RE-RELEASE - Adam Sandler (LIVE from LA) - Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade

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Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade Episode: RE-RELEASE - Adam Sandler (LIVE from LA) Release Date: July 17, 2025

Introduction of Adam Sandler's Live Re-Release

In this special episode of "Fly on the Wall," Dana Carvey and David Spade bring back the much-anticipated re-release of Adam Sandler's live performance from Los Angeles. Hosted by longtime friends and comedy legends Dana Carvey and David Spade, the episode offers an intimate look into Adam Sandler's comedic journey, his experiences on "Saturday Night Live" (SNL), and his transition into a successful film career.

Behind the Comedy: Conversations with Adam Sandler

Early Stand-Up and Comedy Beginnings

The conversation kicks off with Adam Sandler reminiscing about his early days in stand-up comedy. He shares anecdotes about his first performances and the challenges he faced honing his craft.

Adam Sandler [05:03]: "I didn't even know what to talk about. I was driving down with my brother, and he said, did you write anything? And I said, no, no, no. I'll just wing it."
Joining Saturday Night Live

Dana and David delve into Adam's rapid ascent to fame, highlighting his entry into SNL. Sandler recounts how Dennis Miller recognized his talent and recommended him for the show.

Adam Sandler [29:03]: "Dennis Miller saw me a few times at the Santa Monica Improv, and he waited in the back after. He said, 'You should check out the Sandman and Sandingo.'"
Favorite Comedy Moments and Characters

The trio discusses some of Adam's most memorable sketches and characters from his stand-up routines and SNL performances, including the beloved "Opera Man."

Dana Carvey [36:04]: "The opera man. The evolution of opera man that then became the indestructible killer bit of all time."
Interactions with Celebrity Icons

Adam shares heartfelt stories about his interactions with icons like Paul McCartney and Jack Nicholson, providing insight into his experiences working alongside such revered figures.

Adam Sandler [69:21]: "On my first day over Nicholson's, I got there, and we're in a dimly lit room. I didn't even know it was him. Later, he holds up a jar of peanut butter and says, 'Skippy or Jif?' That was surreal."
Transition to a Film Career

The discussion moves to Adam's seamless shift from stand-up and SNL to blockbuster movies. Dana and David highlight his rapid success with films like "Happy Gilmore," "The Wedding Singer," and "Waterboy."

David Spade [61:00]: "Wedding Singer, Yeah. And then Waterboy. It was the mic drop. At that point, you were a movie star."
Creative Processes and Writing Insights

Adam offers valuable advice on comedy writing and collaboration, emphasizing the importance of continuous writing and working with talented individuals to refine comedic material.

Adam Sandler [81:34]: "I think I'm getting older. More opportunities. Guys like the Safdie brothers. They write great stuff and ask me to be in it."

Audience Q&A: Engaging with Fans

Extravagant First Purchases

Dana, David, and Adam share stories about their first significant purchases after achieving success, revealing personal milestones and humorous mishaps.

David Spade [76:35]: "I got my leather jacket that I remember. Black. I got it after shooting the Blades Academy movie."
Impressions and Signature Characters

The hosts discuss their favorite impressions and characters from their early careers, highlighting how these roles helped shape their comedic personas.

Adam Sandler [90:05]: "I used to do John Wayne and..."
Advice for Aspiring Comedians

Dana and David provide insights into mastering the craft of comedy, stressing the importance of writing regularly and collaborating with others to enhance comedic skills.

Dana Carvey [82:57]: "Just write it, write it, write it. Then you collect it and go, 'Is there anything here?' That stuff's very valuable."
Reflections on Recent Projects

The conversation touches on Adam's latest projects, including his acclaimed movie on Netflix, blending elements of "Hoosiers" and "Rocky," and his collaboration with the Safdie brothers on "Uncut Gems."

Dana Carvey [64:03]: "I think it's a great movie. You're great in it. I got teary eyed."
Memorable Sketch Highlights

Highlights from iconic SNL sketches, such as the "Pepper Boy" and "Gap Girls," are discussed, showcasing the trio's creative synergy and the enduring impact of their work.

Dana Carvey [52:24]: "That was such a treat for all of us. 'Pepper Boy' was transformed into an electric sketch."

Notable Quotes

Diet Humor:

David Spade [00:00]: "Eating healthy always sounds like a solid plan until reality kicks in and dinner becomes whatever's closest to your hand."
SNL Memories:

Dana Carvey [02:09]: "It was fun. Yeah, back when I used to comb my hair a little bit."
Comedy Evolution:

Adam Sandler [22:04]: "I loved all the comedies. Young Frankenstein, Inside the Movie, Blazing Saddles. But what really got me was seeing Eddie Fisher perform."
Collaboration on SNL:

David Spade [29:20]: "Dennis Miller was my favorite. He hooked me up and introduced me to the SNL family."
Creative Challenges:

Dana Carvey [36:04]: "Making 'Opera Man' evolved into one of our most indestructible bits."
Career Advice:

David Spade [81:56]: "If it's stand-up, just get as much stage time as you can. If it's writing, more is better."

Conclusion

The episode wraps up with heartfelt thanks from Dana and David to Adam Sandler, celebrating their enduring friendship and collaborative spirit. They reflect on the importance of maintaining creative relationships and continuing to support each other's comedic endeavors.

Dana Carvey [85:02]: "This is such a treat for all of us. You guys are all just such pillars of comedy. Awesome."

Adam Sandler [89:51]: "Thank you, Dana. This was amazing."

"Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade" offers an engaging and insightful exploration of Adam Sandler's comedic legacy, blending personal anecdotes with professional milestones. This episode serves as a celebration of friendship, creativity, and the enduring power of comedy.

