Adam Sandler put on a hilarious show when he reunited with his regular costar Jennifer Aniston at the 2024 People’s Choice Awards on Sunday.
The 57-year-old comedian and actor had everyone in Santa Monica’s Barker Hangar in stitches after Aniston, 55, presented him with the People’s Icon Award, but he acted as if he thought he had just been named People Magazine’s Sexiest Man Alive.
The Uncut Gems star, who hit the red carpet earlier in the evening with his wife Jackie Sandler, joked that it was ‘about freaking time’ that he be recognized for his physical attractiveness.
He said at the start of his speech that when his agent called him while he was driving to tell him he would be honored with the People’s Icon Award, he misheard him and thought he was People’s Sexiest Man Alive, so he decided to just read the acceptance speech he originally wrote for the wrong honor.
Meanwhile, Jennifer stood to his side in her little black off-the-shoulder dress as she watched the comic display.
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Adam Sandler, 57, joked that he thought he was named People’s Sexiest Man Alive when his longtime friend Jennifer Aniston, 55, presented him with the People’s Icon Award at the 2024 People’s Choice Awards on Sunday in Santa Monica
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Meanwhile, Jennifer stood to his side in her little black off-the-shoulder dress as she watched the comic display
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She showcased her toned legs in the item, which had a ragged skirt hem and appeared to be wrinkled, as she took to the stage to introduce the former Saturday Night Live star
She showcased her toned legs in the item, which had a ragged skirt hem and appeared to be wrinkled, as she took to the stage to introduce the former Saturday Night Live star.
She wore her blond hair with a side part, and her shoulder-length locks were slightly flipped up at the bottom.
Jennifer called Adam her ‘very good friend’ and ‘brother from another mother,’ and she praised him as ‘an extraordinary father, husband, and one of the most loyal friends you could ever, ever have.’
She ran through some of his biggest films, while noting that she had starred with him in a few of them.
The two comic stars first costarred in the 2011 romantic comedy Just Go With It, in which Adam played a single plastic surgeon who pretends to be in an unhappy marriage to hit on women, before he begs his friend (Aniston) to stand in as he wife to make the illusion real.
They reunited in 2019 for his Netflix comedy Murder Mystery, followed by a sequel released last year.
After he took to the stage, Adam explained the snafu and decided to stick with what he had prepared.
‘So anyway, I wrote a speech for that, and I don’t have one prepared for the icon thing, but I’m going to do the speech that I wrote,’ he said.
