Adam Sandler Serenades Family After Telling Stories That ‘Aren’t True’

Adam Sandler knows how to make it up to his wife, Jackie Sandler, and their two children after sharing a number of untrue stories about them.

“I say so many things about my wife and kids that aren’t true, I make s*** up and make it goofy, so at the end of the show I like to remind the audience that none of it is true and I love my wife,” Adam, 59, explained in Netflix’s My Next Guest Needs No Introduction With David Letterman and Adam Sandler.

Adam quipped, “I think during ‘[the show] while I’m saying [things about her] she must go, ‘Let’s move on.’”

At the end of the Netflix special, Adam went on to serenade his wife during a standup routine.

“Now we don’t need a big house, we don’t need any money, all we need is you and me and Sadie and Sunny,” he sang. “I got everything I need growing old with you.”

Adam and Jackie met on the set of his 1999 comedy Big Daddy, where she portrayed a waitress. The pair tied the knot four years later.

“​​We’re very close. We like to talk, like to laugh, like to have fun, and like to think about things and take care of our kids,” Adam told People in November of his wife.

He continued, “I’m just more thankful than I’ve ever been. Happy I got to do this life, happy [about] all the people who’ve been with me during all this stuff, and helped me out, and [it’s] just been a phenomenal time. My whole family’s always been great to me. My wife and I talk about stuff, and what to do, and what to do next, and it’s just been a very cool life.”

The couple went on to welcome daughters Sadie, 19, and Sunny, 17, who have since appeared in many of Adam’s movies alongside Jackie.

“[My daughters] make it look like I’m forcing them to do it,” Adam joked in an October 2020 appearance on The Drew Barrymore Show. “Meanwhile, they were asking me the whole damn year, ‘Can I be in your next movie, Daddy?’”

Sadie and Sunny went on to appear in several of his films, including 2023’s You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah and 2025’s Happy Gilmore 2.

“It’s always been our thing to work with our friends and family,” Adam explained to USA Today earlier this year. “It’s cool to see [my kids] getting better. They work hard and they go to school for it, and they love it. So, yeah, I’m just proud. Couldn’t love them more.”

Adam went on to admit to feeling “so much relief” over his daughters seeing success after following in his footsteps.

“Oh, my God, you’re just relieved,” he told E! News in July. “Once they do it well, nothing feels better as a parent. It must be like when you’re the parents of a baseball player and you’re at the game and they get a hit. You just go, ‘Thank God.’”

My Next Guest Needs No Introduction With David Letterman and Adam Sandler is streaming on Netflix now.