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Saturday Night Live - Season 44 Episode 19: Adam Sandler/Shawn Mendes
In the fourth and fortieth season, a new comedy show featuring a series of new celebrities in the world of music, news, art and other areas. The late-night features many short plays, simulations of TV commercials, a live band, and a guest cultural guest every week; All that is new in the varied caricatures and loud music that young people are presenting this season.
[Adam] Sandler's return met and even exceeded most expectations, with the episode serving as a reminder that when his heart is in it, the man is a great performer.
This is a bad episode, but that's not because things were so much better back in the day: It's because it tries to channel the irreverent, childish humor of back in the day, and it only shines a light on how lame that is.
Many of the sketches play right to [Adam] Sandler's strengths, and just like in 100% Fresh, he lends a world-weary vulnerability and sense of ease in his own skin to many moments.
In a night of puzzling behind-the-scenes decision making, [Adam] Sandler shone most in a pair of pieces that showed off his skills at underplaying in sketches that would have fit perfectly back in his heyday.
Saturday night's episode was a proper homecoming for Sandler, a pleasant mix of old faces, classic characters, and experiments with some of the current show's closest approximations of Sandler's onetime star persona.
The expectations were high, and while the Sandman was back to his usual self, the overall show took some time to gain steam. Thankfully, it ended with a bang and even some tears.
Make sure you have some tissues handy as you're bound to get teary as [Adam] Sandler sings about his friend [Chris Farley] and how hard it was to say goodbye to him.
In easily the most memorable SNL of the season if for no other reason that it was built almost entirely on indelible memories, [Adam] Sandler and cast reprised voices and characters while a handful of former, also beloved, cast members turned up too.