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Adam Carolla: Obama like a bad Adam Sandler movie
On the Thursday night broadcast of Fox News Channel’s “The O’Reilly Factor,” comedian Adam Carolla elaborated on an interview he conducted with The Daily Caller’s Jamie Weinstein last month. In that interview, Carolla explained some of the hurdles conservatives have to overcome in Hollywood.
In the appearance to promote his book, “Not Taco Bell Material,” Carolla said there were both pros and cons for President Barack Obama and his associations with Hollywood stars.
“It’s a double-edged sword,” he said, ”because there are some celebrities you don’t want backing you. Like if, you know, you are Barack Obama and you don’t want Michael Richards backing you. That would be a problem. You probably don’t want Mel Gibson, but George Clooney is cool.”
“But on the other hand, if you hang out at too many parties with Aretha Franklin and Sarah Jessica Parker and all the celebrities, then you are losing touch with the common man. And then you become ‘the man’ because you are hanging out with ‘the man.’ So, to me, he has got to be careful about just how much hobnobbing he does with celebrities.”
And while O’Reilly pointed out that Obama will likely continue to be the darling of the so-called Hollywood media, Carolla argued that all the positive press in the world will not necessary lead to success. Case in point: Adam Sandler’s latest box office bomb, “That’s My Boy.”
“It isn’t going to hurt,” Carolla replied. “But I mean Adam Sandler came out with a movie two weeks ago that did nothing at the box office. And there were tons and tons of billboards and I saw tons and tons of commercials for it. And I think called ‘That’s My Boy.’ The point is I don’t remember what it was called. But it was a complete and utter disaster at the box office, not because they didn’t have a bunch of positive commercials and a bunch of positive billboards. It’s that people thought, ‘Hmm do we really want to see another crappy Adam Sandler movie?’ And they thought, ‘No.’”
“So, people are a little bit smarter than that. They may think, ‘Do we want a sequel to the Barack Obama movie or don’t we?’”
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FreeMan - Save Me Sarah
July 7th, 2012
Na – A bad AS movie is way better then OBysmal any day.
the aardvark
July 7th, 2012
Was there ever a good Adam Sandler movie with the possible exception of Happy Gilmore when he gets in a fight with Bob Barker?
squatch
July 7th, 2012
You can turn a bad AS movie off.
Boobie the Rocket Dog
July 7th, 2012
Haven’t seen most of them but, yes, there are at least TWO good Adam Sandler movies: SPANGLISH and SHAKES THE CLOWN.
The first costars the luscious PAZ VEGA in her first role where she kept all her clothes on. Sandler is actually second banana to her; Vega makes the movie shine.
The second, a Bobcat Goldthwaite movie, also features iOTW’s good friend, Kathy Griffin, as a foul-mouthed, POS waitress (no acting involved) but she’s still young and decent-looking. The plot is so off-the-wall and Sandler’s role is perfectly played. This is one of my favorite comedy films. The LaWanda Page and Florence Henderson cameos are priceless.
Tim
July 7th, 2012
“Do you want another crappy Obama maladministration?”
You’re welcome, Mittens.
Toaster
July 7th, 2012
Oh if only that were the case. I can’t count how many hundreds of times I’ve woken up only to realize that the 0bama presidency is not a bad dream.
Chalupa
July 7th, 2012
Obama/Sandler movies -
Bully Madison
Hapless Gilmore
The Coffee Boy
The (Pants) Wetting Singer
Hotlanta Mike
July 7th, 2012
Adam Sandler is inconsequential compared to the bomb that Obama laid on the American people.
Dr. Tar
July 7th, 2012
Every month for the next 4 months is going to a re-run of Obamanomics. Its a reality show and we all get to participate in 8.2% official unemployment and closer to 15% actual unemployment.
We’ll see how big Teh One’s fan club will be come Novemeber.
CrustyB
July 7th, 2012
There are children entering high school this year who were born after the last funny Adam Sandler movie was made.
bob
July 7th, 2012
A bad AS movie won’t cost trillions of dollars in debt for generations to come.
FreeMan - Save Me Sarah
July 7th, 2012
AS is an actor, OBummer is an ass clown.
Bad Brad
July 7th, 2012
Adam Sandler is a conservative.
The Doktor
July 7th, 2012
I am with “the aardvark”. The only enjoyable moment in ANY Sandler movie is when he got his ass kicked by Bob Barker.
Osoman
July 8th, 2012
Little Nicky is the only one of his movies I thought was decent. Of course the bulldog was the most talented actor.