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Adam Richard Sandler (born September 9, 1966) is an American comedian, actor, screenwriter, and producer. He is known for his absurdist humor and for playing oddball, immature characters who find themselves in outlandish situations. Sandler garnered fame as a cast member of Saturday Night Live (SNL) from 1990 to 1995 before starring in many Hollywood comedy films. Sandler is one of the highest-paid film actors and his films have collectively earned more than US$2 billion at the worldwide box office. He is also the founder and CEO of the film production company Happy Madison Productions, which has produced the majority of his films since 1999.

Raised in Manchester, New Hampshire, Sandler graduated from the New York University Tisch School of the Arts in 1988 and began performing at various comedy clubs. He joined SNL in 1990 and became known as one of the "Bad Boys of SNL", alongside Chris Farley, David Spade, Chris Rock, and Rob Schneider. After he was fired from SNL, Sandler began his film career with Billy Madison (1995) and founded Happy Madison, which he named after Billy Madison and Happy Gilmore (1996), in 2000. Outside of his comedies, Sandler has ventured into dramatic fare with films such as Punch-Drunk Love (2002), Funny People (2009), and Uncut Gems (2019), and he voices Count Dracula in Sony Pictures Animation's Hotel Transylvania franchise. Sandler's films have been distributed by a variety of studios, but he has been in a distribution deal with Netflix since 2015.

Sandler has been nominated for numerous accolades over the course of his career, and has garnered acclaim for his dramatic performances in films such as The Meyerowitz Stories (2017) and Uncut Gems. He won the 2019 National Board of Review Award for Best Actor for his performance in Uncut Gems. However, Sandler's comedy films are generally held in low esteem among film critics for their crude humor and lack of originality. Two of his films, Jack and Jill (2011) and That's My Boy (2012), have been described as some of the worst films ever made. Sandler is the holder of nine Golden Raspberry Awards and 37 Raspberry Award nominations, more than any other actor aside from Sylvester Stallone.

Early life

 * https://www.cbsnews.com/news/adam-sandler-the-rare-comedian-who-says-his-childhood-was-happy-60-minutes-2020-08-23/

Career

 * https://www.theringer.com/tv/2019/9/11/20857609/adam-sandler-chris-farley-90s-comedies-billy-madison-tommy-boy-snl
 * https://birthmoviesdeath.com/2015/01/01/punch-drunk-love-and-the-sorrow-of-disliking-adam-sandler

Style and influences
Eddie Murphy

In a 2019 interview for 60 Minutes, CBS News correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi noted that Sandler "usually plays a fish-out-of-water character who prevails in the end."

Sandler's films frequently star his friends, including his fellow SNL alumni.

Personal life
Sandler is a member of the Republican Party. He performed at the 2004 Republican National Convention and donated US$2,100 to Rudy Giuliani's presidential campaign during the 2008 Republican Party presidential primaries. However, he is known to refrain from public political discourse; in 2016, a spokeswoman told The Wall Street Journal that Sandler dislikes discussing politics. In 2019, Taryn Ryder of Yahoo! News wrote that a source close to Sandler told her that they did not know his political positions.

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Despite his considerable box office success, Sandler's comedy films are generally held in low regard among film critics. While his older films, such as Billy Madison and Happy Gilmore, have been reappraised in retrospect, The Washington Post wrote that Sandler's films "have grown increasingly simplistic, their jokes ever cruder to the point of being cringe-inducing." The Post said that Sandler films' quality began to decline after Little Nicky, in spite of increasing box office returns.

Sandler's comedies are not without their supporters. Podcaster and stand-up comedian Joe Rogan called Sandler's work "ridiculously underrated", finding many of his films, such as The Waterboy and I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry, "hilarious". Rogan feels that Sandler's critics do not understand his absurdist humor.

Sandler has said that poor reviews "[don't] hurt me anymore. I think it hurt me 20 years ago. It got me 20 years ago. I was—kinda shell-shocked like, 'What happened? They say I suck?' I thought I was good at this." Sandler grew to not care what critics think of his films, saying that "I like them, that's the good news." In a January 2020 speech at the New York Film Critics Circle, Sandler jokingly called the critics in attendance "mean" and, referencing his acclaimed role in Uncut Gems, said: "I can't thank [the Sadfies] enough for getting critics to say something nice about me for the first time in 30 fucking years."


 * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVlEYS2Zn-w