Sandler in Des Moines tonight

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He did and it was great.



The place was sold out. I was surprised.

Overall the show was ok, but I left wanting more.
The opening comedian was fine. Schneider's stand up was terrible. Just unfunny. Though when he came out at the end to sing he was amazing.
The Kevin James appearance was the highlight.
Sandler was on for almost two hours, so props to him, but I think he could have shortened it by about 30 minutes and it would have been better. And no Thanksgiving song a week before Thanksgiving (my wife was pissed about not hearing the Hanukkah song)!

I'd love a tour of those SNL guys doing live skits or versions of some of his stuff from his early CDs.
 

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Rob Schneider is a political hack now for the people who haven't followed him since 2010. He's entering into the flat earth level of craziness these days so not surprising he wasn't funny.

He was at the Civic Center a year or so ago and I heard people walked out on him.

Have heard from multiple different comics he sucks to work with now too.

Good to hear Sandler and James still brought it though, both were comedy pillars for me when I was a kid.
 
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I'll echo some thoughts already stated. Sandler was good. Schneider was weird. First joke was something about "Scamdemic", and shortly later made an immigrant joke. The yokels around us were jacked up and annoying the rest of the night. James was fun, bongo performance was pretty great. About a hundred random short songs from Sandler. Same juvenile humor I grew up with and loved.

I was worried about Rob's stand up because he leans heavily to the right. Luckily it wasn't very long.

His singing later on was very good. He does have an amazing singing voice.
 

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Yeah, don't ever park in the arena lot. If you are willing to walk a few extra minutes you'll have zero issue getting out.
I don't go to many events at WF. The last one I went to I prepaid parking at the arena lot and had a good experience. Did the same thing this time, but it was horrible. Before, I took the 3rd st exit, then a right on Crocker, right on 5th ave and then right into the parking lot. This time, they wouldn't let you go right (north) onto 5th so everything got jacked up for me. Not sure what they were thinking. Something wasn't flowing right. also, 235 was so slow. Maybe that's normal, I don't know. Exiting the lot wasn't terrible, honestly. But lesson learned, I don't think I'll park in that lot again.
 

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Rob Schneider is a political hack now for the people who haven't followed him since 2010. He's entering into the flat earth level of craziness these days so not surprising he wasn't funny.

He was at the Civic Center a year or so ago and I heard people walked out on him.

Unrelated on his stances on things but I have family that worked with him in the 90s and he was 'dread going to work' kind of awful to be around.
 

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Seems like comedians that go heavily political start forgetting that they're mainly supposed to be funny. There are a few who dive in and out of that and don't lose the plot (example would be Lewis Black)
Yup. A few political cracks usually work, but when it becomes and their main focus, and is completely one-sided (like Schneider) it's rarely funny.

Any time someone becomes a ________ comedian, they're just pandering to an audience that cares more about the first descriptor than the "comedian" portion.
 

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Seems like comedians that go heavily political start forgetting that they're mainly supposed to be funny. There are a few who dive in and out of that and don't lose the plot (example would be Lewis Black)

Political humor is OK to a limit...using it as a soapbox to sound like you're parroting something trending on Twitter goes off the cliff pretty quickly.
 

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Do people just morph into country singers because it's way easier or something? Sounded way more interesting as a bluesy rock thing.
She still does that too.

Pretty much everyone that's into punk rock when they're a teenager ends up into country in their 30's. There's a hard to explain, but very real tendency towards that.
 
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Do people just morph into country singers because it's way easier or something? Sounded way more interesting as a bluesy rock thing.
Probably makes them more money. Aaron Lewis and Darius Rucker did the same thing when they figured out their rock bands hadn't been relevant in 15 years.