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[00:00]
David Spade
Eating healthy always sounds like a solid plan until reality kicks in and dinner becomes whatever's closest to your hand.
[00:07]
Dana Carvey
Usually a granola bar from 2009. But hey, what if someone actually handled the healthy part for you?
[00:15]
David Spade
Yeah, like a food wizard who knows what kale is and how to make it taste like something you want to eat.
[00:20]
Dana Carvey
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[00:26]
David Spade
Yeah. No prep, no cooking, no. What is this rutabaga confusion? It's just heat, eat, move on with your life.
[00:34]
Dana Carvey
Meals are portioned, ready to eat and deliver fresh every week. No freezer Tetris involved.
[00:41]
David Spade
Great for anyone who wants to eat healthy without scheduling a second job as a meal prepper.
[00:45]
Dana Carvey
It's a woman owned small business, which we love.
[00:48]
David Spade
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[00:55]
Dana Carvey
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[01:08]
David Spade
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[01:32]
Dana Carvey
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[01:53]
David Spade
Learn more@ring.com Dana, you know Adam, friend of the show, friend of ours, Happy gilmore. Coming out July 25th. We thought we would re air his live show because it was a lot of fun. We got a lot of good feedback about it. We cracked up. It was one of our best, one of our few.
[02:10]
Dana Carvey
It was like at the wheelchair. It was like 2, 000 people with.
[02:13]
David Spade
Oh yeah, the wheel turn. That's right.
[02:16]
Dana Carvey
Yeah, that was kind of early on in our tenure. It was, it was great to have him live in la.
[02:22]
David Spade
That was fun. Yeah, back when I used to comb my hair a little bit.
[02:26]
Dana Carvey
And now of course Happy Gilmore 2 had to happen. The fans wouldn't have allowed it. So it's back and it's out. July 25th on Netflix.
[02:37]
David Spade
We had a lot of laughs. We talked about so many things, and then we did a few act outs in front of the crowd. When there's a crowd, they were always trying to ham it up a little bit more than usual.
[02:46]
Dana Carvey
Definitely. Yeah, I went full. Full ham on a couple times on that.
[02:50]
David Spade
Oh, yeah, I went full hambone. And Adam came to play, which was good. He didn't walk through it.
[02:56]
Dana Carvey
He.
[02:56]
David Spade
He was great. And let's. Let's hope you like it. Here it is.
[03:00]
Dana Carvey
Here it is. Happy Gilmore himself.
[03:10]
David Spade
All right, all right, all right, all right.
[03:14]
Dana Carvey
Finger survival. That's what you got to do. You got to get to your seat, you got to get your drink, and you got to get to sit down.
[03:23]
David Spade
It's starting.
[03:24]
Dana Carvey
You got to get to your seat, you got to get your drink, you got to get to your seats, you got to get to your seats and get your drink in what order?
[03:30]
David Spade
David, welcome to the Olsen twins show.
[03:33]
Dana Carvey
Yes, it's clickbait.
[03:36]
David Spade
What has happened to the Olsen twins? Look at them now.
[03:39]
Dana Carvey
Wow, it's. It's a cute fest.
[03:41]
David Spade
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[03:42]
Dana Carvey
You know, we played here in 1962. You know, it was a shitstorm then. Ringo couldn't even keep his beat. People rushing in. Now, this is the show. By the way, I hope you are able to write off your ticket. You know, just send it to your account, and hopefully you'll get money, a rebate. Let's settle down.
[03:59]
David Spade
Yeah, we're going to settle in.
[04:01]
Dana Carvey
This is our podcast. And by the way, all joking aside, thanks for coming. I've never done anything like this. And we have our very, very, very, very good friend who we all adore as our guest, which is very cool. Look at this. All right. Okay, let's do that.
[04:23]
David Spade
All right, this next young man coming to the stage.
[04:26]
Dana Carvey
Yeah.
[04:27]
David Spade
Dana, you can introduce.
[04:28]
Dana Carvey
Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome our very dear friend from Saturday Night live and about 100 movies, the one and only Adam Sandler, the middleweight champion of the world. Hey, yo, Rocky. What are you doing? How are you?
[05:04]
Adam Sandler
I didn't even know it started.
[05:06]
Dana Carvey
We don't. It. It hasn't started, actually.
[05:08]
Adam Sandler
What went on so far? Did you guys talk?
[05:10]
Dana Carvey
We talked.
[05:11]
David Spade
You got a mic. You're good. You know, I wear a hoodie sometimes. It takes about a year and a half off my age.
[05:17]
Adam Sandler
I feel.
[05:18]
David Spade
I think it's smart.
[05:19]
Dana Carvey
It's good.
[05:22]
Adam Sandler
Is blocking.
[05:23]
Dana Carvey
I like it. I like the. You could definitely be on skid row and be like, hey, what's up, bro? Dude, I'm just Kidding.
[05:30]
Adam Sandler
No, no, I'm with you. I'm with you.
[05:32]
Dana Carvey
I'm with you.
[05:32]
David Spade
Adam, I have to tell you something. Danny, you can listen, but I.
[05:37]
Dana Carvey
This time. Last time he made me go in the little boy place. Go ahead.
[05:41]
David Spade
Actually, today. We did a. A memorial for Norm McDonald today. And that was. That was great. We all love Norm. We all work with Norm.
[05:51]
Adam Sandler
Yeah.
[05:51]
David Spade
And.
[05:51]
Dana Carvey
Yep.
[05:52]
David Spade
When there was a break in the action. That's stupid. But I went to McDonald's just because I had.
[05:58]
Adam Sandler
You did?
[05:58]
David Spade
Yeah.
[05:59]
Adam Sandler
What'd you order? What's your McDonald's order?
[06:01]
David Spade
That's a great question. Then we're gonna get to you in a minute. But I want to get to me.
[06:05]
Dana Carvey
We like to talk about ourselves.
[06:07]
Adam Sandler
Oh, yeah, that's right.
[06:08]
Dana Carvey
I've listened you.
[06:10]
Adam Sandler
I like listening to you. I can't believe how much you talk.
[06:14]
Dana Carvey
I know.
[06:15]
Adam Sandler
No, Adam, it's not that.
[06:17]
David Spade
I have a lot to talk about.
[06:18]
Adam Sandler
All right, all right.
[06:19]
Dana Carvey
Back to David.
[06:21]
David Spade
Oh, this shirt. 12 grand. What did you ask me? Anyway, so he's rich. No, here's what happened. I went to McDonald's and I got scared because I went in and people go, do you? Actually, they can't believe I go to McDonald's, and they can't believe I go in. No one goes in anymore. But I'm man of the people, you know? So I go in and I get filet o fish meal deal.
[06:43]
Adam Sandler
That's okay, by the way.
[06:44]
David Spade
I go, what's your filet o fish of the day? Is it a branzino?
[06:47]
Adam Sandler
Take a break. And then.
[06:50]
David Spade
Oh, we laugh. And then we laugh through the bulletproof glass. And then I got.
[06:57]
Dana Carvey
So then what happened?
[06:58]
David Spade
And then I get six piece McNuggie. I don't know why I'm telling this story, but Adam loves this kind of. This is real people stuff. So I. I get my nuggets and my hot mustard, and I sit down. I sit down in there, I get a table, and I just want to make some fun because I got to go back and I'm eating bloop, bloop. And naturally.
[07:22]
Dana Carvey
There.
[07:23]
David Spade
Outside, there's someone who's acting a little crazy.
[07:26]
Dana Carvey
At the McDonald's?
[07:27]
David Spade
Yeah, of course. It just comes with the deal.
[07:29]
Adam Sandler
So he was starting tr.
[07:31]
David Spade
I'm like this. I'm getting nervous because there's a line of cars and he's banging on the windows. And I go, why the did I come in? Because now I'm trapped. Starts heading toward the door. I go, there's no chance. Bam. Door opens. Drenched in sweat and he walks right up to me. It was Ted Sarandos. No, it wasn't.
[07:54]
Dana Carvey
No, it was.
[07:56]
David Spade
No, it was just a guy.
[07:58]
Dana Carvey
And.
[07:58]
David Spade
And. And he was kind of. I don't know what was going on, but he's a little crazy.
[08:03]
Adam Sandler
So he goes, hey, man, this story keeps going.
[08:06]
David Spade
I know, but, you guys, we're gonna.
[08:08]
Dana Carvey
Take a short break.
[08:09]
David Spade
Anyway, he goes, give me some money for some food. I go, all right. And he's just talking to me, so I go, okay. And I give him 10 bucks.
[08:16]
Dana Carvey
And then he goes, give me.
[08:17]
David Spade
Give me your McNuggets.
[08:21]
Dana Carvey
Oh, that's.
[08:22]
David Spade
And he's dropping sweat on.
[08:24]
Adam Sandler
He's like.
[08:26]
David Spade
And I go like this. But I know I don't have a lot of time, and I don't want to argue that he's gonna kill me. So he goes. I go, I'll give you one.
[08:33]
Adam Sandler
What?
[08:34]
Dana Carvey
I gave him one.
[08:35]
David Spade
This is a. I swear to God today.
[08:39]
Dana Carvey
And I worked this out.
[08:42]
Adam Sandler
I'll give you one nugget. Give me one rib.
[08:46]
Dana Carvey
Rich Schneider.
[08:47]
Adam Sandler
I gave him a goddamn nugget. Chris Rock.
[08:51]
David Spade
Anyway, this is a newer version of that. And then he goes, give me another one. And I gave him two. And then I go, that's it. He didn't want any, so I wasn't gonna let him. He goes, I'll just dip it in a sweat.
[09:05]
Dana Carvey
So he had two.
[09:06]
David Spade
Then I go, just go buy some. And the people, the cashiers were waving me off, like, don't send him over here. And so he went over there. And then I just. I got up and left because I got scared, but that's all.
[09:19]
Dana Carvey
Adam, let's bring that guy out right now. You know, let's look at a clip. You met a crazy man in a McDonald's.
[09:29]
Adam Sandler
That's pretty good, though, Dave. Anyway, maybe the crazy man you saw your first day in New York.
[09:35]
Dana Carvey
What did I say?
[09:36]
Adam Sandler
Well, you saw a man masturbating in the park.
[09:38]
Dana Carvey
Yeah, we thought, yeah, he was masturbating in the park. And we're walking by. We just got to Manhattan. We're, hey, let's go walk in the park. And he's masturbating. We're kind of trying not to look. And he goes, hey, have you got the time? It's like he's jacking off on a car bench, but he's really worried and. Park bench. Sorry. Anyway. Yes, Adam. I don't. I remember like a steel trap.
[10:02]
Adam Sandler
I loved it.
[10:03]
Dana Carvey
We had some crazy time.
[10:06]
Adam Sandler
Me and you together was the best. David would come by, we'd Be like, all right, we gotta listen for a while.
[10:11]
David Spade
No, no, no.
[10:12]
Dana Carvey
He'd have a McDonald's or. Remember the Jack in the Box story? It was like 20 minutes. He was great. But we. Yeah, we had some crazy. We had that one crazy gig where we got lost.
[10:21]
Adam Sandler
Yes. Me and Dana went on a great gig. I opened for you. You were the king, and you Let me do 10 minutes before you.
[10:28]
Dana Carvey
It was upstate New York, and there was no cell phones, and we started getting lost, and we just realized, wow, we're really, really lost. So we showed up, like, four hours late.
[10:38]
Adam Sandler
Yes.
[10:38]
Dana Carvey
And the students were just sitting up in a gym like this. Dead silence like a church.
[10:43]
Adam Sandler
Yeah. They were pissed, right?
[10:44]
Dana Carvey
So I go get. Go get a madam.
[10:46]
Adam Sandler
Yeah. You sent me out there.
[10:48]
Dana Carvey
Did you have your guitar with you?
[10:49]
Adam Sandler
No, I. I wasn't guitar. And then. But I just. Cajun man just started. Oh, it was Cajun man. So I said, onion, and they gave me some sort of noise. I was like, okay, this is a new life. I got Cajun man. 15 minutes. I did fine. Yeah, you said I did great, but I probably did fine. But then you went up and annihilated.
[11:13]
Dana Carvey
I don't remember it that way. Yes. I thought we both had.
[11:17]
David Spade
Was. Yours said 8 minutes of Cajun man.
[11:20]
Adam Sandler
Anytime something didn't work, I'd go funion.
[11:24]
Dana Carvey
And we got. We ate Cajun afterwards. We found a place in the Pocono Mountains or something, right?
[11:29]
Adam Sandler
Yeah, we. We. We tipped back a few. Drove back.
[11:32]
Dana Carvey
No, we went crazy in the car. Let's admit it. On the way back, Adam and I just got a case of the. And the car was full of beer, and we started drinking it, and. And then you brought out cigars or somewhere.
[11:46]
Adam Sandler
Cigars.
[11:47]
Dana Carvey
So we're drinking beer and having cigars and playing for, like, hours. And we went crazy, and we ran out of beer, and then we went to a liquor store. But you were with me, and you looked 15 at the time.
[11:58]
Adam Sandler
That's right.
[11:59]
Dana Carvey
I had an ID. But he goes, I'm not selling it to you because of him. And he pointed at you. And then we got him on.
[12:05]
Adam Sandler
I said to him, remember I said onion. He goes, shut the.
[12:09]
Dana Carvey
Usually that worked. They would just hand us a six pack. On your own. We went. We went crazy.
[12:16]
David Spade
So let's get to when Adam started. Stand up. Because you started before me, but you were in New Hampshire. I did start before you, I think. No, no. Maybe it's about the same time I started. I was, like, 18 and a half. And then you. What how old were you?
[12:30]
Adam Sandler
I was 17.
[12:31]
David Spade
Oh, when you started stand up, where did you go?
[12:33]
Adam Sandler
I went on senior year in high school, my. My brother told me my brother was going to Boston University. And then he said, remember I told you somebody went to Boston University here? No.
[12:44]
David Spade
Hey, they're like, whatever you want, Adam.
[12:47]
Adam Sandler
That's a good. It's a good school. Congratulations. But anyways, my brother, we were at dinner, and he said, hey, I got you that lottery ticket. I told you, remember, you had to wait online and get a ticket to go on stage? And I said, oh, yeah, God, you got that. And because he mentioned it a couple of months earlier. And then I went. He said, it's tonight. So I put on a dress shirt. I remember I had a nice dress shirt with stripes. I folded. I didn't know how to button this. I was never good at buttoning my own. This right here. So I rolled it up like spade right there.
[13:22]
David Spade
Yeah.
[13:22]
Adam Sandler
And then I.
[13:23]
David Spade
Because I still don't know how to do it.
[13:25]
Adam Sandler
I don't know. Is that happened still when I do.
[13:27]
David Spade
Something that you would think to wear the first time, because I wore a. I wore a shirt and a tie.
[13:33]
Adam Sandler
The first time you went on. Really? That's nice.
[13:35]
David Spade
I wanted to look. Also. I want to look older. I look very young. And I had to go to a real bar to do it, and the age was 19 in Arizona.
[13:42]
