Nancy Pelosi and her husband Paul Pelosi talk with Steve Buscemi, right, as they arrive for the Mark Twain Prize 'The whole time I was listening to you I was dealing with gratitude that the original people that Kennedy Center asked to come couldn’t make it,' he said. 'The suit I don't love but everything else is exciting,' he said of the awards ceremony.īut, in his acceptance speech, he thanked his friends. Sandler, who was given a 'fashion icon' status for his uniform of sweatpants and a baggy t-shirt, donned a suit and tie for the occasion - but the jacket went half-way down his thighs and the pants were too long. Menzel joked that Sandler almost didn't attend the ceremony because if had a 'dress code.' The couple's daughters, Sadie, 16, and Sunny, 14, also were in attendance.Īll the performers shared stories of working with Sandler and mocked his dress sense.

As Aniston and Barrymore squabbled about how each of them got the song, she yelled out: 'Me too!' Sandler's wife Jackie got in on the joke. The show started off with the roast of Sandler - including a skit where Jennifer Aniston and Drew Barrymore 'discovered' that Sandler wooed them into doing movies with him with the same song. He had some iffy material,' Spade said during the taping. 'In these woke times we live in the one person who would not win the Mark Twain Prize was Mark Twain. Sandler, best known for his time on 'Saturday Night Live' and a slew of comedy films, was honored by a host of his famous friends on Sunday night, including Jennifer Aniston, Judd Apatow, Steve Buscemi, Conan O’Brien, Chris Rock, and David Spade, Dana Carvey, Luis Guzmán, Tim Herlihy, Idina Menzel, Rob Schneider, and Ben Stiller. Adam Sandler, above with his wife Jackie, was honored with Mark Twain Prize

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