announces it and And we're all like, right, like that's the process of what people do, right?
[28:35] Yeah, exactly. And now we're at the point where my dad calls me and like basically like yells at me. Hello, Brian, this is your father.
What? What the hell? I can't help it.
She was having things with me. She was so strong.
I don't want to be here.
You don't get it, man. She's different to butter. This is my life. You don't own me.
I love phil hartman's like he's like you're embarrassing the family that was just yeah so that's the thing like with adam it's like he'll yeah he can he can announce the joke that's about tohappen but his delivery and timing and just him on screen still makes the execution perfect yeah denise show and one thing about it too it shows like this thing that he always did so wellwho was like this confident delusional character with some simmering rage about to boil.
[29:38] Over so he was played meek really well but he also played characters that like had this rage about them yes where he you could hear it he always had that little smirk on his faceand you could hear hit the rage and he just toe in the line that he's not gonna snap but it's there but it's there and he might it's it's just right there on the surface so that was like i could ithink i can relate it It's like maybe Will Ferrell or somebody like that who plays like Simmering Rage just so well.
Yeah. And he did that for so many characters where he was just like, shut up, you know, like that's and that's just part of it, you know, and kind of moving forward to like, you know, himbeing on SNL in 2019.
You know one of my favorite ones there was the adam sandler family reunion or the sandler family reunion and all those characters because he just has this range of characters that we allknow we all know but when they come out like.
[30:41] It's just original, and it's amazing, and it just gets you every time, you know?
Yeah. Yeah, he's, like, abrasive, but has, like, this pathetic quality that's somehow endearing, and we still root for him. So that's the trick right there.
Yeah. Is to be abrasive and to be kind of out there and yell, basically. But we still do root for him.
And I guess we all know people like that. We excuse it, like, oh, that's just Adam being Adam.
Yeah. You still got to love him, but that's just Adam being Adam.
Sometimes he flies off the handle for like half a second.
Yes, and it's fine. It's fine.
Yeah, that Denise show was like such a perfect example of all this.
It's one of the ones that I most remember Adam for.
So I'm glad you brought that up.
It is hilarious. And I love, yeah, how he's just and how he would bring on like Chris Farley and be like, so have you heard anything about Denise yet? No.
[31:37] Okay, bye. or he had like i think david's face like he just broke up with a girlfriend and like real court you know short little like interviews and it was just but then finally you knowwhen nicole kidman came on and that's when he was like as soon as she kissed him he was like the denise show is fine it's done and i was like oh okay good for you good for you exactlywe were happy for him that that he moved on from denise and he he found this new love interest that's the part like we still root for this guy yes even though he could be a bit abrasive andstuff that's such a yes such a great quality yes what else um with adam stuck out to you on snl i think you know you cannot put, snl and adam sandler without the singing the guitar theweekend updates like this man And he loved to sing, and his songs were just...
[32:38] Wow. Let's dive deep into that, Tom. Let's talk about Adam Sandler's musical performances.
Those are one of a kind.
Yeah. So memorable. So we should note that this took place on Weekend Update mostly.
There's maybe one or two exceptions, but mostly this took place on Weekend Update.
So I wanted to ask you before we get specific, as an SNL viewer, where does Weekend Update and And specifically these update pieces that cast members come on and do, like, wheredoes it all fit into your enjoyment of SNL?
[33:13] Wow. For me, I know some, I'll be honest, first growing up, I didn't understand the Weekend Update and I used to be like, oh, you know, this was after like the singer, you know,after the, you know, after the musical performance and whatnot.
[33:26] But as I got a little bit older and then I started to see these side characters, because My first memory of Weekend Update was with Dennis Miller and his comedy as a young girl.
It was just it was different for me, you know, but Kevin Nealon, like he and himself, like just very awkward and funny.
And I don't know, but I used to love seeing Weekend Update with Kevin Nealon.
And then I knew when I would see Adam Sandler singing, like for me, I waited for it every week. Like if we got it, I was so happy, you know, and I was excited to hear it.
