The Adam Sandler Paradox

this video is brought to you by story blocks I'm not exactly sure what the hell I am hello my name is Adam Sandler can I get a hell [Applause] yeah 1999 with his standup SNL and iconic movie roles under his belt the 1990s were truly Adam Sanders and um the winner of the best comedic performance is Adam Sandler God you starring in a brand new motion picture called Big Daddy all right here we go and we're both losing weight keen on writing and starring in comedic roles Sandler was in his element with the wind at

his back in 1999 Adam started Happy Madison Productions Adam Sandler all real happy the world saw a wacky unserious comedian but with Adam there was more than meets the eye and only one person knew it some of us thought you were actually completely out of your mind when you cast Adam Sandler in this [Music] movie what the [ __ ] is your problem he just makes me laugh go [ __ ] yourself he's funny to me our first movie is Punch Drunk Love starring ad Sandler in a radical departure from his usual brain dead comedies

and the headline is Sandler can really act in 2002 director Paul Thomas Anderson took what most saw as a risk and cast Adam Sandler as the lead in a dramatic role it started with a hunch but when Paul met Adam on the set of Little Nikki he said he wanted to work uh together and do a movie together and and I was just excited and he went to work and despite it being new teror St Adam didn't take much convincing were you instantly ready to do this yeah I was instantly in Paul wrote that movie

for me and I was like oh [ __ ] yeah I think I could do that I was I was nervous but I was in there's no way I was going to say I'm not doing this every 10 products you bought and mailed into them they'd send you a certificate for 500 miles which is a true story guy went and bought thousands and thousands of dollars worth a pudding that equal a million frequent flyer miles pudding how much did this cost you cost me a little over $3,000 if you would to spend $3,000 that would

get you a million frequent client miles you would never have to pay for a ticket the rest of your life so that helped but but the main impetus was wanting to write something for Adam that's insane I have to go to the bathroom this is for Adam you see this is a critical time for you and are you anxious about the way you'll be received you didn't wonder why me I mean I may love this guy's movies but what the hell am I going to do in his world it's a new I guess a new

chapter being I'm happy I met this guy I was excited to to try to accomplish something that I haven't uh really done before what are you doing in here cutie watching football who do you want to win the godamn Jets his 1999 Comedy Big Daddy Adam casts actress Jackie toone too bad you don't like girls I think you could have had her and Adam took his shot I was just getting ready to do big daddy and uh she was getting into acting how's the social life going big changes I hear yeah you you have a

a a new girlfriend I got a girlfriend I read in the paper I had a fiance but I don't I have a girlfriend yeah I got a girl I got a girl and I fell in love with a pretty Jackie appears again the following year in Little Nikki and in 2002 she acts alongside Adam family in Eight Crazy Nights it could be so nice growing old with you and by June 2003 the two of them had tied the knot snake on a ring now the wedding is very interesting was your dog the best man yes

yeah he wasn't the best man he brought the Rings up got a girlfriend got a house got a girl in the house yeah do you find you becoming like your dad my dad's like a real guy he's a real man the big man was the big person personality me and my dad were amazingly tight yes my father in real life was highly respected in my household and we we kind of lived by his rules I love my dad more than anything and uh anything he told me to do I would do and I go I

used to love any comedian my father and mother liked I'd be like oh God I want to be like that guy it's making my dad happy [Music] only 3 months after his marriage in September Adam said goodbye to his father Stanley Sandler I was very tight with my dad and when he was sick I was with him as much as I I could that's why you're here right now to protect me to be scared for me to be a good father I I always would tell friends who uh who didn't lose their dad you better

spend time with them I'm telling you it just it will rock you I love you son I love you too de goodbye let's face it you've got big ideas but they're just that aren't they ideas no more with story blocks turn your dreams into scenes with their curated library of over a million templates footage music and more I use story blocks in my videos to sprinkle in some extra production quality like this I can move locations with a beautiful establishing chart tell you where we are with unique titles then flesh out the scene with sound

