Review: Love you, Adam Sandler

[00:00:08] Speaker A: We're here. We're on. Just check one. Sibilance. Sibilance. Oh, it's the Sandler episode. Who was that? [00:00:15] Speaker B: I don't know. I was trying to do a sound. [00:00:17] Speaker A: That was the most. [00:00:18] Speaker B: It was. [00:00:19] Speaker A: Awful thing. [00:00:19] Speaker B: What's it like a sound? [00:00:20] Speaker A: Is that supposed to be Sandler? [00:00:21] Speaker B: Do it. You do. [00:00:22] Speaker A: I don't. [00:00:22] Speaker B: Do I do a Sandler voice? [00:00:25] Speaker A: No, I will not. I will not. I will not mimic someone I hold in such high regard. [00:00:30] Speaker B: Is it because he's a fellow Southie? [00:00:33] Speaker A: He's not a Southie. My. My kid said me. He went to the same high school as you, didn't he? He's from Man. I'm from Manchester, Massachusetts. He's from Manchester, New Hampshire. And they are totally different places. I mean. I mean, totally different places. Yeah, I'm from Manchester by the sea. [00:00:51] Speaker B: Do people in Manchester. Oh, where that shitty film was. [00:00:55] Speaker A: That's a great film. Are you kidding? Depressing, but great. [00:01:00] Speaker B: Do people call, like, Manchester in America? Do they call it Mank? [00:01:06] Speaker A: No. Is that what they say in England? Mank? [00:01:08] Speaker B: Yeah. You're a mank. [00:01:10] Speaker A: No, never heard that before. [00:01:11] Speaker B: You know, like, how the guy. You know how the Gallaghers walk with, like, this weird swagger. [00:01:16] Speaker A: The Oasis. [00:01:17] Speaker B: Yeah, it's called the Mank Walk, where you walk like a chimp. [00:01:21] Speaker A: No, I didn't know. I didn't know that. Know that term. Nor that those two fellas walked like chimps. [00:01:27] Speaker B: Absolutely. [00:01:28] Speaker A: They're back. They're back together. [00:01:29] Speaker B: Great. Yeah, that's another episode. So let's get into it. [00:01:33] Speaker A: All right, well, what about the intro? What about the witty banter that we do before we talk about the. [00:01:37] Speaker B: That was it. That was it, the whole Manchester thing. [00:01:40] Speaker A: All right, more time for the Sandman, then. [00:01:42] Speaker B: Yep. [00:01:44] Speaker A: All right. There's full disclosure, as they say. I'm a huge fan of Adam Sandlerson. I always have been. And my whole family loves him. It's not because of where he's from, although I think that does add something. You know, us being from the same area. I grew up on him, watching him. And I don't know how. He's got to be 60, right? I would say, I think close to 60. [00:02:09] Speaker B: I think it's 58, 59. Ish. I think I looked it up. [00:02:12] Speaker A: I remember he was on the COVID. [00:02:14] Speaker B: Of AARP King because he was kind of like. He was famous when he was, like, 17. So he's one of them. That might be deceptive. [00:02:21] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. Coming up in New York, he went to NYU and he was on remote control. Do you remember that show on mtv? Did you get that over there? [00:02:29] Speaker B: No, I didn't watch it. [00:02:30] Speaker A: Probably too young. Christian. He was on an MTV show that. I don't know, it's like a game show as well. He. That's where his characters. I think he was kind of the same then. And to me, and this is probably the biggest criticism of him in general, this isn't specific to what we watched here. He never changes. He's the same character in every movie, in every comedy special, in every sketch. He's the same guy. And to me, that's the greatest thing about him. Right. [00:03:01] Speaker B: So let me tell you my Sandler history. Obviously, I've never heard of him before I come to America, and when I came to America, I started listening to a radio station called Q101. It was like. Like the alternative channel. And they were playing Piece of Car, like over really. But bleeped, obviously, which kind of takes away. Right. But they were playing Piece of Car just over and over. And I was like, this is hilarious. So I go to the old Orchard Mall in. In the. In the CD section. [00:03:30] Speaker A: Sam Goody or something. [00:03:31] Speaker B: Yeah, no, it was the Old Orchard. So it was. Yeah, it was something like that. [00:03:34] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:03:35] Speaker B: And, you know, I get the Sandler CD that Piece of Car is on, which is. I think it's. [00:03:41] Speaker A: They're all gonna laugh at you. I think is the. Is the album. [00:03:44] Speaker B: I think that's the album. Yeah. And that is just a. A half assed mishmash of like. Like there's a sketch called the Beating of a High School and it's just like noise effects of someone getting a beating and going, oh. And I'm like. I'm like, what the is this American comedy? Like, this guy is the hottest. And he's. His comedy album is just sound effects of people getting. No, I think it was called they're all gonna laugh at you. Right. Because that's what he's like, dad. He keeps going, they're all gonna laugh at you. Like his dad would say it. [00:04:21] Speaker A: Yeah, he's got a couple. I can't remember all the names of the albums, but yeah. [00:04:24] Speaker B: Stan and Judy's Kid. [00:04:25] Speaker A: Yeah, that's another one. [00:04:26] Speaker B: Afterwards. [00:04:27] Speaker A: Lonesome Kicker, I think is another one. [00:04:29] Speaker B: So that's my. [00:04:30] Speaker A: But that was the first one. I think that was his first album. [00:04:32] Speaker B: Yeah. And that was the first Sandler exposure that I have. And then I'm just kind of. I think