Conan O'Brien says Adam Sandler brought the enjoyment back to Saturday Night Live the moment he started working on the show. On a recent episode of Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend, fellow SNL alum Andy Samberg remarked that O'Brien was in the last "intense and gritty" generation of the show,

Conan O’Brien reflected on working at Saturday Night Live and credited Adam Sandler for making the show more ‘fun’ O’Brien was a writer on the series from 1988 to 1991, while Sandler joined in 1990 O’Brien said he felt like “there was a gun against my head all the time” when he worked on the show Samberg said he generally is a “pretty happy” person and joked it was “annoying” of him,