I just put a bullet in another episode of The Daily Show — this one with guest Adam Sandler, from Thursday, July 19, in support of I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry — and I found it telling that Sandler and Jon Stewart were able to avoid talking about that desperately unfunny trainwreck for almost the entirety of their six-minute chat.

I’ve talked before about how the special evasiveness involved in selling a crappy movie is its own art, really, and Sandler showcased some nice moves on The Daily Show, talking in relaxed and relatively amusing fashion for a good four minutes about the “rabbinical” goatee he’s grown for a film he’s currently shooting, which I assume to be You Don’t Mess with the Zohan, about a Mossad agent who fakes his own death to relocate to New York City as a hairstylist. Sandler was relaxed, much more so than on other talk shows; it certainly helped that he and Stewart have a friendly rapport dating back to Big Daddy. Strangely, they did show a clip of the movie with Sandler and costar Kevin James, instead of just Jessica Biel prancing about in her bra and underwear, which is the only real value that Chuck & Larry holds.