Adam Sandler recently got emotional during his musical tribute to Saturday Night Live. The actor, performed a special song to commemorate 50 years of the sketch comedy show, on which he appeared as a cast member from 1990 to 1995.
Jack Nicholson introduced Sandler ahead of his acoustic performance on SNL50: The Anniversary Special in New York City. The song, called, “50 Years,” joked about the highs and lows of SNL and paid tribute to its cast and what the show has provided to pop culture.
“Everybody in this room has something in common/ all of our lives were changed by the show / Everybody in this room has something else in common / None of us were allowed to use the little bathroom in Lorne [Michael]’s office,” he began.
The song also gave shout outs to the SNL crew, including the show’s nurse and Wally, the cue card handler. At one point, Sandler sings, “50 years of young comedians getting hired for the show/ From stand up Groundlings, Second City, and all the rest/ 50 years of cast members saying, ‘I think our cast is the greatest of all time’/ But we all know that the first cast was the best.”
Sandler went into all the wonderful years we got with different talents who graced casts throughout the decades. At the end of the list, he emotionally concluded, “Six years of our boy Farley and five of our buddy Norm/ 50 Years of one of us getting to say/ ‘Live from New York, it’s Saturday night’/ 50 years of standing on home base/ waving goodnight and goodbye/ 50 years of the best times of our lives.”
Viewers noted how a tearful Sandler took a breath as he sang about late costars Chris Farley and Norm Macdonald.
Sandlerperformed a song in Farley’s honor in the passt, during his Adam Sandler Live stand-up comedy shows. In 2022 he admitted it still makes him “so emotional” to pay tribute to his late friend, who died in 1997 at age 33.
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