And then, of course, like we were talking about the comedy albums and whatnot, like we started to see those songs coming up on there as well.
So for me, it was a point of not only like these side skits, but it was it was really a way for me to learn about what was going on in the world and what was in news and what was what wasfunny about that, you know?
Yeah, I think as an SNL viewer, a lot of times that's the case where we, as we get older, Weekend Update becomes more of a central part of the show, I think.
So what you're describing, like when I was a kid, I kind of liked Dennis Miller.
I more so liked when like Al Franken would come on Weekend Update or somebody like that rather than Dennis Miller himself. But you're right, Kevin Nealon added that more goofyquality.
[34:52] And that's where Adam shined was when he would come on with Kevin Nealon.
So like what song first sticks out to you in particular that Adam did on Weekend Update?
I think, of course, the Turkey song, right?
[35:20] I can't believe the meds traded that for strawberry. Turkey for you and a turkey for me.
Can't believe Tyson gave the girl BD.
When I heard this, I thought it was so clever and so hilarious.
And the song kept getting better, you know, and like it goes with all his little sounds and his whatnot.
And he was just so sweet about it.
And the turkey song for me is like a Thanksgiving staple now, right? Right.
Like it just you need to hear that everything's giving.
But I like that he always gives it up to Kevin Nealon, though.
He's like, come on, Kevin.
And and he always is. He obliges, you know, but the turkey song is amazing.
[36:07] Oh, my. There's just that's like a nursery rhyme. Like that's like a that's like a child song.
Yes. Really? If you break it down. Yeah. But it's so good. Like even as an adult.
Yes, like for me. This is earworm. It is.
And my favorite lyric is, I love to eat turkey out of a big brown shoe. Like, it's like, what?
It's so dumb. You know, and I'm listening to this in a mad, you know, you picture it in your brain, you know?
Exactly. Yeah, that's the childlike quality again.
Yes. And of course, we knew he had this other side because you mentioned the comedy album. So he had this R-rated abrasive side, but then he could get on Weekend Update and dothese wonderful songs, these earworms, something like the turkey song.
I can imagine it was like a nursery rhyme in some ways. I loved Red Hooded Sweatshirt. Sweatshirt!
[37:35] Today, I was like, should I wear a red hooded sweatshirt? Yeah, I almost did. You should have.
My UNM Lobos red hooded sweatshirt, I almost did. Yeah, right.
Exactly. Because just in meant for Valentine's Day, you know, and I like it how he's like, I challenge you to a game of one on one.
He's like, I threw you in the corner.
[37:59] And this is the thing that got me with red hood sweatshirt. Like it was such a sweet, like simple song about a hoodie.
And I'll be honest again, who hasn't worn that sweatshirt or hoodie for like a full year at school?
Like when you're going through the change of puberty where you're like, this is my safety shirt or hoodie.
But then at the end, you realize that Paul McCartney has been in the audience the whole time.
[38:25] He's all dip, dip, dip. And there's Linda McCartney in there like, what?
What he's been performing this thing in front of paul mccartney and and and for that and then so is kevin neely be like dip dip you know doing their thing and so i'm a ding dong exactlyexactly and um and that just made that song that much more awesome because no holds back he just did him yeah such a memorable uh part with paul and linda and so i brought up likeso adam knew how to play opposite chris farley's like manic energy really well but he also did a good job in these songs especially red hooded sweatshirt of playing opposite kevin nillen'slike more subdued so he tried to get kevin nillen involved in the song and kevin was just like pretending to write notes like a serious newsman and then he would get kevin and then kevinwould uh raise his head and go shamalama ding dong and then he would go back to his notes so adam knew how to like play opposite That more subtle, dry energy that Kevin Nillenbrought.
Like, that's a mark of, like, a really versatile performer who knows how to mind the comedy in something.
[39:32] It's true. Like, you have to know that those two talk to each other and say, Kevin, you keep doing you.
[39:39] And I'm just going to invoke that out of you, okay? And it works.
Every single time it works. I don't know if you saw the one where he, the second part of Thanksgiving, where he is being Bruce Springsteen.
