Videos by ComicBook.com
The ones who didn’t count are the ones that have full-on roles, e.g., Bad Bunny, Haley Joel Osment, and Benny Safdie. Also, anyone who was in the first film doesn’t count as a celebrity cameo (though, thankfully, just about everybody who could come back did come back).
1) John Daly
About 10 minutes in, we meet PGA pro John Daly’s “Uncle John Daly,” who is living in the Gilmore family’s beat-up garage. He’s wearing gaudy golf khakis and asks Happy if he wants to come down and watch Love Island. A few scenes later, we see Daly give Happy a fine enough pep talk to get back into golfing (using some terrible math in the process).
Considering Daly pops up sporadically throughout the film, this one might qualify more as a role instead of a cameo, but it’s still John Daly in a Happy Gilmore movie, so we’re giving him a pass. This is also a stand-in entry for all of the other PGA pros we see when Happy goes to the club for the first time, including Nick Faldo and Jack Nicklaus.
2) Andrew Santino, Bobby Lee, & Sean Evans
About 20 minutes into the film, there’s a montage scene where Benny Safdie’s Frank Manatee goes around promoting his idea for the future of golf. In the process, we see him simultaneously ripping on golf and displaying an all-around utter lack of knowledge about the game.
We also see him go on a few well-renowned shows. First, there’s the Bad Friends podcast, hosted by comedians Andrew Santino and Bobby Lee. But the best is when he goes onto Hot Ones, with Sean Evans and a bunch of increasingly hot chicken wings.
3) Jon Lovitz
We see Jon Lovitz pop up as a fellow player on the driving range where Happy is getting his game back. Happy’s ball is so powerfully projected that it turns Lovitz’s character into dust, to which Lovitz says, “Go back to your mo-bile home!”
He later falls off the second story of that driving range, yelling out, “Damn you, Happy Gilmore!” It’s always nice to see fellow SNL vets in Sandler projects. He looks out for his own. Rob Schneider also pops up later, belting out his iconic “You can do it!” line.
4) Travis Kelce
In the scene where Happy goes to the pro club for the first time, we meet all the pros playing themselves. We’re also introduced to a waiter, played by Kansas City Chiefs tight end (and Taylor Swift boyfriend) Travis Kelce.
Jack Nicklaus orders an iced to, to which the waiter asks, “Arnold Palmer?” While he clearly means if that brand would be okay, Nicklaus clarifies that, no, he’s not Arnold Palmer, he’s Jack Nicklaus. There’s then a scene of him firing Bad Bunny’s busboy Oscar Mejias (who then gets revenge on him when he goes to his Happy Place via some honey and a bear).
5) Marcello Hernandez
Just as Sandler often incorporates SNL vets from his era of the sketch comedy show, he’s also keen to incorporate modern-day players. For instance, Marcello Hernandez.
Hernandez pops up for a second as Esteban, whom Bad Bunny’s Oscar Mejias has brought on as his caddy. Happy informs Oscar that caddies do not, in fact, have caddies of their own. Oscar asks if Esteban can play, instead, to which Happy informs them both that he cannot, as this is a pro tournament, so they don’t let people play who have just wandered onto the course. Esteban proceeds to steal a cop’s cap and run away, cackling. Esteban pops up later, too, where he’s a target for Happy and his cohorts’ golf balls (it’s also revealed he’s Oscar’s cousin).
6) Margaret Qualley, Martin Herlihy, Eric André
Early in the film, when Happy is beginning to get back into the game, he goes on a foursome on a low-level course. The trio of players he joins is all played by familiar faces.
One is Margaret Qualley of The Substance fame, the other is professional prankster Eric André, and Saturday Night Live‘s Martin Herlihy, one of the Please Don’t Destroy trio (Ben Marshall and John Higgins also pop up as spectators cheering Happy on). Happy ends up drunkenly crashing a golf cart with, as one might expect, André screaming by his side.
