-Our first guest tonight is a legendary comedian and actor
who you know from films such as
"Uncut Gems," "The Wedding Singer," and "Happy Gilmore,"
and, of course, his time on "Saturday Night Live."
He executive produced and stars in "Hustle,"
which is in select theaters now and on Netflix tomorrow.
Please welcome back to the show our very good friend,
Adam Sandler, everybody!
[ Cheers and applause ]
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Welcome back! -Thank you. Hi, everybody.
Thank you. -I'm so happy to have you here.
-I'm so -- that was --
That Post Malone thing was so fun.
-We got after it. We got after it a little bit.
-How did nobody throw up?
-Um...
I'm not saying nobody did.
[ Laughter ]
The magic of editing is very helpful.
-Oh, my God -Adam, a little worried.
You got a -- Something happened here.
You got a black eye.
-I wish it was...
I've been telling people that I fought Jake Paul.
[ Laughter ]
I was just in bed and my phone flew up and --
So I just -- I've been talking about it today.
I feel like an idiot saying it again,
but I was stuffed in a bed.
You know when they tuck you in the bed and they don't un--
they tuck it under the thing? -Yeah.
-Like that?
You make the decision before you get in bed, you go,
"Do I want to struggle pulling that?
Let me just get in there."
I didn't pull, so I got in there,
and then, like, 4:00 in the morning I was like,
"Why did I...?"
My stupid phone was -- I was kicking the thing,
and it flew in the air and hit me in the face.
[ Laughter ]
-Don't let anybody tell you that's an embarrassing story.
That's a great way to get a black eye.
Fortunately, I guess that happened after this.
At least you did not have a -- -Yes.
-You gave the commencement at your alma mater.
-Yes, NYU. Yes, yes, yes.
Great day.
[ Applause ]
-This is stressful, though, right?
-Oh, my God!
Once I said that I'm doing that,
I was so terrified to do the speech,
because it meant a lot to me.
I wanted everybody to be happy.
I knew everyone's families were there.
It's...anyways.
I worked hard and we had a great time.
Do you know -- I'll tell you this.
This is funny.
Fred, I think you'll like this.
When I was, like, getting...
I did "Punch Drunk Love," and I was so excited
I did a cool movie, blah blah blah blah.
I was like, I bet my NYU, those guys will like that movie there.
'Cause I was always doing comedies and stuff.
It's pretty serious at that school.
So I was like, "They'll like 'Punch Drunk Love.'"
So me and Paul Thomas Anderson
got invited to talk to the film school,
and I remember walking out there going,
"This is pretty cool, man. I made something of myself."
I sit down and I'm with PTA, next to him,
and literally every question --
"Any questions for these guys?"
Every question, "Mr. Anderson,
uh, what camera did you use in 'Boogie Nights'?"
Literally, like, 30 in a row.
I was going...
[ Laughter ]
They're just asking Mr. Anderson everything,
because he's the king of film.
And I was just like,
"You know, when I did Bobby Boucher..."
[ Laughter ]
Anyways.
-You got that,
where you get sweaty and you start looking for it.
-I'm like, do I look at Paul, too, and ask him something?
How did you do --
-It's fantastic.
We've talked in the past about your girls,
16 and 13? -Yes.
-They're growing up. -Yeah. It hurts.
It hurts.
So that my daughters and that boys are now
going be involved with their life and that.
-How are you feeling about that?
-Very nervous very and tense.
I'm not very comfortable with that.
I think I'm more comfortable
with my wife bringing home somebody.
[ Laughter ]
I would actually feel like, alright.
I have more in common with, like --
boy that is age, 13 to 16,
I literally have nothing to talk to them about.
My wife, if she brought home, I'd be like,
"Hey, man. You go to my golf club, right?
[ Laughter ]
Have fun with my wife.
Just don't stay out too late."
16, driving?
-Yes. -I mean, L.A. kid.
Got to learn how to drive, right?
-It comes out of nowhere. You're gonna see.
All of the sudden, your nice, little kids are like,
their friends are are all driving.
My daughter is getting her license next month.
She drives around with the Driver's Ed guy,
which is cool, but then she's got to practice with us,
me and my wife.
And you're in the...
The Driver's Ed guy has the brake.
So he's, like, safe.
I'm with my 16-year-old daughter, and I don't --
I'm nervous for her.
'Cause, like, there's a partition and you can't...
I don't know how I'm gonna hit the brake.
Like, dive over and push on it.
So I'm just like...
I don't want her to get hurt.
Me, I don't think I'm going to die.
Which I'm almost to like, "You know what?
I've had enough."
[ Laughter ]
I don't mind me dying, but this kid's got a nice --
So I want to help her.
So when she went to school one day,
I went out in our family car and sneakily installed a brake.
I had one of the guys that knows what he is doing
put a brake on my side,
so just in case, when we're driving around...
-You have a driver's side brake on your car now?
-Just, like, a pull thing.
Nobody knows about it. My kid don't know about it.
I never had to use it with her.
My wife, though, we were driving,
we got into the car,
and she was like, "Before we go to dinner,
I'd love to go to this antique store,"
and I was just like --
chhhhkkkkk.
[ Laughter ]
I don't know.
I feel -- that's a little, whatever.
A little wacky.
-You got -- we've talked about the first bat mitzvah.
You've got another one coming up? Or have you had it?
-We had the bat mitzvah a couple weeks ago.
It was the Sweet 16.
-Got them both out of the way now?
-Cost a lot of money, those things.
-While you were watching theirs,
did it remind you of your bar mitzvah?
-[ Laughing ]
My kid's bat mitzvah was like, an extravaganza.
I don't even know what's the hell's happening.
All insane dancing and everyone's --
there's sexuality running around.
But my bar mitzvah was
just in the basement at my parent's house.
I think we went to the temple in the day.
My parents maybe bought some meatballs or something,
put it downstairs in the basement.
Some neighbors came over, I think.
But that was the first time I jammed.
My guitar teacher had a band, and he was the band.
He let me play "My Sharona."
I played "My Sharona" when I was 13,
and all my friends gathered around
and I played "My Sharona" and I was singing.
All my New Hampshire friends were like,
"Sandler can sing, man."
I was looking people directly in the eyes, just going --
[ Imitates guitar ]
That was, like, my first time --
-That's very formative.
I feel like that's what you would want to hear
about a bar mitzvah.
Like, you crossed a threshold there.
-I swear to God, I think I went to bed that night going,
"I gotta...I'm gonna be a rock star one day.
And then, I swear to God, I went to NYU
and I thought I was gonna be a rock star until I got to NYU,
and in my hallway, there were, like, five other guys
playing guitar, just doing everything.
[ Imitates guitar ] Everything.
I was just going, "I gotta be a comedian.
There's no way I'm gonna compete with that."
-I want to talk about the new film, which is great.
We'll be right back with more from Adam Sandler.