Adam Sandler has won this year’s Mark Twain Award for American Humor, considered one of the most prestigious honors in comedy.
about leaving the show because NBC fired him as well as his partner in comedy, the late Chris Farley.So I guess you could say I won."
"Adam Sandler has entertained audiences for over three decades with his films, music, and his tenure as a fan favorite cast member on," said Kennedy Center President Deborah F. Rutter in a statement,"Adam has created characters that have made us laugh, cry, and cry from laughing." Critics over the years have been less enthusiastic about Sandler's work. In 2014, Mark Olsen wrote inthat Sandler's movies,"exist on their very own plane of bad taste and questionable intentions." In 2008, NPR's Bob Mondello
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