Glazer: Scribe Flashes Back to ‘That’s My Boy’ Star’s Kinky Stanford’s Misadventure

It was the best of times and the worst of times…

Stanford and Sons was probably the comedy spot here in the late 1990s and it seemed like every up and coming comedy star was on our stage at some point back then. The late 90’s launched so many multi-millionaire careers it’s hard to name them all.

One of the most notorious events there went down in 1996 with "That’s My Boy" star Adam Sandler.

A comic named Nick Swardson was doing a feature week at the Westport club. We had no idea his best pal and soon to be partner in many films was the hottest comedy star going, Adam Sandler. In fact Adam was playing a one night stand at Sandstone the same week. 

So Adam and his crew showed up at Stanford’s with no advance warning. Sandler and three of his producing/writing buds had come to a Swardson show on a weeknight I happened to be there and Adam introduced himself. He was very nice and we all sat down and talked about his newest film "Happy Gilmore" and his upcoming show at Sandstone. He told me Nick was his pal and they all had come to watch his shows. In fact, Adam even did a brief set on our stage, singing his hit, THE HANUKKAH SONG.

When word got out Adam was hanging nightly at Stanford’s it got pretty crazy.

It was common knowledge that Sandler was dating TV/film star Alicia Silverstone.

Which of course didn’t stop the guy from eyeing our hot little wait staffers. Adam had a thing for two of our cocktail babes, one was Lori King, the other I called Crazy Kari. King was my kinda gal friend and Kari had a crazy hot body. Both were blondes and both around 20 or 21. Remember, in Missouri you only have to be 19 to serve liquor.

So Adam wanted to meet them both.

Seems Kari was the one most willing. She had no boyfriend really and she and I would hang out at times.

Kari had a wicked body – just wicked – and Sandler was in lust.

They did a couple nights together and Hearne Christopher at the Star found out about it and spoke to Kari about her fun times with Sandler.

Oh boy.

"Collectibles? These days most anything will pass. In the case of comic Adam Sandler, a pair of his size 36 Polo boxer shorts fit the bill for Kari Stevens, a part-time data entry clerk for a local tire company and an on-again, off-again waitress at Stanford & Sons," it began.

Stevens told me she had no illusions about seeing Sandler again.

“I’m not depending on it. But I gave him my picture and my phone number,’ she said.’

As for the undies Stevens Sandler gave her as a souvenir, “I asked him if I could have them, and he said no, they were his lucky underwear,” she said.

But on a couple days later, Stevens asked Sandler: “ ‘So where’s my lucky shorts? ‘ And he said, ‘You can have these (instead)… ‘ I roll ’em down and they fit perfect. ”

She was telling everyone about it.

She was so proud of the fact that she’d done Sandler, and then Kari and the pair of signed boxer shorts ended up on the FRONT PAGE OF FYI in Hearne’s section which caught everyone’s eye.

"Hey isn’t he with Silverstone?" people wondered. Well, not anymore.

The story got picked up in LA and Adam and Alicia broke up shortly after that.

To be fair, it likely would have happened anyway, this just spead up the ending some. 

Naturally, I got the complaint calls from Sandler’s people. In the end it was forgotten, but comedy stars and sex seem to go hand in hand.

Adam Sander went on to become one of the most successful comedy stars and movie producers of our generation. Nick Swardson went on to a big career as well with TV shows like Pretend Time and writing movies, including "Benchwarmers" and "Malibu’s Most Wanted."

So Nick is still a Sandler guy and has made millions himself. Kari, well she went out to LA to be a star and became a porn star if there is such a thing. You can catch her in movies like "Wanda Play" or see some of her body of work online if you dig.

Today she’s back in KC, still a handful and still has the memories her time with Sandler.

Oh yeah, along with her signed boxer shorts from her nights with Pauley Shore.

By the way, Sandler gave me tickets to his show at Sandstone. He was not as big a star then so the crowd was maybe 4,000. Today it would be the Sprint Center, but with Adam’s bank account in the hundreds of millions, I guess that’s not likely.

Like I said, those CRAZY times.