The most important thing a comedy special can have is a strong opening and a great ending. That's why Dave Chappelle's specials are (usually) great – he's a master of the art of openings and closings. People can afford to get carried away in between (or in the middle, if you will), but the things they'll remember are the beginning and the end. Adam SandlerThe surprising new comedy show (with an equally surprising director) wasn't just The most unique and exciting intros and outros to any comedy special in years, and it maintains a fun, fast-paced, and unpredictable pace of jokes throughout.It's the best comedy special I've seen since Bo Burnham. inside.
He loves inside, Adam Sandler: I love you It's very much a musical project, and probably more musical than you might expect. The good news is that Sandler's musical talent has improved dramatically since he started decades ago.He's excellent on acoustic, electric, and bass guitar, and has a strong whistle. His backing vocalist does a great job with the keyboard and the production in general, and Sandler's voice is always on point (it's usually a bunch of silly variations to fit whatever he's singing about, but he actually has a beautiful singing voice).
If musical comedies aren't your thing, you might want to skip this special, but it could also be the perfect gateway into this subgenre. —The songs are not only funny and catchy, but they're so fast-paced and varied in genre and tone that they never get stuck in one pattern for long. It all leads to a truly unexpected and moving musical ending that reaches heights Sandler has never approached in comedy before.
Unexpected tension builds in Adam Sandler's very own film
Director Adam Sandler: I love you He is Josh Safdie, one of the Safdie brothers who directed him in the critically acclaimed film, Uncut Gems (He participated in the creation of the excellent series the curse). Leave it to Sandler and Safdie to bring an incredible amount of tension and anxiety to a stand-up comedy special right away. In a great start, Sandler arrives at the theater in a car with a broken windshield.He spills coffee on him. It's chaos outside and inside, and he's late. We watch him approach everything, change clothes with a cute muscle man, try to sign shirts, have a little boy approach him to sign intimate photos of Sandler at his house…
Just before he goes on stage, a security guard holds up her phone to him and begs him to speak to a family member who has just been in a terrible accident. They call Sandler on stage, but on the line is a man lying in a hospital bed, wearing a tight gown, his face covered in blood as he smiles and talks rapidly, delighted to see Sandler. The comedians hand him coffee, with the wrong sweetener in it. He goes on stage, and the screens in the venue, which were essential to his performance, are broken. It's disturbing and uncomfortable, and a delightful prelude to his body of work that presents a mission statement of sorts – can comedy overcome tension?
It's hard to say how much without reading about it first. Adam Sandler: I love you Was the coffee order wrong on purpose? Did they plan for the monitors not to work? When the piano leg fell through a hole on stage, when the audience almost got into a fistfight, when the dog escaped from backstage — were these all the machinations of Josh Safdie, who did his best to annoy Sandler and keep him on his toes? Or is it just us? Or is the daily life of a famous comedian that chaotic and surreal? That's part of the magic of Andy Kaufman in this special. You don't know where the line is.
Great music and a perfect ending prove the power of comedy.
Then there's the comedy itself. It's a great mix of very simple jokes that rely on good storytelling and basic misdirection.These story-based jokes feature a hilarious mix of sweet silliness and cheesy adult humor, the kind that includes magical genies and talking balloons alongside masturbation, adultery, death, and feces. Interspersed among the jokes are some real (and painful) bits about depression, marriage, children, and all the little miseries of life in general.
The music, as mentioned, is delightfully loose (with Sandler himself occasionally laughing while singing) despite the extremely talented musicians on stage. Depending on the mood and lyrics of the song, Sandler will play some funk on the guitar, play a clever basso dub (or something like that) on the acoustic guitar, play a playful double-whistle piece, and so on. Sandler even steps in for a moment in the background, playing excellent electric guitar while surprise guest Rob Schneider performs a wonderful rendition of Elvis's “It's Now or Never.” Whatever you think of Schneider, this is an absolutely stunning performance and a lovely moment of on-stage companionship.
All this leads to the end of the show, Amazing original song This movie is best left as is. Suffice to say, it moved me to tears and will be replayed countless times in my house. It is a moment of pure, sublime emotion and gratitude, and a tribute to comedy itself, a man who speaks poetically about the thing he loves. When Sandler leaves the theater, his windshield has been repaired. Through the sadness, through the chaos, through all this miserable nonsense, comedy can mend the broken. It's the perfect ending to a perfect special event.
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