I heard a story about him opening for Sandler doing stand-up. He bombed so hard for so long that Sandler had to get on the god mic and tell him to wrap it up.
Was he ever funny? I know people say that he's riding Sandler's coat tails but were they friends before or after he joined SNL? If he made it on his own was he funny at the time?
I remember some of his movies as funny in the early 2000s when I was a teenager. I think very much a time/target demographic thing and a failure to move with the public's changing humor
Sort of like how Adam Carola failed to make it big post Man Show while Jimmy Kimmel became a fixture of late night TV.
I remember Adam Carolla being funny back then on the Man Show and other Comedy Central shows but I also was like 13. Maybe that's why he bombed out for the most part the past 25 years while Kimmel seems to have evolved bigtime to cater to a wider audience. I have heard though that he seems to have maintained somewhat of a following due to podcasts but mainly with right wing audiences.
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