Adam Sandler
So what was the bar?
[13:45]
David Spade
There's one called Chuckles, and then Anderson's fifth.
[13:47]
Dana Carvey
Chuckles.
[13:48]
David Spade
I know they all have goofy names. Gut busters.
[13:51]
Dana Carvey
Was that in Scottsdale? The loony bin?
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David Spade
Yeah. Chuckles was the first place I went on. And I mean, to stop your story. So you. But where could you go on a bar when you're that young?
[14:01]
Adam Sandler
I went on at a place called Stitches Comedy Club.
[14:05]
David Spade
See? Stitches.
[14:06]
Adam Sandler
Stitches in Boston.
[14:07]
Dana Carvey
You're 17.
[14:08]
Adam Sandler
17. When I was.
[14:09]
David Spade
Gave a. It's so funny they let anyone go on young.
[14:12]
Adam Sandler
I didn't even know what to talk about. I was driving down with my brother, and he said, did you write anything? And I said, no, no, no. I'll just. I'll wing it.
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Dana Carvey
Your brother was like your manager.
[14:23]
Adam Sandler
He 100% was just going, you got to do something with your life. And so I. There's nothing else you could do. You really can handle nothing. So I went on. I went on. I did the five minutes. I had a retainer because I was still young. And I remember just total silence. I was saying stuff that, you know, that I thought they would love, that my family's loved for years. And they were just going. And then I remember hearing one guy go, he's got a retainer. And I was like, smiling and.
[14:53]
David Spade
Dana, do you remember jokes?
[14:55]
Adam Sandler
Didn't say anything that made sense. There's nothing to remember. I don't even know what happened. I used to get that blank mind, like.
[15:01]
Dana Carvey
Yeah.
[15:01]
Adam Sandler
The first two years, three years of comedy. I. All day long, I'd be practicing and all the written down and, like, I'm gonna. I'm gonna say this, then that, then this. And then I'd get on stage, I'd be like, I hate it here. Why am I here right now? Space out, you guys. Space out.
[15:18]
Dana Carvey
I'm sure out all the time. I would be nervous all day long. Just adrenalized, sweating.
[15:23]
Adam Sandler
Just.
[15:24]
Dana Carvey
Just a bright red neck. Terrified. Pacing.
[15:27]
Adam Sandler
Yeah.
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Dana Carvey
You know, funny because while I was sleeping. No, my point is this. No, it was stage fright. I mean, you had just.
[15:34]
Adam Sandler
Basically, by the time.
[15:35]
Dana Carvey
Well, I don't want to go forward, but the time you got on snl, it seemed like you had a lot. A lot of confidence pretty quickly then.
[15:40]
Adam Sandler
I don't know how, but yes.
[15:47]
Dana Carvey
I'm just curious about a little bit about early Adam just for a second.
[15:50]
Adam Sandler
Yeah. Yeah.
[15:51]
Dana Carvey
You guys are curious about what made Adam sound like. I just. I mean, you know, whatever you want to. I just. I do this sometimes with our guests. Just, you know, a favorite toy or a favorite bike or your first guitar. What? Would you have memories about any of those?
[16:08]
Adam Sandler
All of those.
[16:09]
Dana Carvey
Okay.
[16:09]
Adam Sandler
Favorite toy, favorite toy was probably the Evel Knievel.
[16:15]
David Spade
Ssp.
[16:19]
Dana Carvey
Wind it up, pull it.
[16:20]
Adam Sandler
You create your own little jump. You put pillows and cardboard, and Evil Knievel would fly off of that. That was fun. I would scratch my mother's tile.
[16:29]
David Spade
She would yell at.
[16:30]
Adam Sandler
Yell at me for that. What was the second one?
[16:33]
Dana Carvey
You said you're a bike. I had a Stingrays were big when I was a kid.
[16:38]
Adam Sandler
Yeah.
[16:38]
Dana Carvey
Did you have a bike that was big? A big chariot for you memory.
[16:42]
David Spade
I had a mongoose. I had a mono shock. I used to jumps. It was a little. It was very daredevil.
[16:50]
Dana Carvey
Love to see you doing jumps. That'd be awesome.
[16:53]
Adam Sandler
Oh, yeah. Now he is.
[16:54]
David Spade
I do a crochet tabletop. Don't worry about it. But I also had the Evil Knievel. That Evil Knievel thing was really good on the commercials about jumps. And then in person, it's fucking impossible to make it random.
[17:06]
Adam Sandler
The wall and stuff.
[17:07]
David Spade
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I just go over and fall. But when did you get. When did you Be mute. When were you musical?
[17:13]
Adam Sandler
Can I tell him about my bicycle?
[17:15]
David Spade
No.
[17:17]
Dana Carvey
So, hey, we're new to this.
[17:19]
David Spade
He's gonna hear from me.
[17:21]
Adam Sandler
Moving on from my bicycle. You took over the whole bike there.
[17:24]
David Spade
I thought it was.
[17:25]
Adam Sandler
I had this hurt.
[17:26]
Dana Carvey
We're learning. We're learning tonight, which is great.
[17:29]
Adam Sandler
Dana, you're fantastic.
[17:30]
Dana Carvey
Thank you.
[17:32]
David Spade
But it's not true.
[17:33]
Adam Sandler
But, David. No. So I had. I always wanted a Huffy. I wanted a Huffy like everybody else.
[17:39]
Dana Carvey
Now tell me about a Huffy, because that's.
[17:40]
Adam Sandler
Huffy has, like, a longer seat.
[17:43]
Dana Carvey
So it was like a Stingray.
[17:44]
Adam Sandler
Like a stingray.
[17:45]
Dana Carvey
Stingrays. It had a banana seat. Banana seat, Right. So the friend could ride in the back.
[17:50]
Adam Sandler
Yes. Yes, a Huffy. I had more of a cushiony seat. More. It was like a banana, but a little thicker for, like, dirt riding. Right. Like, if you ride.
[18:00]
Dana Carvey
Was it sold at Sears? Was it from Sears?
[18:03]
Adam Sandler
Well, here's the problem with the Adam Sandler Huffy. So I said to my family, I'd like a Huffy. Of course, I didn't get the Huffy. I got something else. A green bike. They took the seat off. My father, bought a Huffy seat and put it on the bike. And I would go down to Webster School, my elementary school. Everyone's popping wheelies and on their Huffies. And I showed up with my Huffy seat in the green bike.
[18:30]
Dana Carvey
I was like, hey.
[18:31]
Adam Sandler
And they were like, get the out of here with that fake coffee shit.
[18:36]
Dana Carvey
Was that a budgetary thing or teaching a lesson for you? For your dad?
[18:40]
Adam Sandler
There was a time when my dad, he didn't tell us. He was so cool. Yeah, he didn't have a job for like, a year and a half. And I remember he just kept it from us. I'd be like, dad's always fucking home. This is incredible.
[18:55]
Dana Carvey
But I would ask him.
[18:57]
Adam Sandler
I'd still ask for shit. I'd be like, I saw this thing on tv. Let's go. Give me that. And he was like, yeah, we'll get to that. I was like, we'll get to that. What the fuck is happening?
[19:07]
Dana Carvey
Wow. So it was out of love when he did the Huffy scene, but I think he.
[19:11]
Adam Sandler
Yeah, he had to kind of build that fake Huffy for me.
[19:14]
Dana Carvey
Were you a daredevil at all? Did you get hurt as a kid? As a kid, things break. Things.
[19:19]
Adam Sandler
I mean, I was definitely tougher as a kid. I was more fearless as a kid. Now, I was a good skier.
[19:26]
Dana Carvey
I was a good skier in New Hampshire.
[19:27]
Adam Sandler
New Hampshire skier? Yeah. So yeah, we skied all the time. You, Dana, you ski?
[19:31]
Dana Carvey
No, I was for rich people. We would have a little. We'd have a little inner tube. We'd go to, like, you know.
[19:37]
Adam Sandler
Right, Right.
[19:38]
Dana Carvey
Snowball. And just go down like that. But the big people up there could pay the money to go up.
[19:43]
Adam Sandler
There was no money. We had Huffy skis. They were fake.
[19:46]
Dana Carvey
But in New Hampshire, your mountains were like 300ft, right? In California. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So how did you get hurt a lot. You just pulled.
[19:54]
Adam Sandler
I used to. I was pretty good. I used to do. Back in the day. You did a helicopter?
[19:59]
Dana Carvey
Oh, yeah, on the skis, you know.
[20:01]
Adam Sandler
That was like a big deal.
[20:02]
Dana Carvey
Jesus.
[20:03]
Adam Sandler
Now it's. I don't even think anyone does a helicopter anymore.
[20:06]
David Spade
Right.
[20:07]
Adam Sandler
That you look at. No. You never see these guys on tv. Pop. Pop out a helicopter. They're always doing those flips and.
[20:12]
Dana Carvey
Well, they could do anything they want. It's. It's insane. Olympics now. It doesn't even make sense.
[20:18]
Adam Sandler
There's one guy in my hometown, Robitail, his last name Jay Robital. He used to do flips. He was at this place. McIntyre was a little ski area in my hometown. They build a jump for this guy, and no one else could do it, but he would just come down, knock out a flip. Everybody like, what the fuck?
[20:38]
David Spade
Yeah. Well, wait a minute.
[20:40]
Dana Carvey
You be one. You go down and then you go up.
[20:42]
Adam Sandler
He leans forward, he gets in the air, he leans forward, does a full flat front flip.
[20:48]
Dana Carvey
But you would go like a complete.
[20:49]
Adam Sandler
I would do that.
[20:50]
Dana Carvey
360.
[20:50]
David Spade
I could do it.
[20:51]
Dana Carvey
And then land your ski.
[20:52]
Adam Sandler
And then land. Yeah, I was cool. Thank you. Yeah, thank you. I was very good when I was like, up to 15. And then I started getting scared.
[21:00]
Dana Carvey
Okay.
[21:01]
Adam Sandler
Not being as cool.
[21:02]
Dana Carvey
So then when did the guitar come in? Like, I got a drum set 14. When did you get a guitar?
[21:07]
Adam Sandler
And you're great on drums. We had some good jams.
[21:11]
Dana Carvey
We had some good jams, too. Yes.
[21:14]
Adam Sandler
My guitar happened. My dad had an acoustic.
[21:17]
Dana Carvey
Okay.
[21:17]
Adam Sandler
So he used to play. He'd always sing Mariah the Away out west.
[21:23]
Dana Carvey
They got Wind and smoke and fire and they called. They called the Wind.
[21:36]
Adam Sandler
So. Thank you.
[21:37]
Dana Carvey
You didn't know that one, you guys.
[21:39]
David Spade
I did. I knew when to be quiet. You beat me down so much, I didn't join in, even though I have the voice of an angel.
[21:48]
Dana Carvey
So you got. Well, we'll get David in on.
[21:51]
Adam Sandler
Yeah, get in on here. Sorry.
[21:53]
Dana Carvey
Okay. Yeah. Favorite. Favorite entertainment that you saw as a. For in Your formative years. I say 5 to 13, like TV show or movie that blew your mind.
[22:05]
David Spade
Oh, my.
[22:06]
Dana Carvey
Wild West. No, you're too young.
[22:09]
Adam Sandler
I like that.
[22:10]
Dana Carvey
Yeah.
[22:10]
Adam Sandler
I like my favorite thing, I think the thing that knocked me out when I was. Yeah, I love movies. I loved all the comedies. Like, I'm sure everybody up here, you know, the Mel Brooks and all that stuff, you know. Yeah. Young Frankenstein, Inside the Movie and Blazing Saddles and all that stuff got me. But I'll tell you what really got me. I look back at it, I think I was in Florida, or Florida, as you would say, David. I bet I was in Florida.
[22:44]
David Spade
Yeah.
[22:45]
Adam Sandler
And so, yeah, my parents took me to see Eddie Fisher. He sang, oh, Eddie Fisher. And somebody went on before him. Oh, from. From Singing in the Rain. You go on stage, you can do that kind of thing. And I got kind of like, wanted to get into that.
[23:04]
David Spade
That's interesting. That's. That sort of turned you on just to perform. Like, they didn't know if you'd even like it. And then you really liked it.
[23:11]
Adam Sandler
I guess so. I mean, I don't think they were trying to talk me into it. They were just trying to have a nice night out in Florida. And then I was just kind of locked into. I used to sing a lot in the car. I used to sing a lot. My mother always said I sang good. My father would just stare like this.
[23:27]
Dana Carvey
What would you sing? You remember? Just songs off the radio.
[23:30]
Adam Sandler
Oh, my God. It was a pain in the ass because I sang a lot of Johnny Mathis for my mother.
[23:36]
Dana Carvey
Oh, really?
[23:37]
Adam Sandler
She'd always sing Chances Are. And I'd be like, chances are. Cause I wear a silicon. Whatever.
[23:45]
Dana Carvey
I did.
[23:46]
Adam Sandler
And it was fine. Not great. Chances are you will.
[23:51]
Dana Carvey
I would say, I saw you see him.
[23:53]
Adam Sandler
Yeah, yeah. Big vibrato. And then you had them pipes. I. I sang. I sang oh, Maria from West side Story. I sang this is when I was little, you know, like 10. And. But my mother always said I had a good voice. And my father was like, he's all right.
[24:08]
Dana Carvey
And didn't your mom, who was such a cheerleader that if Sinatra came on, she would say, you're better?
[24:13]
Adam Sandler
Oh, yeah, you could do that.
[24:15]
Dana Carvey
Yeah. Supportive mom.
[24:17]
Adam Sandler
You know what's funny? My mother. Speaking of that, my uncle worked at a clothing company. And when I went to nyu, I was a stand up. There you go. And I was a stand up. I was making no money, like all of us. And my mother called my uncle and said, can Adam model for you? And my uncle was like, you know, I'll talk to them. And she's like, he really needs the work. Hell modeling. And I'm like, really? I'm a model. She's like, you're gorgeous. And then my mom, she, you're wonderful. My uncle had to just go, he's looks terrible in a suit. He's not good. There's not a good angle on him.
[25:13]
David Spade
You own a suit now, don't you?
[25:15]
Adam Sandler
What?
[25:15]
David Spade
You own a suit now.
[25:16]
Adam Sandler
I, I actually cuz of the my daughter's b mitzvah, I had to get the suit dry clean this morning. I don't think it's going to fit either. I've been swelling up. What can you do?
[25:32]
David Spade
All right, so go ahead, Dana. You had so many questions.
[25:35]
Dana Carvey
I. I know. Well then, then you go.
[25:43]
David Spade
That'S your hero, Adam. He doesn't know anything.
[25:45]
Dana Carvey
Yeah, we're kind of up in that area. Bike now. I gotta have a road map.
[25:52]
Adam Sandler
This is good, man.
[25:54]
Dana Carvey
Wilt stud boy.
[25:55]
Adam Sandler
The stud boy.
[25:56]
David Spade
Oh yeah.
[25:57]
Dana Carvey
Wilt joke. Now Chris Rock called that one of the best pure jokes ever. Wr.
[26:01]
Adam Sandler
Thank you, Chris.
[26:01]
Dana Carvey
And that was early. Stand up.
[26:03]
Adam Sandler
Yeah. Yes.
[26:04]
Dana Carvey
I mean, David, you want to. Because I'm just thinking of. Adam grows up, he goes to NYU and then he's in New York. He's 17. Within six years you're on Saturday Night Live.
[26:13]
Adam Sandler
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[26:14]
Dana Carvey
So what happened in those six years, David?
[26:17]
David Spade
