Adam Sandler
Comedian, actor, and filmmaker best known for the original Happy Gilmore, here reprising the role for a sequel due July 25th.
Appeared on: New Heights · The Joe Rogan Experience
Circuit updated February 19, 2025
Adam Sandler's throughline across both appearances is the same anxiety dressed up in different costumes: he's a guy who cares so much that caring itself becomes the problem. On Rogan, he talks about overprepping for the Netflix special until the joy got squeezed out, bombing in front of Robin Williams and then immediately rewriting the memory to survive it. On New Heights, he's nervous to say the wrong thing near Taylor Swift because she 'means so much to my house.' The self-contradiction worth sitting with is that Sandler has spent thirty years playing the lovable slacker, the guy who doesn't try too hard, and yet every anecdote he tells is about someone who tries so hard he's practically vibrating. The golf detail is the tell: his dad's throwaway line about hips made it into Happy Gilmore because Sandler called home to fact-check a joke. That's not a slacker. The reason it matters is that the whole 'they counted him out' narrative around Sandler has always been a little too easy, and these appearances make clear he's been doing the work the whole time, just loudly enough that everyone missed it.
- Adam Sandler on Happy Gilmore 2, Bobby Boucher's NFL Career, and Why He Still Gets Nervous Around Taylor Swift
“when me and my buddy Hurley who I write all the movies with we would write that and we'd call my dad and say does this make sense in golf D when you putt what do you think like and it's all in the hips and stuff that was my dad I would say what is it he said it's all the hips baby it's all the hips and that's why we wrote that” 16:16
- Adam Sandler on Bombing, Kevin Meany, and Why He Said Yes to the Netflix Special
“I dug a hole for myself like I'm doing great Robin Williams said I was fantastic Robin Williams I remember one night saw me eat it I was just like oh man I ate it in front of Robin Williams but I changed the story of like yeah he liked that” 33:56
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“when me and my buddy Hurley who I write all the movies with we would write that and we'd call my dad and say does this make sense in golf D when you putt what do you think like and it's all in the hips and stuff that was my dad I would say what is it he said it's all the hips baby it's all the hips and that's why we wrote that”
Adam Sandler · New Heights -
“I said somebody asked me who do you get nervous around I said I do get nervous around Taylor Swift because I don't want to mess up for my kids and say something stupid so I'm just like she means so much to my house I better say the right thing here”
Adam Sandler · New Heights -
“I dug a hole for myself like I'm doing great Robin Williams said I was fantastic Robin Williams I remember one night saw me eat it I was just like oh man I ate it in front of Robin Williams but I changed the story of like yeah he liked that”
Adam Sandler · The Joe Rogan Experience -
“I watch every cast I'd be like these guys are incredible and the men and women on the show and the way they handle themselves I was like oh man I wish I had another crack at that because I'd do better next time”
Adam Sandler · New Heights -
“I was driving home I was like thinking and then I when I got home I called her back I go don't say no yet I go let me think about it”
Adam Sandler · The Joe Rogan Experience -
“I beat myself into the ground I overprepared right right right so that when I got up there there was no what is next what is next”
Adam Sandler · The Joe Rogan Experience
Adam Sandler on Happy Gilmore 2, Bobby Boucher's NFL Career, and Why He Still Gets Nervous Around Taylor Swift
The Sandman shows up on New Heights and turns a sports podcast into a forty-minute masterclass in being exactly yourself.
Adam Sandler on Bombing, Kevin Meany, and Why He Said Yes to the Netflix Special
Two hours and forty minutes of comedians talking about comedy, and almost none of it is boring.