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The Hanukkah Song III

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The setup

Adam Sandler returns to the SNL stage with a guitar, a children's choir and Rob Schneider to belt out a third helping of his Hanukkah name-checking novelty song.

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The premise

Here’s the bit.

Opening the show, Adam Sandler stands at a microphone in front of a large choir of kids in matching red menorah sweatshirts and strums through an updated edition of his holiday song about famous Jewish people. Portraits of the celebrities he mentions pop up on monitors around the set as the verses go by, and the choir backs up the chorus. Midway through, former castmate Rob Schneider bounds in with his own microphone to trade lines, hamming it up beside Sandler as the singalong builds toward a big group finish.

A little extra

Notes from the archive.

This third version of Sandler's Chanukah Song adds Rob Schneider and a children's choir, the Drei-Dels, and was also included on the Eight Crazy Nights soundtrack. SNL Archives notes that this live performance is replaced by the dress rehearsal version in reruns.

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