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daughters in a plane crash alongside Don cheel Sandler's suffering is heart-wrenching you had a family and you suffered a great loss why why why are you asking me are you trying to focus me and until you can discuss that friends talk to each other about what's going on in their lives you're an [ __ ] we can really talk about that this is all just an exercise as an actor you trying to find some sense of balance between doing comedy and drama I had three daughters how do you feel that this movie is going to

take you in a direction of more being more serious this was not something I I thought about ever doing this just happened they adored me Johnson this script was so uh It Was Written really well and and moving and uh it broke my heart I saw it and I felt it at the same time and then I just decided when I committed to it to try to do it the best I could because Adam typically won to cooler shots was finding that he found comfort in relinquishing control to talented directors ultimately it was just Paul

Thomas Anderson writing me something when I'm with these great guys it's kind of relaxing in a way knowing that they're not going to move on until they're happy you I've only done a few heavy parts and this by far was the heaviest and it is not an easy life for an actor who does that and I was I am more than happy to run right back to Comedy I just enjoy my life a little more maybe Adam had grown up a little but growing up does it have to be so [Music] serious 2010 Adam cements

his return to family comedies grown-ups is the culmination of a nearly 20 year long friendship group I always want to do stuff with these guys forever you know I I'd rather be with people I know and I trust who's ready to get their funeral on we kind of do it do it all together we do it as a team it's summer time when we shoot it you see a rope in a lake and that doesn't make you want to go nuts we kind of live in one place together our houses all near each other ass

is in session who wants to see a double we all got kids they all hang out together I can't let go SC it's pretty good pretty good on the set of his movies Adam is woried but offset he's never been widely accepted the critics have said I'm going to read you my favorite ones critics haven't necessarily always Lov your this movie is the last nail in Adam Sandler's coffin another said he's no longer a movie star and another one called you a Manchild first off let me say thanks for dressing for the show I appreciate

Adam doesn't have really a great wardrobe what a great outfit that is you got Adam Sandler in his movie Jack and Jill won a record setting 10 Razzy Sunday night what does this mean again it means I can't stand you being here and the Razzy for worst picture of the year goes to what do you think when it comes to Adam Sandler there is one thing we can't agree on that no one can agree whether or not Adam Sandler is funny does it matter what the critic say do you care about uh you know it

doesn't matter that much to me I know what they're going to say every movie they're going to say they don't like it is that something you paid attention to is that something that's bothered you I have a love in my life it makes me stronger than anything you can imagine you're a very family oriented man in general well let me start by saying congratulations I hear babies on the way and even better I hear it's yours absolutely I'm addicted to him I love being with him and when I'm not with him I'm very very depressed

I believe in the hard work and what I'm trying to accomplish but I just Mo mostly want to be able to have time with my family and and uh give him a good childhood keen on simply providing for his family Adam is able to shut off the noise as well as the buzz you know when people talk about your career they talk about these ups and then the Downs ups and the Downs man I don't know what the Downs have been I got into acting and comedy to try to do the best I could I

loved every movie I've made I've never in my entire career phoned one thing in I also see a couple of grads here today following my path and becoming a fellow five-time Razzy Award winner that stuff doesn't hurt me anymore I think it hurt me 20 years ago try to make funny movies and try to make kids laugh that was my goal which if it does happen don't be upset call me and I'll teach you the proper way to laugh all the way to the bank I've never been on a plane before you know we're just

talking about that movie punch drunk love and uh this is a very nice thing for you there's actually Oscar buzz yeah how do you feel about that the Oscar thing the Oscar you know that's not that's not very sanyan right now you you're doing so well that you actually start your own production company Happy Madison Productions yes the whole goal of the company was to keep my friends employed first of all they don't I'm I can't go to the awards they don't make a tuxedo out of sweatpant material and uh number two uh if I

uh by some weird freak accident won the thing uh you know I couldn't take that trophy home CU I know my friends would cut his head off and make a bong out of him [ __ ] asshole's on my tail you'll always be good at math you'll always be good at name star I was with Ben he got a WKA Fame star and I went and visited him and I said we got to do a movie together right son of a [ __ ] stop yelling in the car he cannot hear you okay Mommy and