He's like singing his song as bruce springsteen and then kevin nealon starts playing the saxophone at the end like it's just these are things that you don't expect but when.
[40:42] You see it you're like uh okay yeah that makes sense now adam played such a good bruce springsteen like that was he looked like bruce springsteen that when courtney cox hostedadam came out and did like the dark dancing in the dark dance with with courtney that was so good that was one of the the impressions that i that somehow sticks in my mind like adam'sbruce springsteen you just 100 with the bandana and the pocket and everything like ito though it was amazing you know yeah like oh my and yeah like there's just certain little jewels littlegems that you've you know adam sandler can just throw out there that it just it's comedy gold like you just cannot not crack crack up about it and and talk about the next day it's a watercooler moment if we still have that in today's day.
[41:33] Yeah yeah yeah exactly and also on update he did opera man like 10 times as well and re-watching some opera man it was like a little more clever than i remembered and i thinksomebody would assume it's like a fun way to comment on the news.
[42:27] I think there was a little more to Opera Man than I even gave it credit for.
100%. Like, when you go back and look at this, these were real current events happening at that time.
Yeah. And he was saying it like it is.
[42:42] And, but just, you know, doing his, you know, with his, his handkerchief and whatnot.
And he just, he put in such a sweet, savvy way that it was classic and it was hilarious.
Hilarious and so innovative you know because at that time it was like broadway family opera you know all this stuff and he he played on that and i just it was just unique and innovativeand but again he was able to even bring and i was so thankful when he brought it back in 2019 it was hilarious you know he that that obviously was one of his favorite characters.
[43:23] Given that he brought it back yeah that was a samler favorite a favorite of the audience for sure uh and and again this is like a fun way for him to say like mean a lot of mean thingstoo about celebrities but in this character so it didn't come across as mean even a lot of times even though they had like the the funny subtitles uh on the bottom of the a lot of times youdidn't even really know exactly what he was saying at first so he could say some mean stuff and toe the line of like the NBC censors getting on his case but as this kind of goofy characteropera man and he took you through different things like sad and happy and whatnot but I liked him again in the more recent one where he was talking about ugly man oh and with SethRogen being in a movie with Charlize Theron and then he was like talking about like how this goofy guy get gets to kiss all all the, you know, the hot girls. And he was all, who elsewould do that?
You know, and it was, and he showed him with all. That was hilarious.
[44:25] Pretty lady, goofy man. Opera man, no, understand.
Silly face, but still he's for her. Where have I seen this before? Come on.
Let's go, man.
And the thing is with opera man is like, Like when you saw him, you knew you were in for a treat and he was going to say it how it is.
And it was going to be hilarious.
You know what I'm thinking about now that we're talking about, you know, obviously we had Opera Man. But how about all the innovative Halloween costume?
Or use something from around the house. A teabag's great.
[45:08] I'm crazy teabag mouth. And I do believe I want some candy.
Look at my mouth. There's a damn teabag growing out of it. I don't know about you, but to me, that's crazy.
So I'm about to give me some candy, or at least a glass of hot water to dip into.
Such a silly, basic premise that Adam, just on sheer will, made work.
And simple, right? Like, just simple. Like, who, that whole entire, like, don't think too hard.
You know, like, let's just be funny, right?
Like, that was just, it was the most simplistic kind of comedy that there is. And it works.
It works. My favorite one, and tell me what's yours. My favorite one is, I'm crazy pickle mustache man.
I'm crazy. now give me some candy do you have a favorite oh gosh the pickle mustache was great um i'm like blanking right now on all the halloween costume ideas was it like uh he hadsomething for eyes yes he had like for the protractor he's like yes hey crazy protractor eyes i can my vision may be impaired but give me some candy or like when he had the plant handand he was like Like, this is insane, you know, or newspaper unicorn.
[46:30] This is the thing. It was the newspaper unicorn that I was thinking of.
Thank you. Yes, you're welcome. Thank you so much. That was actually the one that was like aching to come out of my brain. Yeah. Now give me some candy.
Now give me. And he was always all, I'm insane. Now give me some candy.
