The Canteen Boy, the reason you feel bad for him and you can laugh is because he, and I guess a lot of my characters, they don't notice they're getting made fun of. So they'll say something back that's not that great a quip, but in their mind they won the argument.

James had costarred with Sandler in I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry and Grown Ups and made a cameo appearance in You Don't Mess with the Zohan. Happy Madison Productions

Sandler formed his film production company Happy Madison Productions in 1999 first producing fellow SNL alumnus Rob Schneider's film Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo. [citation needed] He returned to more dramatic[neutrality is disputed] fare with Mike Binder's Reign Over Me (2007) a drama about a man who loses his entire family in 9/11 and rekindles a friendship with his old college roommate (played by Don Cheadle).

Adam Richard Sandler (born September 9 1966) is an American actor comedian screenwriter and film producer. Deeds (2002) though he has ventured into more dramatic territory. In 1999 Sandler founded Happy Madison a film and television production company that has produced numerous films and developed the 2007 television series Rules of Engagement.