Daddy and genius girl and I said we could play Brothers he said yeah I was thinking that too you got my hands you got my toes but luckily I got mommy's nose I was disappointed in you for quitting piano and then we we talked to no and he uh was thinking a similar thought Adam connected to something very deeply in this guy and we locked out got to do this together and it was deep and that was you know you know it it was very moving to me get it [Music] together shut the [ __

] up in 2017 Adam made his biggest step back into dramatic acting with the meerwood stories was this something that you took on because it was a challenge or did you feel it was a natural progression at this stage of your life and career it was just just luck that this guy wrote an amazing movie and handed it to me it's the most I ever studied before a project I read it and knew it was a great movie and it was like yeah we didn't start shooting for like maybe 5 months after and I I

would study my lines every night just didn't want to let Noah down cuz I didn't want to let the guy down a it's our career it's our life it's movie to movie you can't exactly say I'm doing this next and then that's you don't know what's coming next holy [ __ ] I'm going to come your new film uncut gems your performance is crazy what is happening don't on know me so I want the Celtics to cover I want the Celtics halftime I wanted to talk to you for a minute well the the guys who

wrote it the safty brothers how amazing they stuff and the fact that they wanted to work with me that was exciting I heard you free surf at your [ __ ] swimming pool you know how that makes me feel never think is it too late should we maybe are you serious right now I don't know I just know well I'll tell you what I know that's the dumbest [ __ ] bet I ever heard of someone like Sandler he can first of all he's unbelievable from all you know we grew up on his comedy records

they wrote it for me like 10 years ago I disagree look in my eyes and they'll tell you what I'm feeling take his clothes off you [Music] everybody man this is just something I have to do [ __ ] we give me my glass I think you are the most annoying person I have ever met get him out of the car get the [ __ ] out the [ __ ] car I hate being with you I hate looking at you no no I want the underwear underwear you C sucker and if I had my

way I would never see you again it's okay thank you I'll meet you right back inside it's all good now when I get to do something like this like U uncut gems it's a different excitement for me cuz I'm not sure of myself I can't be girl I what I'm supposed to do everything I do is not going right and the spirit Award for best male lead goes to this is my [ __ ] way this is how I went Adam sand thank you thanks I love you guys thank you I'd like to also give

a shout out to my fellow nominees who will now and forever be known as the guys who lost to [ __ ] Adam Sandler I don't uh try to accomplish something I feel like I might be uh screwing up a little I think that's what drives me is that I'm I'm kind of uh obsessed with it [ __ ] comes your way you connect with it and you go I ain't [ __ ] this one up it seems like you're drawn to these characters who are unlucky you could say losers I enjoy playing these guys

who are um struggling I'm a nice man I mind my own business admire somebody who doesn't give up so you tell me that's that before I beat the hell from you he doesn't play underdogs he plays Champions that are overlooked Oo we are delighted to honor one of Hollywood's most loved IC actors today hello my name is Adam Sandler as he is honored with the 2,431 star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and I am the 2023 Mark tween humor prize award recipient today we honor Adam Sandler can I get a hell yeah this man

standing here is not just a wonderful son an incredible husband a loving father a producer a writer and an actor and a loyal loyal friend I'm soft I'm a soft man you are and you're a big kid I think that's why Everyone likes you I he is also dedicated to the people that helped him get here his fans I've walked down the street with movie stars and I've never seen anything like it when Adam walks down the street he's there he's present he's he's not somewhere else my friends who are here today I want to

thank them so much I love you Adam love you buddy you see him and you love him you want to be his friend that's the truth nobody makes me laugh like you and nobody has taken better care of me in this business than you they always back me up 100% and make sure I accomplish whatever I set out to do it's been a nice just just a great ride I come from a great family I had an amazing Mom I had an amazing dad who's watching down I'm sure he'd be very excited about this all

they ever did was make me feel like I'm good at things they just always made me feel like I was the star of the family so many people come out here with the same dreams I had and somehow I I'm getting to do them and I really appreciate it and then and then uh Along Came two of the true best things baby showing up sad and sunny I love you you want to say something every hang we have I'm only wishing time will stand still cuz being with you two and Mommy that's the best life

can get I love my [Applause] daddy I love my ddy I love you too you guys are my buddies I love you more than anything in the world thanks for growing old with us [Applause]