Or he like, he had a shoe on his hand, you know, and he's all, how crazy is that? I have a shoe.
Yeah, exactly. Exactly. And you know what? In like prepping for this, I'll be honest with you.
I'm like, why do we not have a Halloween party of all of those suggestions?
Crazy Spoonhead, man.
Wouldn't that be amazing? I would either do the pickle mustache or the pickle arm and then he ate the pickle and he's like, I ate my own hand.
Like, I remember that stuff being incredibly just like, wow, for the kiddo that doesn't have money and like who, you know.
[47:23] Yes. You know, it was just so sweet and just, you know, just so simplistic.
And I thought it was absolutely hilarious.
And like, who would have thought of doing that?
Because, yeah. It's just force of personality.
That just shows how much people loved Adam on the show and how much goodwill he had to where he would come out and try something like that and try something so honestly simpleand kind of dumb.
But it's Adam, so we're along for the ride. We buy into it.
And to be honest, that's where he built his fan base, right?
Yeah. Like we went through all of that with him and it moved on to his, you know, career outside of SNL.
And I think that's just, you know, he was able to just be like one of us.
And it was just, it was just hilarious, you know, and there's just so many moments of Adam Sandler.
Like, I think a lot of people, I don't know, maybe again, I'm biased because I grew up with him.
But when I think of Adam Sandler, I think first, boop, SNL, right?
Right. Yeah. People our age.
[48:33] That's where we go first, I think. And I think that going back to, you know, all of his characters, how many of our characters did he have on SNL that then bled into now outside oftheir Cajun man?
Cajun man, only one more month till America votes for its president. Election.
[48:54] What do you think about the candidate? No Harry Truman. Well, Cajun Man, do you think you could do better than these guys?
Really? Well, what would be your game plan?
[49:09] Interesting. Wow, Cajun Man, imagine if you were president. You'd get to live in the White House. Not a bad place, huh?
I would only imagine, you know, for Waterboy, you know, like, that was a thread there.
And that was hilarious also. I think the Denise show and Happy Gilmore were kind of close.
I know Adam was playing maybe a little heightened version of himself, but he had similar traits in the Denise show as he showed in Happy Gilmore.
Yes, you're right. Like with the penguin.
I want to kiss you all over and over again. Yeah, exactly.
Yes. or like and here's the thing is with the whole entire transition from when he first came on until he left and the cast you know he had.
[50:04] His friends, he had the group of friends, you know, and, um, I really feel like we've, he's taking care of them.
This man has recently, you know, got awarded the Mark Twain award for American humor.
Homer and he has always taken care of his group of friends and we saw them at during snl and they all supported each other and there were so many skits that for instance like lunch ladylike wow that was memorable in itself though that's one that i cannot tell you the first time i saw chris farley come out there with the yellow gloves and the and adam sandler again likeLike we were talking about earlier with this bombastic.
Like I have no idea.
Like Jimmy Fallon's pretty bad at keeping it together, right?
Like he always would break character and laugh.
[50:58] Adam Sandler, you could tell he would just shake his head just a little bit when he was like, uh-uh.
But he had to see that next to him. I love Lunch Lady. I love Lunch Lady.
[51:39] I love that you know because you know chris like when he sang in adam's face or did certain things like just to probably get adam to break on purpose yeah yes yeah yeah i was soexcited veronica because lunch lady land was from one of his comedy albums so when we actually saw it performed on snl with like the people in costumes there was a young sarahsilverman in the background in a costume in that Kevin Nealon came out as a sloppy.
[52:06] Joe and like Norm Macdonald was in this yeah sloppy joe yes and and that's so funny I sometimes at work out of nowhere I'll be honest with you because we're homies we've beenbest friends since we were five years old sometimes I'll be typing notes and I'll be like Hokies and grinders Hokies and grinders navy beans navy beans meatball sandwich and everybodyelse is all i think she's i think we're lose being is i you know these things again like you were saying they're engraved in our minds and it's amazing yeah when when my wife makes sloppyjoes and i look at her and i go sloppy joe sloppy sloppy joe and she looks me like what the hell are you talking about you're like don't worry i get it don't you're fine i marry yes yes yeahand that's the thing so yeah it was wonderful and and that's the thing is that like with adam sandler and his career like i really feel that like coming back to snl like it was just it was greatbecause he was fired you know that monologue that he had you know and he was he was fired chris farley was fired and he brought on chris rock and you know and obviously we'll nevernever know why and what and what happened.
