Hell, Carrot Top is a comic genius compared to you.
You aren’t funny.
You can’t act.
You can’t sing.
You can’t write songs for shit.
Proof?
The Thanksgiving Song
I will admit that I couldn’t really understand many of the words besides Turkey, Turkey, Turkey, white meat, dark meat and something about eating in a big brown shoe.
Why couldn’t I undertsand the words?
2 reasons:
The drunken screeches/screams/bleatings of bombed coeds and frat boys pretty much drowned you out.
You were singing, and I use the word is it’s absolute loosest sense, in your *baby talk *voice.
You may think this is a lame rant, but then you didn’t have to listen to the local radio station playing this song three fucking times an hour from 7:00 AM to 3:30 PM today.
Why didn’t I change the station or listen to a CD?
A fair question(s).
You can only usually get one radio station where I work, and the CD player on the boombox was broken.
I wonder how many blowjobs you’ve had to give to get where you are in the entertainment industry, 1000? 5000? 10,000?
I think Sandler has hopes of being a latter day Irving Berlin (the composer of such classic holiday oriented songs as White Christmas and Easter Parade among many other great songs). It’s sad Sandler has no talent.
I disagree with people saying Sandler has no talent. I find MANY of his movies entertaining. Sure, it’s almost always slapstick humor, but so what?
Sure, that Thanksgiving song might suck (I’ve personally never heard it). Going by the lyrics alone, I would say that the vocal part of the song sucks. But, how many of you are criticizing his work without ever having tried to do the same thing? Hell, I’m a musician, capable of playing several instruments reasonably well, and I still can’t write a song worth jack.
How many of you get cast in movies and write your own music?
I heard this on the way to work yesterday and had the same thoughts. The way those people in the audience were howling you’d have thought Graham Chapman was raised from the dead and Python was back.
This song is something that anybody could have written on the spur of the moment, which sounds exactly like what Sandler did.
I was hoping he’d go the way of Howie Mandel and that “My name is Bobby” crap. But I doubt it. He’s got his own production company in Hollywood and I read somewhere that he was the most profitable movie star when you factor in the budgets of his movies and the return on them.
I have no doubt this song sucks an incredible amount, but to be fair, Punch Drunk Love was a good movie and he is obviously capable of acting. Too bad he wastes it on idiocy 99% of the time.
Note, however, that he didn’t write the thing, didn’t produce the thing, merely starred in it.
I’ve never found Sandler to be funny. His attempts at humor have always struck me as boring and predictable. I had thought that SNL was his first TV gig, then yesterday, I was flipping through the channels and spotted a very young Sandler on The Fresh Prince. Have to wonder if Sandler’s like that other no talent “comedic” hack, Pauly Shore, who owes his career to who his parents were.
Nothing, I wanted to head off any misguided thoughts that someone might have in regards to Sandler’s talent. Since most of the movies he’s been in are ones that he’s written or cowritten, someone might quite naturally assume that this film was also one that he’d written and then try to argue that he was capable of producing decent, intelligent writing using that film as an example.
Oliver Stone, in one of his saner moments, is reported to have said, “There are no bad actors, only bad directors.” Food for thought.
I like the Thanksgiving Song. I like the Chanuka Song. I like the Mother’s Day song, and the “I’m Crazy Newspaper Face! Gimme some candy!” routine. I liked Billy Madison and The Wedding Singer and Big Daddy (didn’t see Happy Gilmore). I have a copy of “What the Hell Happened to Me?!” and I bust a gut listening to the “Goat” and “Road Trip” routines.
I like his stuff. I think he’s funny. I’m not offering explanations or apologies. I’m just saying.
I agree with Rilchiam. Believe it or not, the Thanksgiving Song is not actually supposed to have good lyrics. I know, I know, it’s a shock. It’s supposed to sound like it was written on the spur of the moment, which it probably was. Same vein as the Halloween sketch that Rilch described: the whole point is to have the stupidest, crappiest costumes imaginable. You may not think it’s funny, but quite a few people do. I’m one of them. Sorry.
Eight Crazy Nights looks like one of the worst movies ever. They always put the best jokes in the trailers, and even if you have a juvenile sense of humor there is nothing in it that resembles comedy. It could only appeal to a very small child, but the movie’s rated PG-13 for “crude and sexual humor”. That movie should not have been made.
I actually don’t hate Adam Sandler. I saw him on David Letterman years before he was famous, and he was funny. No one in the audience was laughing though.
Bah. There’s always so much Sandler-bashing on this board. “The Thanksgiving Song” isn’t his best, but it’s okay. The version with the screaming audience that the radio stations seem to love, is a terrible performance. The album cut is much clearer.
It’s also not his best song. Check out “The Lonesome Kicker” sometime. Here’s an excerpt:
Now, as to the artistic merit (or lack thereof) of Sandlers movies, well, see, sometimes, I’m not up for a deep, complex movie with an intricate plot and stellar acting.
Sometimes I want to kick back and relax, possibly get wasted, and laugh my ass off. Sandler is, hands down, the most talented person making those types of films nowadays. Also, the frequent small parts by Steve Buscemi and Norm McDonald (best only in small doses anyway) in most of Sandler’s movies never fail to leave my sides splitting.
Actually, I like a few of the movies made by ex-SNLers. I mean, most are just rock-bottom, even from a purely comedic viewpoint, but there have been a few gems. I absolutely loved “Joe Dirt,” for some reason.
None of this means that I don’t enjoy well-though-out, -scripted, and -acted films, though. Quite the contrary; I like them far more than the Sandler fare. If a movie can make me cry, I’d pay ten times more to see it than I would for the “The Waterboy.”
That doesn’t mean that there isn’t a time and a place for Bobby Bouchene’s antics, though, and I think that some people like to bash Sandler a bit mercilessly (not necessarily in this thread) for providing a little bit of mindless comedy that hurts nobody, but delights countless millions.
(Then again, countless millions think Regis is an absolute hoot, yet he bugs me enough to almost make me want to start a pit thread, so i may want to rethink my logic.)
Not unless Will Smith was a guest star, and none of the Cosby kids appeared in the scene that Will and Adam Sandler were in. He shelled out $16 for some dinky jar of caviar that he was showing to Will. I promptly turned the channel.
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