The Chanukah Song Turns Twenty
Break out the Manischewitz, because here’s every Jew, non-Jew, and possible Jews name-dropped by Adam Sandler.
Twenty years ago this holiday season, Adam Sandler rocked both the Semitic and gentile worlds when he performed “The Chanukah Song” on Saturday Night Live. Since then, he’s released revised editions, name-dropping even more Jewish people, non-Jewish people, Jewish objects, fictional Jews, and O.J. Simpson. Maxim looks back at the legacy of the song in the most OCD of ways – by presenting a few lists of all the Jews, Vulcans, Deli’s, and Willie Nelson band members name-checked by Sandler.
The Jews (* denotes half-Jewishness)
David Lee Roth
James Caan
Kirk Douglas
Dinah Shore
Bowzer from Sha Na Na
Arthur Fonzarelli
Paul Newman*
Goldie Hawn*
Barry Ackerley
Ann Landers
Harrison Ford*
All of The Three Stooges
Winona Ryder*
Ralph Lauren
Calvin Klein
Louise Post and Nina Gordon of Veruca Salt
All of the Beastie Boys, but “Ad-Rock” gets a *
Lenny Kravitz*
Harvey Keitel
Yasmine Bleeth*
Dustin Hoffman (Dustin Hoffmanica)
Robert Levine
David Lander
Debra Messing
Melissa Gilbert
Michael Landon*
Jerry Lewis
Ben Stiller*
Jack Black*
Rob Schneider*
Mickey Raphael
Sarah Hughes*
Harry Houdini
David Blaine*
Gwyneth Paltrow*
Jennifer Connelly*
Lou Reed
Perry Farrell
Paula Abdul
Joey Ramone
Natalie Portman
Fictional Jews
Captain Kirk
Spock
Dear Abby
Happy Gilmore
Ross and Phoebe from Friends
Speculative Jews
Tom Cruise’s Agent
Jewish Locations
The Carnegie Deli
Non-Jews
O. J. Simpson
Ebenezer Scrooge
O. J. Simpson (non-Judaism reiterated in 1999 version)
Tiger Woods
Bruce Springsteen (Judy Sandler thinks otherwise)
Osama Bin Laden
People Incorrectly Identified As Jews
Rod Carew
Courtney Love
Jennifer Beals
Don Messick (voice of Scooby Doo)
Beck
Converted Jews That Sandler Would Like To Return To Previous Faith
Tom Arnold
Former Jews
Bob Dylan
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