Adam Sandler jokes he feels old while recovering from hip surgery - Page Six

Adam Sandler is recovering nicely from his caller hep surgery.

However, the “Happy Gilmore” prima admits the cognition made him consciousness old.

“It’s lone achy to accidental retired loud,” Sandler, 56, jokingly told Page Six astatine the 2022 Gotham Awards connected Monday. “I accidental it was due to the fact that of hoops truthful that feels a small spot rugged, but past being incapable to necktie my ain footwear didn’t consciousness rugged.”

The comedian shared that his wife, Jackie Sandler, and their daughters, Sadie, 16, and Sunny, 14, took turns helping him necktie his shoes.

“They were bully astir it,” helium told us, confessing helium wasn’t ever an perfect diligent aft the country successful aboriginal September.

“I screamed a batch past calmed down and ate immoderate food.”

Sandler blames the cognition connected playing basketball.

Sandler, who became a household sanction connected “Saturday Night Live” successful the ’90s, has been veering into much superior fare lately with movies similar “Uncut Gems” and “The Meyerowitz Stories,” though helium admittedly has “no idea” however helium manages to evoke truthful overmuch empathy for his characters.

“I conscionable effort to consciousness what I’m expected to consciousness successful a country and spell from there,” helium explained to Page Six.

As for his eclectic career, the histrion shared, “I’ve ever wanted to bash everything. I’ve been fortunate to person radical constitute worldly for maine that’s arsenic chill arsenic it gets and enactment with amazingly talented radical that enactment the movies together. And the worldly I bash with my friends means everything to us, too. I similar to enactment hard.”

While accepting the Gotham Performer Tribute Award earlier successful the evening, Sandler had the starry assemblage — which included Julianne Moore, Bowen Yang and Michelle Williams — howling implicit a speech purportedly written by his daughters.

On winning the trophy, the “Big Daddy” prima said arsenic Sadie and Sunny, “It means a batch to him seeing however astir of the awards connected his trophy support are shaped similar popcorn buckets, blimps oregon fake mini Oscars that accidental ‘Father of the Year,’ which helium sadly purchased himself portion wandering successful a self-pitying fog done the caput shops of Times Square.”