Ben Stiller satirises famous Adam Sandler song
"It's really just a list of rhyming celebrity names, and yet it goes multiplatinum and it's become a holiday radio staple"
Jewish actor Ben Stiller offered his own alternative to Adam Sandler’s Chanukah Song as his fellow Jewish comedian accepted the Mark Twain Prize for American Humour at an awards ceremony earlier this month.
Stiller asked from the stage how Sandler’s novelty song, first heard on Saturday Night Live in 1994, became a seasonal standard.
“It’s really just a list of rhyming celebrity names, and yet it goes multiplatinum and it’s become a holiday radio staple that my daughter forces us all to listen to after we light the candles every year,” he said.
Pretending to be baffled by Sandler’s success, Stiller imagined the response to his own song about Yom Kippur. He then sang its “killer opening line”, which included a reference to a notorious scene in Stiller’s 1998 film There’s Something About Mary: “It’s time to atone / So let’s get in the zone. / Got my d**k caught in my zipper / and now it is Yom Kippur.”
In choosing Sandler, 56, for the prize, Kennedy Centre president Deborah F. Rutter said, “[He has] entertained audiences for over three decades. Adam has created characters that have made us laugh, cry and cry from laughing.”JTA
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