Here Are The 17 Funniest July Tweets On The Internet
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Why they got the robot dressed like Adam Sandler https://t.co/QKiZxaT2Oe
— Your Hair Shorter Than Mines (@_StillTheShawn) July 12, 2025
Twitter: @_StillTheShawn
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Sandler, Shooter and me: What happened when I joined the 'Happy Gilmore 2' cast on the golf course
At first, I was skeptical about why the beloved comedy needed a sequel at all. Now I get it. BEDMINSTER, New Jersey — After spending a day zooming around a country club in a golf cart, feeling the balmy breeze filter through my collared sweater vest, I saw the best thing I'd seen all day: Dozens of middle-aged golf tournament participants, clad in baseball hats and polo shirts, hollering 'Shooter McGavin!' with unbridled joy. From my perch on the back of the bougie vehicle, I could see actor Christopher McDonald in the cart ahead of me, beaming with joy as real-life golfers recognized him as the uppity villain he played in a movie that premiered 29 years ago, Happy Gilmore. On the greens of Fiddler's Elbow Country Club on July 13, the 1996 comedy about a belligerent failed hockey player who transforms into a golfer to save his grandmother's home might as well be in theaters today. I don't think the real-life golfers knew this, but McDonald and I were there — along with Adam Sandler, Julie Bowen, Benny Safdie and a gaggle of other journalists — for a press event on behalf of Happy Gilmore 2, its long-awaited follow-up, which starts streaming on Netflix July 25. Any questions I had about why Happy Gilmore is one of the few Sandler characters to get his own sequel dissipated when I saw that crowd erupt. People aren't just going to stream this movie because they love seeing familiar material rebooted and rehashed. They love this guy — the outsider who invaded their sport, messed it up and defeated the established Goliath of golf. Earlier that day, I sat with McDonald and Safdie on a hill overlooking the course. They gushed to me about the timelessness of Happy Gilmore, excitedly quoting the original movie to each other as they talked about why it needed a follow-up film. Safdie, who directed Sandler in a rare dramatic role in 2019's Uncut Gems, estimates that he's seen Happy Gilmore hundreds of times. He told me he could close his eyes and watch the film in his mind from beginning to end, adding that it's 'one of the best, funniest movies there is.' Lines from the movie, like 'five iron, huh? You're fired.' — something McGavin mumbles to his caddy before letting him go — have become part of his daily lexicon. McDonald was more straightforward. 'Our fans demanded it,' he told me. Earlier that day, Sandler joked to me that '30 years of pressure from Shooter McGavin' is the main reason they got the gang back together at all. Find your 'happy place' I felt out of place when I rolled into the country club parking lot that morning, my battered Subaru Impreza sticking out among BMWs and Cadillacs. I told the security guard what I was there for. He put his hands on his hips, mocking me as if I were the fancy one, then broke into a smile to share that he'd met Sandler during their New York University days. I might have been at a ritzy country club, but a few scenes from the sequel were filmed here, and this was Sandler's domain. I took the portable neck fan Netflix had given me the night before at a screening, now smudged with the orange streaks of the makeup I sweated off, and hopped in a golf cart that took me to a driving range. There, a kind staffer handed me a Boston Bruins jersey and a hockey stick and invited me to try to put a golf ball into a hole. I could not do it in less than four swings, no matter how hard I tried or how close I stood, even after the country club's staff professional gently encouraged me to 'just tap it in.' I wanted to blast the ball into the stratosphere or drop to my hands and knees on the green and shriek, 'That's your home! Are you too good for your home?!' at the menacing little sphere, but I had to go meet Sandler. And my sweater vest was a rental item I couldn't afford to cover in grass stains. When I met the megastar, he was wearing an oversize polo shirt and shorts — in keeping with the country club's dress code, but true to his signature style. Sandler's laid-back demeanor instantly put me at ease as he fired off jokes and sipped from a venti Starbucks drink with his old pal, Bowen, aka Virginia Venit, the gorgeous PR director who quickly fell for Gilmore's rough-around-the-edges style and became his 'happy place.' Their love anchors the original movie, so I was surprised when I heard Bowen say she didn't expect to be in the sequel. She thought she might be replaced by a younger actress. 'My kids were like, 'It's never gonna happen for you, old lady!'' she told me, adding that Sandler didn't owe her anything. Sandler rejected that, saying, 'She was wonderful in it. Our characters love each other!' 