Oh, well, Adam was a great stand up, had a very unique perspective, interesting delivery, good memorable joke. It was more like one joke.
[26:29]
Adam Sandler
Yeah.
[26:30]
David Spade
One joke.
[26:30]
Dana Carvey
Right.
[26:31]
David Spade
Not really stories. It was kind of like that. And I wasn't even, you know, we didn't have YouTube, all that shit. So I didn't know you till I actually physically saw you. Yeah, was. Oh, that was in the Valley. It was at the Improv and the Valley Improv. You ever go to the Valley Improv, Dana?
[26:45]
Adam Sandler
Did you ever do that?
[26:46]
Dana Carvey
Oh, yeah, I did that. And when I was living in New York in 1981 doing a sitcom with Nathan Lane and Mickey Rooney.
[26:52]
Adam Sandler
Wow.
[26:52]
Dana Carvey
I worked a. Yeah. One of the boys, you check it out. And with Scatman Carruthers as well. But you, you like Jack Jarabuto told me once that he was your, you know, your partner for a long time and he knew you back then. You would just do a bit, you'd go to a club, wouldn't quite work.
[27:11]
Adam Sandler
Yeah.
[27:11]
Dana Carvey
And then you keep going and going. Then you come back like a week later and you had it killing. So you were very tenacious about. Right?
[27:18]
Adam Sandler
Yes. I don't know why I was not. I was probably the same as you guys. You just. I don't know. I believed in it. I kept doing it. Found a way to kind of phrase it right.
[27:30]
David Spade
Do it till it works or you do. You ever take. I used to tape mine, and it was very excruciating to listen to your own voice. But, yeah, you would think you killed. And it was really just one person laughing loud.
[27:40]
Adam Sandler
Yeah.
[27:41]
David Spade
Or you think it was nothing. But then you said something you forgot in between the jokes. That was good. So you'd sort of like, piece it together and then try it again and tape it.
[27:50]
Adam Sandler
Sure.
[27:51]
David Spade
Yeah. I did the old. I did the same thing you do where you pulled out of a hat. But it was more sickening because I drove off from Arizona and then they'd have at the improv amateur night. And so I'd sit there and they'd pull a name and read it, and you'd come up. So we're all waiting.
[28:04]
Adam Sandler
Yeah.
[28:05]
David Spade
And every time they pull it, you get nervous and it's not you. And I go, oh, and you almost.
[28:10]
Adam Sandler
Don'T want it to be you. Sometimes you're like, good. They're not gonna get to.
[28:13]
David Spade
Right then. It was tough.
[28:14]
Dana Carvey
And then by the end of the.
[28:15]
David Spade
Night, I'm, like, scared. I don't even need it now. It was then. I never. It never worked that way. And I think it was rigged. I think they knew he was going up. They had friends and friends. But I finally got. Got a few things, but then we wound up running to each other.
[28:29]
Adam Sandler
How did you do your first night?
[28:31]
David Spade
I. How'd I do?
[28:32]
Adam Sandler
Yeah.
[28:32]
David Spade
First night of stand up.
[28:33]
Adam Sandler
Yeah.
[28:33]
David Spade
That's a good question. When I started stand up.
[28:41]
Adam Sandler
I take the mic off.
[28:44]
Dana Carvey
Can I get you anything, Adam? No, it's actually, I just rem. First time as a.
[28:50]
David Spade
We were spoiled because when I got to Saturday line or I was in the Valley and I was seeing comics, I was seeing guys like Drake Sather, who's great. I saw. Adam was great. Schneider was funny.
[28:59]
Adam Sandler
Yeah.
[28:59]
David Spade
And I was just wound up seeing guys that in a million years, how would we all get on snl? It was so weird that it would happen that way.
[29:08]
Dana Carvey
When you came in, it was like a firestorm. But you guys really. You kind of, like, had 20 minutes. Right. You weren't headlining on the road. You had a middle 20. And then SNL people saw you in the club.
[29:20]
David Spade
That's right.
[29:20]
Dana Carvey
And they liked your writing. You got hired as a writer.
[29:23]
Adam Sandler
Yes, yes, yes, yes. Dennis. Dennis hooked me up.
[29:26]
David Spade
Dennis Miller.
[29:28]
Dana Carvey
Dennis was the one who saw you. That's true.
[29:30]
Adam Sandler
Yeah. Dennis Miller saw me a few times at the Santa Monica Improv, and he waited in the back after. I think you guys knew each other.
[29:39]
David Spade
I knew he was my favorite.
[29:40]
Adam Sandler
You probably introduced us then maybe. Yeah. And he watched me, and he. And he said. Said he liked some of my jokes, and he was. He was so nice to me, and we. We loved him and we idolized him. And he. He heard they were looking for Lorne, was looking at new people, and he said, you should check out the Sandman and Sandingo.
[30:00]
David Spade
Yeah.
[30:01]
Dana Carvey
He gave you that noniker.
[30:03]
Adam Sandler
Yeah.
[30:03]
Dana Carvey
Because the dentist never. He always has a name for something.
[30:06]
Adam Sandler
Yeah, right, right, right.
[30:07]
Dana Carvey
Christmas, you know, Sandman, hitting it heavy down at the prov in Santa Monica. Okay. Tearing up the beach communities with his wilt of stilt humor. So I love being Dennis. I love being in that attitude. But thank you. So what was your. Do you remember your first bit? That kind of became your. Your. Your rock. Like, even if this. The set was not going well, you had one that started close.
[30:36]
Adam Sandler
Yes, I had one that. I don't. I said, the Vicks VapoRub. I used to say, remember Vicks VapoRub? When your mother would rub it on your chest?
[30:49]
David Spade
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
[30:50]
Dana Carvey
And.
[30:50]
Adam Sandler
And my mother be rubbing it on my chest, and then we make eye contact, and I was like. I thought we were just friends, Ma. That was. That was like my.
[30:58]
David Spade
That was a great one.
[30:59]
Adam Sandler
That was my big guarantee back then.
[31:02]
David Spade
Did you ever see this one when you go. I remember that joke very well. I thought that was a great one. And he said, when I was. People say, if you could live your life over, would you. Would you change anything? You go, yeah. When I was walking down the. When I fell down the stairs, I might have grabbed the rail next time.
[31:16]
Adam Sandler
Oh, yeah, Something like that. Yeah, yeah, that was it. Geez, I forgot that.
[31:21]
David Spade
I mean, there's obviously Wilt Chamberlain, but you had so many good jokes, and they were so different and odd. And then. And then Dennis got you on.
[31:30]
Adam Sandler
Yeah, Dennis.
[31:30]
David Spade
But it's good to be different. It's very hard to be different. And so when you.
[31:34]
Adam Sandler
When I did it, when I auditioned that night, it was with Rock, Dana Gould, and three other good comedians.
[31:42]
David Spade
Where were you?
[31:42]
Adam Sandler
I was in Chicago. Flew to Chicago.
[31:44]
David Spade
That's right. Rock with Chicago.
[31:45]
Adam Sandler
Rock did great. I did fine. Dana Gould destroyed.
[31:50]
David Spade
God damn, that's a lot. When. Me, too.
[31:51]
Adam Sandler
He was incredible, so he should have got it.
[31:54]
David Spade
He's great.
[31:55]
Adam Sandler
I don't know why? He wrote for the sim. He did a lot of great stuff. But somehow I got hired as a writer like David did. And that would be David and Schneider, me. And who else was a writer? Anybody else? Just us three.
[32:07]
David Spade
Me. Oh yeah, because Farley and Rock got hired that year and they were just straight.
[32:11]
Adam Sandler
They were on feature customers.
[32:13]
David Spade
Yeah, everybody wrote for themselves, like Dana Rowe. But Nana was never a credit as a writer.
[32:18]
Dana Carvey
If you, if you got on as a main player, you never got a writer's credit for some reason. But whatever. It's just part of the deal.
[32:25]
David Spade
That was good. Sneaky money though. I didn't want to be a writer. But you know, we didn't make much money. But you'd get kicked to rerun in perpetuity. And that was nice. Even though it was 2 cents. But it was nice to. You get a. You get a stack of checks and it's the host. So it's like 18 cents. Alec Baldwin, 18 cents. Tom Hank playing close. So that was kind of fun to rack that up the bricks.
[32:47]
Dana Carvey
You've invested wisely.
[32:49]
David Spade
Yeah, that's wisely. And then. But we didn't make a ton. I'm sure when you started to make. We didn't make.
[32:57]
Adam Sandler
I don't think we even. We couldn't believe we were getting paid, right?
[33:00]
David Spade
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[33:02]
Dana Carvey
Just maybe. Yeah, like you net like maybe 20 grand for the whole season or something. Yeah. Just live in a hubble. Yeah, it was really.
[33:09]
David Spade
I was.
[33:10]
Dana Carvey
But you know, there I was with Phil. Late, great Phil. Jen. Jen Hooks. God bless him.
[33:15]
Adam Sandler
Yes.
[33:15]
Dana Carvey
And Mike Myers and Lovett's. And the show was really cooking. And then you guys came off like the mothership in Close Encounters. You know, here comes Rock and Sandler. And I remember the first time I saw you in the office, you were just kind of sitting at the big table on 17th floor. Sarah Blythe. And I was doing pretty well on the show, you know, but I liked you immediately. You just had this vibe about you that was really, really funny and likable, you know, and that's a big part.
[33:44]
Adam Sandler
Of the DNA sense, the love we all had. Dana was the. The king Dana, I'll tell you remember, it was almost like at a stand up club. If Dana had a skit and your skit was going on after, you were just like, oh no.
[34:00]
David Spade
Yeah, yeah.
[34:00]
Adam Sandler
Oh no.
[34:01]
David Spade
Because Dana so hard. You gotta follow church lady or something.
[34:05]
Dana Carvey
Are you talking about read through?
[34:07]
David Spade
Read through is bad.
[34:08]
Adam Sandler
But on the air. On the air was the biggest explosion in the place. And then your skit would do fine. But in your weird comedy brain, you're just like, how the. Do I get those? DANA LAUGHS yeah, I had a lot.
[34:23]
Dana Carvey
Of help, you know, make a talk show.
[34:24]
Adam Sandler
Yeah.
[34:25]
Dana Carvey
And then have Phil Hartman and Jan Hooks come on, you know, crazy. Thanks. But so. So you come on, you get on the show, you're like, what's your first big.
[34:36]
David Spade
Always first. You probably did update first, right? Or did you Iraqi Pete or something?
[34:40]
Adam Sandler
No, that was. Al Franken wrote that.
[34:43]
David Spade
Yeah.
[34:43]
Adam Sandler
Aren't you supposed to do the noise now?
[34:47]
Dana Carvey
But I'd like to ask you a question.
[34:49]
David Spade
Yeah.
[34:50]
Dana Carvey
So, like, in classic comedy. Sorry, David, you weren't finished. All right, you're gonna like this one because, you know, you didn't really lean on it much, but in the beginning, I remember in the classic comic sense of the idiot. So, like, there's Jerry Lewis is like the king. And then I remember you would do the hunched over guy and he would do that sound like, where did that guy come from? Because that instantly made me laugh so hard that. Because you were so committed. Was that.
[35:23]
Adam Sandler
I don't even know, man.
[35:25]
Dana Carvey
It's very musical. Can you do more?
[35:27]
Adam Sandler
Always felt good in a microphone. Oh, yeah. I don't even. I don't even know if that ever got on the air, if I ever did that.
[35:37]
Dana Carvey
I just remember seeing that and really loving it, you know? But there's one character I want to break down. Unless David has a question, because I'm sure.
[35:46]
David Spade
Go ahead.
[35:48]
Dana Carvey
We're really close friends. The opera man. The evolution of opera man that then became the indestructible killer bit of all time. By the time you got it on the update desk.
[36:05]
Adam Sandler
Yes.
[36:05]
Dana Carvey
With the pictures and you were mixing. Great wig. So. Good wig, Adam. I'll let you fit. But talk about the origins of that and the way you did it and then the way you ended up doing it. It evolved.
[36:16]
Adam Sandler
Right, Gotcha. Yes.
[36:16]
Dana Carvey
Okay, go ahead. Yes, that's my question.
[36:19]
Adam Sandler
Thank you. Yeah, that's a good question. And I remember you. You knew the guy. So there was a man on the street who used to sing opera on the street. He used to hold the can up and you'd be walking down the street and he'd kind of come at you and he'd sing really hot and he charged and you'd be like, oh, you give him money.
[36:39]
Dana Carvey
I didn't know that.
[36:40]
Adam Sandler
That's kind of where I first started doing it.
[36:42]
Dana Carvey
I love that.
[36:43]
David Spade
I didn't know that. I met that guy today at McDonald's. He wasn't singing Though he's in between sets.
[36:50]
Dana Carvey
Adam, what would. What would a guy like that be ordering? Like a McDonald's?
[36:56]
Adam Sandler
Hey, barbecue. Sa.
[36:59]
David Spade
The thing that you can sound. Exactly. Opera is one more gift on snl.
[37:03]
Dana Carvey
If you can have a voice.
[37:04]
David Spade
If they write a singing sketch, obviously Adam wrote a lot of his own. But if they'd write somewhere, sing, you can get in. If you can play an instrument, you can get it. There's so many things if you can do dance.
[37:15]
Dana Carvey
So if you do.
[37:16]
David Spade
I didn't do a lot of those things, which was kind of a drag. But Adam can sing so well and actually write songs and actually write songs that are catchy. Because a lot of those things you don't update were actually really catchy on top of just being funny. And so that combo is big. And that opera man was a cruncher. That always.
[37:33]
Adam Sandler
That was a gift.
[37:34]
Dana Carvey
Didn't you do it off in. On the stage? Next update.
[37:37]
Adam Sandler
Initially, yeah, no, I. First time I did it, it was just gibberish. It was like it was a theater thing. And I think maybe you. Or was it Phil?
[37:47]
Dana Carvey
That's what I remember. I don't know.
[37:49]
Adam Sandler
Maybe you. Maybe you.
[37:50]
Dana Carvey
But I was in my office. Adam used to go around the office. Office on all fours. So then I hear a little knock and I'm in my office. So I open it up and you're on all fours.
[38:05]
Adam Sandler
You go, oh.
[38:06]
Dana Carvey
And then you were asking me to do something. Introduce opera man.
[38:11]
David Spade
Right.
[38:11]
Dana Carvey
So I did remember that you were.
[38:13]
Adam Sandler
Like a theater guy would say, tonight, the opera man.
[38:17]
Dana Carvey
Yeah.
[38:17]
Adam Sandler
Something like goes from the emotion of, you know, like, trying to catch the bus. But unfortunately, he misses the bus, but then he sees his mother, you know, is behind the bus and picks him up. Let's watch the Aquaman. And then I'd see my mother. Stuff like that. And that was it. And it did good. It did good at the table.
[38:48]
Dana Carvey
