Jennifer Aniston and Drew Barrymore were on hand to support their co-star (Picture: Washington Post/Getty)
Jennifer Aniston and Drew Barrymore have supported their rom-com on-screen partner Adam Sandler after he was awarded the Mark Twain Prize.
The US comedian and actor, 56, who starred in Just Go With It alongside Aniston and 50 First Dates with Barrymore, accepted the award in Washington D.C.
Aniston, 54, also appeared in the 2019 crime comedy Murder Mystery with Sandler, and the pair will be reprising their roles for its sequel later this year.
Barrymore, 48, most famously featured alongside Sandler in 1998 romantic comedy The Wedding Singer, and also in 2014 comedy Blended.
The Mark Twain Prize, the 24th of its kind, was given to him for services to American humour – he accepted the award with his wife, and fellow actor, Jackie.
Since 1998, the prize has been awarded to comics who have ‘impacted society in ways similar to Twain’, a famous author and humourist who died in 1910.
Adam Sandler and his wife Jackie accepted the award in Washington DC (Picture: Taylor Hill/Wire)
Accepting the award at the US capital’s Kennedy Center, Sandler said: ‘What a nice night! I never expected anything like this. Nobody did.’
He continued: ‘But it’s not something we thought of in our life… but the fact that it happened and I get to say this for the rest of my life.’
Barrymore, speaking after the Happy Gilmore star was given the award, said: ‘Adam has changed me and the world so much with his comedy.’
Previous winners of the award include comedian Richard Pryor, who was given the first award, and Whoopi Goldberg, who claimed the prize in 2001.
Over the rest of the 2000s, the award was given to actor and comedian Steve Martin, filmmaker and comic Billy Crystal, and the late George Carlin.
Aniston and Sandler played a pretend married couple in Just Go With It (Picture: Sony Pictures)
It was a trip back to 1985 for Barrymore and Sandler in The Wedding Singer (Picture: New Line Cinema)
In recent years, other recipients included: Mean Girls writer Tina Fey, talkshow host David Letterman, and, in 2019, Dave Chappelle.
Earlier this month, Sandler was being interviewed by This Morning when Aniston, being quizzed alongside him, accidentally committed an on-air faux pas.
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When asked what life was like on set with the Uncut Gems actor, she described it as ‘s***s and giggles’ – perhaps not the best choice of words for mid-morning.
Amid laughter from Holly Willoughby and Phil Schofield, Aniston swiftly apologised and put her hand over her mouth.
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All three actors have appeared on screen together.
