Friday, February 20, 2009

Norm McDonald


Most people have a list of people in their head that they asociate with funny. I associate Norm McDonald with all the other greats. He was on SNL the same years as Adam Sandler, Chris Farley, and David Spade. He was the green bean in the lunch lady land skit.
Most people don't remember his greatest skits but, he did a great job playing Burt Reynolds on Jeopardy with Will Ferrel. It may seem strange to write the entire blog over a celebrity that some people would not even recognize on the street, but ever since Billy Madison I can't get enough of Norm McDonald. He played a very minor role in the film, but he happened to say some of the best lines such as: Billy-"There's something I was supposed to do today." Norm- "Have seven daqueries, No, you remembered to do that." He serves as Sandler's best friend. In the scene where they are watching the news tehre is a report that Hotel tycoon's son, pays teacher off. Norm says, "Now Now, maybe it's somebody else" Then he waits for the rest of the news story like there is another Hotel tycoon's son redoing first through twelfth grade. I laugh everytime I see this part. He pauses at all the right moments. I once heard that the key to comedy is the pauses you take for the joke to disgest. Norm has mastered the art of pausing.



He is sarcastic and has a witty dry humor to him.
He had a TV show for awhile called Norm. It was cancelled after the first season, I however liked it, it was like the Drew Carrey show. He also was a writer for the T.V. show Roseanne. He will be more reacently appearing in Adam Sandler's new film Funny People, doing a cameo as he plays a comedian.
Norm grew up in Canada, but he currently resides in Canada today.

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Adam Sandler


Adam Sandler was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Judy, a nursery school teacher, and Stanley Sandler, an electrical engineer. Sandler is Jewish. When he was five, his family moved to Manchester, New Hampshire, where he attended Manchester Central High School. He found he was a natural comic, and nurtured his talent while at New York University by performing regularly in clubs and on campuses. He graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1991 (Wikepedia).

His SNL skit the lunch lady land was inspired by his real lunch lady at New York University. He was very sucessful on SNL, but he left to pursue a career in film. He has starred in, produced, and helped write many of them. His main money maker right now is his film prouction company Happy Madison.

Although he has produced some sucessful films, he has also starred in many of them. Such as Billy Madison his first major hit. Before that was a film called Going Overboard. He proceeded those films with Happy Gilmore, where he played a hockey player turned golfer. Then came Big Daddy where he watches over a best friends kid, claiming to be him to social services as Sunny Cofax. Next there is Water Boy, he played a waterboy turned football player, Bobby Bouschay. Then came Mr. Deeds, where he played the nephew of a deceased billionare and recieves his foutune. Then came 50 First Dates, where he played a man who falls inlove with a girl who forgets him each night. Later came The Longest Yard remake, where he plays Paul Crew. He then did two serious films; Spanglish and Reign Over me. They were ill recieved by some of the die hard fans, but he came back with Chuck and Larry, Co starring with Kevin James, they act as a gay couple for insurance purposes.

In every film sandler uses a lot of the same people. His usual crew includes: Rob Schnieder, Steve Busceni, John Turturro,John Lovitz, Clint Howard, Norm Mac Donald, and longtime pals Allen Covert, Peter Dante, and Johnathan Laughron.

He is currently working on a film called Funny People. Also he will be working on a movie this summer with, Kevin James, David Spade, Chris Rock, and Rob Schneider.

He is married to Jacquline Samantha Titone, whom he met on the set of Big Daddy, she played the waitress. They have two beautiful daughters together.

Friday, February 6, 2009

David Spade


David Wayde Spade age 44 of Burmingham, Michigan is one of the greatest comedians of all time. Before he was famous he made money as a busboy, a valet parker, and a skee ball championship competitor. So as you can see he was destined for greatness.
He went to SNL as an actor and a writer. He was on several classic and epic SNL skits. He played Christy fron the Gap girls where he starred as a women along side Chris Farley and Adam Sandler. He also impersonated Brad Pitt and Michael J. Fox. He also played a rude and sarcastic flight attended that told all of the passengers "buh-bye". He also acted like a scarcastic Hollywood reporter and made fun of the stars he was interviewing.
His most known works would probably be the classic film, Tommy Boy, where he starred along side Chris Farley. They were a perfect pair. They also did a movie called Black Sheep a year after Tommy Boy. Tommy Boy proves more popular and even now remains popular with a cult following. Some of the lines live on in infamy by the die hard fans. Such as, "Were you callin from a walky talky?" and "Don't be the hero!" It is one of my personal favorites. Sadly the sucess ended with the tragic overdose of Chris Farley. David Spade did not attend the funeral like I said. He said, "I could not go somewhere where Chris was in a box."
David Spade has had some success with other films such as Joe Dirt, where he rocks a mullet, and Dikie Roberts childhood star. He plays a child actor who grows up to find that he needs to learn about family life to make a comeback in the role of a lifetime. He ends up helping the family and falling in love with the mom.
He also played some successful roles on sitcoms and tv shows. He played Finch on Just Shoot Me. He also took the place of John Ritter on 8 Simple Rules as cousin CJ. He is currently on the tv show Rules of Engagement. He is still in the spotlight and was currently spotted with Jennifer Aniston when she ditched the primere of her new movie, "He's Just Not That In To You." They said that they are just friends. He has in the past also been linked to Nicolette Sheridan and Heather Locklear.