'In real life, I don't love being near her so much,' he added, joking that their best day on set was when Bowen finally left. Family matters I was moved by how much the sequel was centered around family. Sandler and Bowen's characters are still very much in love and have several sons and a daughter, played by Sandler's real-life kid, Sunny. His daughter, Sadie, and wife, Jackie, also have roles in the new film. Sandler told me the first time his real-life family was all together onscreen was in 2008's Bedtime Stories — in one scene, Jackie is holding Sadie while pregnant with Sunny. I flashed back to my own screening of Happy Gilmore 2 the night before, where members of the press gathered at a fancy hotel in New York City to watch it, and how I couldn't stop thinking about how it was impossible to pinpoint when I'd seen the original film because it had probably been one I stumbled upon playing on TV while channel flipping with my dad. I bonded with other journalists about this bygone era of content consumption: How we, now entertainment reporters, used to watch so many movies in short bursts between commercials, censored by networks and abbreviated for time — never sitting down to watch something from beginning to end. We absorbed them through osmosis, which somehow made the jokes we caught even more memorable and quotable. I know my dad will watch Happy Gilmore 2 on Netflix at home in North Carolina without me and text me about it after, but I wish we could have seen it together in the living room of my childhood house, cackling together when Sandler yells something goofy or when the smack of his hockey stick against a golf ball results in a rocket-launch sound effect. The sequel's touching father-daughter storyline would have added a sweetness to the raucous premise we initially bonded over. 'Ask if he ever considered having Bill Murray reprise his role as Carl from Caddyshack in Happy Gilmore,' my dad texted me when I told him I was interviewing Sandler. He gets it. My dad is a big sports fan — a college track athlete and a longtime high school football coach. He's always bonded with my brothers over sports, but I was lacking in the athleticism and attention span departments. Not wanting to miss any opportunity to hang out with him, I started playing a game with myself every time we watched a sporting event: I'd think of how rules could be added or subtracted to games to make them more fun. To watch a game closely enough to know exactly how to best break it is a twisted but profound love language. Happy Gilmore put this into practice by treating a golf ball like a hockey puck. The fictional character knew that people should be able to smack it with as much ferocity as possible and maybe beat up a few haters on the sidelines, so long as they're technically fine after. I applied this to my own thought experiments: Football players should have to hug the people they tackle afterward. If a hockey player gets put in the penalty box, they should be able to choose a song that plays for the length of their stay. While watching the sequel, I realized that having a guy come in and break all the rules of a sport and unexpectedly become the best at it is kind of a trend right now. There's Happy Gilmore, of course, but Brad Pitt's character does the same thing in F1, crashing into people constantly. I asked the Happy Gilmore 2 cast members to pitch other sports that would be fun to break the rules of for future movies. Bowen suggested Ping-Pong, and Sandler pointed out that Marty Supreme, a movie about table tennis legend Marty Reisman starring Timothée Chalamet, is out this year. (When I told him I can't hear 'Chalamet' in my head without saying it in the voice Sandler did at the 2025 Golden Globes, he kindly performed the soundbite for me.) Safdie suggested basketball since it's so popular — Space Jam and Air Bud pushed the sport to its limits, but there are plenty more rules to break. He directed The Smashing Machine, a mixed martial arts biopic starring Dwayne Johnson that's out later this year and likely fits the bill, though he didn't plug his upcoming project. McDonald couldn't think of a sport that needed to be broken in the moment, but he approached me after the interview to pitch that someone should ruin curling — maybe with a hockey stick? Not a bad idea for the next Happy Gilmore installment. 'I love the fans. They just think the movie's the bomb,' McDonald told me. I saw it firsthand. From the dudes rallying around Shooter McGavin to Sandler's girl-dad tendencies to my own memories with my father that this whole experience brought up, it makes perfect sense to me why Happy Gilmore is a character that deserves revisiting. The nostalgia he inspires is tinged with warmth and community, uniting sports-loving fathers and pop culture-loving daughters as well as country club golfers and belligerent hockey players over a film about family, rule breaking and lighthearted physical violence. Happy Gilmore forever.