at that point he's left SNL and he's just. Because he Left. [00:04:42] Speaker A: No, he was on it. He. No, not at that point in that album. [00:04:45] Speaker B: This would be 97, 98. So he's still on it? [00:04:48] Speaker A: Yeah. Oh, yeah, I think so. [00:04:51] Speaker B: Next thing I remember him in his movies. [00:04:54] Speaker A: Yeah, I don't know how many. I think he was doing movies simultaneously for a while, like a lot of the guys do until they get too big. But okay, so for me, he's two things and this is what I try to aspire to be in my own life. Sweet, meaning nice. [00:05:14] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:05:14] Speaker A: And filthy. He's sweet and filthy. He's a perfect combination of sweet and filthy. I love it. Yeah. I mean. And always has been on that album, his movies. It's just real base bathroom humor. Right. [00:05:28] Speaker B: That's a good. I like that. I love that mechanism in Comedy of the get me thinking one thing about you and then flip it and now you're disoriented and like, it's not just sweet filthy. You can do that in so many different ways of like, I'm going to make you think this and then I'm going to flip it and now you're like, oh, what's going on? [00:05:52] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, it's a. It's a. What do you call it? Idiosyncrasy or juxtaposition? Whatever. Yeah. [00:06:00] Speaker B: 58 years old. I wrote it down. [00:06:02] Speaker A: 58. Oh, you did? You looked it up? [00:06:04] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. [00:06:05] Speaker A: So he's almost 60 years old. Right. All right. So that's my full disclosure. He can really do no wrong in my eyes. I don't know if you have a comedian like that who they could in a box and you'd think was hysterical or you'd love it. Well, that would be kind of funny. [00:06:20] Speaker B: Stuart Lee, but yeah. Okay. Yeah. So Mark, you. So you love him. Full disclosure coming in. You hate him. I guess I fell into that whole, like, oh, his movies are such, like sophomore things. But I mean, you know, I like. He's got that trap as well of like, hey, I've been in comedy so long now, I want people to take me seriously. So I'm going to start doing Jim Carrey type stuff. So, you know, I loved what's it, Punk, Punch Drunk Love. Really good. I haven't seen this new one. I watched the Uncut Gems and I thought that was good. Oh, that was another interesting side to this. So after this thing finished, I'm like, wow, this was directed by a proper diary, right? [00:07:04] Speaker A: I know. [00:07:05] Speaker B: Yeah, this thing was directed and it's Josh safdie, who is 40 years old and he directed Good Time, which is a really good Robert Pattinson movie if you've seen it. He directed that. And then the Dying, the Journey. Yeah. [00:07:23] Speaker A: Him and his brother. Yeah. I was surprised. I mean, they must have gotten a relationship from that movie that he would come and do this. Yeah. So I don't know that I saw much direction. Right. But. Okay, so let's talk about the special. Right. [00:07:36] Speaker B: What is it? So I'm looking at the. [00:07:38] Speaker A: You are? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. What did you think of the premise of this special? Right, like that, you know, he shows up in the broken. Or the car with the broken window. It's kind of raw. I think it's Eddie Murphy special where he's coming into the theater. That became a thing where the standup comes into the theater. [00:07:58] Speaker B: Right. [00:07:58] Speaker A: So he's got that Right. [00:08:00] Speaker B: Sketch before it. [00:08:02] Speaker A: Yeah, right. It's all contrived, obviously. [00:08:04] Speaker B: I know. I thought he was just doing it to get his bodies. Some camera time, because I'm assuming all. All his southy bodies on there. [00:08:12] Speaker A: Well, you see some of the guys from the movies. The one guy is in there that always has the. The wonky eye in the movies. He. He always has him in there. He was in there, but not with a wonky eye. Right. Yeah. I'm sure there's some others, too, that I didn't notice. But. But the whole idea that he's booked this venue or they've booked this venue, and it's ramshackle and it, you know, it's. The shit doesn't work. This. Monitors don't work, things falling apart. The. The keyboard falls through the floor. That's got to be contrived. I mean. Right. [00:08:43] Speaker B: I'm still on the fence with it because the first thing that happens is the monitors, the screens go out. They're apparently going to be key to the whole night. And there's like a Microsoft. See, what made me suspicious is, you know what? The Lincoln Lodge is just a morass of technical failures. [00:09:02] Speaker A: Yes. [00:09:03] Speaker B: Like masquerading. Probably real. So I'm like. Initially, I'm like, oh, did he record this at the Lincoln Lodge? Like, the keyboard falls through the floor and then all the monitors go out. Like, I don't remember recording an Adam Sandler special at the Lincoln Lodge. [00:09:18] Speaker A: Yes. [00:09:19] Speaker B: And. But what was interesting was it was like a Microsoft. Like a Windows 98 on the screen. And I'm like, yeah, like, even the Lincoln Lodge is up to like Windows 7 now on our. Yeah, like Windows 98. And then I got a bit suspicious. And then later on a dog Wanders onto stage. That ain't happening accidentally, guys, like. And then that's when I think I looked up the director, and I'm like, okay, there's some contrivance in here. [00:09:49] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah. It has to be. [00:09:52] Speaker B: It has to be