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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. Adam Sandler has been

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Speaker 1: one of comedy's biggest box office draws for decades now

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Speaker 1: and beloved by fans, but critics haven't quite been his

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Speaker 1: kind to him. While accepting the twenty twenty three Mark

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Speaker 1: Twain Prize for American Humor, he shared how he's managed

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Speaker 1: to cope with their less than favorable opinions of certain projects, saying,

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Speaker 1: people ask me those bad reviews you get, do they

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Speaker 1: make you feel bad? I think the reason I get

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Speaker 1: to say that they didn't hurt me is because of

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Speaker 1: so many of my peers. It made me feel great

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Speaker 1: about what we've done together. All my fellow comedians, actors, writers, collaborators,

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Speaker 1: crew members, people on the streets, my family, my kids,

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Speaker 1: my wife. They all made me feel like the critics

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Speaker 1: didn't know what they were talking about. Adam adds at

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Speaker 1: having a kid come up to him and recite a

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Speaker 1: line from a movie of his is the best feeling

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Speaker 1: he could ever get, and way better than a good review.

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Speaker 1: That's Direct from Hollywood