Adam Sandler Finally Hosted 'Saturday Night Live'
Adam Sandler is one of the biggest movie stars that Saturday Night Live has ever produced, but his career on the show ended unceremoniously with his firing in 1995. But last night, Sandler hosted SNL for the first time ever. And some of his biggest moments of the night-from his opening monologue, through the return of a beloved old character, to the touching finale-were musical.
"I was 23 years old when I started here," Sandler recalled. "David Spade and Ron Schneider were 25, Norm Macdonald was maybe 60." After declaring that his years on SNL were the best in his life, Sandler launched into a song about why he left: “I was fired.”
I was fired, not rehired
Well it made me sad and blue
I told my boy Chris Farley I got fired, and he said,
“Sandman, they fired my ass too.”
Chris Rock, who was on the show with Sandler, joined him for a verse.
I was fired, I was fired
I was fired by NBC
Then I went on In Living Color
Three weeks later they took it off TV
"You hang in there," Sandler reassured Rock. "Keep going after your dream."
Pete Davidson next came on stage, launching into his own verse of “I Was Fired” before being interrupted. “Pete, you weren’t fired,” Sandler cut in.
“I wasn’t? How’s that even possible?" Davidson asked.
“I don’t know,” Sandler responded, “But be patient, ‘cause it’s coming soon.”
Sandler made piece with his dismissal from SNL by the end of the song, considering the fact that things worked out for him pretty well:
I was fired, I was fired
NBC said I was done
Then I made over 4 billion dollars at the box office
So I guess you could say I won.
Weekend Updateresurrected Opera Man, a tuxedo wearing and bewigged Sandler character who sings the news over familiar tunes. His medley touched on everything from the 2020 presidential candidates, the Kentucky Derby upset, to the nation's favorite TV show:
Game of Thrones-ah
Almost finito
Molto exciting
Edge of my seat-o
We can’t wait for final show-ah
So we can cancel our HBO-ah
And Sandler closed the show by playing a musical tribute to his friend and fellow SNL alum Chris Farley, who died of a drug overdose in 1997. The song, which originally debuted in Sandler’s Netflix stand up special, featured a loving mix of profane jokes and fond remembrances. "After the show he’d drink a quart of Jack Daniels, then stick the bottle right up his ass," Sandler sang of Farley during their SNL days. "But hungover as hell that Catholic boy always showed up to morning mass."
"We’d tell him slow down, you’ll end up like Belushi and Candy," Sandler said of Farley’s struggles with addiction, "He said, 'Those guys are my heroes, that’s all fine and dandy.'"
"You’re a legend like you wanted but I’m wishing you were here with me," Sandler concluded, "And we were getting on a plane to go shoot Grown Ups 3."
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