Laura Dern<\/a>, Sandler took the stage and quickly veered into a wildly funny alternate-history monologue, imagining what his life might have looked like had his acting career stalled after college.<\/p>\n\u201cWhen I graduated college, I got a Bachelor of Fine Arts, and my father told me he was very proud of me and I should try it out for one year,\u201d Sandler recalled. \u201cHe said, \u2018See if you get something going. If it doesn\u2019t work out after one year, you\u2019ll come work for me.\u2019 My dad was an electrical contractor. I didn\u2019t know very much about electricity or contracting.\u201d<\/p>\n
From there, Sandler riffed on a fictional future spent wiring…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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