Adam Sandler Captures 50 Years of Saturday Night Live in Funny and Wistful New Song

Comedian Adam Sandler, who spent only five years as a cast member of Saturday Night Live, captured the essence of the 50-year-old show in a funny and wistful new song that he sang at the SNL reunion special Sunday night.

As Katie Atkinson wrote in Billboard,

Sandler started things out with a joke, singing, “Everyone in this room has something in common, all of our lives were changed by this show/ Everyone in this room has something else in common, we weren’t allowed to use the little bathroom in Lorne’s office.” The song — titled “50 Years” — toggled between sincerity and quips, including the line: “50 years of cast members saying ‘I think our cast is the greatest of all time,’ but we all know the first cast is the best.”

He wrapped things up by running through a string of classic castmembers, including late comics like Chris Farley, Phil Hartman and Jan Hooks.

Enjoy!

Adam Sandler Sings His Thanksgiving Song

 

Comedian/Actor Adam Sandler struck gold on Saturday Night Live when he sang his Chanukah Song. But less known is his Thanksgiving Song which we're sharing with you today. 

Just like The Chanukah Song, it's made up of silly rhymes, some of which don't make any sense, but which are funny nevertheless. 

Unlike The Chanukah Song, which includes list of people who are one quarter, half, or fully Jewish, the Thanksgiving Song is Sandler's free association of anything that has to do with Thanksgiving and anything that rhymes with it, such as "Turkey with the girls and turkey with the boys; my favorite kind of pants are corduroys."

Enjoy!

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Here Come the Chanukah Videos: Adam Sandler Releases 4th Version of his Hanukkah Song

Chanukah is ten days away, and we're starting to get this year's crop of music videos created just for the occasion. You'll be seeing many of them in the next two weeks.

Adam Sandler wrote his original The Hanukkah Song and sang it on Saturday Night Live back in 1994. This 21-year-old modern classic has been revised with added new lyrics twice, in 1999 and in 2002.

After waiting 13 years, Sandler's fans got their wish a few weeks ago when he took his guitar to the Judd Apatow and Friends event at the New York Comedy Festival in New York's Carnegie Hall.

As before, the song is a recitation of the names of people in the entertainment industry who have been newly discovered to be Jewish (fully Jewish, half Jewish, or quarter Jewish.)

Yesterday Sandler released the long-awaited video of him singing the new version in San Diego. If you want to sing along, check out the lyrics just below the video.

Enjoy!

(A SPECIAL NOTE FOR NEW EMAIL SUBSCRIBERS:  THE VIDEO IS NOT VIEWABLE DIRECTLY FROM THE EMAIL THAT YOU GET EACH DAY.  YOU MUST CLICK ON THE TITLE AT THE TOP OF THE EMAIL TO REACH THE JEWISH HUMOR CENTRAL WEBSITE, FROM WHICH YOU CLICK ON THE PLAY BUTTON IN THE VIDEO IMAGE TO START THE VIDEO.)

Put on your yarmulke, here comes Chanukah
So much fun-ukah to celebrate Chanukah
Chanukkah is the Festival of Lights,
Instead of one day of presents, we have eight crazy nights.
When you feel like the only kid in town without a Christmas tree,
Here’s the fourth list of people who are Jewish, just like Jesus, Olaf, Punky Brewster, Scott Rudin, and me!
Joseph Gordon-Levitt enjoys eating kugel
So does Stan Lee, Jake Gylleenhaal, and the two guys who founded Google
Adam Levine wears a Jewish star
So does Drake and Seth Rogen
Goldberg has a gold yarmulke to match the belt he won from Hulk Hogan
We got Scarlett Johansson, talk about a Kosher crush
And if you need a higher voice to turn you on, how about Geddy Lee from Rush?
We may not have a cartoon with a reindeer that can talk
But we also don’t have polio, thanks to Dr. Jonas Salk (smart Jew!)
Put on your yarmulke, it’s time for Chanukah
Harry Potter and his magic wand-ukah, celebrate Chanukah
Jared from Subway: God dammit, a Jew
But guess who’s Jewish and can fix him? Loveline’s Dr. Drew (get on it doc!)
Princess Leia cuts the challah with Queen Elsa from Frozen
David Beckham is the king of soccer studs and also a quarter chosen
Ron Jeremy is fully Jewish and so is his foot-long buddy
Shia LaBeouf is half a Jew but 100 percent nutty

It’s cool that Santa Claus who makes Christmas so merry
But we get two jolly fat guys: ice cream’s Ben & Jerry (both Jewish!)
From New York to Iran-ukah, get up and celebrate Chanukah
Don’t mess with us, oh Chanukah, let’s all get along for Chanukah
So drink your Jaegerbomb-ukah and smoke your medical-chron-ukah
If you really, really wan-ukah, have a happy, happy, happy, happy, happy, happy, happy, happy Chanukah