The Chanukah Song
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The Chanukah Song is a series of songs written and performed by Adam Sandler. All variations center around the theme of Jewish children feeling isolated during the Christmas season and Sandler's listing of Jewish celebrities, some lesser-known or completely fictional.
Actor Cole Sprouse is co-credited with Sandler on the 1999 Chanukah Song, Part II.
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[edit] Part I
It was in What the Hell Happened to Me?. Jewish celebrities referenced in The Chanukah Song (1994)
- David Lee Roth (Van Halen lead singer)
- James Caan
- Kirk Douglas
- Dinah Shore (replaced in live performances with Pauly Shore)
- Bowser, from Sha Na Na
- Henry Winkler ("Arthur Fonzarelli")
- Goldie Hawn (half-Jewish)
- Paul Newman (half-Jewish)
- William Shatner ("Captain Kirk")
- Leonard Nimoy ("Mr. Spock")
- Howard Schultz ("the owner of the Seattle SuperSon-icahs")
- Rod Carew (Carew married a Jewish woman, but never converted to Judaism)
- Ann Landers, and her sister Dear Abby.
- Pauline Phillips ("Dear Abby")
- Harrison Ford
- The Three Stooges
- Tom Cruise's agent
[edit] Part II
It was in Stan and Judy's Kid. Cole Sprouse sang a solo with Adam Sandler. Persons referenced in The Chanukah Song, Part II (1999):
- Winona Ryder ("drinks manishevitz wine")
- Ralph Lauren
- Calvin Klein
- Veruca Salt
- The Beastie Boys
- Lenny Kravitz ("half-Jewish", See Courtney Love below)
- Courtney Love ("'Lenny Kravitz is half-Jewish. Courtney Love is half too. Put them together, what a funky, BAD-ASS JEW!")
- Harvey Keitel
- Jennifer Beals (who is not Jewish; her mother re-married to a man named Edward Cohen)
- Yasmine Bleeth (who is Jewish on her father's side only)
- Dustin Hoffman(-icah)
- O.J. Simpson ("Still not a Jew")
- Don Messick ("the guy who does the voice for Scooby Doo" now voiced by Casey Kasem)
- Bob Dylan (the song notes his conversion to Christianity, but Sandler also says he's gone back to Judaism)
- Robert Levine (Mary Tyler Moore's husband)
- Tiger Woods ("No, I'm not talking about Tiger Woods")
- Happy Gilmore (Sandler's title character in the 1996 film)
- Bruce Springsteen ("Isn't Jewish, but my mother thinks he is")
[edit] Part III
It was in the Eight Crazy Nights Soundtrack. (Featuring vocals from actor Rob Schneider and the children's choir "The Drei-Dels" and singing with the "The Drei-Dels" was Dylan Sprouse) Although not mentioned, Dylan Sprouse sang a solo.
Persons referenced in The Chanukah Song, Part III (2002):
- David Schwimmer ("Ross from Friends")
- Lisa Kudrow ("Phoebe from Friends")
- David Lander ("Lenny's pal Squiggy")
- Debra Messing
- Melissa Gilbert ("Never mix meat with dairy," as does Michael Landon)
- Michael Landon (Along with Melissa Gilbert, Landon never mixes meat with dairy, although his mother was Catholic. Sandler muses that "maybe they should have called that show Little Kosher House on the Prarie.
- Jerry Lewis
- Ben Stiller
- Jack Black
- Tom Arnold ("Tom Arnold converted to Judaism, but you guys can have him back!" Sandler then implies it was a joke, saying "Just kidding Tommy!")
- Rob Schneider (Sandler calls him "Deuce Bigalow." Schneider himself appears and even sings a part of the song)
- Willie Nelson (While guest appearing, Rob Schneider sings this, although not Nelson himself; "The guy in Willie Nelson's band who plays harmonica celebrates Hanukkah!" is a reference to Mickey Raphael)
- Osama bin Laden' ("Not a big fan of the Jews," says Sandler while the Drei-Dels boo, "because he lost the figure skating match to gold medalist Sarah Hughes!")
- Sarah Hughes ("Her momma's Jewish!")
- Harry Houdini (along with David Blaine, "escaped straightjackets with such precision, but the one thing they could not get out of: their painful circumcision!")
- David Blaine (see Harry Houdini)
- Sean Penn ("half-Jewish, quite the great one.")
- Marlon Brando ("Not a Jew at all, but it looks to me like he ate one!" says Sandler, a in-joke at the late actor's obesity)
- Perry Farrell
- Beck (1/8th Jewish)
- Gwyneth Paltrow ("Half-Jewish, but a full time Oscar winner.")
- Jennifer Connelly (According to Sandler, she is half Jewish, "and I'd like to put some more in her!")
- Lou Reed
- Paula Abdul
- Joey Ramone ("Invented punk rock music but first came to Hebrew School!")
- Natalie Portman(-icah)
Also, in an unedited version that Sandler sings at some of his comedy shows, he replaces the lyric "As for half-Jewish actors, Sean Penn is quite the great one. Marlon Brando's not a Jew at all, but it looks to me like he ate one" with "Gwyneth Paltrow's half-Jewish, but a full-time Oscar winner. Jennifer Connelly's half-Jewish, too, and I'd like to put some more in her". This edition is not played on radio versions. However, the music video shows a background screen shows a picture of Sandler licking his lips as the Jennifer Connelly lyric is sung, with shocked laughter coming from the audience. This version is hidden about 4 minutes after the edited version on the Eight Crazy Nights Soundtrack.
On an episode of The Office, Michael Scott parodies Sandler by performing "The Diwali Song" during a Hindu Diwali festival.
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