the monitor thing going out, and then he keeps talking to the God Mike like, hey, we got it fixed. [00:09:58] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:09:59] Speaker B: I'm like, wouldn't he be going ballistic? I know he's meant to be this sweet guy that just never gets rattled, but then why would you use that as. Why would you publish that? You'd go, no, we got to record this again, do it again, and we're gonna nail it. So I. I'm on the side of contrivance, so maybe it's. [00:10:20] Speaker A: It's just they wanted to capture first take, right? And just go with all the technical difficulties and be like, just show it as it is. It's. This is how it really is, right? [00:10:31] Speaker B: You record something, there's like, 8 million people hanging around to make sure shit does not go wrong. [00:10:36] Speaker A: Yeah, I don't think it could be. There's other things, too. Like the coffee thing. They get the wrong coffee, and then he doesn't have a shirt. He's got to wear the other guy's hoodie, right? Yeah. I don't know. Maybe they're just trying to capture the. The essence of Sandler. That's how he is, you know? Like, he's got these hangers on wherever he goes. He is. All the fans are out there wanting his autograph, right? He shows him a picture of one of the fans, shows him a picture of him, like, at his house or him sleeping on his couch. Like, why the fuck did you get that picture? Right? [00:11:10] Speaker B: Well, that was clearly a contrivance. And the guy, the old fart, that's not his grandpa or something, is some actor, I think. [00:11:19] Speaker A: Grandpa. I don't remember that. [00:11:20] Speaker B: Remember the kids with, like, an old man? And I think Sandler says to him, he's not your grandpa. [00:11:27] Speaker A: Well, they're trying to. They're just trying to get the autographs and stuff, like autograph hounds. But it won me the special. I was like, what is this? But the special won me over in the first 10 minutes, five minutes, when none other than Willie Tyler and Lester make an appearance. Come on. The opener. [00:11:47] Speaker B: Oh, is that the ventriloquist? I thought ventriloquist was like. I was kind of mad about that because he walks in and he says, who the hell books this thing? And I'm thinking, oh, like, they've deliberately Booked a really bad opening. Ventriloquist act. [00:12:00] Speaker A: No, who booked this? I think he was like, who booked this room? Right? Who booked this room? [00:12:04] Speaker B: Oh, I thought he meant who booked this guy? Why is there a ventriloquist opening for me? [00:12:09] Speaker A: No, that's Willie, Willie, Tyler and Lester. Okay, so you got to go back to early 80s. He was a. You know, he was like a Jeff Dunham of his time, right? [00:12:21] Speaker B: Proto, Otto and George. [00:12:22] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. And he would go on with this thing and it was never really funny. It was, you know how he became popular and I have no idea. But the fact that he brings him out as his opener is amazing. It's like the most amazing. Like pulling a comedian out of the fucking ether and putting him on stage with us. You haven't seen Willie Tyler in lesser. 35, 40 years. And Sandler pulled him out of nowhere. [00:12:48] Speaker B: All right. I thought that was another contrivance, but he's real. [00:12:51] Speaker A: Well, it was contrived. Bring him in, I think. But, huh. It was great, great homage to. To them. Okay, so let's start with the first sec. The first part of the. The special. I'm watching it, I'm like this grapes bit. The bit about the tattoo where he's. The guy's banging his wife, he's got a Sandler tattoo. Charlie Mungu, the One Foot man. I'm like, these jokes are awful. These are the. These are the. These jokes are terrible, right? [00:13:23] Speaker B: Really? Because they won me over, really. See that came in with hate. Like, I'm really not gonna like this. And straight out of the gate he does that grape joke. And this is amazing. [00:13:35] Speaker A: Really? [00:13:35] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:13:37] Speaker A: See, I thought they were. Those were the worst joke. And so we've watched a couple specials and you. Most people, they start off with their best stuff, right? You want to come out and win right away. He starts off with this stuff. I'm like, these are terrible, right? And I love the guy. I'm like. My wife and I were like, oh, this is going to be bad, right? But then it starts to warm up, right? The music, really well, he starts with the music, but the first musical thing with the masturbating to the box of raisins. Woman with like. That's. I didn't think that was very good. And then the hamburger bed. Some guy wants to take a picture of his hamburger, like, which is weird. Doesn't make any sense. Then the circ. How about the circus clowns bit? That starts to get a little bit better. How they go to the circus, they crash their car and Then they all back in in the same coffin, 13 of them. They still got it. Like, they're just corny, bad jokes. [00:14:28] Speaker B: That's what I was thinking was. I was like, is this some sort of like. [00:14:32] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:14:32] Speaker B: Statement? Like these are like. These are jokes that. Joking playground. Yeah, yeah. [00:14:37] Speaker A: They're jokey jokes. [00:14:38] Speaker B: Like they would. Like the. The office cutup will come and tell you this joke. [00:14:43] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:14:43] Speaker B: So I was like, me too. [00:14:45] Speaker A: That's why I was like, this what. This is what