Adam?
( Band playing ( cheers applause )
Dave: Our first... ( Applause) our first guest a very funny man, who's brand
new motion picture, entitled "little Nicky" opens on Friday. Please welcome
the talented, the odd, Adam Sandler. Adam?
( Band playing ( cheers applause )
Dave: Nice goin
Adam: thank you. Nice to see you.
Dave: That's a very important sounding kind of musical fanfare. Welcome to
the show hey, what about last night? Did you have anything to do with that?
Adam: it was.. I was watching just like the rest of America. And, it was back
and forth, and I was like, what is goin to happen? Just like the rest of America,
you know? ( Laughter ) finally, "stone cold" Steve Austin pinned "triple h,"
but I was like... ( Laughter ) ( applause ) I was just like you guys, like,
"whoa." 
Dave:really hey, how do you like being a big time movie star? Because it used
to be that you were just a kid , like 18 or 19, you're working on the "Saturday
night live" show, and now you're like this huge, big, multi- billion dollar
box-office, TV, movie star. How does that make you feel? ( Applause ) ( laughter
) 
Adam: no, I don't know.
Dave: How does your family feel about it? They must be thrilled.
Adam: I get calls from, you know, my sisters, saying, "hey, Adam." That kind of thing.
Dave: Yeah, yeah. ( Laughter )
Adam: they like me... They like me the same, you know? 
Dave: Well, that's an important thing, that your family loves you no matter what.
Adam: Yeah, we have a close family that way.
Dave: That's good. ( Laughter ) how about... How you doing with the ladies? How you doing with the ladies?
Adam: Well, I was at my hotel the other night. I thought I was all right with
the ladies, but n'sync is staying at my hotel. 
Dave: Really?
Adam: yeah. ( Laughter )
Dave: How did that happen?
Adam: Well, there's like... In front of the hotel, there's 2,000 screaming
girls, and I got to admit, I got a little jealous, you know? So, I was in the
elevator with the n'sync guys, and I challenged them to a dance off, you know?
( Laughter ) and all of a sudden, I said "you guys against me and my friends.
You know, meet on the roof." ( Laughter ) and I met... Me and my buddies, you
know, it was like five minutes of pure dancing and stuff, and... 
...Who could bust the best moves wins, and I just have to tell n'sync, if they're
watching right now, you win. ( Laughter ) ( applause )
Dave: Sounds like it might have been kind of fun.
Adam: Well, yeah, but what am... I know why they call them n'sync. They all
do it together, you know? ( Laughter ) 
Dave: So do you
Adam : me and my friends, one guy's going the funky chicken, and I was doing this one. ( Laughter )
Dave: I see.
Adam: The n'sync guys were kind of giggling.
Dave: Yeah, yeah. Now listen... Take us down memory lane, and tell us about
your early career, how you began performing. Was it something when you were
a little boy, you started entertaining? 
Adam: I don't know how it happened . I didn't know what I was going to do with my life, you know? I wasn't the brightest guy in my school, and I...
Dave: Really?
Adam: Yeah. ( Laughter ) I wanted to be.
Dave: Of course you wanted to be. We all wanted to be. 
Adam: Everybody like but there I was. But I remember when I was graduating
high school, I didn't know what I was going to do with my life, so I started
saying, "maybe I'll join the army," you know? Maybe I'll join the army, I'll
do pushups a lot, I'll become... ( Laughter ) ...Get strong and stuff, and I'll
like, learn a craft, and you know? ( Laughter ) do something or protect my country.
If there's a war, I'll fight for the country. 
Dave: These are all good.
Adam: And so I told my father, "hey dad, I think I'm going to join the army." And my father said, "you don't want to do that," and I said, "all right." ( Laughter )
Dave: That's how that happened. ( Applause ) so once again we see that your
family has played an important part in your life. 
Adam: Yeah.
Dave: Remember the first little bit of performing, when kind of a light goes off in your head, and you think, ah... Maybe this has a little something. Do you remember that occurrence?
Adam: I swear to god, I was... Like, I used to get lost in the stores a lot
growing up, and... ( Laughter ) ...Like, my mom would say "stay with me," and
then like, I'd go on the other side of a coat rack, and I'd look for her shoes,
and I couldn't find them, and I'd panic, and I'd run around. And so I go to
that information, you know, booth, and tell the lady, "I can't find my mommy,"
you
know, and the lady say, you know, "what's your mother's name," and I'd say,
"mommy. I just know mommy." ( Laughter ) so she said, "all right, well what's
your name?" I said, "Adam. I'm Adam." And then I heard the lady say, "will the
mother of Adam please come to the information booth." And right there, when
I heard my name out loud, I said, "I got to be a star someday." ( Laughter )
( applause ) 
Dave: That's pretty Good?
Adam: That's pretty good
Dave: What about sports? I know you're a big sports fan, aren't you?