Good.
[38:49]
David Spade
You know, Sandler, it's good if you. A trick on SNL is if. If Adam was probably slightly newer then. But if you anchor it with Dana, who they love.
[38:58]
Adam Sandler
All right.
[38:59]
David Spade
And then he brings you on, then they go, hey, Dana seems to like it.
[39:03]
Dana Carvey
And they. And then they start the new guy.
[39:06]
Adam Sandler
When you're new, it helps. No, it was a. Dana's the best at it, so that's what it was. But any. Anyways, it did fine. I. It was up at the table. It did well. Everybody remember after a while, they started liking us at the table. When David and I first were on us, and. And at the table, and we Tried to get on and we do full skits for ourselves. Everybody else was kind of like, calm down.
[39:30]
David Spade
That's enough, guys. Yeah, that's enough. Not yet, not yet, not yet. Yeah, right.
[39:34]
Adam Sandler
But then by this time, they were like, all right, give him a shot. And then we did that, and it didn't do great. So Lauren didn't put it on. But then the Turners, out of nowhere, Bonnie and Terry Turner, great writers for.
[39:47]
Dana Carvey
The show for eight, nine years.
[39:49]
Adam Sandler
Wayne's World.
[39:49]
Dana Carvey
Wayne's World. Yeah.
[39:52]
David Spade
They wrote the first Tommy Boy draft, too.
[39:54]
Adam Sandler
What's that?
[39:55]
David Spade
They wrote the first draft of Tommy Boy.
[39:57]
Adam Sandler
They wrote. That's right. Tommy Boy. That's right.
[39:59]
David Spade
They were. They were monsters. I don't even know why we don't hear about. Talk about them more. They had some huge sketches.
[40:04]
Adam Sandler
You guys should have them on this show.
[40:06]
Dana Carvey
Yeah, we'd love to.
[40:07]
Adam Sandler
Yeah.
[40:08]
Dana Carvey
Hi, Bonnie. Hi, Terry. Hello, guys. Listening to this when it's released.
[40:11]
David Spade
But they wrote what. What was.
[40:13]
Adam Sandler
Lindsay and Lindsay. Their daughter.
[40:14]
Dana Carvey
Their daughter Lindsay.
[40:15]
Adam Sandler
Yes. And. But. But anyways, they wrote this thing and they talked to me. I was in my office. They like, so remember that opera man thing he did? We came up with an idea for the news, and they showed it to me, and I'm so. I was just so dumb and young and whatever I was. And I was like, yeah, I guess. I guess we could try it that way.
[40:39]
David Spade
It was opera man on the news.
[40:40]
Adam Sandler
That you said, opera man. Showing. Showing current. Blah, blah, blah. And I didn't really. I was like, no. Opera man speaks gibberish. And that doesn't make any sense.
[40:52]
David Spade
You don't understand opera man.
[40:54]
Dana Carvey
So then it became a divorce. So how about, you know, events with, like, Trumpo.
[40:59]
Adam Sandler
Yeah, exactly.
[41:00]
Dana Carvey
Just crushed.
[41:02]
Adam Sandler
That was all. Those guys wrote it. I got to be. They would give me the melodies and Cheryl would. Would write.
[41:08]
Dana Carvey
Cheryl Hardwick. Yeah.
[41:10]
Adam Sandler
And. And they would just give me all the goods. And, I mean, it was the greatest gift ever.
[41:14]
David Spade
That was a home run.
[41:15]
Adam Sandler
Got to wear the.
[41:16]
David Spade
Did you do it with Eddie Vedder or not? You see. Sing like Eddie Vedder once you heard.
[41:20]
Adam Sandler
I. I sang like.
[41:22]
David Spade
Was it as opera man or was.
[41:23]
Adam Sandler
It something else singing about Pearl Jam? Yeah, yeah. And then. Yeah, yeah. And remember when. I think they were even on the show Pearl Jam that night.
[41:32]
David Spade
Oh, that's right.
[41:33]
Dana Carvey
But anyway, what would he say? A better. What do you. I mean, he's got the pipes, kid. You.
[41:39]
David Spade
You were going, hey, concrete.
[41:43]
Adam Sandler
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[41:44]
David Spade
But you sound exactly like him.
[41:46]
Adam Sandler
I can't do it now. I Know any better it would. He's.
[41:50]
Dana Carvey
It's a certain what he does.
[41:52]
Adam Sandler
He's got a thicker lower voice.
[41:55]
David Spade
Unreal.
[41:55]
Adam Sandler
Yeah, he's a juicy voice.
[41:57]
Dana Carvey
We.
[41:57]
David Spade
We share an office, me and Farley. And then you walk through our office to get to Adam and Chris Rock. So when the door was closed, I'd.
[42:03]
Adam Sandler
Hear.
[42:06]
Dana Carvey
Oh my God, he's got to kill our cooking in the. Oh yeah, yeah, it's in the oven.
[42:11]
Adam Sandler
We all had got excited when we landed on a good impression, but I did one with Loveitz. An opera man with Loveitz. That was.
[42:19]
David Spade
That was a great one. He can sing great.
[42:21]
Dana Carvey
And that was a perfect. Only other guy who could do it besides you. Cuz he's got pipes and he's got just a funny. So that was a killer.
[42:28]
Adam Sandler
That was amazing.
[42:28]
Dana Carvey
He played your brother or something. I.
[42:30]
Adam Sandler
It was Glenn Close and, and, and Loveis. And maybe they were my parents. I don't remember.
[42:34]
Dana Carvey
Yeah.
[42:35]
Adam Sandler
Remember they take the kids with me.
[42:38]
Dana Carvey
Only on Saturday Night Live. That's right. Can we. I. I'd like. I. I could go anywhere. This so much fun.
[42:45]
David Spade
I wanted to ask about when he does bits, when he. You get to bring in one of the musical stars. I think McCartney did Red Hood sweatshirt.
[42:51]
Adam Sandler
Oh, that was the great.
[42:52]
Dana Carvey
Goddamn. Did something with him.
[42:54]
David Spade
You did something with him.
[42:56]
Dana Carvey
I left right before McCartney hosted you.
[42:59]
Adam Sandler
You weren't there then.
[43:00]
Dana Carvey
I missed it. I was a fool. You know, he was upset, you know, because we'd met at 86 and Laura at Lauren's house. He called me up. I don't know why you didn't stick around. And you know, we could have had a plunker. We'd be plucking, looking at each other. I go, who is this? Nobody. I miss that. But you, you got to do a thing. What did you do with Paul McCartney?
[43:23]
Adam Sandler
It was red Otis sweatshirt. I wrote it with Ian Maxtone. Graham and I forget who else. Somebody else. And we, and we had dip, you know, I had dip, dip, dip and stuff like that. I say it and then as it progressed, Kevin, maybe Kevin Nealon did it with me. And then I said, let's call out Paul and Linda. And Paul and Linda McCartney. We wrote it for him. And then Lauren said. I said, will they do it? He goes, well, you have to talk to them. And so I went to Lauren's office. They were eating.
[43:58]
David Spade
I think they were on the show or they were just visiting.
[44:00]
Adam Sandler
They were. Paul was the guest.
[44:01]
David Spade
Okay.
[44:02]
Adam Sandler
And Linda was with them.
[44:03]
Dana Carvey
You walk in and you have to convince them.
[44:05]
Adam Sandler
I just like, had to come in with the dopey guitar and be like, my heart's pounding through my chest.
[44:10]
David Spade
Did you crawl in or did you walk.
[44:13]
Adam Sandler
Me?
[44:16]
Dana Carvey
I was skip or something. That was when you were gonna pitch it. Remember? You'd skip across. No, I'm making that up. Sorry. Go ahead. So you walk in there.
[44:23]
Adam Sandler
I mean, Lauren's eating Shun Lee.
[44:26]
Dana Carvey
Shun Lee.
[44:27]
Adam Sandler
And Paul and Linda. And Linda's amazingly nice, and Paul's amazingly nice. And I sing him the Little Thing, and. And they laughed, and then I left. And then I was like, I don't know if that worked or not. But then they said, yes and forever. I got that. I sang with them, hung out with them after the show. Hung out. Stella was there. Remember Stella was a kid, she came to the show.
[44:49]
Dana Carvey
McCartney, the fashion designer.
[44:51]
Adam Sandler
Yes. And she was such a nice kid. She was like our age then, you know, like whatever we were.
[44:57]
David Spade
And I. Yeah, let's keep the numbers out of it.
[45:00]
Dana Carvey
I saw him discipline his kids on Long Island. Went over to his house and, you know, I think James had a little toy sword, a plastic sword. He dropped it down on his sister. And Paul goes, you do that one more time, we're going to have a problem. Yeah, See him as a dad. I remember, we all love him.
[45:20]
David Spade
Some comic said he had a bill. He was the first one with a billion dollars. And they go, you know, if he lost his wallet in a cab and there was 500 million in it, he'd still have $500 million. That was some comic joke. But do you remember when Farley's brothers came to the show, when McCartney was on that stupid story where Paul. Paul looked the same as Paul McCartney growing up, but he had a little bit of gray hair. And so Farley's brothers were standing there with red cups. There was no security. So the music comes out of their dressing room, walks by the 8H page desk, you know that. And they walk right into the show, and they go, Paul McCartney, one minute till you're on live. And so you see, he comes out with a bodyguard on the front and back, and he walks out with his guitar, and it's fucking Paul McCartney. I'm there with Farley's idiot brothers. And they're all drunk, and he comes around and they go. And one of them goes, goes, hey, Paul.
[46:10]
Dana Carvey
And he looks over, he goes, getting a little gray. And he goes.
[46:16]
Adam Sandler
He walks out.
[46:18]
David Spade
And I go, are you an idiot?
[46:19]
Dana Carvey
He goes, he looked.
[46:20]
David Spade
And then he goes on the monitor, and they're like, 15 seconds and he looks in the monitor and he goes like this.
[46:27]
Dana Carvey
He got in his head right before he went out. Oh, no.
[46:31]
David Spade
And, you know, he's like, is my. And then. Anyway, anyway, so I. I will say one of my proudest moments, because sometimes Adam and I would try to write together, or we would all try to think of excuses to all be in the same sketch or whatever. And the. The one I like the best is the Gap Girls. When we were in the.
[46:51]
Adam Sandler
That was all David in the mall.
[46:53]
David Spade
And then Farley says, lay off me. I'm starving. That is one of the funnest ones we ever did.
[46:57]
Adam Sandler
Yeah, man.
[46:58]
David Spade
And Schneider was in it. And Sarah Gilbert was a host.
[47:00]
Adam Sandler
Oh, yeah.
[47:01]
David Spade
And we were all. That was just the fun for me because we would all just rehearse. So, you know, you write it. If it gets in, you laugh at. Read through. You laugh. You know, when we talk about what. Who plays what parts and what we say. And then you.
[47:15]
Adam Sandler
You really wrote all that stuff, though.
[47:18]
David Spade
I know, but then everyone adds jokes, whatever you want, and then we got to do it on. So you have to rehearse all week or once or twice. That's a good reason to hang out, is to rehearse.
[47:26]
Adam Sandler
Yeah, that was.
[47:27]
Dana Carvey
Does everyone know about the Ghost Gap girls? Because there's a young audience.
[47:30]
Adam Sandler
Okay.
[47:31]
Dana Carvey
Because there's some younger people here.
[47:33]
David Spade
It was just a sketch where we all worked at the Gap. We played Girls, and it was infuriating.
[47:39]
Dana Carvey
And how did you talk?
[47:41]
David Spade
Whatever.
[47:42]
Dana Carvey
That's right.
[47:43]
David Spade
Yeah. Weren't you at the folding meeting?
[47:47]
Adam Sandler
Yeah.
[47:47]
David Spade
And I went to the Gap and studied it, and they showed how they put a clipboard in the sweaters and pulled them out and fold them up.
[47:52]
Adam Sandler
Yeah.
[47:53]
David Spade
Mesmerized. And then they would actually. This is when you feel kind of like a big deal, because if you get a sketch on and you're just some doofus from Arizona and it's like a dumb sketch about the Gap, and then when they bring the sketches written and put up on his feet, they bring in. They talk. The Gap and brought a whole section of the Gap over so they had a security guard because it would cost so much. It was real pants, real sweaters, and it was just a chunk of the Gap they moved in. And the Gap was. I liked it because it was free advertising.
[48:23]
Dana Carvey
Yeah.
[48:23]
David Spade
Even though we made them all look like morons, but it was still really fun. And then we all hung out there and would practice in there, rehearse, whatever it's called, and it was great. So we did a couple of those. We did gaperty where it was jeopardy. It was just a fun way for me, you and Farley to be in sketches.
[48:40]
Adam Sandler
Yeah.
[48:41]
David Spade
And that was.
[48:42]
Adam Sandler
That was our names again. Say it again. What was our names?
[48:47]
David Spade
Christy.
[48:47]
Adam Sandler
Lucy.
[48:48]
David Spade
He was Cindy and you might have been Lucy.
[48:50]
Adam Sandler
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[48:51]
David Spade
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[50:03]
Dana Carvey
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[50:08]
Adam Sandler
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David Spade
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Dana Carvey
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Adam Sandler
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Adam Sandler
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David Spade
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Dana Carvey
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[51:56]
Adam Sandler
No, you play drums. What?
[51:58]
Dana Carvey
Pepper boy.
[51:59]
Adam Sandler
Oh, let's talk about pepper Boy.
[52:01]
Dana Carvey
So that. Yeah, yeah.
[52:03]
Adam Sandler
That was incredible.
[52:04]
Dana Carvey
That was like you and I were peeking on it on the show. Chris Farley was. Tim Meadows was.
[52:10]
Adam Sandler
Farley. Crossed his.
[52:12]
Dana Carvey
Let's talk about that for a second. That was Steve Coren. Started. Started.
[52:15]
Adam Sandler
That's right.
[52:16]
Dana Carvey
Wrote it. Wrote it. So did it. Just two. I. I was kind of the. He was my protege. I was the mentor. I was obsessed with how to do the pepper.
[52:25]
David Spade
Huge pepper mill.
[52:26]
Dana Carvey
And. And Adam was kind of the underling and really eager. And we.
[52:32]
Adam Sandler
We.
[52:32]
Dana Carvey
It. I'll just set it up for a second. We did it. Did well in. Read through.
[52:35]
Adam Sandler
Yeah.
[52:36]
Dana Carvey
Pretty well in rehearsal dress show. Pretty good.
[52:38]
Adam Sandler
Yeah. Yeah.
[52:38]
Dana Carvey
Then Steve Korn comes to me and tells me something you want to do between shows.
[52:44]
Adam Sandler
Was it.
[52:44]
Dana Carvey
So at one point, we had the. I was gonna. You were going crazy. You were so nervous. Remember I slapped you? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Comedy. It's always three, so. And then I butt you, Right.
[52:57]
Adam Sandler
Yeah. With the sound effects.
