Comedian Rob Schneider has opened up about his ‘beautiful’ friendship with Adam Sandler and revealed that the Hollywood actor never fails to check in with him on a weekly basis.
The duo, who have starred in at least 15 movies together including The Waterboy and Big Daddy, have been friends since before they found fame and both went on to work on sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live in the nineties.
Speaking exclusively to DailyMail.com about how their friendship has stood the test of time, Rob – who recently claimed cancel culture is ruining the world of comedy – said: ‘Adam Sandler has several hundred people working for him, so you know he’s the highest paid actor in the world [but] he loves me like a brother, like a brother from another mother.
‘He called me last night at 11 o’clock and said, “how are you? How you doing?” There’s not been a week in over 30 years where he hasn’t called me, anywhere in the world – even if he’s in Italy – and it’s really beautiful, he’s my brother.’
Rob claims he’s been somewhat ‘blacklisted in showbusiness’ after speaking out publicly about his political stance and topics such as the Covid vaccine, but he said Adam certainly doesn’t hold any of that against him.
Rob Schneider (right) has opened up about his ‘beautiful’ friendship with Adam Sandler. The duo are pictured here in 1999
Rob, pictured here with Adam in December 2023, described him as a ‘brother from another mother’
‘He doesn’t necessarily have to agree with me, he supports me for me and I think that he was able to see through all the crap, and to not have to worry about the right or wrong, or if he should be outspoken or not,’ father-of-three Rob continued.
‘He doesn’t get into the socio-economic politics of it all, we don’t talk about it,’ he confirmed, before adding: ‘People ask me “have you lost friends over this?” yeah probably, but how boring would it be to only have friends who agree with you?’
Rob, who recently teased a major bombshell about the sequel to Adam’s hit 1996 film Happy Gilmore, neither confirmed nor denied that he’s been asked to star in the follow up film – but revealed they’ve definitely had a conversation about it.
‘I talked to him. There are certain people that are in it and there’s certain people he wants to… he has a way of working… so he doesn’t want me to read the script, he wants me to see the first cut like I saw the first cut of The Waterboy,’ Rob explained.
‘So I’ll see the first cut and then give my opinion because he knows he’ll get honest laughs from me and that’s what he wants.’
When asked if he’d like to make another Deuce Bigalow film, he replied: ‘I loved how crazy that movie was. It was so small, but we were able to make it but Disney would never do that now.
‘Hopefully it will come around, I wanna make a couple more movies, I’ll see what happens.
‘I’m getting closer to making a few more,’ Rob said, before talking about his new memoir which is called You Can Do It! Speak Your Mind, America.
Rob and Adam in a scene from the 2004 comedy romance 50 First Dates, which also stars Drew Barrymore
The actor recently released his memoir which is titled You Can Do It! Speak Your Mind America
The book begins with some of Rob’s family history and includes anecdotes about his time working on Saturday Night Live – as well as alongside Adam – but he also urges Americans to vigorously defend their First Amendment rights as he fears there’s a danger that freedom of speech may be eradicated altogether.
‘This book was important for me, I had to get it out,’ he explained. ‘And if people want to listen to it, if they want to read it, I want them to just let that be an opening.
‘It’s not a complete technological book about protesting or about freedom of speech. What it is, it’s an opening, it’s a door, and if they want to go further, they can.’
Rob also admitted to feeling ‘nervous’ about writing the memoir and confirmed that he did have to ‘make changes’ to some aspects of the book after he had ‘lawyers look at it.’
