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...stood up for something. And for 30 years he has continued to make comedy albums: Back in Town, his latest, is his 17th. But now it seems that Carlin has hung around long enough to be back in step with the times. Four comedy CDs--by Jeff Foxworthy, Adam Sandler, "Weird Al" Yankovic and the Jerky Boys--have made it to Billboard's Top 25 this year. New comedy labels are being launched--one by Eddie Murphy--and classic albums are being reissued. It's hardly a return to the Golden Age of the '50s and '60s, when albums like...
Your first reaction to a comedy album by Adam Sandler might be a quick hang-up as well. But hold on. Sandler, one of the more annoying Saturday Night Live cast members of recent years, reveals some unforeseen talent on his new album, What the Hell Happened to Me? He still lapses too often into juvenile self-indulgence, but the best of his dry, absurdist bits--several aging mafiosi dote on one of their grandchildren; a band of neighborhood pals teases a goat--have more body and feeling for character than anything SNL offers these days. Sandler, it seems...
...Adam Sandler is of the new S.N.L. breed. His Cajun Man, Opera Man and the rest were not varied characters; they were expressions of one capacious ego. The issue for him was not selling out but finding a buyer. And Hollywood, ever desperate for performers with male-teen appeal, bought. Sandler's first two films, Billy Madison and Happy Gilmore, were crude and slouchy, but they returned enough money on modest investments to turn Sandler into the next worst thing to a movie star. Now he raises the stakes, playing in director Ernest Dickerson's industrial-strength action comedy Bulletproof...
Somebody--maybe screenwriters Joe Gayton and Lewis Colick--must have pitched this as The Defiant Ones only with lots of guns and cars and four-letter words. Keats (Wayans) is the undercover cop; Moses (Sandler), a member of a vicious drug gang, is the man in shackles. Together they're on the run from Moses' old gang lord (James Caan), who is so evil that his day job is selling used cars...
Wayans, reprising the comic anger of his Major Payne, mostly gets to glower and spit out lines like "Shut the hell up!" Sandler has the whining sharpie role, playing up coquettishly to Wayans' righteousness. He even--could this be more femme?--gets his own romantic shower scene, in which he warbles I Will Always Love You. But there's not a lot of giving in his give-and-take scenes with Wayans. S.N.L. viewers know that when Sandler is singing in the shower, he's singing to himself...