New York Times
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- New York Times
The sports movie sequels we want to see after the release of ‘Happy Gilmore 2'
Almost three decades after his (fictitious) Tour Championship triumph, Adam Sandler is back on the links as Happy Gilmore. The official follow-up to 1996's golf screwball comedy is out Friday on Netflix. Sandler, Julie Bowen, Christopher McDonald, Ben Stiller and Dennis Dugan are all back in their original roles. It remains to be seen if it's a worthwhile summertime watch, or if everyone involved should 'go back to (their) shanties.' Either way, it got us thinking about all the other sports movies that deserve a part II … or III or IV. Advertisement Here's what my colleagues and I came up with. Drop a comment below with your best (or most wonderfully unhinged) sequel ideas. The Athletic readers can stream movies, TV and live sports on Fubo (try for free). Because I was the one to bring this exercise to our group, I felt obliged to come through with two different out-there offerings. Hollywood can cut the check in advance. I'm going with the 2005 one centered around the Boston Red Sox, which is a twist on the 1997 British original about a lovestruck Arsenal superfan. The American version's leads, played by Jimmy Fallon and Drew Barrymore, are expecting a kid at the end of the movie. Canonically, that child is named either Ted Williams Wrightman or (brace yourself, dear reader) Carla Yastrzemski Wrightman. In today's timeline, Carla Yastrzemski has indeed inherited her father's bleeding heart baseball obsession. Now for our twist. In an effort to find her voice and rebel against her suburban upbringing, she becomes a diehard Arizona Diamondbacks fan. Yup! Carla, played by Maisie Williams, is slowly driving away her boyfriend (Jharrel Jerome) … not because of trust issues or a lack of communication or a pesky ex, but because the Snakes can't get over the NL West hump. Why won't our protagonist give this promising relationship a real shot? Well, Kevin Ginkel keeps blowing the seventh inning, that's why. Stay for the post-credits scene, in which Fallon shares a wedding toast with Steve Finley and D. Baxter the Bobcat. Suspend your belief for a second and picture this: The New York Knicks have somehow put together their best season in 25 years, then unceremoniously can their head coach without a viable replacement in mind. A Madison Avenue farce breaks out, and a charming, outspoken fan gets the job of a lifetime. The original, which was underappreciated in 1996 (dare we say misunderstood?), starred Whoopi Goldberg as the Knicks' new coach. There is but one singular actor qualified for the 2025 sequel. Now, from my tremendously talented and far more rational coworkers: This was a groundbreaking film that inspired a generation of young women, particularly those from underrepresented backgrounds, to see themselves in sport. A sequel offers an opportunity to speak directly to the next generation of girls growing up in England and around the world, with a cast that meaningfully represents the diversity of today's game — including South Asian, Arab and Black players. Women's soccer has made incredible strides since 2002, but progress has not been equal across all communities. Just this week, England international Jess Carter publicly stepped back from social media in response to the wave of racist abuse she and other players of color have received during the Women's European Championship. This is a reminder that, while the game has moved forward, the work is far from done. A sequel would celebrate how far we've come — while also confronting the barriers that still exist — with the same heart, humor and cultural insight that made the original a classic. Advertisement I'd name the 2025 reboot 'Bend It Like Bhamra,' with the protagonist Jess Bhamra breaking new ground again — this time as the manager of Leicester FC women's team, fighting for its first Women's Super League title. It would make for a high-energy, heartwarming sequel about love, community, identity and standing up for what's right. Parminder Nagra, Keira Knightley and Jonathan Rhys Meyers would return, and I'd cast newcomers like Adwoa Aboah, Lupita Nyong'o