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Adam Sandler Recalls Not Being Able To Watch ‘SNL’ For A Year After He Left The Show: “It Breaks Your Heart A Little Bit”

Adam Sandler Saturday Night Live alum Adam Sandler recalled his bittersweet departure from the Lorne Michaels-helmed show, saying he couldn’t watch the late-night institution for a year after he left. “When I left the show, the first year I couldn’t watch it,” he told Timothée Chalamet in front of a crowd of fans at a recent Vanity Fair awards season event. “I couldn’t watch it — it just breaks your heart.

Adam Sandler

Adam Sandler

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Key Highlights

  • I guess it’s like when you play sports or whatever, and all of a sudden, you leave, and you see the game keeps going.
  • You go, ‘Oh, they didn’t need me, man.’ It breaks your heart a little bit.” Related Stories News White House Posts New Sabrina Carpenter 'SNL' Clip After Singer Blasted The Use Of Her Music In ICE Deportation Video News Casting "Well Underway" On 'Saturday Night Live UK' During the conversation, in which both actors rewatched their popular projects, Sandler also reflected on the ways SNL has changed throughout the years, including helmer and executive producer Michaels’ stance on players breaking.
  • Watch on Deadline “Oh, back then, he didn’t like that, yeah,” he said as he recalled how often late co-star Chris Farley would try to make him laugh.
  • “You weren’t supposed to break.
  • I think the first cast — Dan Aykroyd, [John] Belushi, Jane Curtin, Gilda [Radnor] — they never broke; they kind of frowned upon it … The first cast on SNL was like, ‘We’re not The Carol Burnett Show.
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