[53:28] But he put a stamp on SNL and it was something that, I mean, you think about Sarah Live and Adam Sandler, and you're like, yeah, those two go together. How can you have SNLwithout Adam Sandler?
Yeah, but before we start wrapping it up, I wanted to ask you, what do you think of ad parodies on SNL, especially from around that time? Like which ones?
[53:54] Like Schmitz Gay. Oh, okay. Oh, my.
That that was one of my favorite ones of all time because you didn't see that coming do you know what i mean no right you know they're just these two dudes they're hanging out andwhatever it was hilarious this is the great house sitting deal that you found this place is a dump just wait till you see the pool no water and how he again he and farley were just hilarioustogether so sincere about it enjoying it being in the moment and um it just was hilarious and it was precious too if that makes sense yeah yeah it was so innocent and no because they weregenuinely enjoying themselves and it was so fun to see when it was a parody on like a beer commercial from around that time that had women scantily clad and yeah it was very sexy sothey said you know let's flip this on its head have these two dudes get excited when these like muscly guys come out of the pool you two look like you need to get wet, thank you.
[55:12] We see them like partying with these guys yeah and how they had the camera and they were like doing it and they were like you know exactly they were doing the exact opposite ofduring that time again these whole masculine like beer commercials they did the same exact thing yeah but it was schmitz gay yeah exactly so schmitz gay was ahead of its time ohbeyond okay exactly because the whole entire budweiser whatever he's like okay ahead of its time 100 but i did want to go party with them yeah yeah that looks like fun yeah is thereanything from adam sandler's snl career sketches or characters that we may have missed that you wanted to make sure that we hit before Before we head on out?
Il Cantore is one of the most funniest skits I can think of.
Because here's the thing is that Christy Alley, she totally just let this happen.
You know? It was bellissima and this and that.
It was just hilarious how they overly exerted. And again, it might be a little bit cliche at this.
Or I don't even know if cliche is the right word. But, you know, today it may not flow.
Yeah. But this overly like.
[56:29] Italian celebration of how they feel about women, you know, and it's just like, and again, there's Kevin Nealon being strict and, you know, just himself, but that skit was hilarious.
I just thought it was just so sweet and beautiful.
And there was just how all the men were just in it. She felt that that was a skit that nobody else would do.
Yeah. Yeah. She was game. And I think sometimes that's overused, I think, for hosts is that like they're game for sketches but this is an example of hosts just being game for it and justsaying i'm i'm hosting the show i'm gonna throw myself into it you can do whatever to me you can lick my face you can hunt me or like you know and if you look at her she does notbreak character one bit dana carvey is licking her face and this and that and she does not break it all and I just find it so hilarious how you know here comes a young Adam Sandler out hisspeedo again coming out and just you know uh oh and when he looked down her shirt and he was all bellissima you know it's just again it toes that line but it's hilarious and it was just andthen they had the hotel yeah they brought it back they brought it back yeah they didn't end it there yeah the The next season, so they did La Cantoria the next season because it went overso well with the crowd.
[57:57] Kirstie Alley loved doing it. Obviously, everybody had so much fun, so they decided to bring it back.
And we saw Adam Sandler be goofy again with all his pals and just being his typical endearing self, Veronica.
[58:11] Yeah, yeah. And that was the amazing thing is somehow –.
[58:18] Even if it's, I don't know, he just brings you in and you enjoy your time, you know, and you laugh and it's stupid.
[58:28] And that in itself, like stupid slapstick comedy, I'll take it any day.
So Veronica, Adam Sandler came back to host SNL back in 2019.
For my money, one of the better episodes that's hosted by an SNL alum.
