Adam Sandler spills what it’s REALLY like acting with Travis in Happy Gilmore 2 & crazy set stories

Jason and Travis welcome Adam Sandler to talk about his new movie Happy Gilmore 2, what it was like working with Travis, how he originated the signature Happy Gilmore swing, and Big Ed’s gold jacket cameo.

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We got a special edition of new news. All right. Now, here to help us is the stars of Happy Gilmore 2. That’s right. Well, he’s the main star. He’s the He’s the guy. He’s Happy Gilmore. He is Adam Sandler. Whoa. Whoa. I think it’s equal, man. Me and Travis are pretty equal, buddy. Fair enough. Sorry. Travis Kelsey, also star of Happy Gilmore, too. Yes. A handsome star. A stud. You should have seen him. So much fun doing that, man. He did good, Jason. He was so cool. He was just like you. Just like you when you took over with announcing. You guys just go, “All right, if I’m doing this, I might as well be great at this.” So, anyways, yeah, you were cool as uh Travis was locked in. He had to kind of be a bad guy. He was just there. It was the perfect remedy, man. It was the perfect remedy. It was just so much fun hearing hearing the role and then Adam helping me like find the role on set and then just like it took me a second to actually because looking at Bad Bunny in a scene, it’s hilarious. It’s hilarious. Bad Bunny is just naturally funny as I don’t know if people aren’t around him enough. They’re going to find out in Happy Gilmore 2 how funny this guy really is. You two guys were amazing together. Yeah. Yeah. Two. He was so sweet and you were you had to be a little bit of a louse to him, man. And you and you you you didn’t like doing it cuz you loved the guy. I loved him. You already know. You had to be mean to Bonito. But we got it done. And you look cool. And And I got to tell you, Travis, uh, how tall are you, Travis? 6’5. 6’5. Yeah. The 6’5 of you is going to It’s definitely going to look make Bonito nervous. You all over Bonito. It’ll look cool. Oh man, it that was so much freaking fun, man. And we got Big Ed in there, man. You were kind enough to let my dad throw on a gold jacket and have some fun, man. Yes. Your dad was smooth as hell. I was telling you guys, he’s in loads of shots every I think it’s when you cut to either me or Lee Trobino, you see. And he’s always right in right in the shot looking cool as hell, looking like a uh a proud member of the gold jacket club. I don’t know what year your father in the movie won won the gold jacket, but he he wore it proudly and he was cool as hell. Oh my gosh. It was so epic to be not only to be in the sequel, but to be in it with Lee Trevino, who was really the only golfer that was in the first one. Yeah, that that’s so funny, fellas. When we did the first one, we were goofy. We were young and goofy and I think we wanted we talked about other golfers being in it and we did the movie for Universal when we would mention it to them. Could you maybe get so and so? And they’d be like, uh, he said no. No. Everybody said no. We were like, oh, okay. And then Lee Trevino out of nowhere, he said he’d be in our movie and he and he did it and and then 30 years later he all his buddies showed up, too. How about Jack Nicholas? How cool he was. How about Jack, dude? the smoothest guy in the world, man. Yeah, man. Just a buttery swing and just a just a kind cool cat when you meet him. I know, man. That was My dad was in heaven meeting all all the OG’s at golf man. No doubt about it. Your father Now, what sports did your dad uh play growing up? Everything. He was a baseball guy. He was a baseball. He played some football as well, but he was a baseball guy. Yeah, he played baseball. Football and then uh later on played rugby. Oo. What’s funny though is that he actually handed us a set of what looked like Happy Gilmore Clubs. It was the old skinny bag with the the woods that actually had like the wood with like just like a metal face or something. The old Yeah, exactly. Got you. He handed us those when we were younger and that’s what we played with when we were younger. That’s amaz So you guys used to walk around the course together? All All the Kelsey family. Well, my dad didn’t do any of the golfing. He basically my dad was trying to figure out how can I get these guys like out of the house during the summer. So he bought us some used clubs that played against sports for like as cheap as he could get them. Right. And then he just sent us to the local public course Highlands up in Cleveland, Ohio. Yeah. It was like 5 hours of free getting these boys away from me. That’s so true. So true. Makes total sense. Now I totally understand as a parent why my father would go, “You look tired. go to sleep and I’d be like, “I’m not tired. It’s 2:00 in the afternoon. What are we talking about?” He’d be like, “Take a nap. You need a nap.” I’d be like, “What the fuck?” But yeah, my father too, fellas. He my father was a great golfer and he would get me and my brother out there. And my father was one of those guys who knew what he was doing with his with his hands and uh and he did he was electrical uh engineer and contractor and kind of knew and he would take real clubs and shorten them for us. He’d he’d be downstairs cutting up, making it work, and then we had little clubs that work for a while. Holy cow. That’s a good dad right there. It was cool, man. Very cool. Yeah, that was nice. You got to tell the uh the audience where did that actual Happy swing like the the the crow hop into the into the ball? Where did that come from? Me and uh