By Christopher Saroki
Daily Bruin contributor
Adam Sandler had some help Saturday as he sang the third version
of his “Chanukah Song,” and not only from a Jewish
children’s choir. During the performance, Rob Schneider
emerged on-stage with no pants and performed some sort of
funky-butt-gyration-moonwalk.
The song followed a screening of Sandler’s new movie,
“Mr. Deeds,” in Ackerman Grand Ballroom, and was part
of a night of comedy, music and film that kept the audience
laughing nonstop.
“If you feel like the only kid in town without a Christmas
tree, I guess my first two songs didn’t do it for you, so
here comes number three,” Sandler sang.
The song basically has a few new additional verses combined with
the verses from the last two Chanukah songs. As expected, there was
smiling, laughing and cheering for the new rendition. Sandler took
shots at Osama bin Laden, Marlon Brando, and even Tom Arnold.
“Tom Arnold converted to Judaism, but you guys can have
him back,” Sandler sang.
The song was not quite as good as the first two, but it was
close. The first two are a tough standard to live up to.
The movie, “Mr. Deeds,” was one-part
“Smackdown” and two parts absurd, Zoolanderish comedy.
The crowd was downright giddy, laughing at every other line ““
even when it wasn’t meant to be funny.
After the movie, Allen Covert, who plays the tabloid journalist
Marty in the film and is a friend of Sandler, jumped on-stage to
entertain the crowd while the crew set-up for “Chanukah
III.” Someone from the crowd begged to see his bare-naked
buttocks again, after seeing it exposed in the film. And so began
an obsession with butts that wouldn’t die until Schneider
left his pants backstage during the Chanukah performance.
“We may not get to kiss, underneath the mistletoe, but you
can do it all night long with Deuce Bigalow,” Sandler
sang.
And out came Rob Schneider, wearing a brown jacket, a navy-blue
UCLA T-shirt, and white boxers. At the climax of his rump-shaking,
soultrain-on-crack dance, he slid down his boxers to reveal a
half-moon.
The show didn’t end there. Schneider did a solid cover of
Elvis Presley’s “It’s Now or Never.” Then
he went backstage and put on his pants.
The energy of the crowd was like that of a college basketball
game ““ one where the Bruins are winning. At any given moment,
half the students had a smile on their face.
The unusual mix of a film screening, musical performance and
comedy worked, for the most part, but some disturbing comedy may
have unsettled the balance.
Sometime between shooing the kids choir offstage and introducing
his fiancee, Sandler sang a raunchy song about a woman with a mouth
that can fit in three penises and “a throat that
doesn’t end.” Sandler warned beforehand that the song
might offend some women, but he continued anyways.
Overall the night was memorable, funny and slightly
disturbing.