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What Adam Sandler's SNL tribute teaches us about cherishing the mess

Feb 18, 2025
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Earlier this week, SNL celebrated 50 years with a three-hour live special. No sooner had it aired than social media was flooded with clips, each urging: Stop what you’re doing and watch this one. No, this one. It’s worth your time.

In my particular corner of the internet, one clip made the rounds on heavy rotation: Adam Sandler, guitar in hand. Having grown up with The Hanukkah Song and Lunch Lady Land, and now as a parent stuck with his Elmo Song permanently lodged in my brain, I assumed we were in for another comedic anthem.

We weren’t. It was less Happy Gilmore and more Barry Egan.

Instead, Sandler delivered…

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