Today, both comedianAdam Sandlerand writer/directorJudd Apatoware household names.
“I was directing Adam badly even then,” Apatow said of their earliest collaborations.
Given that they were two male comics in their 20s, it was probably exactly what you’d expect.
Their professions at the time certainly lent themselves to an unconventional lifestyle.
“Back then, life was just doing stand-up or writing jokes.
You would sleep until noon everyday and kind of stumble out,” Apatow recalled.
“You would have to be at work at 8:30 at night.
Work was sometimes 15 minutes” (viaHollywood Reporter).
“It wasn’t broke.
That was a big night out,” Sandler recalled in The Hollywood Reporter.
Apatow agreed “That was like, ‘We’re fancy now,'” he said.
Eventually, the two went their separate ways mostly because Sandler got hired to write for “SNL.”