Adam: I went to "Monday night football" with my dad.
Dave: Oh, that's great.
Adam: It was awesome. It's good to, you know, take him anywhere, and it was
pay-back time. You know, it's like... He was nice to me growing up. So... (
Laughter ) 
Dave: Well that advice he gave you about the army, that's solid gold there.
Adam: That was a long conversation for me and my father. But... ( Laughter
) so anyway, I'm at the game with him, and you know when you're watching a football
game on TV, and somebody does something well, you know, like a team scores,
or it's a good play, you hear ( imitates cheering 
crowd )and so, but when you're actually at the game, people are saying different
things. It just sounds that way. ( Laughter ) and I couldn't think of anything
to say when a good play would happen, so I was just going ( imitates crowd cheering
), like that. Which is better than what I heard my father say. I would just
hear him go, "you're a disgrace. ( Laughter ) ( applause ) your sister's a doctor,
and you're an overpaid moron. ( Laughter ) and I know you touched the 
thermostat
when we was at the poconos." ( Laughter )
Dave: That doesn't seem fair. That doesn't seem right.
Adam: He sounds like jimmy Durante~, my dad. ( Applause )
Dave: I tell you what, we got to do a commercial. You can stick around, right?
Adam: I'd love to thank you.
Dave: All right, good enough. We'll be right back here with Adam Sandler, ladies and gentlemen. ( Cheers and applause ) ( band playing )
(Commercials) ( Band playing ) ( cheers and applause )
Dave: Adam Sandler,Ladies and gentlemen. ( Applause ) Adam, you look. You
look fit. You look almost like you're... Are you lifting weights or something,
or is it just the thing? Because you look... 
Adam: I do? Thank You.
Dave: ...Like you're pumped, or buffed, or whatever you do.
Adam: It's... I've been boxing a little bit.
Dave: No you into 'Ti Bo.
Adam: Swear
Dave: Really? You've been boxing?
Adam: Well you know, you know how a lot of the actors out there, they always
talk about heir boxing to get in shape look good? 
Want to l
Dave: That's right
Adam : I'm not into the looking good as much as I want to be able to beat my brother up,you know, because... ( Laughter ) it's like, that's why, he still always gets the front seat with my dad, you know? ( Laughter ) it's always those two always talking, and I'm in the back going, "what'd you say, what'd you say?" ( Laughter ) so I just want to...
Dave: You got an old score to settle. 
Adam: I want to rabbit punch him
Dave: Now, how serious are you about this? Do you actually fight guys, do you have a trainer, is it just around the house what are you?
Adam: I work out this...
Dave: It's not Ti-Bo, is it? ( Laughter
Adam: actually, I got the tape, though, because I was psyched when I saw commercial.
I was like, ooh, that looks good. But I only did it for a few days, and I wake,
"eh." ( Laughter ) but I took to boxing, and I go the gym. 
It's
Joe Guezman like...
Dave: Is he a real guy?
Adam: He's a serious he's trained Tyson mount Whitaker, all these real boys.
Dave: Did you say mount Whitaker?
Adam:Yeah, that's one of his fighters. He's Italian. He's a big man. 
Dave: oh,I thought it was where the gym I'm sorry.
Adam: No, no. ( Laughter ) so anyway, its kind of a tough hangout there. There's like real thugs, you know? Like gang members and stuff.
Dave: Good luck going back. ( Laughter ) 
Adam : well I do... What happened to me when I was there they was all making
signs to each other, and they got their colors, and Joe Guezman said, "you got
to earn the respect of the gym, so you should fight one of these guys." So I
fought the leader of the gang, and I got in the ring with him, and I just, for
some crazy reason, I was just beating his head in. 
Dave: No!
Adam: Yeah, just smacking him, ( makes cartoon punching
noises ) ( laughter ) and I look in his eyes, and he's got tears in his eyes,
you know, because I'm humiliating him in front of the rest of the gang. And
so anyway, I whooped him, and they made me an honorary member of the gang. 
Dave: Wow
Adam: If those guys are watching Troop 122 cub scouts rule. ( Laughter ) ( applause )
Dave: You beat up a scout.
Adam" This weekend, I'll bring the s'mores. ( Laughter )
Dave: So, do you actually box?
Adam: No, I do, I do. The guy, Mr. Guezman, says I'm pretty good. Actually,
just as a goof, I said, "who would win, me or Tyson," you know, just like a
goof question. 
Dave: M
Adam: and he goes, "Tyson," you know? ( Laughter ) but he said if I continued
he says I have some natural ability, I got a good hook, and I move pretty smooth.
He says if I continue and take more lessons, he said, I could possibly beat
him. And I was like, "no way." And he's like, "you possibly could beat him,
because you just have more natural talent. But you got to study more. You got
to come more, you got to... You just got to fight with me, and you know, don't
take three lessons a week, you know, like 14. 
