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Adam Sandler performed a song that paid tribute to Saturday Night Live’s 50 years on the air during Sunday night’s anniversary special, but not before he was introduced by retired Hollywood veteran Jack Nicholson. 

Nicholson introduced the Grown Ups actor before he began his referential track, where he highlighted infamous SNLmoments, pondered when Lorne Michaels will retire and quipped about “finding out your favorite musician is antisemitic.” 

Sandler kicked off his performance saying, “everyone in this room has something in common,” pointing out that “all of our lives were changed by the show” before poking fun at some lighthearted moments. He questioned who would “take over the show when Lorne retires” in his lyrics before he appeared to joke that Speedy Rosenthal, a longtime member of SNL’s music department, would be the one to take over Michaels’ spot. 

The comedian and actor also seemingly threw a jab at Kanye West, who has appeared on the show seven times. “Fifty years of finding out your favorite musician is antisemitic,” Sandler sang. On Wednesday, West posted a response on X (formerly Twitter): “Adam Sandler Thank you for the love.”

Sandler also gave directions to tease former castmembers about being upset about not getting enough airtime with their “hearts full of malice.” 

Sandler paid respect to the original SNL cast (also known as the Not Ready for Prime Time Players) toward the end of the song, before championing the show’s most legendary performers. “We got four years of Eddie Murphy, eight years of Will Forte, five years of Jan Hooks and Gilda [Radner], six of Victoria [Jackson], 11 of [Michael] Che, three years of Melanie Hutsell, Michael McKean crushed it in two,” he sang while

Adam Sandler’s performance at Sunday night’s “SNL50: Anniversary Special” was one of the most memorable moments of the night — even before it began. The performance was introduced by Jack Nicholson, who received loud applause inside Studio 8H.

“Everyone in this room has something in common. All of our lives were changed by the show,” Sandler, who spent five years on “Saturday Night Live” from 1991 to 1995, began. His song highlighted many behind-the-scenes jokes, including calling out “Drunk Wally” for holding the cue cards upside down and thanking “Nurse Teresa” for the many doses of Pepto Bismol.

“50 years of writers seeing Spielberg at Lorne’s monitors, not laughing at one of their sketches that he obviously hated,” Sandler sang. “50 years of those same writers getting wasted at the after party and loudly telling everybody that ‘Jaws ‘was overrated.”

Sandler joked about how each cast feels they’re the best, but “we know that the first cast was the best.” With that, he went on to honor the many performers through the years.

“We got four years of Eddie Murphy, eight years of Will Forte, five years of Jan Hooks and Gilda [Radner], six of Victoria [Jackson], 11 of [Michael] Che, three years of Melanie Hutsell, Michael McKean crushed it in two,” he sang. “One of Billy Crystal, six of Dennis Miller, eight of [Phil] Hartman, the glue.”

After naming many other longtime vets, he added, “six years of our boy [Chris] Farley, five of our buddy Norm [Macdonald].”

Sandler is known for his musical mashup of memories; in his 2018 Netflix special, “100% Fresh,” Sandler debuted a song about Farley, his longtime friend,

American actor and comedian (born 1966)

This article is about the actor. For the controversial street performer, see Adam Sandler (costume wearer).

Adam Richard Sandler (born September 9, 1966) is an American actor and comedian. Primarily a comedic leading actor in films, his accolades include nominations for three Grammy Awards, five Primetime Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. In 2023, Sandler was awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.

Sandler was a cast member on the NBCsketch comedy series Saturday Night Live from 1990 to 1995. He returned to Saturday Night Live as a host in 2019 earning a Primetime Emmy Award nomination. He has starred in Hollywood comedy films that cumulatively grossed over $2 billion worldwide. Sandler had an estimated net worth of $420 million in 2020, and signed a new four-movie deal with Netflix worth over $250 million.

Sandler's comedic roles include Billy Madison (1995), Happy Gilmore (1996), The Waterboy (1998), The Wedding Singer (1998), Big Daddy (1999), Mr. Deeds (2002), 50 First Dates (2004), The Longest Yard (2005), Click (2006), Grown Ups (2010), Just Go with It (2011), Grown Ups 2 (2013), Blended (2014), Murder Mystery (2019) and Hubie Halloween (2020). He also received praise for his dramatic roles in Punch-Drunk Love (2002), Reign Over Me (2007), The Meyerowitz Stories (2017), Uncut Gems (2019), and Hustle (2022). He also voiced Dracula in the first three films of the Hotel Transylvania franchise (2012–2018).

Early life

Sandler was born in Brooklyn, New York, on September 9, 1966, to Judith "Judy" (née Levine), a nursery school teacher, and Stanley Sandler, an electrical engineer. He has three older siblings, Scott, Elizabeth, and Valerie. His family is Jewish and descends from Russian Jewish immigrants o

Adam Sandler made his film debut in 1989, playing an aspiring comedian who takes a gig aboard a cruise ship filled with beauty queens in the little-seen Going Overboard. "All of a sudden I was in a movie! I was playing a comedian, and I didn't care about too much else in the world," Sandler recalled to Entertainment Tonight now more than 30 years later. "I was just excited about going after it."

That film wouldn't make him a movie star, but the Brooklyn-born comedian was simultaneously performing stand-up in New York City and, the following year, landed his big break on Saturday Night Live. Cut to today, and his movies have grossed more than $3 billion worldwide.

Sandler has had a hand in crafting his career from the beginning: He is a writer, albeit often uncredited, on many of his projects, and nearly always an executive producer. He hand picks his directors and often casts his closest friends (Rob Schneider, David Spade and Steve Buscemi) to star alongside him. Over the years, he's gone from being one of a defining voices in comedy to a fascinating dramatic actor, while still making time to star in the sort of broad comedies that made him famous.

"I've done both for a long time. When I went to NYU, I did a lot of scenes that were just dramatic, not funny," Sandler recently told AARP. "I like giving myself over to a new challenge. Sometimes I feel like I'm tapped out with new thoughts, and then all of a sudden, something new comes up. And I go, 'OK, how can I make this happen?' It was cool as hell pushing myself in new ways like I did on Uncut Gems... and not worrying about laughs as much as what each character is going through and pulling for. But I do love comedy more than anything."

Earlier this year, Sandler received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, sharing in his acceptance speech how his older brother originally inspired him to pursue acting by telling him, &qu