we're going to see for the next hour. But then he does the I Love the Ugly New Boyfriend song, right, where he's like, my parents love him. He's really good. And then the muttering song. [00:15:03] Speaker B: The muttering song is important. Amazing. [00:15:06] Speaker A: Amazing. It is amazing. [00:15:08] Speaker B: Absolutely amazing. I just put muttering song. Very good. [00:15:14] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:15:15] Speaker B: Before. Just before that, there was someone allegedly arguing in the crowd. Do you. [00:15:20] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:15:20] Speaker B: Do you think that was real or. [00:15:23] Speaker A: Yeah, I think, but. But it doesn't go for a big laugh or anything, you know, it's sort. [00:15:28] Speaker B: Of tamps it down. [00:15:29] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:15:30] Speaker B: Stops them. But I'm like, I've been participated in and been to a million comedy recordings. There's a guy comes out before and basically says, no drinking, no talk. You know, like threatens you. [00:15:46] Speaker A: Yeah. It's kind of like the anti special, right, where he's. He's creating all the things that have probably happened, really happen in a taping of a special that go wrong. Like anything that can go wrong in a special, he puts it in this special, right? And ending with the absurd dog running across the street. [00:16:02] Speaker B: Reminds me of when I. We did a show once. I think it was Harry Condabolo, but I'm not sure. But it was at the old Newport and there was. There was a couple arguing with this guy, right? And the guy came up to the bar and said, these people. And so the bartender says to me, oh, there's some trouble over there. So I walk up to him and I say, all right, everyone shuts up until the end of this show. Are we crystal clear? [00:16:34] Speaker A: The show in the middle of the show. [00:16:35] Speaker B: No, no. I said to the three people arguing, the couple and the guy during the. [00:16:38] Speaker A: Show, you went over and whispered. [00:16:41] Speaker B: Yeah, you all shut up now. Right? And they start. It's fucking him. [00:16:46] Speaker A: It's get louder. [00:16:47] Speaker B: And the guy's like dogging them up. The guy's just dogging them up. [00:16:50] Speaker A: Like, what does that mean? [00:16:52] Speaker B: Like, looking at them, like with intent to. To engage. So I say, so. So I say, all right, if you. If you're Going to play this game. And I sit between the couple like this for about 10 minutes, and I go. I literally said to both of them, either, like, if I hear her, if I see or hear a peep out of you. Yeah, it's a physical threat, right. And So I sit 10 minutes of the show between these people. [00:17:20] Speaker A: See how awkward that was because the comedians got to know what's going on. [00:17:24] Speaker B: But no, no, he was oblivious because I dealt with it very discreetly. And then the guy is continually dogging him up, so I drag him by the collar, and he's giving me this sob story. So I say, all right, stand by the bar for the rest of the goddamn thing, because I'm tired of dealing with this. And then at the. After the show, the couple immediately steams over to this guy, and they get into it again, and I just. [00:17:50] Speaker A: What was it about? [00:17:51] Speaker B: Who's looking at who? Or I think they were chatting between them, and he didn't like it. [00:17:56] Speaker A: So he's quiet. [00:17:57] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah. And that's. I think that's why I sided with him and didn't chuck him out. But it was one of the psychotic moments of my comedy life. The red mist came down, and I basically threatened all three of them. I was going to take them outside and beat the out of them. [00:18:14] Speaker A: Geez. [00:18:14] Speaker B: And luckily, the bartender, like, intervened and. And said, whoa. You know, like. And walked me out of there. [00:18:22] Speaker A: Wow. [00:18:22] Speaker B: But anyway, so that REM that triggered me when I saw that, because I was like, if it was me, I'd just be in the crowd and being like, all right, next word out of anyone's mouth gets a right load of this up the bracket. You know what I mean? Like, so, yeah, I'm sitting there. Anyway, carry on. Sorry. I said I wasn't going to talk too much. [00:18:40] Speaker A: No, shut the fuck. So that sounds like what he was dealing with. Right? So he's got. [00:18:45] Speaker B: He dealt with it expert beautifully. Like, can we all be friends? [00:18:48] Speaker A: You can laugh. You can laugh. And then after the show, we'll all fight. We'll go outside and fight. [00:18:51] Speaker B: But was it contrived? [00:18:53] Speaker A: Yeah, I think it was. Let's just assume everything that happens was contrived. [00:18:56] Speaker B: Carry on. [00:18:59] Speaker A: I mean, we can go through grandma kissing booth, right where. That was a good one. Botox dick, where he goes to the Y, he's Botox dick. Right? These are getting better now. [00:19:11] Speaker B: You're warming up now I'm like, oh, fuck. [00:19:13] Speaker A: I'm loving this muttering. Got me, though. That was just brilliant. [00:19:16] Speaker B: It was a piece of brilliance. [00:19:18] Speaker A: It's a. It's brilliant writing. And then just now I think he's getting even better and better one playing the guitar. It used to be play like a couple chords just to get the song out, but the guitar playing is nuanced now. It's. [00:19:29] Speaker B: He got all those guitars, six guitars at the side of the stage. [00:19:32] Speaker A: Yeah, right. So like, I never was a