Like, what did you think of Adam Sandler's hosting gig a few years ago?
Wow it was just it was amazing like it was so nice to see him come back and i know we'll talk about the legacy is that he was able to show off his legacy right and there were so manygood skits not new and could you imagine being fired from snl right yeah going off to do this amazing career career, movies, X, Y, and Z, I can only imagine being a cast of SNL, you'realways probably writing skits.
Yeah. Or thinking of ideas. You're like, at least in your mind, you're probably always thinking of premises for sketches.
Yeah. Yeah. Like, oh my gosh, this would have been an amazing skit on SNL, right?
So it was so heartwarming to see him come back.
And so we saw a little bit of new, and we saw some rehashing.
And so, well, one thing that he did was he sang the Chris Farley song.
[59:51] And if that didn't get you in the feels, I don't know what would.
[1:00:36] I teared up when he performed that. I think that's one of the few times that I've teared up watching SNL. Right. Yes.
Obviously, we grew up on SNL. We grew up on Farley. And we all went through that, right?
We only heard about what happened to Chris Farley. But after that, nobody really talked about it.
Of course, we have to respect the family and everything like that.
That all of us had to mourn that in a different way over the years.
So finally, when Adam Sandler sang the Chris Farley song, Tom, that was a way for us to really memorialize Chris Farley. Yeah.
And he said it in such a poetic, beautiful, compassionate, and candid way that I was moved by it.
And it was like this is what i needed to hear and obviously i don't know chris farley you know we're just fans right but it all the more hurt knowing that it came from one of his bestfriends.
[1:01:44] Yeah that's the human side of adam sandler to the the relatable endearing side that we got to see him express like that true emotion and true passionately mourning one of his bestfriends And in a proper song, a great song with the slideshow and everything.
And it's a song that he'd been performing on his comedy tour and different live performances that he'd been doing. Leading up.
I knew about it, but seeing him perform it on SNL had a different meaning than him performing it like in Radio City or somewhere else.
You know, is in front of the world. Yeah. And talking about his dad, talking about everything.
Thing and his inspirations and everything like that like i was really surprised that he would allow the world to see that vulnerability and it was it was beautiful even to this day i watch it iget all lumpy you know get you in the good so how could you not absolutely so do i i mean that that was just like an amazing part of just an all around really good episode.
[1:02:53] I think I'm so happy. Like that was when people who would be, who we'd been clamoring for to come back, like Eddie Murphy had come back.
And then we see Adam Sandler come back and do a great episode.
It was just so neat to see Adam Sandler come back in his element and, uh, turn in a really, really good episode of SNL.
And the Chris Farley song was like the topper of it all to me.
For me also because i was taken back by that but overall for me that i felt like that was like.
[1:03:26] If Adam Sandler never hosts SNL again, that's fine. For me, that was his legacy. He put the cherry on top.
He reminded all of his fans, here I am.
And hey, if you don't know me, I'm Adam Sandler. And that in itself is, he's a Sandman.
And a lot of times we see cast members who we love in the show, after their careers, they don't go on to like a ton of success.
And we wonder, you know, what happened with Adam.
It's the opposite. He's probably one of the most successful former cast members in SNL history.
So where do you stand, Veronica, on Sandler's movies? I know they could be hit and miss for some people, including myself.
There's a lot of misses there. There's also a lot of hits. Where do you stand as far as Sandler's movies go?
Let me just tell you something.
I know before we started, we were talking about the holiday season.
Happy New Year, everybody.
Watched eight crazy nights for the first time. I've heard good things.
I've never seen that. Oh, you need to see it. It is hilarious.
I loved it. It was amazing.
And that in itself, like, for me, Adam Sandler's career, SNL and after SNL, it's a hit.
This man stays true to himself.
[1:04:47] And sure. sure and and that's the thing is that these crit and i love this about adam sandler is that if he listened to his critics he would have been done long ago yeah you're rightyou know but we all know him and we know what he represents i guess and what his message is and that's to laugh and when i watch an adam sandler movie i know i'm gonna laugh andwhen i watch adam sandler.
