{"id":1180,"date":"2015-12-30T01:19:03","date_gmt":"2015-12-30T06:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/?p=1180"},"modified":"2016-01-06T08:20:21","modified_gmt":"2016-01-06T13:20:21","slug":"theyre-all-gonna-laugh-at-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/theyre-all-gonna-laugh-at-you\/","title":{"rendered":"They’re All Gonna Laugh At You!<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"

I seldom forget a good paroxysm of laughter. For example, one of the best memories of my time working at the mall record store involves an album played after closing, one night in 1993. Myself and two other employees were doubled over, purple-faced, unable to breathe from laughing so hard. It felt like the skin at the base of my skull was going to split.<\/p>\n

The album was They’re All Gonna Laugh At You!<\/strong>,<\/em> and the man responsible was Adam Sandler.<\/p>\n

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At 21, I was smack-dab in the target age range for this record. Sandler was coming off of the last great run of Saturday Night Live<\/em>, and was a force of comedy momentum in the early 1990s. He was fully tapped into his inner pinhead, and wasn’t yet afflicted by dramatic yearnings.\u00a0SNL<\/em>‘s G.E. Smith was the musical director, and Sandler brought in a crew of fellow writers that would become his personal frat; Robert (Triumph the Insult Comic Dog) Smigel, Allen (Grandma’s Boy<\/em>) Covert, even a little-known dude name o’ Conan O’Brien. David Spade, Rob Schneider, and Tim Meadows added considerable vocal talent.<\/p>\n

This might sound like the height of lunacy, but there was a time when we loved- maybe even\u00a0adored\u00a0<\/em>Rob Schneider. He used to\u00a0kill<\/em> as the “makin’ copies guy” on SNL<\/em>. He was quoted\u00a0without irony.\u00a0<\/em>He co-starred with Ron Eldard on a sitcom called\u00a0Men Behaving Badly<\/em>, and it was\u00a0hilarious<\/em>. It had Justine Bateman. One time Schneider ran out of coffee filters, and used his underpants instead. 1996, ladies and gentlemen.<\/p>\n

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\nBut over the years that followed, Sandler and company would systemically destroy every ounce of goodwill they had built, to the point where YouTube personalities gain fame by attacking him. This year he made\u00a0Pixels<\/em>, which, despite a great cast and a fun concept, became more famous for bringing amateur criticism to the fore than any merits it might have offered. I haven’t seen it because I do get angry when I literally could’ve made a better movie myself.<\/p>\n

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THEY’RE NOT<\/em> GONNA LAUGH AT YOU!<\/p><\/div>\n

Adam Sandler was a stand-up comedian in his teens, before he became one of the youngest sensations to ride Lorne Michaels’ Saturday Night <\/em>train. This is the problem. When you are young and famous, all criticism is negated by your success. There’s no need to hone your craft when the money is already there. You’re encouraged to rest on your laurels and repeat the routines that made you. It’s creative stasis; you are born product. No one survives. Witness the formula:<\/p>\n

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  1. Adam Sandler movie is released with huge marketing push.<\/li>\n
  2. Everyone hates it.<\/li>\n
  3. Everyone talks about how much they hate Adam Sandler movies.<\/li>\n
  4. Rob Schneider gives a terrible interview.<\/li>\n
  5. Everyone talks about how Rob Schneider has no talent.<\/li>\n
  6. Everyone concludes that Sandler movies are worse than Hitler.<\/li>\n
  7. Someone says “calm down, it’s just a movie”.<\/li>\n
  8. Everyone forgets about the Sandler movie for a year.<\/li>\n
  9. GOTO 1<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    You can’t walk up to a billionaire comedian and say “you’re funniest when you act retarded”. Just do what the rest of us do; go rent The Waterboy<\/em>, and be satisfied with that. What can I tell you? You’re here on this site because things were a lot better before 2001. It was lightning in a bottle. Be grateful for what you have. It’s been a rough century thus far, you know?<\/p>\n

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    \nAnyway. Let’s get back to belly laughs in 1993.<\/p>\n

    First of all, not everything on\u00a0They’re All Gonna Laugh At You!\u00a0<\/em>is funny. None of the five songs really hold up, and a handful of skits are pure filler. But the sound effects and voice acting are so top-notch, that the sketches become a kind of low-brow art. On this album (and to a lesser extent, its follow-up), Sandler is the funniest he has ever been.<\/p>\n

    There are two over-arching narratives on the disc, the first featuring Sandler’s “Buffoon”, and the second being a series of severe beatings.<\/p>\n

    Anyone disturbed by the severe beating segments on this album should be informed that those who received the beatings were beaten not because they were teachers or public servants, but due to the fact that they were mass-murderers and\/or necrophiliacs. Especially the Spanish teacher.\u00a0<\/em>–A.S. (from liner notes)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    The first beating to be administered is received by “a high school janitor”. This may possibly be the funniest thirty seconds you’ll ever hear.<\/p>\n