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Adam Richard Sandler born September 9, is an American actor and comedian.

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After his film debut in Going Overboard in , Sandler performed in comedy clubs, having first taken the stage at his brother's urging when he was Sandler was hired as a writer for SNL in , and became a featured player the following year. He made a name for himself by performing amusing original songs on the show, including " The Thanksgiving Song " and " The Chanukah Song ".

Sandler used his firing as part of his monologue when he returned in to host the show. Sandler starred in Billy Madison playing a grown man repeating grades 1—12 to earn back his father's respect and the right to inherit his father's multimillion-dollar hotel empire. The film was successful at the box office despite negative reviews.

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He followed this film with Bulletproof , and the financially successful comedies Happy Gilmore and The Wedding Singer , his first collaboration with Drew Barrymore. Sandler continued making successful comedy films including Big Daddy , Mr. Most of its films have received negative reviews from critics, with three considered among the worst ever made [ 18 ] yet most have performed well at the box office.

Although his earlier commercially successful films did not receive favorable critical attention, Sandler started to receive more positive reviews beginning with his more dramatic role in Punch-Drunk Love in Punch-Drunk Love 's writer and director, Paul Thomas Anderson , had an "obsession-level" love for Sandler's previous movies and wrote the film with him in mind.

Ebert noted that Sandler's character still maintained the "childlike, love-starved" persona from his previous films, but was shown in a new light as the "key to all Adam Sandler films". That same year, Sandler starred along with Keri Russell and English comedian Russell Brand in Adam Shankman 's children's fantasy film Bedtime Stories , as a stressed hotel maintenance worker whose bedtime stories he reads to his niece and nephew begin to come true.

It marked Sandler's first family film and first film under the Disney banner. In , Sandler starred in Apatow's third directorial feature, Funny People , a comedy drama about a famous comedian Sandler with a terminal illness. The film was released on July 31,