3. Adam Sandler
I appreciate that the Sandman (he loves that nickname, trust me) has a love-him or hate-him quality about him. His movies are not to everyones tastes. But you cant help but realise that when he first came on to the scene he was kind of a big deal. Happy Gilmore, Little Nicky and Billy Madison were all box office gold, and America had a new comedy hero for a generation. After rising to mainstream relevance off the back of SNL, Sandler showed that he was a comedy force to be reckoned with. His oddball yet well-meaning everyman protagonists played ridiculously well to the masses, and he kept on releasing hit after hit like 50 First Dates, Anger Management where he shared the screen (and held up his end of the bargain) against Jack The joker Nicholson and Spanglish, the little comedy-drama that could. Man life was good for old Adam Sandler. He was Icarus basking in the suns glorious rays, except unlike Icarus, this Hollywood A-lister wasnt about to fall metaphorically to the ground screaming and crying? Was he? Oh yeah. Big time. Now the strange thing with Sandler is that there was no specific turning point of when or why he stopped being funny. But around 2006/07 the quality of his work had declined. He tried serious Acting (why do they do it?! Why?!) with Reign On Me, the drama about a man who lost his family in 9/11. Cheery. And then released I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry, Dont mess With The Zohan and the unforgivable Jack And Jill which set a record with 10 razzies. Like the freakin Titanic of terrible movies. Since then Sandler has laid low and quite rightly so. Its probably best for everyone that way.