fan of the guitar humor, really. Whenever a guitar comes out, I'm like, you know. [00:19:39] Speaker B: Yeah. But he's using it in a good way. [00:19:42] Speaker A: I think he's using it better now than ever. Right. And comedians aren't like, to me, musicians, or maybe they are to some people, but you know, like Rolling Stones, they come out with a new album. It's like, the fuck, I don't want to hear this. Right. Whatever it is, I don't care. It could be great. I don't want to hear it. But comedians, as they get older, can get better. [00:19:59] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:19:59] Speaker A: Yeah, right. I don't think Bob Dylan can write better songs anymore. Yeah, right. Or Jagger and Richards can come up with better music. I don't think is that possible? But I think comedians can. Can get better as they get older. [00:20:09] Speaker B: Yeah, they should be. [00:20:10] Speaker A: Right. [00:20:11] Speaker B: I got a note here. So we talked about they did the ymca, Disneyland stuff, the Botox, dick, yc, ymca and then going to Disneyland. I can't believe, though, he does working class stuff. [00:20:24] Speaker A: What do you mean? [00:20:25] Speaker B: Adam Sandler does not go to the YMCA and does not take his family to Disney. Everyone will be like, holy, that's Adam Sandler. [00:20:32] Speaker A: Have you. I haven't seen much of it, but there's all kinds of videos out there. He's huge on pickup basketball. So he goes anywhere and plays pickup basketball and I play here in the city and I know some guys that have been trying to get him to come. Like when he comes through to come and play pickup basketball with us. So no, I don't think he hangs around the ymca. But this guy is working with us. He's out. He'll kind of like Bill Murray will be fucking show up at your bar and just be hanging out. [00:20:57] Speaker B: Okay. [00:20:57] Speaker A: So I don't, I don't think that's necessarily true, but I don't think it necessarily went to Disneyland. Right. [00:21:02] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. Well, if he did, he was on like a private, like, superstar, where they put you at the head of the queue and all that. Yeah. [00:21:10] Speaker A: He toes the line between working class and in his rich celebrity life. Right. Like when the songs talk about, you know, picking up the pool toys and things like that. Right. So he doesn't try to be working class, but, you know, he doesn't. [00:21:23] Speaker B: I got the clinically depressed song was. [00:21:25] Speaker A: That was my. That might have been my favorite. Oh, my God, I wish I could do these songs right. Where he's like, here, get up, walk the dog, go to lunch with my landlord, come home, watch Jerry Maguire again. Got a good life, pretty good life. I'm clinically depressed. I mean, walking kills me. I was. I see. Now we're talk. So where some of these other communities. Don't make me laugh. I'm laughing out loud. [00:21:53] Speaker B: It's definitely a momentum gathering thing, which is always good, I think, in a comedy. You know, they always say, oh, you got to come out smoking hot. And then you can lull and no gain. You gotta gain. Gotta gain momentum. [00:22:06] Speaker A: Yep. [00:22:06] Speaker B: Until it's a freight train at the end. [00:22:08] Speaker A: Yep. And. And he comes out slow and he's just starting to build and build. Right. [00:22:12] Speaker B: And then the genie no wipe joke is. [00:22:15] Speaker A: That is crazy weird, right? Bamford's weird, right. This is Sandler being really weird, right. With I don't know where. You know, so bizarre, right? [00:22:26] Speaker B: It starts off as like. Like I say, like a. [00:22:28] Speaker A: You watch my bag. [00:22:29] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. It starts off like just a lunchroom joke. Like he's like, oh, I know how this is going to end. [00:22:35] Speaker A: And that's how a lot of the bits on the comedy albums are too. Right. [00:22:38] Speaker B: And then he's. Next thing, he's like jerking off a guy in the. In the bathroom stall because of genius. [00:22:46] Speaker A: To get world peace. Right? [00:22:48] Speaker B: Yeah. I put genius next to that. [00:22:51] Speaker A: Genius. Yeah. [00:22:51] Speaker B: And then just the ending with the Ben Still. You're not Ben Still. [00:22:55] Speaker A: Yeah. I mean, oh, boy. But I thought the best of the songs was the next one after that was when he's like, you want to get funky? And he went and got the hat and the glasses. He got the bass. And that first bit about old guy with a kid looking the wrong way at soccer practice. Like, if I could fall asleep in Chuck E. Cheese, got a 20 year old he doesn't really talk to. Oh, my God, that's amazing. [00:23:23] Speaker B: And he kept coming up with better, funnier people. [00:23:26] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:23:27] Speaker B: And that. Does he end with the guy in. The guy with a backpack in the center. [00:23:30] Speaker A: Yeah. At the movies, guys got me scared shitless every time he moves. [00:23:36] Speaker B: Oh, it's just some Twizzlers. [00:23:38] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. Oh, my God. [00:23:40] Speaker B: Wait, hang on. That's not the wolf song though, is it? Yes, it. [00:23:43] Speaker A: That's the base. No, no, the wolf. The wolf One likes. Shit's gonna scary coming. [00:23:49] Speaker B: No, no. Yeah, no, I got it. Yeah. Yeah. So I've kind of ruined the. The thing and then the dog runs onto stage and I. [00:23:55] Speaker A: Is that when it. [00:23:56] Speaker B: Right around there, that song? And then I just put no way