Tim Hurley, he and Dennis Dugan, the director, we were like, “Shouldn’t Happy have like a like a sort of a hockey swing?” And I said, “Yeah, how about I kind of run up there and give it like a slap shot kind of little momentum.” And we just started doing that. Awesome. That’s amazing. This is epic. The fact that you could just do it on the fly like that had the hand eye coordination to get on to hit the ball solid like that. That had to be fun. Oh man. I mean, look, I don’t I when I get out there, like I played with Bryson like two weeks ago and he had me do the sw. he was filming and and for his show and he had me do the swing and I think I did it twice and I hit it twice decent but had like a little fade on it. I wish I I wish I had a draw going but I couldn’t get it. I couldn’t get that. I get that fade every time I’m I’m up here with it. Then I go remember swing out. Then I go I’m going to do it the wrong way. Over the top, baby. Over the top like an idiot. I I know it. I know it while I’m doing it. I’m going Why are you doing this? You innocent. We love it, man. Nothing wrong with a good power fade. Exactly. Lee was the only guy that would do it last time. It feels like there can’t be many people that you called up and said, “Hey, do you want to be in Hebrew, too?” and weren’t interested in being I mean, what was it like filming it this time around that was different from the first time around? You know, I I like we we tried to make it a real athlete like you you guys know the deal and you know it, Jason. We were thinking like when an athlete retires like what goes on throughout the day and and like and how you miss it and you you kind of say if I got out there again, you know, like that’s kind kind of like your whole life is one thing and then all of a sudden you’re not doing that. And so we made a the story of Happy is that he’s he’s been out for 10 years and uh he decides he’s kind of out of cash and he’s like I gotta get back on there and and and we knew to make it real and have him be on a pro tour. I I I put out a lot of calls to to the real golfers just to make it look authentic. And um and the day that Travis was there was nothing but superstars there in the golf world. It was filled with them. the new, the old, it was everybody. Yeah, it was some it was a day we a couple of days we’ll never forget and and they love Travis like every one of them. We happen to have a bunch of them that I was already cool with and huge fans of like Sp and Shafley and all them, man. It’s it’s the best. Yes. You you gave a nice chest bump to to Xander and uh I It was a big time. It was a big We were all loving that day. It was a I think it was like two days of fun. Yeah, it was I think in the movie that scene turned out great. You’re you’re all over Travis, whatever you gave us was great. And whatever these the all the the golfers gave us and lady golfers from the uh than the from the female tour, they they were awesome. And the uh there’s so many great athletes all over the movie, man. I could not be more excited for Heb Warmore 2 to come out. Like is there anything else you want to like give us on it or or put out there? Like I just want to say thank you to everybody. I mean, so many cameos. Everybody came and did. I know they were being nice to me and do me a favor. It’s a lot of time making a movie. You sit, you hang, you you don’t have that much to do at times. It can get frustrating, but nobody showed that. Everybody, it was like a It was like a clubhouse. Everybody, every day was a new bunch of people coming in for a day or two and we all just sat and hung out. It was so cool, man. Travis, man, you were so cool to all of every one of us. You came with bruises on your back, man. You I think you just played in Pittsburgh. Is that right? You had some doozies, man. That’s great. I had a few few catches the week before, man. I was lucky. I for everyone that doesn’t know, I did it on the the by-week last year and uh it was so much fun getting getting away for three days and jumping on a set with Happy Madison. You guys run it like a family. It is so cool to see, man. You guys do it better than any other set that I’ve ever been on. Not that I’ve been on a lot, man. Thanks, man. It was so freaking cool. And uh you you mentioned thank you to everybody that came in, man. Thank you for doing it the way you guys do it because you made everybody feel at home, feel comfortable, and I can’t wait to see this masterpiece on July 25th, baby. I love that you’re in it, buddy. And we we worked hard. We hope everybody has a good time with I can’t wait. I know it’s coming out and then it’s out. That’s that’s life. You go you just like you guys with a big game. you go been thinking about this my uh for a long time all season and then all of a sudden you go here it is man let’s go you know can’t wait to see it it’s going to be yeah I mean this is one of the most iconic movies that came out in the 90s I mean it was like I can’t believe it’s actually happening again I can’t believe more is happening this far away from the first one could not be more excited thank you buddy thank you I hope hope you guys have a fun time thank you for the time, big guy. Love you, boys. And I’ll see you real soon. And say hi to the families. The sand, man. Have fun at the premiere, man. Wish I could be there. I’ll be in Old St. Joe, Missouri. Uh catching catching uh catching the ball from old Patty Mahomes, man. But I wish I could be there. You’re the best. Thank you again for letting me and my pops come in and have some fun with you. Have a great season. [Music]