Adam Sandler is hosting SNL for the first time. Will he bring back Canteen Boy?
Adam Sandler returns to"Saturday Night Live" for the first time since 1995, when he left the show just as his movie career was taking off. By Bethonie Butler Bethonie Butler Reporter covering television and pop culture Email Bio Follow May 3 at 10:49 AM On Saturday, Adam Sandler will host “Saturday Night Live,” 24 years after leaving the sketch comedy show that made him famous.
It was the weekend before Valentine’s Day, and Baldwin was hosting alongside his then-wife Kim Basinger. The actor appeared as a scoutmaster in a Canteen Boy sketch that put Sandler’s character in a new, but relatively expected setting: a campsite in the woods. Canteen Boy was subject to the usual ridicule — this time, from his fellow Boy Scouts .Baldwin’s scout leader, Mr. Armstrong, dismissed the other scouts, but asked Canteen Boy to stay with him near the campfire.
The sketch, a mainstay on lists chronicling SNL’s most controversial moments, reportedly angered some viewers. Richard Roeper wrote that he had received calls from several readers of his Chicago Sun-Times column who said they had turned the sketch off halfway through. “Now, even though the character of Canteen Boy is a grown man, a perfectly intelligent 27-year-old, not a child, some people got the wrong idea and, frankly, all hell broke loose” Baldwin told viewers. His run-down of the backlash quickly turned to hyperbole.
Sandler left SNL in 1995, just as his movie career was taking off. He has said he was fired under somewhat mysterious circumstances, which might explain why it’s taken him so long to host the show.
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