accidental. [00:24:00] Speaker A: Yeah. What about the Merriam Webster bit where he talks about, you know, the guy who wrote the dictionary? [00:24:08] Speaker B: I thought that was a really, like. It's like he's been doing all this, like, you know, goofies. And then all of a sudden he's like, all right, here's an intellectual one for the. For the educated. [00:24:19] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:24:19] Speaker B: Because I just put. This is a joke with an actual structure that might be taught to aspiring comedians. [00:24:25] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:24:26] Speaker B: This is how you do it. [00:24:27] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. It was a well crafted joke. [00:24:29] Speaker B: Exactly. [00:24:29] Speaker A: And he kind of intersperses these. Like he doesn't do a bunch of bits and then finish with music. The back and forth between the music and the bits, which I thought was. He did deftly. [00:24:39] Speaker B: Yes. [00:24:40] Speaker A: Love the Getting a divorce song. Anything that has to do with divorce. [00:24:44] Speaker B: Or like, talking of which, you watching this on your own? You got the tribe, you got the wife who's in there? [00:24:52] Speaker A: Yeah. It's. So with these, I try to watch them twice. Right. And so watch. My wife's. Always wants to watch them now, which is bringing us together. I think this is helping my marriage. Right. I'm doing something with my wife and then I'll watch it again and take notes. And my kid's always out in the room and he'll. They'll come around and watch stuff with me. So my kids fa. My kid's favorite one was the one about where they put the spotlight on the guy in the audience. [00:25:19] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:25:20] Speaker A: That guy right there. The guy with a drone at the beach. [00:25:24] Speaker B: Yep. [00:25:25] Speaker A: Making everybody uncomfortable. [00:25:28] Speaker B: That's got to throw up some tricky questions. Watching comedy with kids, though. [00:25:34] Speaker A: Yeah. Probably from some. For a lot of parents. Right. But it's kind of a free for all at this point, you know, with my kids and my family, they're old, they're older, they're all teenagers now. We've just, you know, taken the governor off of everything. But we were talking about that. [00:25:52] Speaker B: Talking of which. Having sex with a balloon. [00:25:55] Speaker A: Oh, well, before that one, maybe my other favorite one was the song about Mommy. Why is the door locked? [00:26:02] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:26:03] Speaker A: Because this is like, if you're. You've got kids, this is. You deal with all the time. Right. Like kids trying to get in while you're having sex. Oh, my God. Damn. My daddy's Saying yes. Yeah. I could share some stories. Yeah. But that. I guess my least favorite one was the balloon one. That was just. That was a little too far. [00:26:26] Speaker B: That was too weird again. [00:26:28] Speaker A: Yeah. Like. Yeah, but you like the weirder ones. It's. [00:26:31] Speaker B: Yeah. Like when he goes surreal. [00:26:32] Speaker A: Eating a balloon. [00:26:33] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. When he goes surreal, like, that's just an extra push for me. [00:26:41] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:26:41] Speaker B: And then it's the scary song. [00:26:43] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:26:43] Speaker B: I like. You know what I like most about it was. And this is why there was a Clearly a director in the room. Every time he did that, the tag thing at the end, the camera zoomed in on him. [00:26:54] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [00:26:56] Speaker B: Every time he Wolf. How the camera would zoom in. [00:26:58] Speaker A: Yeah, that. [00:26:59] Speaker B: Right. [00:26:59] Speaker A: That's right. That was. [00:27:00] Speaker B: And that takes a director. [00:27:01] Speaker A: Yes. Yes. Yeah. And. [00:27:05] Speaker B: And. And he has to be cognizant of knowing where there's a camera. [00:27:11] Speaker A: Yes. [00:27:11] Speaker B: To. Unless they spliced in the same shot. And I didn't see it. So that is like. Okay, this is not contrived at this point. This is a very well executed. [00:27:24] Speaker A: And I think. I think that's like the, the ethos of Sandler and this special is he works very hard and is very meticulous about looking sloppy and making it seem sloppy. But none of this is right. This is all. [00:27:38] Speaker B: I bet you loved how he was dressed then. [00:27:40] Speaker A: Oh, my God. Yeah. [00:27:41] Speaker B: Because we talked about that with like a Boston slob. [00:27:43] Speaker A: Yeah. With sweatpants on. But he's always dressed like that. Right. I love it. Yeah, that's the best. See? What do you think about Schneider coming out and doing Elvis? [00:27:54] Speaker B: Ah, that told me a little bit to work out. Like, what is the goddamn point of this? I mean, it was good energy, like. And I didn't. I wasn't sitting there thinking, oh, I wish this had stop, it's pointless. I was just. [00:28:08] Speaker A: He sung well, he sang well, Sang really well. [00:28:11] Speaker B: And he was into it, doing all the Schneider. I don't know. It's like Sandler. Was it Schneider, Spade. Well, Farley's dead and then there's a couple more who are like his crew. [00:28:24] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:28:25] Speaker B: So I assume it was just like, oh, poor old Rob's been cancelled for being right wing and nothing's going well. [00:28:31] Speaker A: He's