[1:05:17] Dramatic movies wow you know i mean i cut jobs uncut jobs you know there's that i'm just kidding i'm sorry i had to do it that went on in my household for quite some time afterwe heard that but but point being is that um this man is just hilarious you know and and he brings a certain um, comedy that if you get it you get it and it's it's everything it's it's agenerational thing bro yeah you know it really is like again we're children of the 90s and he owned well he and jim carrey in my opinion owned like the latter half of the 90s so you hadlike that run from like billy madison happy gilmore the wedding singer the water boy even big daddy include like I still like that movie.
Oh, Big Daddy's amazing.
God bless Big Daddy. Yes. And this is me being like, hmm, that little boy.
I love Steve Buscemi, right? Again, one of Adam Sandler. And that's what I love about Adam Sandler movies.
You'll always see his homies in these movies in one form or another.
They will always be there.
[1:06:34] And and it's it's one of those things that he never lets us down do you know what I mean I can't think of a movie that I've been like you know maybe Little Nikki I'm not gonna liemaybe Little Nikki is that controversial I have to go I'm sorry oh no I'll talk to you later what do you mean Little Nikki watch it again bro it's a good movie maybe I'll watch it again, I wasin a bad mood when I saw it okay no like that movie you have to and that's again you have to take it for what it's worth like it was so sweet like little again little nicky was um very muchan underdog right he was a son of satan and he just couldn't cut it right true he tried to do his best and he couldn't cut it and his brothers were mean to him okay without me going down awormhole re-watch it, See how amazing that is.
[1:07:35] You're so good at pitching movies. I want to watch it again.
I'm so sorry. After we're done here, you're going to watch it. End of story.
And I'll find out if we do it again. I'll tell my family that that's what I'm doing tonight. Thank you. Yes.
It's just hilarious of how his execution and just, you know, I've met so many people, especially being out here in SoCal, that they love their horror movies and their Jasons and they'refreddy whatever's like watch it again in the eyes of just somebody who loves darkness you know it's hilarious i'll do that i definitely do that one thing i will say about sandler is he'suniversally mentioned as one of the nicest people in hollywood like one of the nicest and if you read like those clickbait articles or watch youtube videos and people People get asked, like,who's the meanest celebrity?
Who's the nicest? Reddit threads.
Everybody universally says that Sandler's like the nicest guy.
[1:08:34] And just from like, it's not a personal story, but it's like a hand-me-down story.
When I was out here practicing after I graduated from vet school, he was filming out in Rancho Cucamonga, like area of SoCal.
And some of the vet technicians, they saw him at a barbecue place out there.
And they said that he was so nice and he took time to take pictures with them and everything like that.
And I agree with you. Like that's what everybody says is that the person that you see is the person that you get and he's so thankful and just takes time to be with his fans.
Again, going back to his recent award for the Mark Twain.
[1:09:21] Is that he thanked the fans, you know, because, and that's so nice because he has a huge fan base that has been with him and support him and love him, which is amazing.
Yeah, yeah. That's a big reason why I'm so happy for his success.
He founded his production company, Happy Madison, releases something almost every year.
Right. They're all successful.
Yeah. He has all these movies with Netflix, a big deal with them.
So if there's anybody in Hollywood would who i'm like super happy for their success it's adam sandler just because he's like the nicest guy from everything that we know can i makeanother movie plug please have you seen you're so not invited to my bat mitzvah not yet that's on the list i'm busy guy i was prepping for this episode and so that's why i didn't watch it i'mjust letting you guys know all of you aside aside from Tom, is that he has his two daughters in there, Sadie and Sunny.
[1:10:29] And, of course, his wife. It is amazing. He keeps going, right?
He's the Energizer Bunny.
He just does his thing, and he has so many projects and ideas.
He goes from Hotel Transylvania, which the kids, they watch all the time, to Punch Drunk Love, to this, to that.
This man, he He graduated from NYU, bro.
He's an actor and a comedian. And it's just, yeah.
I love how he'll flex his acting chops. People act surprised when Punch Drunk Love came out.