[52:58]
Dana Carvey
So between dress and air, Steve Corn, the writer, comes and says, Adam's gonna put the pepper shaker between his legs. So you're gonna do this?
[53:04]
Adam Sandler
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
[53:06]
Dana Carvey
And then we timed it great, but we really peaked on air.
[53:10]
Adam Sandler
Yeah. That was amazing. That doesn't happen every time.
[53:13]
Dana Carvey
We committed so hard. I mean, because Tim Meadows was sitting there and I was doing the pepper. You like ephemera. I mean, it's became way. I don't know if it was sexual or something, but we were just on another level.
[53:24]
Adam Sandler
I every. I'd say once, two weeks, if I'm in a restaurant, a guy with the pepper thing will be like fresh pepper.
[53:38]
Dana Carvey
Yeah, yeah. And do you remember what happened? Like, Farley was always the best at breaking people because he could be explosively funny. Remember his line and what he did on.
[53:48]
David Spade
I know what it is too.
[53:49]
Dana Carvey
We were.
[53:49]
David Spade
We flew in from Tommy Boy.
[53:51]
Adam Sandler
Yes.
[53:51]
David Spade
For just the show. And then we had to fly back. Oh, and he goes, I have a.
[53:55]
Dana Carvey
Line in Pepper Boy.
[53:57]
David Spade
And didn't he have a big beard?
[53:59]
Adam Sandler
He had a.
[53:59]
David Spade
He looked ridiculous. He really hammed it up. He.
[54:03]
Dana Carvey
Thank you, Pepper Boy.
[54:05]
Adam Sandler
Right, thank you. He said, I'm going to make you laugh. He goes, etsy, I'm going to make you laugh out there. I think he.
[54:11]
Dana Carvey
Over.
[54:11]
Adam Sandler
He taunted before it started. He goes, betsy, I'm gonna make you laugh out there. And I go, all right, all right. And then I think he leans back, goes, why, thank you.
[54:23]
Dana Carvey
I never seen a human being transformed like that. I think he's like 12 chins and.
[54:28]
David Spade
Perfect amount of pepper, but huge beard for no reason.
[54:35]
Dana Carvey
For the air show.
[54:36]
Adam Sandler
Yes. He crossed his eyes, too.
[54:37]
Dana Carvey
If I. Adam starts to turn purple, that's the. The stage. I'm over here. Adam's turning toward me and trying not to go. The sketch had gone so well that I stayed in character, but I said, don't break. Do you remember? Do you remember that?
[54:52]
Adam Sandler
Of course. That's funny, man.
[54:55]
Dana Carvey
Don't break.
[54:55]
Adam Sandler
You were the pro. You were the pro.
[54:57]
David Spade
The funny thing is, is Farley wasn't even supposed to say it that loud. It made no sense. Supposed to go, why, thank you, Pepper. What do you.
[55:04]
Adam Sandler
Why that? Yeah, he lost his marbles.
[55:08]
David Spade
Yeah, well, that's his mind.
[55:09]
Dana Carvey
But that was. That was an electric sketch for a restaurant sketch.
[55:12]
Adam Sandler
And then Il Cantonori, when we did that.
[55:14]
Dana Carvey
Well, you guys wrote Il Cantori. This was major, was explosive.
[55:19]
Adam Sandler
But you. You. You would take the reins. Murder, murder, murder.
[55:23]
David Spade
Yeah.
[55:23]
Adam Sandler
Then we'd have a little thing to do when we were like, let's jump on the Dana thunderstorm.
[55:29]
Dana Carvey
Well, I don't quite if you guys killed, too. You and Schneider came in.
[55:33]
Adam Sandler
We were good, but we. You got them all ready.
[55:35]
David Spade
That was an Italian restaurant where every. All the waiters are too sexual with Cristiali. And all the. All the women that come in, they're like, oh, bellissima.
[55:44]
Adam Sandler
Yeah.
[55:44]
Dana Carvey
I start licking Christie Alley's face. I'm supposed to lick her face really hard. I remember in rehearsal, I go, is this okay? And she goes, oh, yeah, go for it. Whatever you want to do Belize in my life. Oh, you like it? But you guys were just, you know, you and Schneider came in with Snyder, had no clothes on or something.
[56:03]
Adam Sandler
I had no clothes on. That was the. I was the guy back then. I could take my shirt off and feel, okay. Now there's. There's a reason the sweatshirts on at all times.
[56:16]
David Spade
He has another shirt in case that somehow falls off. You know, there's another crusher. Was Lunch Ladyland and a great song. I called Sandler about a year ago. I go, yeah, yeah, it's on my ipod.
[56:27]
Dana Carvey
And it came in.
[56:28]
David Spade
And really, this is a good song. When you go sloppy Joe slap sloppy joy. I go the way you write it and it's actually funny. And then you sketch it's funny. And then you hear it again, you go, that's actually a good song. Like you can. It's all these catchy songs.
[56:43]
Adam Sandler
I sang that. I sang that on my album before. I sang it on Saturday Night Live.
[56:48]
David Spade
Oh, yeah. Oh, you did it first.
[56:49]
Adam Sandler
I did it first on the album. And Farley was at the taping of my album. And so when I'm singing on the album Slavajo, I mean, I think I'm in Santa Barbara. I don't remember where I was just a cool club. I. I'm sorry, I forgot the name of it, but it was a club we were recording. Farley was in the crowd going nuts. And then you. He's. His crazy voice is. So when I'm going, slava Joe slob, I slab at you. You hear Farley going, slobby. Don't like that. And he never even heard the song before. He just kind of said, all right, he's going to did it.
[57:22]
David Spade
Yeah. That was the crush out.
[57:24]
Dana Carvey
Was that on they're going to laugh at you. Which was.
[57:26]
Adam Sandler
They're all going to laugh at you.
[57:27]
Dana Carvey
Two times platinum.
[57:29]
Adam Sandler
That was a biggie.
[57:30]
Dana Carvey
You're the last guy to really sell comedy albums, I think.
[57:34]
Adam Sandler
I don't know if there's. There's been some after. But with that back in the day, that was. You were on it. Yeah, everybody was.
[57:39]
David Spade
Hey, buddy. Hey, buddy.
[57:41]
Adam Sandler
The buddies.
[57:41]
David Spade
We did buddy.
[57:42]
Dana Carvey
Dude.
[57:42]
David Spade
Buddy, dude, homie. Yeah, that was a great one.
[57:47]
Dana Carvey
What the hell happened to you? Was another one.
[57:49]
Adam Sandler
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Thank you.
[57:51]
Dana Carvey
That was where your real acidy humor came out on those albums.
[57:54]
Adam Sandler
That was where I got to curse a lot for the first time. And David cursed with me. And we all. We were so excited. It was like being on Saturday night.
[58:03]
Dana Carvey
I just thought it was like jazz. I mean. I mean, the one about the announcer with the. The champion. You say the word champion. It's a golf announcer. You do it. You say the word champion like 500 times.
[58:14]
Adam Sandler
It's about a golfer who has like a nine stroke lead and he's on the last hole and he keeps missing putts.
[58:22]
Dana Carvey
And you're the announcer.
[58:23]
Adam Sandler
The announcer going, the champion is. Is feeling it today. And he's about to set the course record. The champion. And then he putts it. And you hear the crowd go, oh, I know. Well, the champion laughs that off. Eight stroke lead now. You know, all that kind of. And then it gets more and more just insane. Closer to being, like, choking. And he's like, well, he's up three strokes. Hopefully he can put this one in.
[58:53]
Dana Carvey
And.
[58:53]
Adam Sandler
And then it's. Blake Clark is doing the voice of the Ch. And he's going, God damn it. But anyways, those albums were good because.
[59:03]
David Spade
Like, they lay into the crowd of college kids in the summer and then you come back and you're even bigger on SNL because they're like, like playing.
[59:10]
Dana Carvey
Them over and over.
[59:12]
Adam Sandler
Steal besides Saturday Night Live, because, like you said, I would go out on tour. The kid kids who were coming to see me knew the album, so they. They knew some of the songs, they knew some of the characters, and that definitely relaxed me on stage. Yeah, all of us, we used to have fun.
[59:30]
Dana Carvey
Well, let's just say, because you've given me a lot of props, that by the time you. You're after you're to about two years in on snl, you really were just like, top notch. I mean, you were crushing consistently on that show. And the audience was falling in love with you because, you know, when you'd sing Hanukkah song, when you would do your guitar or Thanksgiving song.
[59:50]
Adam Sandler
Right, right.
[59:50]
Dana Carvey
First of all, you actually, you're a really good acoustic player.
[59:53]
Adam Sandler
Not bad.
[59:54]
Dana Carvey
And you could hold a great melody. And then it's so silly and funny. And also watching you enjoy it not breaking, but just the light in your eyes. It's so informal, infectious.
[60:04]
Adam Sandler
It was exciting.
[60:05]
Dana Carvey
Yeah.
[60:05]
Adam Sandler
Yeah, man, I remember that. I remember singing that at the table, the turkey song, the Thanksgiving song for, like, Smigel and a couple other writers at the table going, you know, singing it to him. And if they laughed, I was like, oh, fuck. Okay. They think it's.
[60:20]
David Spade
You're on something.
[60:21]
Adam Sandler
Yeah, it was a big deal if those guys, the great writers on the show, when. When they would smile at what your idea was, like, Jim Downey, if he said something was good, you would just like. Like, even if it didn't get on, you were like, all right, I'm funny now.
[60:33]
Dana Carvey
Yeah, we had. We had the A team. There was Smile Genius. Downey, brilliant. You know, we had some incredible writers.
[60:41]
David Spade
When was your first movie? That was when we did the Summer. We did Tommy Boy you did Billy Madison, right?
[60:46]
Adam Sandler
Yes, yes.
[60:49]
Dana Carvey
And then.
[60:50]
David Spade
And then the next summer, Abby Gilmore.
[60:52]
Adam Sandler
Abigail.
[60:53]
Dana Carvey
And then.
[60:53]
David Spade
And those movies kept making more than the other ones. They give you another one. And then it was Wedding Singer.
[61:01]
Dana Carvey
Wedding Singer, Yeah. And then. And then Water Boy. It was the mic drop. At that point, you were a movie star. When you do Happy, you did, of course, Billy Madison, but you do Happy Gilmore, the Wedding Singer and Water Boy. Yeah, within like 24 months or something.
[61:17]
David Spade
Then Big Daddy, then Big. Another mega monster.
[61:19]
Adam Sandler
Yeah, yeah.
[61:20]
Dana Carvey
Too many. I can't even.
[61:21]
David Spade
You know, when Waterboy came out, I was hosting, and you were there that weekend, and we were going to do a bit in the monologue, and then you had to fly back. Waterboy was such a fucking. They told us or they told you how much it made. And everyone's like, what the.
[61:34]
Dana Carvey
And then you.
[61:35]
David Spade
You had to get back, and I changed my monologue and I just did stand up. I wasn't doing stand up in the model.
[61:40]
Adam Sandler
You're kidding me. I was supposed to go out with you.
[61:42]
David Spade
Well, we're gonna do audience member. You know when you go, oh, yes, can I do it? And you're gonna ruin my monologue with questions. And then they go. Lauren goes, well, you know, you said you had to go. And I go, all right, well, what do I do? And he goes, stand up.
[61:55]
Adam Sandler
Oh, really?
[61:56]
Dana Carvey
Aren't you a stand up?
[61:57]
David Spade
I go, well, I. I never do it anymore. I go, tonight. So he goes, just throw some things together. I go, so you can't go practice or run to catch Rising Star. So I put some together, but it's so terrifying to do a monologue anyway. And then cordless.
[62:13]
Adam Sandler
And then everyone's like, that is the worst. When you're doing standup and you're about to go out and you look for the mic and then the. The guy makes the decision for you. Like, don't use a hand mic. Use this. And then you go. And you don't have a mic in your hand. You're like, holy. What do I do with both my hands?
[62:34]
Dana Carvey
I know. We're not used to it. Yeah.
[62:36]
David Spade
Or a mic stand. I lean on a mic stand sometimes. It's not there.
[62:39]
Adam Sandler
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Looking for a mic stand to lean on.
[62:41]
David Spade
It's just like drowning.
[62:43]
Dana Carvey
Yeah, yeah. When you first start to stand up, you just hold the mic like. Like this.
[62:46]
Adam Sandler
Oh, God. You choking it. Yeah.
[62:50]
David Spade
Did you go with Bill? Like, we. I'm sorry.
[62:54]
Adam Sandler
I remember shooting Billy.
[62:56]
David Spade
Yeah.
[62:56]
Adam Sandler
Madison. And you guys are shooting Tommy Boy and hanging out with. Hanging out up in Toronto.
[63:01]
David Spade
Yeah, we're in the same place because we came over there and that was the night when. You remember when you did that thing called. There was like a crime scene joke with everybody where they go in a.
[63:11]
Dana Carvey
Room and you go walk in.
[63:12]
David Spade
It's a crime scene.
[63:13]
Adam Sandler
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
[63:14]
David Spade
Anyway, so.
[63:15]
Dana Carvey
But.
[63:16]
David Spade
But. Oh, yeah. But Adam's movie was called Billy Madison. Our movie was called Billy the Third.
[63:21]
Adam Sandler
Yeah, it was Billy.
[63:21]
David Spade
And so we changed it and we just didn't have a. We know what to call it, of all things. We both have the same lead as the same name, so we eventually changed ours because the name of the movie was Billy iii.
[63:32]
Adam Sandler
But hanging out in Toronto with you and Farley, that was great. We had a couple weeks together.
[63:40]
David Spade
Yeah. And then. Oh, yeah. So then you do all those movies that seem to work out.
[63:45]
Dana Carvey
You did some movies, by the way, my wife and I watched. Oh, we watched last night.
[63:50]
Adam Sandler
What'd you say?
[63:53]
Dana Carvey
Yeah, I think it's a great movie.
[63:56]
David Spade
Is a movie he's got coming out.
[63:58]
Adam Sandler
I got a new movie. Yes.
[63:59]
Dana Carvey
It's on Netflix and it's about. It's kind of like Hoosers meets Rocky.
[64:03]
Adam Sandler
Yes.
[64:04]
Dana Carvey
Moneyball.
[64:05]
Adam Sandler
Yes. Yes.
[64:05]
Dana Carvey
And you're great in it. I mean, really great. Thank you.
[64:08]
Adam Sandler
You. Thank you. I.
[64:09]
Dana Carvey
It's a. It's just a. It's a. It's just a really. You. You know, it really works as a movie.
[64:14]
Adam Sandler
I can't.
[64:15]
Dana Carvey
I got. I got teary eyed.
[64:17]
Adam Sandler
That's so great, Dana.
[64:18]
Dana Carvey
Do you feel like. Because, you know, you had uncut gems. That was pretty good, right?
[64:24]
Adam Sandler
Yes. Thank you, Dana.
[64:26]
Dana Carvey
So then I. Then I saw that, and then I see this one. It seems like you're either. You're. I don't know, you're. And the murder mystery movie, I mean, you're out on a roll. I mean, are you feeling like you're more comfortable? Are you changing up stuff because you seem to be at this other level? Or is it just from doing it so much?
