Chapter 1: What is the format of the SmartLess podcast?
Hello, listener. This is Jason Bateman, along with Will Arnett and Sean Hayes for the podcast called SmartList. If that's a place you're looking for, you found it. Congratulations. It's not a real high concept podcast. One person invites a guest. The other two don't know who that guest is. And then we chat. Here we go.
Jason, you missed this last time. Look what I got. That's a Baby Yoda? It's a Baby Yoda, and there's a message on here. Is that from the Mandalorian show? Yeah, Mandalorian. This is from my friend Michael Cohen and the Cohen family. Not that Michael Cohen. But look, and he recorded this.
Welcome to Smart List, the best podcast in the world, with my dear friend Sean Hayes, Jason Bateman, and William Arnett.
He went William. I like that he went William. Yeah, and Baby Yoda said that.
So he's the voice of Baby Yoda?
Yeah, could you not tell?
He sounds Latin. I didn't know Baby Yoda. Actually, he is. Baby Yoda is Latin, huh? I got to watch that show.
I'm developing a new show. It's Baby Yoda Nanny. And it's a nanny who works, who looks after.
No, it's just the doll that you leave with your kids and tell them they're watching them.
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Chapter 2: What personal anecdotes does Adam Sandler share about family?
Jason's seen it. It's a disaster.
But there's weights and like homemade stuff you did?
Oh, there's weights and then there's like baby carriages and stuff.
There's just crap everywhere.
It really looks like it. I have a question, Adam. How long have you been flying a spacecraft?
Does that look like that? Looks like a control center. This is in my house, fellas. I just got to Philadelphia. Oh, wow.
Wait, what are those? Why do you have... He's got some Nikes in a plastic box. Those are LeBron James shoes.
The man who owns this house knows LeBron.
Do you know the man in the house?
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Chapter 3: How does Adam Sandler handle nerves before performances?
Yeah, man. I don't know. So eventually I got hired as a writer.
A writer for what? Like a year and then on camera?
I did. It was thing called writer, feature player. And me and Spade and Schneider had that. And and you would do that. I'm sure you guys all know this stuff, but you would write, write for everyone else and then give yourself a line like as a delivery guy and try to get on and score. And, you know, and you'd score after 10 shows. They started going, all right, that guy's OK.
Let's let's give him a couple of lines.
Right, gotcha. Used to see that a lot with J.B. Smoove. He would always write himself into sketches. Oh, yeah. Always see J.B. on there, and you'd be like, oh, yeah. J.B. But how cool, you go for your audition, and it's there with Lorne and Marcy, of course, and Smigel, and you couldn't have known, of course, that that would become this, like, lifelong partnership. Yeah.
I mean, how incredible, how wild, right, when you look back at that moment?
Yeah, sure, man. I mean, Smigel... In fact, I heard later that Smigel was kind of in my court that he was going, that one kid was funny. I think we need that on the show, somebody young. And they were like, well, we already have David and Rob. We don't need any more of that. And so Smigel and Jim Downey, I heard, would stand out for me a little bit. And Lorne liked me. He thought I was good.
He just didn't know what to do with me. I wasn't easy to digest. I was mumbling up there, and I was a nervous wreck, and I'm hostile. Like, I used to be, when somebody heckled me, I used to, like, yell at them and not say anything funny.
No one is funnier getting pissed off than you.
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Chapter 4: What insights does Adam provide about balancing comedy and drama?
I think so. I think I knew more on the Hogan family.
The Hogan family was after that, or Valerie, yeah, yeah.
When Jason got his star on the Walk of Fame out here in Hollywood, because he's a big Hollywood guy, and so when he was in Hollywood, because he's a liberal elite, and so anyway, so I get up, and he asked me to say a couple words, and I said, you know, when I was growing up, I remember watching Family Ties and seeing Justine Bateman and thinking, man, I wonder if she's got a brother.
That's a good one, man.
But I loved him. We felt the same way. This comes up all the time. We used to always look at Jason and be like, oh, man, that guy's ā because he was a smart ass. He was confident. He had great hair.
Oh, I was so confident. I thought I was such hot shit. And then the phone stopped ringing. I did not know what to do. My 20s was a whole regroup. I just had to build it back up from zero.
Jason and I had lunch like decades ago at the Chateau Marmont, which houses the liberal elite. That's right. And Jason said to me, I don't know if you remember this, Jason. You said to me, we were just talking about careers and whatever, the ups and downs. And you said, none of it is up to you. None of this is up to you. Yeah. Yeah. To try and control things that are out of your control.
It's not a meritocracy. You know, like in sports, like if you're a 300 hitter, you're guaranteed employment. That's true. In acting or any form of, pardon the term, art, it's so subjective. You can't rely on, well, I'm the best at singing or the best at painting or it doesn't matter. The best in who's eye, you know?
And then so, Adam, so kind of taking that, like one of the things that I think is really awesome about what you've... you've done, you've had incredible success, but is, you know, I've tried to, especially in the last couple of years, I don't want my work to define who I am as a person or how happy I am. It's about family. I know you're a really big family guy.
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Chapter 5: How did Adam Sandler's career begin and who influenced him?
I was so excited about everybody. And I was like, oh, fuck, man. So you're writing that movie, man? He goes, yeah, yeah, I'm almost done. I'm going to get it over to you. I was like, well, when the fuck is that coming? You know, I started to get very excited. And then he did it so cool, man. I lived in this, I rented a house on the top of Bel Air Road with my buddies. And he came up.
And he knocked on the door and he's like, I got the script. And I said, here's my present to you. And I go, oh, OK. He goes, go ahead and read it and tell me what you think. I go, you're going to stay here? He goes, no, I'm going to go for a drive or something like that. And I just sat in the other room and I read it. And I was like, oh, my God, man, I don't know if I can fucking do this.
No way. And so he comes back after his drive, and you got a bunch of notes, right?
A couple things, Paul.
It's all marked up.
It's all, move this way. That's true. No, I was fucking scared. Like, you know, when you get something and you just go, oh, jeez, man, I always said I could do this shit, but this is too much, man. And he talked me through it and got me comfortable.
He's incredible, though. I mean, his taste is just unreal. I love that he's a huge comedy nerd, too, apparently.
Oh, man, yeah.
And that he can see the amount of acting it takes for you to pull off believably what you do is, you know, right in line with his, with his tastes and his abilities. And I just, I'm such a big fan of his. And then the Safdie brothers, you know, I mean, Uncut Gems is just absolutely stunning. I don't mean to jump ahead, but.
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