Adam Sandler can’t see Saturday night live creator and executive producer Lorne Michaels who will soon be leaving the series.
In an interview with Party tonight at the premiere of his new Netflix movie Space on Monday, ex SNL The cast member, 57, said he doesn’t think Michaels, 79, is parting ways with the long-running NBC sketch comedy series.
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“I don’t see that happening,” Sandler said. “I don’t know, maybe someone said he could, but I talked to Lorne, I don’t think he says enough. He rocks. He loves it.”
In January, the news outlet spoke with the Canadian-American television writer and film producer at the Emmy Awards and asked him about the future of the series.
“That could easily be Tina Fey,” Michaels said ET when asked who he could potentially see as his successor, naming the former SNL cast member who went on to write Mean girls and create a sitcom 30 Rock.
Michaels added that there are “a lot of people” currently working on the show who could also be good candidates.
Lorne Michaels. Frazer Harrison/Getty Images
However, SNLThe show’s creator said he has no intention of leaving the role before the show’s 50th anniversary in February 2025.
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“So I’ll definitely be there for that and I’ll definitely be there until that,” he confirmed. “And sometime before that we’ll figure out what to do.”
Sandler believes Michaels still has a sense of euphoria after putting together each episode.
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“Yeah, he’s doing great. He gets high just like we always do, every week,” Sandler said ET. – And he has control.
The Big daddy star left his mark on the series during his tenure from 1990 to 1995, when he was fired.
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During the interview in December 2019 The Howard Stern ShowSandler, who recently returned as a guest host on the show, admitted he was “hurt” at the time.
βIt wasn’t Lorne’s [Michaels] decision,β he said of firing himself and his late friend Chris Farley in 1995.
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Adam Sandler, Lorne Michaels.
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“The head guy at NBC, I know he didn’t like our gang. Me and Farley,” Sandler said.
He admitted that he and the comedian, who died in 1997, “pretended that we were not sad and that we pretended that this is the best”.
The 50 first dates The actor also said that he no longer regrets the decision. “I understand what Saturday night live did for me,” Sandler said.
After returning to the host SNL 2019 Sandler reappeared on the show in April 2020 for a sketch with Pete Davidson in which they performed “Stuck in the House”. The quarantine-themed song talks about the madness amid social distancing due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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