Adam Sandler on Sadie’s ‘Rocky’ Transition to Big Sisterhood
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While readers — and his own mom! — might have had a mixed reaction to the decision by Adam Sandler to name his 7-week-old daughter Sunny Madeline, the reaction would have been far worse had baby girl turned out to be a boy! During a Thursday appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, the 42-year-old actor joked that he and wife Jackie were prepared to name their son “Dip.” “My wife was cool [with it], just for comedy’s sake, to let me call him Dip,” he explained. “Just so in high school when he scored a touchdown, I could yell ‘Diiiiiiip!’ Or if he was in the supermarket, and he got away from me and was missing, I could go ‘Diiiip? Where are you Dip?’”
Asked by host Jay Leno whether he was present for the birth or instead in the hallway having a cigar, Adam quipped that he was instead enjoying the best of both worlds, “smoking in the delivery room.” He went on to reveal that Sunny was anything but upon her entry to the world! “She came out crying…So I said, ‘Here’s Sunny, with a chance of showers,” he said. Big sister Sadie Madison, 2 ½, remains unimpressed by the newest addition to the family. “It’s been a little rocky,” Adam admits. “She doesn’t understand why it happened.”
“I’ll find her staring at Sunny going, ‘We had it perfect? Why? Why’d you do this to me?’ I said, ‘I thought you wanted to have someone to play with.’ And she’s like, ‘She’s just kind of laying there, Dad, doing nothing. Like…how is that playing?’ I tell her, ‘It will happen.’”
Telling Jay that Sadie views Sunny as “an anchor,” Adam said that Sadie has even taken to booing mom and dad when they tend to the new baby. He went on to apologize to both girls and Jackie for using their private lives as a punchline. “I love you guys,” he said. “I love my kids more than anything in the whole world, but I’m a comedian…Daddy’s got to make a living!”
Source: The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
- Posted on Dec 23, 08 at 1:00PM
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December 23rd, 2008 at 1:22 pm
He is just so freaking funny! I love his stories! He has three lucky ladies in his life!
December 23rd, 2008 at 1:38 pm
this is pretty funny!
December 23rd, 2008 at 1:54 pm
He is so funny! I love him!!
December 23rd, 2008 at 5:30 pm
I dont know why people dont like the baby’s name. It’s pretty !!
December 23rd, 2008 at 5:45 pm
I don’t get what’s funny about Dip?
December 23rd, 2008 at 6:22 pm
I think he is so damn funny, just says these crazy things off the cuff, I am sure his wonderful wife is use to it….she married him!….she knew what she was getting…….congrats to the Sandlers on the addition of Sunny, many blessings to all.
December 23rd, 2008 at 7:48 pm
How funny that everyone finds him so funny, I don’t find him funny at all!
Cute how Sadie had trouble adjusting, my sister needed some time when I was born too.
December 23rd, 2008 at 10:37 pm
He is hilarious! I love all these stories!
December 29th, 2008 at 2:49 pm
Sadie looks like she’s sporting a mullet in that picture…girl needs a trim