10 Exact Moments Actors Thought They Were Finished
7. Adam Sandler Didn't Know What To Do After Being Fired From SNL
There's no getting around it; getting fired utterly sucks.
And after spending five solid years providing many a laugh as part of the Saturday Night Live cast, Adam Sandler soon found himself feeling the sudden sting of unemployment in 1995.
After being dealt such a heartbreaking blow at a rather early stage in his career as an on-screen comedy actor, Sandler, who was 28 at the time of his exit, ultimately admitted to feeling "hurt, because I didn’t know what else I was going to do".
Simply put, the star didn't feel like he was ready to leave behind the SNL team and a job he'd thoroughly enjoyed for half a decade, and the idea of now having to do something else with his time was likely a little terrifying at the time.
It all worked out in the end, of course, with Sandler going on to become one of the most successful comedy actors of all time.
And when he did eventually return to host SNL in 2019, he unquestionably got the last laugh with his cheeky lyrics of "I was fired, I was fired. NBC said that I was done. Then I made over 4 billion dollars at the box office, so I guess you could say I won."