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Sandler Family Reunion
The setup
The premise
Here’s the bit.
Adam Sandler shows up at a family reunion in a banquet room, trading a quick joke with the waiter before cousins, an uncle and a crowd of relatives swarm him. Several of them talk, dress and shout like characters from his films, and when a family member warns that anyone around him might end up in a movie, one relative after another insists a famous role was really based on him. Adam half-admits to borrowing from the family out of love, then goes to greet his furious mother, whose insults sink the mood. The reunion ends with everyone squeezing together for a group photo.
The funny people
Meet the cast. 11
Say it with us
Highly quotable.
Will somebody get this kid a Happy Meal?
A. My first name is Chubbs. B. I have a fake hand. And C. I'm a golf instructor.
A little extra
Notes from the archive.
Adam Sandler hosted this episode of Saturday Night Live, with Shawn Mendes as musical guest.
Script
Automatically generated script; wording may contain errors. Speaker labels are inferred.
- 00:02
Waiter
Here's your Heineken, Mr. Sandler. -"I'm so cold. Do you want to drink tiny?" He's like Billy Madison.
- 00:10
Adam Sandler
-"That's right. Yeah, yeah. I got that. It was very funny."
- 00:12
Waiter
-"Yo, if you don't mind me asking, how do you come up with, like, all your characters and stuff?"
- 00:17
Adam Sandler
-"You know, I don't know. I just, they kind of just come to me."
- 00:20
Waiter
-"That's kind of a lame answer, but all right. Enjoy your reunion, man."
- 00:24
Adam Sandler
-"Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's lots of Sandlers here. It's a sandstorm. All right, all right."
- 00:28
Cousin Ray
-"Well, hello, Mr. Hollywood, you big shot. Yeah, it's Cousin Ray and Cousin Matt.
- 00:35
Adam Sandler
Good to see you guys.
- 00:36
Cousin Matt
Yes, sir. Habba-da-boo-boo! Habba-da-bee-coo! Habba-dee-oh-jah-hoo!
- 00:42
Cousin Ray
Adam, I was so excited when I heard you were coming. I went, habba-do, habba-do-hoo-hoo!
- 00:47
Adam Sandler
I know, I know. It's been forever. How you guys been?
- 00:50
Cousin Matt
Trying to get my real estate license right now. Who knows? We shall see-hoo!
- 00:56
Adam Sandler
Great, great, man. Good luck.
- 00:58
Cousin Ray
As for me, I got a gada-da-foo-hoo.
- 01:01
Relative in Blue Puffer Jacket
of course, very messy. She wasn't screwing, he's the best of friends. No, ha, ha, ha, Shannon! You, Shannon! Oh, Shannon!
- 01:11
Adam Sandler
Come on, this kid's here. Oh, my God, is that my nephew, Sean? Or he's still at the kids' table? What's wrong? What's wrong? You want the boots? You want something else? You want the guns? Will somebody get this kid a Happy Meal?
- 01:27
Relative in Blue Puffer Jacket
Excuse me. Ray, may I have everyone's attention, please? Hello, Sandlers. Hey, how you doing? How you doing?
- 01:37
Relative in Blue Puffer Jacket
I just wanted to say big hand for Ron Baker and Janet Sandler-Baker for planning this whole thing.
- 01:48
Ron Baker
Our pleasure.
- 01:49
Relative in Fishing Vest
Ahibba-dee-dee-ba-da-doo. Yeah, yeah, you know, I'm still not great at this. Y'all doing, like, a little invisible clarinet thing. You know, it doesn't matter. Sleep with the Bebop.
- 02:01
Ron Baker
And we're so happy to have Cousin Adam with us this year. But watch what you say around him, because you might end up in one of his movies.
- 02:11
Adam Sandler
What? I don't use you guys for material.
- 02:14
Janet Sandler-Baker
Well, now, I don't know about that. You know, because now I saw a movie where you played someone that looked just like me, dear. And I see that on the big old screen, and I said, I said, hey, hey, that's me. It's me up there now.
- 02:27
Adam Sandler
No, no, no, no. I promise you Bobby Boucher is not based on you.
- 02:32
Janet Sandler-Baker
I know that. I was talking about the Big Daddy movie.
- 02:38
Adam Sandler
Well, not that either. I can promise you.
- 02:41
Chubbs
Well, I know at McGilmore, that Chubbs was based on me. How do I know this? A. My first name is Chubbs. B. I have a fake hand. And C. I'm a golf instructor. It's all in the hips. You stole that from me?!
- 02:59
Adam Sandler
All right, all right. Maybe I borrowed some stuff from you guys, but I swear to you, I did it out of love.
- 03:03
Chubbs
Yeah, sure you did.
- 03:04
Ron Baker
Everybody enjoyed the party. Hey,
- 03:08
Cousin Matt
uh, excuse me. Are we gonna do the karaoke now?
- 03:11
Adam Sandler
Oh, no, no. The karaoke is canceled.
- 03:15
Cousin Matt
Oh, okay, cool, man, yeah.
- 03:16
Adam Sandler
Once again, something that could've been brought to my attention, YESTERDAY yeah!
- 03:22
Adam Sandler
I had to go say hi to my mother, all right? Wish me luck. Okay. Okay, yeah. Yeah, hi, Ma. Great to see you.
- 03:39
Adam Sandler
What do you think of the reunion? Is it a whole thing?
- 03:41
Mom
They're all going to laugh at you!
- 03:42
Adam Sandler
Yeah, yeah. They're not laughing. They're laughing. No! Come on, Mom. Be nice.
- 03:47
Mom
They're all going to laugh at you!
- 03:48
Adam Sandler
No, no, no, no, no. No! No! Stop. What are you doing? No! No! No!
- 03:58
Mom
Why don't Don't you shut up. Maybe you... and David, and you. And all of you. And you. And you. And you. And you. And you. And you. And you. That's right, that.
- 04:29
Pop-Pop
But the doctor says it's nothing to worry about.
- 04:32
Adam Sandler
Oh, good. Well, that's a relief.
- 04:33
Pop-Pop
How about I sing this Sandler family song I wrote 70 years ago?
- 04:38
Adam Sandler
No, no, no, no. Nobody wants to hear it.
- 04:40
Pop-Pop
Yeah, I just want to do that. That'd be great if I just... Put on your yarmulkes. Here come the Hunnicos. For so much you want to go. Put your hands up, Ray. The Hunnicos.
- 04:54
Adam Sandler
No, no, no. I agree with Mother, all right? Let's just take a picture. Yo, come on. Colbert, snap us.
- 05:00
Speaker 1
Oh, yes, sir.
- 05:03
Adam Sandler
Everyone get in. Get in. Here we go. Come on.
- 05:09
Mom
Stop looking at me, Sean.
- 05:12
Adam Sandler
Come on. Take the picture. Take it.
- 05:16
Speaker 1
Ready? One, two, three.
- 05:19
Adam Sandler
Shabby! Shabby, Shabby, Shabby.
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