and Margaret Qualley. — Alice Devine, senior art director for global video I'd love to see 'Bend it like Beckham 2' with the women's soccer/football scene booming far more than it was in 2002. We just cracked the first female transfer over a million pounds in USWNT defender Naomi Girma going to Chelsea. The 2025 Euros have been great, and the NWSL is expanding — so many more opportunities, but also so much more pressure. This would be a great watch considering our current moment. — Sarah Doran, NHL staff editor This one would be 'She Got Game,' with Jesus Shuttlesworth (Ray Allen) now the father and Angel Reese playing the lead. It deserves a sequel because it was a relatable story about a star coming into their own while dealing with family demons. Even though Jesus' daughter will have grown up in better circumstances, he still struggles with trying to raise her differently than how he was raised. — Dan Santaromita, sports betting senior editor Give me a sequel as soon as possible. It's a classic that still holds up. For this installment, Becky 'The Icebox' O'Shea has a child (gender is negotiable) who is living in her shadow and reckoning with her storied career on the field. They experience the highs and lows of trying to find their way in high school football. Get the 'Stranger Things' casting director to find us a teenage child star, bring back Shawna Waldron and let's get rolling. Actually, please give me a sequel to every single '90s/2000s kids sports movie. 'The Big Green,' 'Like Mike,' 'Angels in the Outfield,' 'Little Big League,' 'Rookie of the Year.' Let's go full 'Karate Kid' on these franchises. — David Ubben, college football senior writer Anything else would be a big miss. Benny is now a manager, and Smalls is now 'killing (us)' as a commentator. Squints and Wendy's kids are the new Sandlot crew leaders, with the rest of the next-generation names joining them to play ball. Elsewhere, Ham's wrestling career flames out, so he tries to get the Bambino ball from Smalls to sell for some money. Advertisement Wait … two straight-to-video sequels already exist? What?! Surely we'd do it better this time around. — Jake Ciely, senior fantasy sports writer The 2005 comedy needs a sequel because it's absolutely ridiculous. Robert Duvall and Will Ferrell are father and son, but they're also rival kids soccer coaches, and Ferrell recruits his neighbor (Mike Ditka!) onto the sidelines to try to win the big match. I really enjoyed the 'get the ball to the Italians' lure in this movie. There is also a lot of draw here because, as of recently, some people are saying that Ferrell isn't actually funny — and I strongly disagree with them. I'd want to see Josh Hutcherson (who plays Ferrell's half-brother in the original) as the dad in this one, with Bill Belichick (!) as his neighbor. Again, a totally ridiculous film. Not great at all, but dumb enough to get laughs. — Joe Crisalli, senior video producer I've always wanted a 'Cool Runnings 2,' where the original team gets back together in its older age. Having practiced and excelled at shuffleboard, they decide to make an Olympic bid in curling. 'Jamaica … we have a curling team!' They are coached by John Candy's estranged daughter Melissa McCarthy, who is, of course, an Olympic curler in her own right. — Jonathan MacMillan, games team software engineer The 1986 Martin Scorsese film was a sequel of its own, as we followed Fast Eddie Felson (Paul Newman) 25 years after he exited Chalkie's pool hall at the end of 'The Hustler.' Fast Eddie, no longer so fast or young, became a liquor salesman, then saw an avenue back into big-time pool by tutoring the ambitious and naive pool prodigy played by Tom Cruise. Their adventure, along with an excellent Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, is a love letter to pool and fighting off aging. It also ends with a perfect avenue to another sequel. I'd cast today's 63-year-old Cruise as the Newman character, and a younger actor or actress (which would make for a more interesting sequel) to play an up-and-coming pool shark. — Richard Deitsch, sports media senior writer Yes, this movie has spawned two sequels, an animated series and a show starring Lauren Graham that recently ran for