Adam Sandler sings an ode to friend Chris Farley from his former SNL playground

Adam Sandler returns to welcome Saturday Night Live for the first time since he left the series (or was fired, as he was hearing it singing alongside Chris Rock in his monologue) almost a quarter of a century ago, some things were obvious. Naturally, we had Opera Man, and all the actors made their best impressions of Sandler in a sketch of the Sandler family reunion. In addition, the kindly boy noted Sandler was very serious and gracious in praising his present time. SNL successors and former boss Lorne Michaels in the monologue and good days. (It was NBC and not Lorne who really kicked Sandler in 1995, after all.) But it was the last piece of the night that was the biggest hit, when Sandler released his guitar for a reminder of the song. tribute for which he wrote his late friend Chris Farley.

Born in the recent Netflix special show on Sandler's stand-up, the song is Sandler in her sincerest sincerity, even when she sings with a touching and unaffected voice about the infamous Farley holding an empty bottle of Jack Daniels in the ass. (Previously, Sandler sang, it was always necessary to get up early enough to allow the hungry "catholic boy," Farley, to go to Sunday Mass.) So that the old pro Sandler could come back and animate SNL was a mixed bag, of course. But, as he noted with tenderness while he was addressing his wife and children during the audience, Sandler was never amused anymore or was happier than when he was in the audience. he was on SNLand no one made him happier than Farley, who died young. In his song, Sandler recounted how he and other people (Sandler, Rock, David Spade and Farley shared a famous office) had warned their friend that his various addictions were likely to send him – like Farley's heroes John Belushi and John Candy – one too early falls. Sandler's words about Farley thinking it was "just a dandy" found Sandler confiding in the anecdote a painfully sad tone at the height of the enthusiasm with which the SNL The public made enough noise, under the impulse of Sandler, so that Father Farley could possibly hear from his former home of Studio 8H.