Actor and comedian Adam Sandler was awarded the performer tribute award at last night’s 32nd annual Gotham Awards in New York City. Sandler, whose career began on Saturday Night Live and is best known for roles in Happy Gilmore, The Waterboy, and The Grown Ups franchise, took to the stage to bring the house down with a hilarious speech — a speech he claimed had been written by his daughters.

Sandler then slipped into a southern drawl, thanking the Gotham Awards for the award and continuing the idea that the speech had been written by his kids.

“I told my daughters Sadie and Sunny, who are 16 and 14, that I didn’t write a speech and they said phrases like, ‘Rude’ and ‘You’re mean,’ Daddy’s f—ing tired. Daddy works hard, calm down. They were like, ‘Can we write your speech, Daddy? So you got something to say.’ I said, absolutely.”

The comedian then offered a delightfully self-deprecating look at his home life, revealing that he makes use of ‘The Screaming Room’ whenever his family decides to watch movies starring a comedian other than himself.

“Dear well-dressed dignitaries, highly educated hipsters and various other plus-ones of the Gotham Awards, thank you for giving our daddy, Mr. Adam Sandler, this prestigious lifetime, all-time, primetime G.O.A.T. achievement tribute award.”

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“While daddy is with you tonight, we’re doing everything we’re not allowed to do when daddy is home, like eat his Yodels or try on his Spanx or, dare we say, laugh out loud at Ben Stiller movies. The last time daddy caught us chuckling away at the ‘Meet the Parents’ trilogy, he immediately stormed into the room he calls ‘The Screaming Room,’ which we just call ‘the shower,’ and bellowed out the phrase, ‘Only the Sandman makes people laugh. F–k every other comedian.’”

Adam Sandler’s Speech Referenced His ‘Artsy-Fartsy Movies’

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Name-dropping several of his most well-known movies, including the likes of Billy Madison, Big Daddy, Punch-Drunk Love, and the recent crime thriller Uncut Gems, which many have called the best performance of Sandler’s career, the actor then referenced his more “artsy-fartsy movies.”

The Fabelmans, Manchester by the Sea, and Venom star Michelle Williams was also awarded the performer tribute award alongside Sandler. Other winners at the Gotham Awards include the wonderfully absurdist comedy-drama Everything Everywhere All At Once, which won Best Feature, and star Ke Huy Quan, who took home the award for Outstanding Supporting Performance.

“Many intellectual have stated that daddy did these so-called artsy-fartsy movies to push himself as an actor and human being in an attempt at some heavy duty, much needed soul searching. But we, his children, know he did it for a much more tangible reason. To one day be invited to the Gotham Awards. Where he can longingly gaze at at least 10 different tables…and say, ‘Just how many f-cking movies did A24 produce this year?’”

Sandler has several projects currently in the pipeline, including Murder Mystery 2, an untitled outing helmed by Uncut Gems directing duo the Safdie brothers, and the science fiction drama Spaceman. Based on the 2017 novel Spaceman of Bohemia by Jaroslav Kalfař, the movie is scheduled to be released in 2023, by Netflix.