Adam Richard Sandler, was born on September 9, 1966 in Brooklyn, New York. At the age of five, Sandler and his family moved to New Hampshire where he and his siblings would grow up in a middle class neighborhood (McDonald, 2016). Sandler, who discovered his humorous talents at a young age, quickly became the class clown of his school. However, it was in middle school that Sandler began to develop his iconic sense of “wacky schoolboy humor” (McDonald, 2016). When Sandler was seventeen, he began performing at stand-up comedy shows for clubs and universities (McDonald, 2016). He continued to perform comedy throughout his college days while also attending New York University. In fact, Sandler was hired to play the character Smitty on The Cosby
