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No One Loves This More Than Adam Sandler
His new Netflix special is an earnest portrait of a comedian in the middle of constant chaos.
After an hour of Sandlerian humor, with jokes about no-wipe poops, Botoxing your dick, and the tragedy of ruining a lovely day at Disneyland by missing the exit on the way home and yelling “Fucking cunt!”, Sandler modulates into sincerity. When the observations are small or swerve into quotidian territory, Sandler usually turns them into songs, like one about how much time he spends doing household chores while muttering under his breath, or another full of Halloween sound effects that lists scary things in everyday life, like driving with the sun in your eyes at 3 p.m. As he lays out his thesis, this idea that comedy is the counterbalance to all of the hardest things in life, the screens behind him that’ve failed the entire time finally start working, playing a montage of scenes of everything from Monty Python and the Holy Grail to SNL to Abbott and Costello to Bridesmaids.
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