two seasons on Disney+. But it's time for a follow-up flick set in the present day — and it's time to bring back Charlie Conway. Joshua Jackson nostalgia is strong right now, despite the unjust cancellation of his wildly over-the-top show 'Doctor Odyssey.' Just this week, it came out that he's reteaming with Katie Holmes on a movie. And last month, he reunited with Marguerite Moreau (Connie in TMD film franchise) to announce the Anaheim Ducks' first-round pick at the NHL Draft (Roger McQueen, the name of a Hawks player if I've ever heard one). In D4, Charlie is a widowed father whose daughter hasn't picked up a hockey stick since the death of her mother. Charlie reluctantly takes over for the Ducks after their coach leaves for the Hawks and recruits the Ducks' best players to follow him. Now Charlie has to assemble a ragtag team, reignite his daughter's love for hockey, and teach a younger generation the all-important lesson that ducks fly together. Quack, quack, quack, quack … — Sarah Hardy, streaming editor Willie Beamen as a beaten, old veteran QB going into his 'last dance' season. It deserves a sequel because it's one of the only movies that captures the brutal nature of the NFL, and it feels appropriate as ever today. Jamie Foxx should be back. Maybe a cameo from Al Pacino, but I don't think he should play a major role. Let's go with Robert Downey Jr. as the GM and Ryan Gosling as the young, offensive whiz kid head coach. — Ted Nguyen, NFL staff writer Streaming links in this article are provided by partners of The Athletic. Restrictions may apply. The Athletic maintains full editorial independence. Partners have no control over or input into the reporting or editing process and do not review stories before publication. (Illustration: Kelsea Petersen / The Athletic; Archive photos: Getty, Sundance / Getty, Getty Images / Getty )
USA Today
2 hours ago
- USA Today
Inside look at Happy Gilmore's unique golf swing 29 years after his first tee shot
"Happy Gilmore 2," the long-awaited sequel to Adam Sandler's 1996 hit film, swings into action on Netflix on July 25. In the original movie, Adam Sandler plays a wannabe ice hockey star whose grandmother's house is repossessed by the IRS. To save her house, he takes his powerful swing to the golf course, hoping to win a professional tournament and the big cash prize that comes with it. However, he faces opposition from Shooter McGavin, a preppy pro golfer and full-time jerk, played by Christopher McDonald, who is determined to thwart his plans. Now, 29 years after winning his first tour championship, retired golfer Happy Gilmore, despite being quite rusty, returns to the sport to pay for his daughter Vienna's ballet school. "It's all in the hips": The Happy Gilmore swing "Happy Gilmore" introduced a wacky and very popular, almost slap-shot style swing now commonly referred to as the "Happy Gilmore swing." The PGA (and USGA) rules do not prohibit a player from taking a running or walking approach to the ball before striking it, which is the core of the Happy Gilmore swing. The legality hinges on the player not altering the conditions of the stroke. This includes not pushing, scraping, or scooping the ball, with multiple swings or altering its lie before the swing At the CIMB Classic in 2015, John Peterson became one of the first, if not the first, golfer to attempt a "Happy Gilmore" swing in an actual PGA Tour tournament. Almost three decades later, the Happy Gilmore sequel is set to introduce a new generation to Happy's infamous swing. Here's a look at Sandler executing Happy's swing in the original movie: Who is coming back for "Happy Gilmore 2" Several familiar characters will be returning to reprise their roles in the sequel. ◾Adam Sandler – Happy Gilmore ◾Julie Bowen – Virginia Venit ◾Christopher McDonald – Shooter McGavin ◾Ben Stiller – Hal L. ◾Dennis Dugan – Doug Thompson ◾Kevin Nealon – Gary Potter ◾Lee Trevino – Himself ◾Verne Lundquist – Himself Several actors from "Happy Gilmore" have passed away since the movie's release in 1996. ◾Carl Weathers – Chubbs Peterson ◾Frances Bay – Grandma ◾Richard Kiel – Mr. Larson ◾Joe Flaherty – Donald ◾Bob Barker – Himself SOURCES USA TODAY Network reporting and research; Netflix;