[64:49]
Adam Sandler
I think I'm getting older. More opportunities. Guys like the Safdie brothers. Yes, the Safdie brothers. Who. Your. Your brother. He kind of did. Worked with them as help them get going.
[65:02]
David Spade
Yeah, we're great friends with Andy and I met them, God, 12 years ago. They were talking about uncut gems then.
[65:09]
Adam Sandler
I'm trying to get that going. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[65:10]
David Spade
I was sort of the muse.
[65:14]
Dana Carvey
Because.
[65:14]
David Spade
I met him 12 years ago. Uncut jumps. Yeah. But those guys are super cool.
[65:22]
Dana Carvey
Very good.
[65:23]
David Spade
Yeah, they did. I think they did A Kate Spade commercial that.
[65:27]
Adam Sandler
Is that how you guys met?
[65:28]
David Spade
Yeah. And I think Andy wrote an idea and they did it, and then it somehow went to the Cannes Film Festival. And then they did a movie called I think, Daddy Long Legs after that.
[65:37]
Adam Sandler
Yeah. Incredible.
[65:38]
David Spade
And then they just kept getting. They were just better and better and better. And.
[65:40]
Adam Sandler
Yes.
[65:41]
David Spade
Did yours. And, you know, maybe one day you'll do another one with them.
[65:44]
Adam Sandler
Yes. Gonna make another one. They're writing another one right now. But I. I lucked out. I'm getting to do all this great stuff. Noah Bomb back, pta. They all hooked me up. They all wrote great stuff. They asked me to be in it. Jim Brooks.
[66:00]
David Spade
Is it ever scary? Because these guys do great movies. Are great. TV show and pta, obviously, one of the.
[66:07]
Dana Carvey
Thomas Sanders, one of the best ever.
[66:09]
Adam Sandler
Yes.
[66:09]
David Spade
And then. But you know, PTA a little bit. But if you get lucky enough, you know, you're paired up with some great director and usually on sets like Grown Ups, those kind of movies, you have more of a say. But if you have to kind of keep quiet somewhat. Not totally, but.
[66:25]
Adam Sandler
Yeah.
[66:25]
David Spade
And trust them. And you ever get a feeling where you're like, I don't even know if this guy knows what the fuck's going on. I mean, that must be scary, these guys, because they're so good, but you go, it's gonna work. They know what they're doing. That must be a hard one.
[66:36]
Adam Sandler
You just go. You just give yourself to them because you know they're great and. And you read the script and you. You just don't want to let them down. And you jump in their world, and it is neat. It's neat. Not. Not. I always feel more comfortable doing comedy. I'm always more at ease going, all right, we're gonna go make a movie and have a great time and try to come up with the best jokes and make everybody laugh. Love that. I'll love that the rest of my life. Just like you guys were addicted to that. But the other stuff I'm getting to do, it's awesome. I know you both would crush at that also. It's just. It's just. It's just. It's just different. It's fun.
[67:14]
Dana Carvey
Yeah.
[67:17]
Adam Sandler
It's a different day. In the trailer, you don't go, what the. You know, let me come up with a joke. You're kind of sitting there going, oh, I got to get in this mood, Right.
[67:25]
David Spade
Well, the jokes are kind of crutchy because you know how to do it. And, you know.
[67:28]
Adam Sandler
Yeah.
[67:28]
David Spade
If you have A scene that's not working, you go, I think we can figure a way out of this if we think of a joke or way out, which is what you do a lot on a comedy. But in these, you're like, this is just connecting. It's part of connecting the dots of the bigger picture. So not a lot has to happen right here. And it's hard to trust that that's true. Just do what it is.
[67:48]
Dana Carvey
They'll figure.
[67:48]
David Spade
I mean, sometimes they add music or something, and you go, oh, I see what they did. It's perfect.
[67:51]
Adam Sandler
Yeah, that's true.
[67:52]
David Spade
You don't know when you're doing it.
[67:53]
Adam Sandler
And then when you're doing it and it's not right. Those guys tell you, whoa, whoa, whoa.
[67:58]
David Spade
And you go, whoa.
[68:00]
Adam Sandler
You feel stupid for a second. You go, oh, I was giving you a little extra. And they're like, calm down.
[68:06]
David Spade
Juice it up a bit.
[68:08]
Dana Carvey
You're making it real good for the people. And they go, no, no, no.
[68:12]
Adam Sandler
Yeah. Believe me, they want to see.
[68:14]
Dana Carvey
Those are the brothers, right?
[68:15]
Adam Sandler
The Safdie brothers.
[68:19]
David Spade
Ronnie, Dana, what else do you have for Adam? We got to take a few questions.
[68:23]
Dana Carvey
I don't know. I do think it's kind of cool that you did. There's so many movies, obviously. We talked to Drew Barrymore About 51st I heard. That was sweet. Sweet.
[68:33]
Adam Sandler
Drew was great. Drew gave you answers that were incredible every time. Doesn't Drew automatically take even a half a question? And she goes.
[68:42]
Dana Carvey
She's poetically does a seven minute answer, beginning, middle.
[68:47]
David Spade
She goes, I'm gonna guess your next three questions, and here's the answers. When I went to snow, we were like, okay. Made it easy.
[68:56]
Adam Sandler
Her talking about being a little kid on snl.
[68:58]
Dana Carvey
Oh, I know. Yeah. At age seven, by the way.
[69:00]
Adam Sandler
I've listened to, I think, every episode of your show.
[69:04]
Dana Carvey
You have.
[69:05]
Adam Sandler
I love this show. It's the best.
[69:07]
Dana Carvey
Yeah.
[69:08]
Adam Sandler
I'm so happy for both of you. It's the greatest.
[69:11]
Dana Carvey
Well, it's fun to do because, you know, like, we don't get to hang out with our friends that much. So this is our chance to, you know. The other one I wanted to ask you, did anger manage? So you got to work with Jack Nicholson?
[69:22]
Adam Sandler
Yes.
[69:22]
David Spade
Unreal.
[69:23]
Dana Carvey
And. And really got to know him. And you told a funny story about peanut butter just hanging out at his house.
[69:29]
Adam Sandler
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's right, man. My first day over Nicholson's. I got there, and we're in, and he keeps the house dim. And so I'm sitting in this Chair. And Jack's sitting in this chair. We're facing each other about five feet away from each other. And we're talking and shit. And. And I'm going. It's dark enough that I'm going in my head, this. I don't think this is Jack Nicholson. I think, like, they brought out a fake one to talk to me and see if I'm okay to talk to the real one. So I'm just going like this. And he's like, talking quietly. And it doesn't sound like the impression everybody does, you know, or whatever.
[70:10]
David Spade
Baby, let me tell you something.
[70:13]
Adam Sandler
It's not like that. It's kind of like, yeah, man. It's kind of quiet and cool. And we'll say, man, let me. I don't know, he just has a cooler voice. But I. I was not really believing it was him. And then I do like an hour of that, and then at the. At the end of, he goes, you hungry? Or something like that? I said, yeah, yeah, I could eat. He goes, you want a sandwich? And I said. I said, yeah, yeah, that sounds great, man. And he's like. Like PB and J. And I go, that's great. Then he gets up and walks away. Then he turns around, he looks at me, and he goes, skippy or Jif. That sounds like.
[70:55]
Dana Carvey
I thought also that you went outside for a minute.
[70:58]
Adam Sandler
Oh, yeah.
[70:58]
Dana Carvey
And you were outside. He came out and he held up the jars.
[71:01]
Adam Sandler
That's what it was said.
[71:03]
Dana Carvey
Skip, Be.
[71:03]
Adam Sandler
Or Jeff. That's right.
[71:06]
Dana Carvey
Such a funny image. So I remember your story.
[71:11]
David Spade
I ran into him with la.
[71:12]
Adam Sandler
Of.
[71:13]
David Spade
Of course with Lauren. And. And we had dinner. And he goes. And he comes. There's an empty seat. You know, Is this stupid?
[71:21]
Adam Sandler
No, no, no.
[71:22]
David Spade
Okay, so Lauren. And Lauren goes, we're gonna have some spaghetti. And.
[71:29]
Adam Sandler
And.
[71:29]
David Spade
And I was with Rosie. She's over there. I was over here. There's an empty seat, and Lauren sits here. So there's an npc. And Jack sits next to Rosie. And he starts talking. Then he goes, one time I went to the MTV Awards or something. Or something is. I ran out and it was so dark. I got in the wrong limo and I sat down and everyone just stared at me and it was nirvana.
[71:53]
Dana Carvey
And he goes. And he goes, we're just. And we're in the wrong limo. I go, oh.
[71:58]
David Spade
And then she goes, did they know who you. Did they not know who you were? And he goes, well, that's never happened.
[72:06]
Dana Carvey
Someone didn't know who he was. Could I tell Quentin Mickelson1 yeah. Related to SNL. So Phil Hartman and John Lovitz and I are playing the par three in Studio City. Yeah. So we're on the green, we wave the guy on, and he shoots it out of bounds, and he walks over. We realize it's Nicholson.
[72:24]
Adam Sandler
Right, Right.
[72:25]
Dana Carvey
You know, so he walks up and Phil Hartman had dubbed his voice in the movie the Border because they couldn't get a hold of Nick Nicholson. And he feels very respectful. And he goes, Mr. Nicholson, I dubbed your voice in the movie the Border. One beat. And he goes, no wonder it was my only stinker.
[72:43]
Adam Sandler
That's a good one. Yeah.
[72:45]
Dana Carvey
As a joker.
[72:46]
David Spade
All right, let's take some questions real quick. Get Adam out of here.
[72:50]
Adam Sandler
By the way, just so you know, before Nicholson did anger management, he called Lauren. He called Lorne to see if it was. He had Lauren read the script.
[73:01]
David Spade
Oh, really?
[73:02]
Adam Sandler
He goes, I just. Just gotta make sure.
[73:04]
David Spade
See if it was funny or.
[73:05]
Adam Sandler
Yeah. He goes, I really did. It makes me laugh. And let me just.
[73:08]
David Spade
Oh, that's corn.
[73:09]
Adam Sandler
He goes, he is the man. And I skimmed it. He. Yeah, he went through it and gave it the blessing. So I owned. Oh, Lauren for that, too.
[73:18]
Dana Carvey
We owe Lauren a lot.
[73:19]
Adam Sandler
Yes.
[73:20]
Dana Carvey
And Lauren, you appreciate Lauren more and more every year you're away from the show. What he has to deal with the egos, the politics, keeping the sensibility in a certain frequency, because if you left, it could turn into Hee Haw in a second.
[73:33]
Adam Sandler
Oh, man.
[73:34]
Dana Carvey
He likes smart. He likes big laughs. So there's a lot, a lot of respect for Lauren.
[73:39]
Adam Sandler
Very true.
[73:39]
Dana Carvey
Yeah.
[73:39]
David Spade
All right, how are we going to do a Q and A? How do we do it? Oh, they line up over there. Okay, line up with him. If anybody has a question, we'll do a couple, and then we'll get this Greg Holtzman. We'll get you guys to the other three. Tonight.
[73:54]
Adam Sandler
MSNBC Films presents season two of the hit series from NBC News studios Leguizamo Does America, hosted by John Leguizamo. We're going to connect with some Latinos.
[74:04]
David Spade
Eat some food and do a little dancing.
[74:06]
Adam Sandler
Join him for six new episodes as he explores the Latino experience in six more iconic American cities. I'm here to meet with some exceptional Latin people leading the way.
[74:16]
David Spade
So come on, let's go.
[74:17]
Adam Sandler
Leguizamo Does America. All new episodes Sunday at 9pm Eastern on MSNBC.
[74:23]
David Spade
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[76:19]
David Spade
All right, here we go. Hi there. Oh, we're starting.
[76:23]
Adam Sandler
Yeah.
[76:23]
David Spade
Okay, go ahead young man.
[76:24]
Dana Carvey
Hey buddy. So I was wondering, you were talking about like childhood things that you remember. What was the first like extravagant purchase.
[76:32]
Adam Sandler
You made when you sort of made it big? That's question.
[76:35]
David Spade
That's a good one. I I got my leather jacket that you remember. Black. I got a Blades Academy movie and I bought a $400 leather jacket that was too heavy but I couldn't give it up. It was like a motorcycle one and it hurt my neck but I wanted to wear it. And then I think I wore the improv when I first I was around Adam and the first thing you ever.
[76:55]
Adam Sandler
Said to me was can you unzipper me?
[76:59]
David Spade
Can you help me get it off? And I have to lay down now. That was it. Mine was leather jacket. Dana, what do you got?
[77:04]
Dana Carvey
What'd you get?
[77:06]
Adam Sandler
With my own money that I bought, I think I bought. I went out. My father had a green, dark green and light green 78 Cadillac Fleetwood or Some when I was in high school and I. My first big move, I went out to an old Cadillac place. They didn't have that color, but I got that same Caddy and had them painted that color. That was like my big first move.
[77:31]
David Spade
That's cool. Can I change mine?
[77:37]
Dana Carvey
You must have got more than a leather jacket based on your home sales recently. Sorry. He did well, David. Invested well.
[77:46]
Adam Sandler
Yes.
[77:47]
Dana Carvey
What was your. What'd you get? My wife and I did a silly thing. We walked in Encino, walked into a Mercedes dealership and we bought Mercedes cars, like $100,000 cars. I bought a convertible coupe and I drove it for like a week and it had a plastic windshield, like, what the. So I got. I took it back and got a sedan. That was just during my German phase. I have a Volvo now. It's very non sexy. What a loser.
[78:15]
David Spade
Go ahead, next one.
[78:17]
Adam Sandler
Yeah.
[78:17]
David Spade
I was going to ask you about the origins of.
[78:19]
Adam Sandler
Of your trademark, you know, Adam Sandler voice, but you kind of already answered that.
[78:24]
Dana Carvey
Yeah, but.
[78:25]
Adam Sandler
So my next question is, do your.
[78:27]
David Spade
Daughters do like an Adam Sandler impression?
[78:29]
Adam Sandler
Like they do everybody go like they're.
[78:31]
Dana Carvey
All off of you or whatever.
[78:33]
Adam Sandler
They don't do that. They don't know that album yet. But they do both do the.
[78:40]
David Spade
Oh, yeah, they do.
[78:43]
Adam Sandler
That's it. Every time I'm trying to be funny and it. And it doesn't work. That's funny. You asked that.
[78:52]
Dana Carvey
Thank you.
[78:53]
Adam Sandler
Thanks, man.
[78:54]
David Spade
Sorry I'm shorter.
[78:55]
Dana Carvey
Hi.
[78:56]
Adam Sandler
Hi, guys.
[78:57]
David Spade
Big fan.
[78:57]
Adam Sandler
My name is Chalice.
[78:58]
David Spade
I'm from Houston.
[78:59]
Adam Sandler
Nice to see you, buddy.
