Adam Sandler
Adam Sandler was born on September 6, 1966. His career basically started when he was picked up by Lorne Micheals and given a position on Saturday Night Live, his offbeat humor used through humorous songs would light up every stage, in fact his most famous character was based on this talent (Opera Man). He could also play an idiot very well, he puts on a Stan Laurel smile and then he talks with a stutter creating a completely amusing character. Which everyone knows is pathetic and think of that when they are laughing hysterically when people are beating him up. He used this in one Saturday Night Live Skit (canteen boy) which he later transformed into a movie called The Waterboy.
He first had a cameo in the film Shakes the Clown that was horrible although it sported stars such as Adam Sandler and Robin Williams nothing could have helped this film. It was about a would be comic clown that was an alcoholic who’s slowly disintegrating career finally ends when he get arrested and charged for murder.
He then costarred in Coneheads in this film he had a small part in which he gave Beldar a new identity, this film was alright not sporting the full hilariousness that it had in the skit. Based on Saturday Night Live Skit. I this movie Beldar Crashes on Earth then works his way up to having a good job and a nice house, and than a kid. At the end he ended up back on his planet fighting the punishment for abandoning is planet. Starring Dan Aykroyd, Jane Curtin, Michelle Burke, Micheal McKean, Jason Alexander, Lisa Jane Persky, Chris Farley, David Spade, Phil Hartman, Dave Thomas, Sinbad, Jan Hooks, Michael Richards, John Lovitz, Kevin Nealon, Adam Sandler, Garret Morris, Lorraine Newman, Tim Meadows, Julia Sweeney, Ellen DeGeneres, and Parker Posey.
In Mixed Nuts Adam plays beside Steve Martin in this comical movie about a non-intelligent suicide help line. It was not given the best rating but it is fun to watch. It was said to be a black comedy about an inept suicide help line in Venice, California on misadventures on Christmas Eve. Starring Nora Ephron, Steve Martin, Madeline Kahn, Rita Wilson, Robert Klein, Anthony LaPaglia, Juliette Lewis, Rob Reiner, Adam Sandler, Liev Schreiber, Joely Fischer, Parker Posey and John Stewart.
In Airheads he plays one of the band members that is holding the record company hostage. Three meatheads with toy guns filled with tobasco sauce hold a record company hostage hoping to get play on their demo tape, not exactly good subject in which to satire and in a result not a very funny movie. Starring Brendan Fraser, Joe Montenga, Steve Buscemi, Adam Sandler, Chris Farley, Micheal McKean, Judd Nelson, Ernie Hudson, Amy Locane, and Nina Sienaszko.
Going Overboard was Adam Sandler’s first starring role in which he plays a cruise-ship waiters who longs to be a comedian, not even worth seeing do to the lame jokes and dumb subject matter. Starring Adam Sandler, Tom Hodges, Lisa Collins, Billy Zane, Ricky Paul Goldin, and Burt Young.
Billy Madison was Adam Sandler’s first big success, he plays a lasy business owners son who is going no where. His Father decides to retire and hand the business over to his employee. But Adam wants the business so he goes back to school to prove to his father that he can graduate and run the family business. He suceeds and hands the business over to crazy Carl. Strrin Adam Sandler, Bradley Whitford, Josh Mostel, Bridgette Wilson, Darren McGavin, Chris Farley, and Norm MaCdonald.
He then starred in the box office hit Happy Gilmore about a wanna be ice hockey player who can’t skate or handle the puck, he is then discovered by the golf legend Chubbs Peterson who makes Happy realize that he is a golfer not a hockey player. Starring Adam Sandler, Christopher McDonald, Julie Bowen, Frances Bay, Carl Weathers, and Kevin Nealon.
After this his movies started to become more and more popukar infact each one from here on in has been a box office hit unlike his first few.
He recently starred in three films The Wedding Singer in which Sandler uses his musical talents to portray a wedding singer who is left standing at the alter, in turn this makes him hate weddings. He later meets the engaged Julia who is married to the cheating Glenn and Sandler and Julia end up falling in love and marrying each other. Starring Adam Sandler, Drew Barrymore, Steve Buscemi, and Alexis Araquette.
He also starred in the box office hit in which he took his role as canteen boy and lengthened it to establish the Waterboy script. He put on a Stan Laurel smile and talked in a stutter and that basically is the waterboy. He is a college football team waterboy who is fired and then finds a job as a Waterboy at another college. He is made fun of a lot by the team quarterback and then finally lets out all his aggression on him. They immediately sign him up for the football team due to his strength and he leads them to win the Bourbon Bowl. Starring Adam Sandler, Kathy Bates, Faruza Balk, Henry Winkler, and Roy Shneider.
His latest movie is Big Daddy In which He uses a fake identity so that he can take care of a young boy he ends up going to court for custody. Starring Adam Sandler, Roy Schneider, and Steve Buscemi.
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