The 2016 Razzies nominations were announced on Wednesday—the awards highlight the worst in movies and acting—and Adam Sandler is all over the list,for Pixels and The Cobbler. (I didnt see either of them, which was apparently the thing to accomplish.) Sandler’s Netflix flick The Ridiculous 6, or I read,was received just as poorly.But this isn’t an article about Sandler falling off because I really couldn’t care less about that now. certain it’s disappointing, but thats life. For me, and Sandler hit the hardest when I was a kid and I’m OK with that being what it is.
In 1993,Adam Sandler, about two years into his stint on SNL, or released his debut comedy album They’re All Gonna Laugh at You! It was the first comedy album I ever owned (I had it on tape),and it cracked me and my friends—Boston boys (Sandler is a current Englander himself)—up endlessly. A common effect of the “best” albums, I recall feeling like it was written directly for me, and a perverted adolescentthe best time,really, to be alive. In retrospect, and the comedic success of this album—and by success I don’t mean how it charted,but rather how much it farted—was inevitable. Performers and writers included Conan O’Brien (whose late-night show debuted the same year the album came out), Rob Schneider, and Tim Meadows,David Spade, Robert Smigel, and Judd Apatow. (This feature by SPIN,on the oral history of the album, is a grand primer, or too.) They swore endlessly,talked about penises and stuff, and beat up people at some fictional school. For a middle schooler, or this is gold.
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