He's still not very funny though, IMO. I loved him in Paul Anderson's movie "Punch Drunk Love".
I think there might a little secret cabal of former "SNL" member Libertarian/Republicans in Lalaland. Dennis Miller got Adam Sandler onto "SNL" and was his champion on the show. Miller also went to bat for Bob Dole fan/Clinton basher Norm MacDonald, who was fired for being too politically incorrect (also too funny for "SNL"). Rob Schneider appears in all of Sandler's movies and Sandler produces his, and Schneider has gone to Iraq, volunteered to appear on "The Tonight Show" on a holiday when the audience was all troops, and showed photos of himself holding a rifle in Iraq and putting his feet up on Saddam's palace coffee table. I've also noticed that Dennis Miller's pal Dana Carvey has said some hilariously sharp things about Clinton and the war on terror. Maybe this tiny clique is entirely responsible for the average IQ in Hollywood being higher than that of a house plant.