[79:00]
David Spade
So my question is, what out of.
[79:03]
Dana Carvey
All the films you guys have, if.
[79:04]
David Spade
You guys can go back and do a sequel to any of yalls previous.
[79:06]
Dana Carvey
Films, what would it be? Wayne's World 3. Wayne's Garbage World 3. Garth at 60. I gotta get some flow. Max. I don't know if it would work. Go ahead, Adam. We've done so many movies.
[79:27]
David Spade
What would be the sequel?
[79:29]
Adam Sandler
What would you. What was the. I can't think of the name right now with. You did with the Cage and Lovett's.
[79:35]
Dana Carvey
Oh, Trapped in Paradise.
[79:37]
David Spade
Trapped in Paradise.
[79:38]
Dana Carvey
That'd be fun to just work with.
[79:40]
David Spade
That was a tough shoot.
[79:41]
Dana Carvey
We fell down in the snow and. Yeah, we just.
[79:44]
Adam Sandler
You were doing Brad Gray in that, right?
[79:46]
Dana Carvey
I was doing Brad Gray and Mickey Rourke. I don't know what you're doing, but I wouldn't do it. I was doing Mickey Roy. The studio flew in from la. We were in the middle of the woods in Canada and said, you got to Stop doing that. Really? Yeah. But Nicholas Cage said I would do it anyway. Away. He was a great character.
[80:09]
David Spade
I guess that's it, right?
[80:10]
Dana Carvey
I don't know. What would you do a sequel to. You have. You have so many movies.
[80:13]
Adam Sandler
No idea. I like them all. I like doing Grown Ups with Davey because we all hung out, we all.
[80:19]
Dana Carvey
We had Grown Ups. Could. Could work. Yeah. Three Grown Up.
[80:25]
Adam Sandler
Well, whatever. Whatever it is I like to do with. It's always great when you're with your friends. Grown Ups. We. We literally got to do this every day.
[80:33]
David Spade
That was a sit in, chairs, hang.
[80:35]
Adam Sandler
Out, try to be funny and cut around it.
[80:38]
David Spade
Yeah. That thing's been keeping the lights on at TBS for the last seven years.
[80:43]
Dana Carvey
It's on heavy rotation. Yeah.
[80:46]
David Spade
But I love it. I love Grown Ups.
[80:48]
Dana Carvey
That was great memories.
[80:50]
Adam Sandler
Yeah.
[80:50]
David Spade
Thank you for that question.
[80:51]
Adam Sandler
Thank you.
[80:54]
Dana Carvey
Cheers. You guys are wonderful. This is amazing.
[80:56]
David Spade
Thank you.
[80:57]
Adam Sandler
Hey, man.
[80:59]
Dana Carvey
My question, I suppose you guys have written for so many different wonderful projects in both film and TV and of course on Saturday Night Live. And my question was, do you think that to properly kind of master that sort of craft, do you think it's like writing as much as you can every day is really the proper way to get to a point where you feel comfortable. Comfortable with your writing? Or do you think also. I suppose. Do you think it's also helpful to like try and collaborate with other people that, you know, you'd work well with or something?
[81:34]
David Spade
Sounds a little like John Mulaney, this guy. I would say. My, my. If I would take that, my first answer would be, if it's stand up, just get as much stage time as time as you can. And if it's writing, I think it's just more is better collaborating or writing by yourself. Just anything you can do until something sticks, I would say.
[81:56]
Adam Sandler
Right, right. And right. I remember I lived with Apatow when I was young writer and Apatow, he was the first one of us that would write.
[82:06]
David Spade
Yeah, he was smart.
[82:08]
Adam Sandler
Sit in his room and write skits all the time for. For Saturday even it wasn't on Saturday Night Live. But he would write kind of.
[82:15]
David Spade
He would collaborate with people and he was smart. He made himself like a producer because that was a veteran. Valuable thing to help someone do what they're doing. Jim Carrey or you?
[82:24]
Dana Carvey
Well, I would say. What is your name?
[82:26]
David Spade
My name is Ambrose.
[82:28]
Dana Carvey
Okay.
[82:28]
David Spade
All right.
[82:29]
Dana Carvey
That's all right.
[82:29]
David Spade
It's a cool.
[82:31]
Dana Carvey
That's a great chardonnay. No, Anyway, Ambrose, I would just say initially that seems like too Much pressure to me to try to go in a room and stuff. If you're a comedy writer, just write everything down. That's what George Carlin said. So if you're out with your friends a lot of times just taking a walk or going to a movie, someone will say something. Make sure you either record it or write it down. And just do it spontaneously all the time. And your headset gets into.
[82:57]
David Spade
Yeah, it's hard to just sit and write and be funny. It happens all day. And if you just write it when it happens and don't say you'll remember it later because you won't. So just write it, write it, write it. Then you collect it and go, is there anything here? Is anything here? That stuff's very valuable.
[83:11]
Adam Sandler
You basically only need to write five good jokes your whole life. And then like David, you use that.
[83:16]
Dana Carvey
The rest of your life in different, in different ways. Yeah, it's. It's a spade, bro.
[83:24]
David Spade
It's all right.
[83:26]
Dana Carvey
Thank you guys so much. Good luck.
[83:29]
David Spade
All right, what do we got?
[83:31]
Dana Carvey
Ambros.
[83:32]
Adam Sandler
Hi.
[83:34]
Dana Carvey
I have a favorite ask you guys. It's my nephew's 15th birthday. It was my nephew's 15th birthday today. And I was wondering if I could make a video of you guys saying.
[83:45]
Adam Sandler
Happy birthday to him. Imagine if we said no one meant it.
[83:49]
David Spade
Yeah, you know, you know when that. What's his name?
[83:55]
Dana Carvey
Nicholas. Nicholas.
[83:56]
Adam Sandler
And we're gonna say.
[83:57]
David Spade
You want us to film it?
[83:59]
Adam Sandler
And the whole theater sings Happy birthday to Nicholas.
[84:02]
David Spade
Okay.
[84:03]
Dana Carvey
Happy birthday. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday dear Nicola.
[84:19]
Adam Sandler
Oh, yes.
[84:21]
Dana Carvey
Happy birthday to you.
[84:32]
Adam Sandler
Nickelodeon.
[84:33]
Dana Carvey
Gosh.
[84:34]
Adam Sandler
Thank you.
[84:35]
Dana Carvey
Trying to harmonize a little bit.
[84:36]
David Spade
And it's my niece. Oh, sorry.
[84:40]
Adam Sandler
Hey there, guys.
[84:40]
Dana Carvey
My holy. It's testosterone, man. My name is Al and I want.
[84:49]
Adam Sandler
To say that it's my grandma's dying and it's her birthday day and if we could sing happy birthday to her, that would be incredible.
[84:56]
David Spade
What is change next?
[84:57]
Dana Carvey
What is her name?
[84:58]
Adam Sandler
No, but for real, this is such a treat.
[85:02]
Dana Carvey
This is such a treat for all of us. Cuz you guys are all just such pillars of comedy. Awesome.
[85:08]
David Spade
Thank you.
[85:09]
Adam Sandler
You too, David.
[85:11]
David Spade
Thank you.
[85:12]
Adam Sandler
He's rolling.
[85:15]
Dana Carvey
Here.
[85:16]
Adam Sandler
Here's my real question. You know, as, as when you're watching you guys, we pretend we're you. We see ourselves in you and like that. So when you did mix nuts with Steve Martin. Yeah. And then when you did that scene with Philip Seymour Hoffman. Yeah. Being you in those moments is like incredible.
[85:34]
Dana Carvey
So how was it being you in those moments? It was very cool.
[85:38]
Adam Sandler
Co stars that Two, you're funny as, by the way.
[85:41]
Dana Carvey
Thank you.
[85:42]
David Spade
Thank you.
[85:42]
Adam Sandler
Good job.
[85:45]
Dana Carvey
My name's Al Monero. Monero, you Netflix festival. You got a great name for a comedian.
[85:51]
Adam Sandler
God, you. You're so psyched. You follow. Followed Ambrose too. Like he's gonna take it down.
[85:59]
Dana Carvey
Ambrose is looking for pen and paper.
[86:02]
Adam Sandler
David, did you tune out? David? Tuned out. So Steve Martin, of course. All our heroes. Yeah, we love greats of all time.
[86:13]
David Spade
All time. Yeah. First time hall of famer Steve Martin.
[86:16]
Adam Sandler
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Probably the number one ballot for us, right?
[86:20]
David Spade
Say it again.
[86:20]
Adam Sandler
He was probably the number one guy.
[86:22]
Dana Carvey
Memorized his albums.
[86:23]
Adam Sandler
His albums. Wild and Crazy guy. All. All the Steve Martin did. So of course, being in a movie with him, with him, was just staring at him and waiting for like quiet moments to run over and say something and if. Hopefully he'd respond. And so I love that. And he was very nice to me. And then Philip Seymour Hoffman.
[86:44]
Dana Carvey
Fucking yeah.
[86:44]
Adam Sandler
Great guys. Great. Toward a force, that guy, he came. He was just a very good, funny man. Took it serious, went. Went hardcore. And when we worked together, by the way, Philip Seymour Hoffman. I don't know if you guys know this. So we're doing Billy Madison. I think we wrote. Oh, no, that Happy Gilmore. No, maybe Billy Madison. We wrote for Bob Odenkirk. Wrote that for Bob Odenkirk, the bad guy in the movie. And the fucking studio wouldn't allow it. They're like, you can't just have your friends. And we were like, no, he's fucking great. And. And they said, no, it's Bob Odenkirk. He was a writer. So I think that's how it went. I think it's that. Okay, so we wanted Bob. They said no, they put out. You gotta audition. You know, audition people. Philip Seymour Hoffman auditioned and I was in Toronto getting ready to make the movie and it still wasn't cast yet. I saw Philip Seymour Hoffman. I was laughing my ass up. I'm going, who the fuck is this guy? He's hilarious. So I tell the people, I show Universal, can we have this guy? Are you good with him?
[87:59]
David Spade
I mean.
[88:00]
Adam Sandler
I mean, you fucking said no to Odenkirk. Are we okay with this guy? And they were like. And it took some talking into. And then they said yes. Then we offered it to him and we get this call back. Like, he. He's not. He doesn't want to do it. And we were like, he doesn't want to do.
[88:14]
David Spade
What do you mean?
[88:15]
Adam Sandler
He auditioned. And so I go, let me talk to him. This Guy and tell him how great he is. And I called him up and I said, hey, it's Adam. And he's like, oh, hey, Adam. Blah, blah, blah. And I said, hey, man, I saw your tape. You're so great, buddy. And they said, you don't want to do it? And he goes, oh, thanks, man. I go, do you. Do you want to do it or.
[88:35]
David Spade
Or.
[88:35]
Adam Sandler
And he goes, oh, I can't. I go, oh, why not? He goes, I just don't want to. And I go, okay, you sure?
[88:46]
Dana Carvey
We're gonna have some great answer.
[88:47]
Adam Sandler
Isn't that great? I don't want to.
[88:49]
Dana Carvey
I go, I really love you.
[88:50]
Adam Sandler
He goes, I know you do. I swear to God.
[88:55]
Dana Carvey
Wow. Confidence.
[88:56]
Adam Sandler
Yeah. Yeah, that was good job. Thank you, guys. Hey, when you get bored and you want to go to YouTube, go to crypto. Crypto Junkies. Easy. I'll make you Richard.
[89:13]
Dana Carvey
It's going on the moon. He's. Hi, guys. My name is Denny. Just want to. Just want to thank you guys. You guys are my comedy heroes. Moved out to LA for my pursuit of snl. That's my dream. So I've been looking up to you guys my whole life. Oh, that's sweet. Welcome.
[89:29]
Adam Sandler
Are you doing stand up and stuff.
[89:30]
Dana Carvey
Like that all over. All over North Hollywood. I produce a show and. Oh, really? What's your name? Denny Glasser. Denny Glasser.
[89:37]
Adam Sandler
That's a great name.
[89:40]
Dana Carvey
I'm gonna pass out. Thank you. Dr. Denny would be a good moniker. Dr. Denny's in the house. I'm just saying. Thank you. My only question I wanted to ask is, what was the first impression or character. Character that you guys did that you knew you could do this for a career?
[89:57]
Adam Sandler
Oh, I could do Michael J. Fox real good. That was David. That was David.
[90:03]
Dana Carvey
Always yours.
[90:04]
Adam Sandler
My first impression.
[90:05]
David Spade
You didn't do many impressions, did you?
[90:07]
Adam Sandler
I did. No, I used to do them around the house. I did the basic. I used to do rich little stuff, you know?
[90:13]
Dana Carvey
Yeah, yeah, me too.
[90:14]
Adam Sandler
John. John Wayne and.
[90:15]
Dana Carvey
John Wayne. Yeah.
[90:16]
Adam Sandler
Well, yeah, I used to wear a cowboy hat around the house.
[90:19]
Dana Carvey
Oh, really?
[90:19]
Adam Sandler
Well, I'll tell you, I would do that like, oh, my God. For my parents who watch Bacon and Eggs. Oh, girl, I don't know.
[90:30]
David Spade
Oh, my God.
[90:31]
Adam Sandler
Yeah. Yeah. How about you? Who was your first.
[90:34]
David Spade
Casey Kasem. You guys do Checking in at Number five?
[90:38]
Dana Carvey
The Boss?
[90:39]
David Spade
Bruce Springsteen. A man and his guitar. A man who likes to call his guitar his own.
[90:47]
Dana Carvey
I was nine years old. The Beatles came on Ed Sullivan the next day.
[90:51]
David Spade
I was.
[90:51]
Dana Carvey
I walked up to my mom and I said, hey, do you think I could get me some pancakes? She screamed. She didn't know what I was doing. But that was my first time I knew I could alter my voice. Is doing a liver puddling accent.
[91:07]
David Spade
All right, well, good luck to you, buddy.
[91:09]
Dana Carvey
Thank you for asking. Love you guys. Thank you. Love you, buddy.
[91:11]
David Spade
Danny, I think that's to go.
[91:13]
Adam Sandler
We got to go. Thank you for your questions.
[91:19]
Dana Carvey
Thank you guys were awesome and thank you so much for coming out to the wil.
[91:27]
David Spade
Take care.
[91:27]
Adam Sandler
Bye, folks.
[91:28]
David Spade
Thanks, Dana.
[91:28]
Dana Carvey
Really love you guys. That was fun. Thank you so much.
[91:34]
David Spade
Hey, guys, if you're loving this podcast, which you are, be sure to click follow, follow on your favorite podcast app, give us a review, five star rating and maybe even share an episode that you've loved with a friend.
[91:46]
Dana Carvey
If you're watching this episode on YouTube, please subscribe. We're on video now.
[91:51]
David Spade
Fly on the Wall is presented by Odyssey and executive produced by Danny Carvey and David Spade, Heather Santoro and Greg Holtzman, Maddie Sprung Kaiser and Leah Reese Dennis of Odyssey.
[92:02]
Dana Carvey
Our senior producer is Greg Holtzman and the show is produced, produced and edited.
[92:05]
David Spade
By Phil Sweettech booking by Cultivated Entertainment.
[92:09]
Dana Carvey
Special thanks to Patrick Fogarty, Evan Cox, Maura Curran, Melissa Wester, Hillary Schuff, Eric Donnelly, Colin Gaynor, Sean Cherry, Kirk Courtney and Lauren Vieira.
[92:25]
David Spade
Reach out with us. Any questions be asked and answered on the show? You can email us at fly on the watch all@odyssey.com that's a U D a C-Y I dot com.