Fresh Look: David Letterman Meets Adam Sandler on My Next Guest

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David Letterman sits down with Adam Sandler for an intimate, wide-ranging conversation—from his early days in stand-up to his breakout on SNL and the blockbuster career that followed. Don’t miss this candid and heartfelt episode of My Next Guest Needs No Introduction, streaming on Netflix December 1.

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00:00I was a high school kid. I did stand-up. My brother brought me. He was going to Boston University.

00:04And he said, there's comedy nights at clubs in town. You should do that.

00:10And I said, yeah, yeah, yeah, good. And then one night, we're eating dinner with my family.

00:16And he says, are you ready to do that stand-up comedy thing? And I said, yeah, when is that?

00:21He goes, tonight. I told you. And I said, okay. He goes, do you know what you're going to say?

00:24I said, no, no, no, I don't. And he goes, well, it's five minutes.

00:28And I said, oh, all right, I can do that. I'll talk about grandma.

00:32And what does that mean, I'll talk about grandma?

00:35Around my house, I would try to sound like my grandmother and make my father laugh.

00:39And so I was like, let me bring that on to the stage in Boston.

00:42Can we hear a little grandma now?

00:44Oh, yeah. Truth was, one time, my grandma, this is a big story in my house.

00:49I was in Florida visiting. And I took a shower in the morning.

00:53And I did my day. And then that night, I was taking another shower.

00:56And my grandmother said, you take a lot of showers.

00:59And I said, yes, yes. She goes, I think you're in there.

01:04I swear to God. So I told my...

01:07Oh, there's your five minutes right there.

01:10I didn't use that, but I should have.

01:12But that was a big famous story in my house.

01:14So your grandmother and your parents and your family all very supportive of whatever it was that lay ahead of you, lie ahead of you.

01:20My family was very supportive. My father was always kind of looking at me like, are you sure about this?

01:26But everybody else was just like, yeah, Adam's terrific.

01:29Anyway, getting back to the five minutes of the Boston Comedy Club.

01:33Do you remember the five minutes?

01:35No, but I do remember I was devastatingly bad and nobody laughed.

01:40And it was five minutes of just silence.

01:42And at the very end, I heard a man say, he's wearing a retainer.

01:48And that was it.

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