We had reported over a year ago that Adam McKay was set to direct Will Ferrell, Mark Wahlberg, and Alec Baldwin in the Thanksgiving football comedy Three Mississippi; however, in the last few months there was a fumble and a lot of wrestling over the ball. Recently, the ball seems to have rolled right to Adam Sandler's feet, as balls are wont to do. First, a film that explicitly was created to showcase Wahlberg and Baldwin's Departed-like banter lost Wahlberg to some action movie where guns are shot at foreigners. Then because of the surprise Anchorman sequel, McKay was out as well and Sean Anders was brought [...]
Adam Sandler's Happy Madison production company is set to remake 1987's Summer School, a Carl Reiner-directed comedy about a gym teacher stuck teaching English all summer long to a pack of "oddballs and rebels." Originally starring Mark Harmon, Kirstie Alley, Courtney Thorne-Smith, and a dog wearing sunglasses, this doesn't seem like the kind of remake that's going to upset too many people in love with the original. I mean, I'm just judging by the amazing DVD art and 6.1 IMDB rating; I haven't seen it. Should I have? Is Summer School a classic comedy that I've somehow missed out on? Is Sandler about to ruin Mark Harmon's finest [...]
Waaaazzzzaaaap. Just when we least expected it, there's a movie coming out on June 15 in which Adam Sandler plays Andy Samberg's deadbeat dad. And judging by the trailer, it's not pulling any punches when it comes to gross-out humor. This Father's Day, thank your dad for teaching you how to be a real man! A bong-hitting, ear-piercing, hair-growing, Jacuzzi-sunglassing, no-shit-taking, woman-hating MAN. Burp.
Saturday Night Live has been home to over a hundred cast members throughout the past 36 years. In our column Saturday Night’s Children, we present the history, talent, and best sketches of one SNL cast member each week for your viewing, learning, and laughing pleasure.
Whether he's singing the news in faux-Italian at the Weekend Update desk as Opera Man, creating theme songs for lunch ladies, Hanukkah, and phone sex operators, or starring in an endless string of self-produced lowbrow films, Adam Sandler has evolved from a timid but ambitious performer into one of the most powerful figures in comedy today. While many of his films haven't [...]
Back in the summer of 2002, when Jimmy Fallon released his first and only album The Bathroom Wall, I was at the peak of mix CD-making phase. The albums weren’t for my friends or girlfriend (ha), but rather, for me, myself, and Josh. Mp3 players were still a few years away from becoming ubiquitous, so if I wanted to listen to multiple songs by a variety of artists, and not carry around my cumbersome, carefully alphabetized booklet of CDs, I had to make a mix for the 20-minute bus ride to school, and for the 40 it took to get back. (Don’t ask.) Rather than include anything cool, like [...]
