Adam Sandler can’t stop laughing through fake blood struggles in surprise ‘SNL’ cameo
Adam Sandler made a surprise appearance on “Saturday Night Live” on Dec. 14 to join longtime friend and host Chris Rock in a hilariously bloody sketch about a surgery gone wrong.
For “SNL” fans, Sandler’s cameo brought back memories of when he and Rock were two breakout cast members on the show in the early 1990s.
And just like back then, the two comedy legends brought added laughs to a sketch that quickly went off the rails.
The sketch focuses on a bumbling nurse named Lizley (Sarah Sherman), whose incompetence leads a surgeon (Rock) to accidentally remove a man’s gallbladder and not his appendix, as was the plan.
(Warning: This sketch features a lot of fake blood.)
As the surgeon’s horrified medical team realizes the error, the patient stirs awake on the operating table, revealing himself as Sandler.
Sandler’s character sits up to address the team’s mistake. Though he’s supposed to begin bleeding out on the table, the hidden blood-squirting device at his side is seemingly delayed, leading Sandler to break character.
When the device fails to squirt blood into Sherman’s face, Sherman cheekily bends down close to Sandler’s side so he can get better aim.
Sandler then has a ball ad-libbing a few wisecracks to the other cast members — Emil Wakim, Ego Nwodim and Bowen Yang. Sandler teases Wakim, for example, because he’s “not sure what your role in this skit is.”
“But so happy you’re getting air time,” he adds while drenching Wakim in fake blood. “Good luck. Hope your parents are proud of you.”
Sandler then turns on Rock, coaxing him to open his mouth so he can cover his entire face and torso with blood.
At the end of the sketch, Sandler can’t help but laugh as he gamely recites his final lines, still dousing Rock and the others.
When Sandler’s character drops dead on the OR table, Sandler doesn’t bother hiding the blood-squirting device in his hand.
Viewers seemed to love the mayhem of the sketch.
“I just loved how Adam Sandler just went completely AWOL near the end and everyone just rolled with it. Definitely a freaking comedy legend,” one viewer wrote in the comments section on YouTube.
“Sometimes when a sketch goes off the rails, it’s far funnier than the OG plan,” wrote another. “This was one of those times. HILARIOUS!
