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Weekend Update: Adam Sandler's Thanksgiving Song
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The setup
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The premise
Here’s the bit.
Kevin Nealon announces that every Thanksgiving a different cast member will write and perform an original song for the holiday, and he hands the first turn to Adam Sandler. Promising to be entertaining and a little moving, Sandler strums an acoustic guitar and opens with a slow, repetitive chant about loving turkey. The verses that follow keep returning to the dinner table but rhyme their way into unrelated asides about old movie stars, Elvis fans, a sitcom catchphrase, a baseball trade, a boxing scandal and a childhood summer camp, drawing groans and laughter from the audience. Midway through, Sandler talks a reluctant Nealon into singing a verse with him, then stretches the final note of his holiday wish before Nealon thanks him and signs off.
The funny people
Meet the cast. 2
Say it with us
Highly quotable.
Turkey for me, turkey for you, let's eat turkey in a big brown shoe.
Love to eat the turkey at the table, I once saw a movie with Betty Grable.
Eat that turkey all night long, 50 million Elvis fans can't be wrong.
Behind the scenes
The people who made it.
A little extra
Notes from the archive.
Adam Sandler wrote the song with Robert Smigel and Ian Maxtone-Graham. Nealon introduced it as the start of a yearly tradition in which a different cast member would sing, but Sandler returned the next Thanksgiving with a new version in the style of Bruce Springsteen. A live recording of the song appeared on Sandler's 1993 debut album, They're All Gonna Laugh at You!
Script
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- 00:01
Kevin Nealon
Tonight, we start what we hope will become a weekend update tradition. Every Thanksgiving from now on, a different SNL performer will compose and sing an original song to commemorate the holiday. We couldn't think of a better person to begin this tradition than our own Adam Sandler.
- 00:14
Adam Sandler
Oh, thank you. Thank you, Kevin. Thank you.
- 00:21
Kevin Nealon ?
All right, Adam, are
- 00:22
Adam Sandler
Yes, I am, Kevin. I've worked all week on my song, and I hope you'll be entertained and a little moved.
- 00:29
Adam Sandler
love Love to eat turkey. turkey love to eat turkey love to eat turkey cause it's good love to eat the turkey like a good boy should cause it's turkey to eat so good a turkey for me turkey for you let's eat turkey in a big brown shoe. Love to eat the turkey at the table. I once saw a movie with Betty Grable. Eat that turkey all night long. 50 million Elvis fans can't be wrong. Turkey turkey dee, turkey turkey daf. I eat that turkey and I take a nap. Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving is a special night. Jimmy Walker used to say dynamite Turkey That's right with the gravy and the cranberry Can't believe the meds traded that for strawberry Turkey for you and a turkey for me Can't believe Tyson gave the girl BD Oh God. A gobble, gobble bee A gobble, gobble docky I used to go to camp at Lake Winnipeg Come on, Kevin.
- 01:59
Kevin Nealon ?
No, that's okay.
- 02:00
Adam Sandler ?
Oh, it'll be fun.
- 02:04
Kevin Nealon ?
Okay.
- 02:06
A turkey for me and a turkey for you. Let's feed the turkey in a big brown shoe. The turkey leaves me and the turkey leaves Duncan. Turkey love to eat the turkey with a lot of stuffing.
- 02:20
Adam Sandler ?
Turkey and sweet potato pie. Sammy Davis Jr. only had one eye. Oh, turkey with the girls and a turkey with the boys. My favorite kind of pants are cordial, Royce, gobble, gobble, gee, and a gobble, gobble, giggle. I wish her he could only cost a nickel On love turkey. Thanksgiving THANKSGIVING. HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYBODY!
- 02:58
Kevin Nealon
I'M KEVIN NEELAN AND THAT'S NEWS TO ME.
- 03:02
ALL RIGHT!
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