gone. Right. [00:28:32] Speaker B: Nothing's going well. I'll just throw him a bone. He can come and do Elvis on the special. [00:28:38] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:28:39] Speaker B: For no apparent reason. [00:28:42] Speaker A: When they zoomed in on him, he looked weird, though. Like Botox or something. Like, he. He looked really strange. I don't know if he's trying to look, because skin looked crazy. He was all. I'm sure they were trying to make him look sweaty and everything. [00:28:54] Speaker B: I think they were trying to Elvis him and that was it. [00:28:57] Speaker A: But, yeah, but that wasn't meant to be funny necessarily. Just, you know, throw him out there to do that. [00:29:01] Speaker B: Yeah, throw a curveball in there. And then. [00:29:05] Speaker A: And then the bet. [00:29:07] Speaker B: The bit that I think both you and I probably loved. Did you cry? [00:29:12] Speaker A: I did. I did. [00:29:13] Speaker B: I bet you did. [00:29:14] Speaker A: I mean, I didn't. I didn't weep, but I felt I was trying not to, like, fuck have tears in front of my kid. Yeah, yeah. [00:29:20] Speaker B: Because honestly, that was the point. I think I deliberately didn't watch it when Heather was there because I thought she's just going to hate it. And then, you know, it's going to make it even harder for me to give it a fair shake. But I think Heather walked, like, towards halfway through that song. And I'm really trying not to, like, well, some tears up, because it was like, wow, this is like. This is really good. [00:29:43] Speaker A: Yeah, it's so genuine and sincere, right? [00:29:46] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. And so we should explain no one's going to listen to this, but it's a song where he's thanking the comedians of his life. [00:29:56] Speaker A: Well, not. [00:29:57] Speaker B: Yes, he's thanking them and his peers. [00:29:59] Speaker A: Yeah. I don't look at it as a song. Look at it as a song where he's thanking as much as it's a. It's a prescription, Right. Like, life is hard and rough and it's almost like a song to his children, like. And it starts out that way, like, life's gonna kick your ass. Always turn to comedy. Right? Like, that will get you through. Like, laugh this shit off. Just don't take anything too seriously. Keep it moving. Right? And then it gets into his favorite comedians, which, you know, I knew you would love. Right. Because it goes way back. [00:30:35] Speaker B: Well, it's a bit too Amer, obviously. I'm sitting there going, this is. We got Python, got Benny Hill. He's got Python, Benny Hill. And Peter Sellers is his only real shout out. But, I mean, I wouldn't expect it. I was just thinking, though, oh, for me to really like this song, it would have to have. [00:30:56] Speaker A: It would have to be. I went back and. And rewatched it just to see who he like. Did he get this person in there? Did he miss this person? Because that's. That had to be the hardest thing about putting that song and that montage together was. Yeah, yeah, who did I leave out? Right. You don't want to. Because every comedian is going to watch it. Like, did I make it in that reel? [00:31:15] Speaker B: Oh, I meant to go back to the song as well because there was two in there that really surprised me. [00:31:21] Speaker A: Two call outs or two people in the video? [00:31:24] Speaker B: Two people in the video. I was like, wow, I can't believe he pulled that one. [00:31:30] Speaker A: Which was. [00:31:31] Speaker B: I gotta go back. I meant to go back to it because I was gonna write, you know, they were coming thick and fast. [00:31:37] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:31:38] Speaker B: You know, and he started off with python early on and that kind of hooked me. And then there was a couple in there that I was like, oh, that's a really good deep cut. Like, that's a comedian's comedian. Like, he threw a few in there where it's like, you the great unwashed don't know them. Yeah, he put him in. [00:31:56] Speaker A: Yeah. I wonder who it is. [00:31:57] Speaker B: Yeah. Maybe I'll go back and I'll text them to you, but. [00:32:00] Speaker A: Oh, no, I know. I wrote down a couple. I couldn't get them all, but because we had talked about this before, Jerky Boys made it. [00:32:06] Speaker B: Jerky Boys, Yeah. Is that one of them that pulled me in? Yep. [00:32:09] Speaker A: David Brenner makes it in there. You wouldn't think that he's considered like a lame 80s stand up, but. [00:32:15] Speaker B: Yeah, I mean, I'm aware of him. Who else? Maybe you got the ones. [00:32:19] Speaker A: Well, I only. Was it. Were there any omissions that, I mean, you. [00:32:23] Speaker B: You can't. [00:32:24] Speaker A: Like, like, why didn't this person make it in? To me, there was Larry David. Larry David doesn't make it in there. And if he did, I didn't see him. Right. He's got Seinfeld. Yeah, but he didn't have Larry David. [00:32:41] Speaker B: I was like, you've only got two minutes to do. I'm sure. I don't know if he. He was just doing these. This is Adam Sandler's opinion. Or if he really roundtabled it and said, all right, let's go for inclusivity and stuff here. [00:32:55] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:32:57] Speaker B: I assume it was just he sat down and said, all right, who made me laugh. [00:33:00] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. I mean, there's people he calls out by name and then there's people that just go by in the room. [00:33:05] Speaker B: And obviously he puts, you know, Farley at the end for the heart. The real heartstring togger and all