Oh, yeah, Sandler was so good. And then Funny People, which was a dramatic.
It was funny, but it was also pretty heavy in a lot of parts and dramatic.
And Sandler was great in that. Uncut Gems.
He was really good. Hustle. I'm a big basketball fan. I saw Hustle.
I don't know if you saw Hustle. It was amazing Of course, Adam Sandler and basketball Right?
By the way, I want to play a pickup basketball game With Adam Sandler, You should, but make sure you wear the right clothes. You know what I mean? Baggy, baggy shorts.
Yeah, you know, because I know that, you know, go out to New York.
I'm sure you'll be able to pick it up. But yes, wouldn't that be amazing?
Because he's starting good, bro. I saw some videos recently.
He's got some moves. He's a good passer.
He has a good layup package. He has, I like Sandler's game. Mm-hmm. Yeah, it's legit.
[1:11:55] I like that we're talking about his b-ball game. Absolutely, he would appreciate this.
I think he should. Good, because it's underrated and it's not talked about enough.
Not nearly enough, which I think is terrible.
Exactly. As a fellow, you know, obviously I didn't play basketball, but I know you did or do, is, you know, let's bring it to light.
Absolutely. So before we get out of here and on this note, I wanted to ask you, Veronica, what do you think Adam Sandler's ultimate legacy is when it comes to his time on SNL? Wow.
That's a big question because we've had so many greats on SNL, right?
But I think for Adam Sandler is that he came in as himself.
[1:12:41] And this man was unapologetic. Even again, thinking about his characters, everything like that, is that he was himself, bare bones, you know, hardened his sleeve.
And not everybody feels that comfortable to do that, that vulnerability.
He built a a fan base because of how hilarious he is and then in the future you know he was able to make something for himself and his happy madison universe for the rest of us and thenice thing is about adam sandler is like we were talking about earlier is that he didn't listen to everybody's he followed his dream he was so strong with his family in particularly his fatherand um.
[1:13:33] His dad meant a lot to him and i think you know me losing my dad i know that it meant a lot to him that he wanted to continue that legacy not only for his dad but for his familyand he's a good person and when you think of starry live and adam sandler you just think of pure comedy pure or hilarious laughter.
And so for Adam Sandler, I would say his legacy is just making the world a better place, a funnier place.
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[1:14:21] All right. Thank you so much, Veronica Villanueva. It's great to have you back in the hall.
And Thomas, of course, we couldn't do any of this without you, our chief librarian.
So there's that. You know, I think that when I think of Sandler, I like to think of the world being a funnier place with him in it and a better place. And I think that's a great message.
The Very humble, very hungry when the time comes for him to hit the stage.
He delivers the goods. I think of his effort hosting the show just a couple of years ago. That Chris Farley song was great.
And speaking of songs, he's known for that. So why don't we go to one of his more famous songs right now from Weekend Update.
This is the Hanukkah song.
[1:18:36] That's fantastic really great and did you hear that applause break when they announced him off the top when norm announced him off the top hall of famer norm mcdonaldannounced him off the top oh my gosh that was tremendous and the outro as well just just uh really hitting the mark i i I wonder, you know, thought experiment.
I wonder where Sandler would rate in terms of SNLers.
Had he been on in a more prominent era? You know, he came on at the end of the second golden era.
[1:19:14] And, you know, it was tough sledding for a few years there.
You know, the late 90s, the mid to late 90s. It was tough. tough.
And, you know, he was one of the preeminent stars of the show at that point.
So I, you know, I wonder if he gets dragged down in the muck because of that. I don't know.
[1:19:37] Here's your chance to rectify that, though. Cast your vote when the time comes.
And we will, of course, tabulate those votes.
And if Mr. Sandler achieves over 66.6% of the vote, he will be inducted into the Hall of fame to join many of his peers so there's that that's what i've got for you this week hope youenjoyed yourself stay cool and do me a favor on the way out as you're walking past the weekend update exhibit there's a light switch on the wall turn it off because the snl hall of fame isnow closed.
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