 for me i love adam sandler he one of those afew ppl whom make me laughing and also make me feel sorry when he make a dramatic senses anyway here is some info about him i hope you like it:
Born: 9 September 1966
Where: Brooklyn, New York USA
Awards: 3 Emmy Nominations
Height: 5' 9"
He was born Adam Richard Sandler on the 9th of September, 1966, in Brooklyn, New York, the third of four kids. His dad, Stanley, was an engineer, while his mother, Judy, was a homemaker, looking after Scott (now a lawyer), Elizabeth (a dentist), Adam and Valerie (a restauranteur). While Adam was still young, they moved north, to Manchester, New Hampshire.
Sandler did not excel as a student. His interests lay elsewhere. He loved wrestling, and basketball - he played on Manchester Central High School's junior varsity team. Even now he keeps a hoop nearby whenever he's on-set. And there was music. At age 11, he got up to sing at Elizabeth's wedding, performing Ringo Starr's You're Sixteen to huge applause. Overly enthused, he then broke into Yesterday, and was roundly booed for trying to be the centre of attention. This was always the way with Sandler. You love him or you hate him. Or you love him, THEN you hate him. Then you love him again. Like Jim Carrey, he SERIOUSLY divides opinion.
The music would continue into his teens, when he formed a covers band. Rock was their thing. Sandler would later base his character in Airheads on one of his early drummers - into the noise and the camaraderie, but zoned-out and unable to remember any of the songs.
And, of course, there was another interest - comedy. Mel Brooks was an early influence. His 2000 Year Old Man used to crack Stanley up, something that Adam, ever the class clown, was always trying to do. Then, at age 12, there was John Belushi and Animal House. Two years later, there was Murray, Rodney Dangerfield and Caddyshack, a film Sandler claims to have seen 300 times. Consider Murray's character, the groundsman of the golf club, perpetually hunting the gophers destroying the greens. Laid-back, but dangerously obsessive and prone to explosions of rage. Remind you of anyone? The same year, Adam's parents took him to see Rodney Dangerfield live in Florida. Having pored over Dangerfield's records, he'd memorised his lines, and repeated them along with him.
When Adam was 17, the time came to apply to colleges, and decide what he wanted to do with his life. He hadn't really a clue, until brother Scott suggested he try comedy. This idea was strengthened when Scott started taking him down to comedy clubs in Boston. One night, Adam stood up to an open mic. He wasn't good but figured he could get better, he WOULD get better. For the first time in his life, the class goofball had a special purpose.
Immediately, he began writing material and playing shows wherever possible, mostly at colleges. It was tough. Extremely nervous, he'd get so wound up by gigs, he'd begin to stutter and it would take him two weeks to recover. Again, Scott had a suggestion. Why not play some songs? That way, he'd be singing words he'd already learned and not have to worry about saying the right thing - it would allow him to relax. And so it did. Adam began to write the kind of comedy ditties that would later make him millions.
As the child of a Jewish family, though, education was deemed vitally important, and Adam enrolled at New York University, to study Fine Arts, and Drama in particular. This was a groovy and prestigious establishment with sections all over Manhattan. Former drama students included Alec Baldwin, John Leguizamo and Bridget Fonda. Of course, he continued with stand-up and, playing at The Dive, an on-campus club, he was seen by a group of fellow students who'd all go on to join Team Sandler. Most notably, there was the actor Allen Covert, the director Frank Coraci and Adam's roomie, Tim Herlihy, with whom he'd co-write all his biggest hits.
An astute player, despite his dumbo image, Adam was at the same time scouting for TV and film work, and in his final year at college scored a part in the hugely successful Cosby Show. Here he played Smitty, dopey best mate of Theo Huxtable, appearing in two episodes in 1987 and two the next year. After graduation in 1988, with a BFA Drama, he also landed a part in MTV's wacky game-show Remote Control where students would be questioned while strapped into Laz-E-Boys and sucked through walls when their answers were incorrect. Hosting alongside Denis Leary and Alicia Coppola, Adam unleashed such characters as Stick Pin Quinn.
His name was certainly getting around. 1989 saw his feature film debut, as the lead in Going Overboard. Here he was Schecky Moskowitz, a waiter on a cruise ship who fancies himself as a comedian and steps up when the on-board comic goes missing. He is, of course, terrible, with more confusion (and lingering T&A shots) added by the fact that the ship's hosting a beauty pageant. Featuring Billy Zane, Burt Young and, briefly, Billy Bob Thornton, the film should have been better than it was. But it did see Adam working with Steve Brill, playing a priest. Brill would go on to direct Adam in Little Nicky and Mr Deeds. '89 would also see him begin his first really serious relationship, with Margaret Ruden, manager of a cosmetics company.
