Meadows and Sandler overlapped as castmates on ‘SNL’ from 1991 to 1995
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NEED TO KNOW
- Tim Meadows revealed why Adam Sandler is his funniest friend
- The actor also discussed his decades-long friendship with Sandler and their time together on Saturday Night Live
- Meadows currently stars in the CBS comedy series DMV
Tim Meadows revealed that he considers Adam Sandler to be the funniest person he’s ever known.
Meadows, 65 — who overlapped as castmates with Sandler, 59, on Saturday Night Live from 1991 to 1995 — praised his famous friend while appearing on the March 12 podcast episode of Literally! With Rob Lowe.
Lowe, 61, had asked Meadows to name some of the funniest people he’s worked with in his decades-long career during their conversation.
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“I know a lot of very funny people, but Sandler, I think, for me [is the funniest] … ’cause I've known him so long, and we have a really good friendship,” he explained. “We have bits that we do with each other from 30 years ago … Then you create new bits whenever you hang out with him.”
“He loves to laugh and he loves to do bits. I think he's one of the funniest people I know [in terms] of just, like, talking and hanging out,” he continued. “We can be ourselves with each other.”
The Mean Girls actor went on to say that David Spade, 61, who was also their SNL castmate in the early ‘90s, was particularly hilarious.
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“He’s very funny. I always say there’s very few people from SNL that I would drive across the country with, [but] Spade is probably in my top three or four people that I could do that with,” he said.
Meadows went on to talk about his latest show, the workplace ensemble comedy DMV, which premiered in October and also stars Molly Kearney and Tony Cavalero.
“I play Gregg, a sort of burnt out former teacher who works at the DMV, sort of winding down his days in life, basically,” he said while laughing.
He added that he believes the show has gotten better and better with time, which he attributes to the writers learning how to best write for each individual cast member.
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“One thing that I really loved is that the writers were writing the characters in the beginning in the first few episodes, and then they got to know us [the cast] as actors and people, and saw our dynamics with each other, and then they started adding that within the show,” he said.
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“So like the second half of the season — I’m really excited for people to see it — because they [the writers] really do capture the comedic vibe that we have with each other off camera,” he added.
DMV airs on CBS on Mondays at 8:30 p.m. ET and streams on Paramount+.