Come
two times a day that kind of thing. ( Laughter )
Dave: Boxing lessons twice a day.
Adam: Yeah, well... And he says, you know, "it's $200,000 a lesson." ( Laughter
) and he says that if I continue doing this, I'll be able to win. 
Dave: If .
Adam: Yeah.
Dave: But now, have you had your lights turned out? Has anybody tapped you? Have you had one of those deals where...
Adam: Mr. Guzman.
Dave: Really?
Adam: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Dave: The next thing you know, you're just looking at birds and stuff?
Adam: but my friend, we were breaking beer bottles in the woods. ( Laughter
) my friend dickey Kelly, it was right after football practice, we were walking
though the woods, and all of a sudden, he broke a Heineken bottle on the back
of my head. 
Dave: of your head?
Adam: Yeah.
Dave: You were breaking bottles on each other's heads?
Adam: I wasn't doing it. I was breaking them on rocks, but he just goes, "let me get Sandler over the head." And I got knocked
Dave: Yeah, I would think so. Good lord. 
Adam Yeah, Heineken's thicker
Dave: Yeah. ( Laughter ) now... ( Applause ) tell me... It's none of my business of course but I eluded to this earlier. How are things going with your girlfriend ... Do you he A...
Adam: My girlfriend, very good. 
Dave: One? Is this the same one we talked about before
Adam: yeah. Couple of years now.
Dave: Oh, that's great.
Adam: She's a very nice girl, and she actually just converted to Judaism.
And, it was funny, because she was talking about, "I don't know that much about
it," you know? And she was giving me facts. She's like, you know, "the Israelites
invented the dreidel to teach the Jewish children the alphabet, because at the
time, they weren't allowed to read." And I said, "I don't know about all that,
but if s somebody calls you 'jewboy,' you punch in the face." 
And
I told her, "if you go to temple, you got to wear a tie. ( Laughter ) or my
momma's going to get upset."
Dave : Let's talk about the film. This film is nuts. 
Adam: It's a weird movie
Dave: You play the son of... Can I just say this?
Adam: Sure.
Dave: Play one of Satan's sons, one of the sons of the devil.
Adam: Right. My mom's an angel though, so I'm kind of like a confused, goofy
guy." 
Dave: Right. And you have a really great cast, Harvey Keitel is in it.
Adam: Yeah.
Dave: Dana Carvey is in this.
Adam Yeah.
Dave: Who am I forgetting?
Adam: Or, everybody's in there. Ozzy ozzborne... I mean, a bunch of "Saturday Night Live" guys
Dave: Talking dog.
Adam: The dog, ever. Well, I'll tell the thing about the... 
Dave: The is pretty good.
Adam: You know, it looks very real. It's not really him talking . It's like they do A... ( Laughter ) I don't know everybody knows that, but it's a special effect. But, I must tell you all...
Dave: Kind of an insider tip there. ( Laughter ) 
Adam: I make movies, man. these guys don't know that.
Dave: I know.
Adam: I'm behind the scenes and stuff. ( Laughter ) this dog doesn't really
talk, but I saw the dog one time in the trailer, a swear to god, I think he
was trying to talk to me. ( Laughter ) because I looked at him, a go, "hey,
how you dog?" And he looked back at me, and he goes, ( gibberish) ( laughter
) and I go, "what?" And he goes, ( gibberish ). ( Laughter ) ( applause 
that
the
Dave: Give it a shot. That's the truth. You want to show the people... See a clip here?
Adam: Sure, sure.
Dave: It opens when? Friday it opens?
Adam: Friday. It's a comedy, it's trying to make... 
Dave: Are you nervous
Dave: "Nicky boy." Is it "Nicky b?"
Yeah. ( Laughs ) "little Nicky."
Dave: "Little Nicky."
Adam: We got... T title, we're not good at titles. ( Laughter ) because what
ever my name name is, that's... "Call it 'little Nicky,'" whatever. But this
thing we're going to see, it's like I battling one of my brothers. Reese defonzie,
a real cool guy, and he plays my evil brother. And because my mother's an angel,
I'm not evil,we're fighting back and forth trying 
to
save the world
Dave: Here we go.
Adam: It's a goofy story.
Dave: Here we go. "Little nick" Adam Sandler. Take a look.
Okay.
(SHOWS CLIP)
Adam: Okay. ( Laughter ) ( laughter ( applause ) 
Dave: It's "little nick"
Adam:? yeah, that's "Little Nicky" for you. That's "little Nicky."
Dave: Friday, all over the country. I'm sure it will be a huge hit for you.
Adam: Oh man, great to see.
Dave: Good to see. Thanks for coming by 
Adam : thank you
Dave: Adam Sandler ladies and gentlemen. ( Cheers and applause )