Adam Sandler was awarded the 24th Mark Twain Prize for American Humor on Sunday night. The key, the thing at the heart of it all, Sandler said, is family, which “gave me some insane weird confidence about myself that I guess I still carry today.”
When Sandler, 56, walked onstage at the end of the nearly three-hour event, he offered a few jokes — “As I look at this goofy award I’m holding, I can’t help but think that one day it might be the weapon used to bludgeon me in my sleep by a disgruntled intruder or possibly Mr. Rob Schneider” — but mostly focused on how much his friends and family made him the global star we know today.His older brother urged him to get into acting. His father introduced him to Johnny Mathis and other cool music.
After the opening musical number, Conan O’Brien took the stage, where he shared his memory of first meeting Sandler — whom O’Brien said had his pants around his ankles, his eyes crossed and a pencil protruding from the place where the sun don’t shine — at SNL in 1991.“You’re making a terrible, terrible mistake,” O’Brien added. “This entire event is a sad, corrupt display,” suggesting that Sandler thought Mark Twain was Shania Twain’s cousin.
Aniston and Drew Barrymore, both of whom have played alongside Sandler in rom-coms and whose “sole purpose is to make Adam look good in movies,” as Tim Meadows joked, turned their gratitude into a bit where they began arguing about who was Sandler’s favorite.
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