Adam Sandler spills on getting sacked from SNL

Longtime Saturday Night Live star Adam Sandler has opened up about being “sad” and confused following his shock axing from the show.

Adam Sandler has reached back into the memory banks and opened up about his firing from Saturday Night Live.

Sandler, 53, was sacked from SNL in 1995 alongside Chris Farley and, since then, he’s maintained that he’s unsure why they were let go.

In an appearance on The Howard Stern Show, Sandler discussed finding success on the show, and how he handled leaving it.

“At the time, I was hurt because I didn’t know what else I was going to do,” the Grown Ups star said. “I know it wasn’t Lorne (Michaels’) decision. The NBC head dude, I know he didn’t like our gang.”

The SNL cast in 1992, including Sandler (back row, left) and Farley (front row, left).

Sandler and Farley were members of a cast that included Chris Rock, David Spade, Rob Schneider and more. Farley was found dead in his Chicago apartment at age 33 in 1997.

Sandler also said that had he not been fired, he may still be working on the program.

“Maybe I would have never left because I’m not good at saying goodbye,” he said with a laugh. “They had to get rid of me some time.”

Sandler noted that being fired “put a lump in my throat”.

“I was probably sad into covering up the sadness with being mad and saying, ‘F**k you blah, blah, blah,’” recalled the comedian. “But I remember when I saw Farley and he said, ‘Me, too, they don’t want me either.’ We were both like, ‘F**k this s**t.’ We got mad together, pretended we weren’t sad, pretended this was for the best.”

The star went on to have a successful movie career.

Farley died in 1997.

Stern then asked plainly: “Who fired you?”

“This is how I got fired,” Sandler recounted. “My manager, Sandy, he was talking to me and I said, ‘Yeah, next year on the show, blah, blah, blah’ and he’s like, ‘Maybe you don’t go back next year,’ and I was like, ‘I don’t know man, I still got a few more things.’ He’s like ‘Yeah, but you did it already.’”

Sandler remembers telling his manager that he’d think about not returning, to which his manager replied: “I think you’ve thought about it.”

Sandler returned to SNL to host for the first time in May and sang a song about his late friend Farley, who died after a drug overdose.

Ending the night with @AdamSandler's tribute to Chris Farley. 💌 #SNL pic.twitter.com/FW1KkIETFu

— Saturday Night Live - SNL (@nbcsnl) May 5, 2019

Sandler will next be seen in Uncut Gems, a drama about a jeweller-turned-gambler that up-ends his life in pursuit of a big win.

This article originally appeared in Fox News and was reproduced with permission