Moving to Los Angeles to concentrate on the burgeoning comedy circuit there, his big break came quickly. Performing at the Improv Theatre, he was spotted by comic Dennis Miller, who in turn recommended him to Saturday Night Live producer Lorne Michaels. Impressed by the young man's efforts, in 1990 Michaels took him to SNL as a writer, and occasional performer. Come 1991, though, it had become clear that no one could perform Sandler's sketches as well as the man himself.
For the next five years he was a regular, creating such characters as Opera Man and Canteen Boy, as well as taking off the likes of Bruce Springsteen, Axl Rose, Eddie Vedder and Bono. Despite one reviewer calling him "The most talentless, juvenile and offensive member of the current cast", the viewers loved him. It would ever be thus. Most of his movies were critically mauled before taking off at the box-office. Actually, not even the people at SNL were always on his side. When he played Iraqi Pete during the Gulf War, everyone hated it. Even his good buddy and co-star Rob Schneider was ambivalent. But they all came round in the end. By the time Sandler left, in 1995, the show would have garnered three more Grammy nominations.
But it wasn't all rosy. Adam's film career had stalled badly after Going Overboard. In '91, he read five times for Dennis Dugan's comedy Brain Donors, but the studio preferred John Turturro (Sandler wouldn't be bitter. Dugan would later direct him in Happy Gilmore and Big Daddy, while Turturro would appear in Mr Deeds and Anger Management). Then there was the Toronto People's Comedy Festival, when Sandler turned up for a 40-minute slot with 20 minutes of material. He died, it was said, "a Shakespearian death".
Ordinarily, stand-up was his forte, and he proved it in 1993 with the release of his first comedy album, They're All Gonna Laugh At You. A catalogue of offensive songs, toilet humour and all-round beastliness, and featuring such skits as The Beating Of A High School Janitor and The Beating Of a High School Bus Driver (the Science and Spanish teachers got it, too), it thoroughly deserved its Advisory sticker. But it sold well, was Grammy-nominated and expanded his fan base, as would the following What The Hell Happened To Me? and What's Your Name, a collection of 12 raunchy songs. His fourth album, Stan and Judy's Kid, would enter the Billboard charts at Number 16, breaking the record for first-week sales of a comedy record. Often promoting the albums with college tours - aiming straight at his core audience - he has sold over five million units.
1993 also brought him back to films. Having the year before appeared briefly, along with Robin Williams, in Bobcat Goldthwait's grim comedy Shakes The Clown, now came Coneheads. This, originating from SNL sketches from the mid-Seventies, paired old SNL (Dan Aykroyd and Jane Curtin) with new SNL (Sandler and Chris Farley), and concerned funny-headed aliens who wish to invade Earth but accidentally crash-land on it and have to pretend to be human. It was a flimsy script and a bad movie, but Sandler, in a small role, did not bear the brunt.
Next came a better effort - Airheads. Here, a terrible rock band called the Lone Rangers take over a radio station with fake guns and force them to play their terrible single, Degenerated. Adam, as said, drew upon his own High School drummer, while Brendan Fraser and Steve Buscemi did their own hairy thing. It wasn't too shabby, dude.
After this came Nora Ephron's Mixed Nuts, with an excellent cast of oddballs. Here Steve Martin (another SNL old-boy) and Madeline Kahn run a crisis hot-line and the lives of staff and "patients" collide and mingle. Rita Wilson (Tom Hanks' missus) loves Steve, dozy songwriter Adam loves her, and Juliette Lewis, Rob Reiner and Parker Posey play it up in the background. It was sentimental stuff, and not a hit, but Adam himself, as a lovelorn loser, was actually very effective.
Now came the big cinematic breakthrough. Starring in Billy Madison, Sandler found a near-perfect vehicle for his aggressively child-like humour. Here he played the lazy son of an entrepreneur father who intends to hand his company over to a scheming vice president rather than let young Billy ruin it. To prove his worth, Billy must return to school and pass from Grade 1 to 12 in two weeks. Which of course he does, while revelling in a child's penchant for mockery and mischief.
Billy Madison set the tone for future Sandler productions. Filmed on a very low budget, it nevertheless took over $25 million very quickly, proving that his stand-up and SNL audiences would pay to see him
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