of that stuff. Right. [00:33:12] Speaker A: Farley was towards the end or at the end, but the one that ends it, my favorite comedian of all time, Norm MacDonald. [00:33:21] Speaker B: Oh, is Norm. [00:33:22] Speaker A: Norm was the last one. [00:33:23] Speaker B: Yeah. All right. [00:33:24] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:33:25] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Because it was a little like in Memorial. [00:33:28] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:33:28] Speaker B: He bleeds into In Memoriam, like, hard at the end. Right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Huh. I forgot Norm was the last one. God, I wish I could remember. The other two were that. You know, the ones that were like, wow, that's a good one. [00:33:41] Speaker A: But anyway, well, I wrote down here who. Like, when he talks about the Three Stooges and Jerry Lewis, who were yours when you were a kid? Who was it that just made you love comedy? [00:33:56] Speaker B: There's two. There's Spike Milligan, who is sort of known in America. He. He was the. So he was interesting because he came back from World War II shell shocked and he was insane. Like, literally, man, a red button. Said, like, yeah, you know, he got. He got. He got hit by a bomb, you know what I mean? Nearby. And then he couldn't deal with noise and stuff. And it gave him this manic depressive quality. And he really invented alternative comedy, if you want to. If you trace it back. [00:34:29] Speaker A: Who did he influence from there? [00:34:30] Speaker B: Well, he did this show. Yeah, exactly. So he influenced Python and the blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But it was the Goon show, which is. If you ever listen to a Goon show, you may have heard of it. If you're sort of a comedy, they're just insane. It's him, Peter Sellers and this and another couple of guys that you won't be familiar with. So I used to watch Spike Milligan and he was just, you know, the insanity, really, of what was doing it. And then my dad never, ever, ever had a limit button. If I wanted to watch comedy, I could watch it. It didn't matter. Watch it. What? [00:35:07] Speaker A: It was unfiltered. [00:35:08] Speaker B: Yeah. And so Spike. And then the landmark moment in comedy, in England at least, was when the Young Ones came in this TV show. I remember going into school the day after the Young first episode of Young Ones and the world had changed. There wasn't one kid in school that wasn't talking about that show. And it was like, okay, this is new now. Like, this is. And Rick Mayall, who played Rick in the show, was just the king of it. So that would be the two that I would say they are just on a par with gods. [00:35:46] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:35:47] Speaker B: What about you? You said Norm, right? [00:35:49] Speaker A: Well, yeah, but for me, it's just. It's Sandler and the whole Saturday Night Live. All Siren left. That shows my golden time. Yeah, the early Siren Live. Eddie Murphy, early 80s. Yeah. [00:36:02] Speaker B: We'll have to do a Murphy one soon. [00:36:04] Speaker A: Well, we have the 50th anniversary of starting live, coming up. I think in a week or two. [00:36:08] Speaker B: They're having special playing it all year. Oh, okay. [00:36:11] Speaker A: Yeah, it's this year. [00:36:12] Speaker B: So are we gonna watch that then? [00:36:14] Speaker A: Yeah, I think we should. Yeah, I think we should. Yeah, that'll be good. All right. Well, I'm glad you cried. I don't know how much you cry. How many. [00:36:20] Speaker B: Almost. No. Heather walked. [00:36:22] Speaker A: No. To no actual tear on the cheek. [00:36:23] Speaker B: No. No. No single tear. [00:36:25] Speaker A: But I think I got a single one to come out of the. [00:36:27] Speaker B: I could have let go. If Heather hadn't walked in. I could have. But, you know, when the missus comes in, you gotta suck the tears back and. [00:36:36] Speaker A: Well, I think for people who comedy has meant so much to, like, I don't think you can feel anything but. [00:36:42] Speaker B: Emotional if you love comedy. And he played that song. [00:36:45] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:36:46] Speaker B: You had to react to it. No way. If you don't react to that song, you don't love comedy. [00:36:51] Speaker A: Well, I think I'm. I'm surprised, but I think this. [00:36:55] Speaker B: This podcast not going well because we fucking like everything. [00:36:59] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. Let's pick some things. I thought you would hate this. [00:37:02] Speaker B: I did as well. [00:37:04] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:37:04] Speaker B: I've been walking around all week going. [00:37:06] Speaker A: Yeah, I was expecting to have to, like, lock horns with you here. [00:37:09] Speaker B: No, no, this is. This is a failed experiment. [00:37:12] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah, it might be. We'll find something we don't like. [00:37:15] Speaker B: All right. [00:37:17] Speaker A: So, yeah, obviously, for me, confirmed kill. He confirmed kill was great. [00:37:21] Speaker B: Yeah. Surprise. It was like a sniper kill. [00:37:24] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:37:24] Speaker B: Because you were you staring down the barrel of the gun. I. The grassy knoll just got you. [00:37:30] Speaker A: Got you. Yep. [00:37:31] Speaker B: Back into the head up. [00:37:33] Speaker A: Oh, it's great. I'm glad I could do that for you. [00:37:37] Speaker B: All right, thank you. So do we have a next one?