Adam Sandler is Happy, and so is The Cosmopolitan

Fedor Banuchi saw Happy Gilmore.

Then he saw “Happy Gilmore.”

“When you think of Happy Gilmore, that really is his personality,” says Banuchi, vice president of entertainment at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas. “It was a trip, to be honest. I went home and put on the ‘Happy Gilmore’ movie and it was the same guy.”

The guy is, of course, Adam Sandler, star of that film as well as other box office-hits including “Just Go With It,” “Bedtime Stories” and “Grown Ups.” Banuchi just booked the “Saturday Night Live” alum for three dates at the Chelsea on Nov. 10, Nov. 17 and Jan. 27.

“When you go down the list of comedians, the stars, he’s near the top,” Banuchi says. “People love him. Just walking around the property, it was obvious that everybody recognizes him and everybody loves him.”

Sandler’s show is expected to be a comedy-music mash-up, with a backing band. He most recently headlined the Joint at the Hard Rock Hotel Dec. 2-3 on the “Here Comes The Funny” tour, joined by ex-“SNL” cast members Norm Macdonald, Rob Schneider and Tim Meadows.

Banuchi says Sandler is keeping open the option of being joined by fellow comic friends. Maybe.

What is certain is that these three announced dates are just the start. Sandler is planning as many as 10 Las Vegas shows in 2018, working around his bustling film schedule. Sandler is currently working with Chris Rock on the original Netflix comedy “The Week Of,” set to premiere next year.

“He’s very interested in the entire hotel, far more than any artist I’ve worked with,” Banuchi says. “It’s going to be great to have him around.” Just remember to yell, “Fore!”

Rockin’ return for Styx, Felder

Oh, mama, I’m in fear for my life from the long arm of the law …

Not a cry for help. Merely the opening line of “Renegade,” from the classic-rock band Styx. Tommy Shaw, James “JY” Young and the current lineup of Styx will join ex-Eagles vet Don Felder for five shows running Jan. 26, 27, 31 and Feb. 2-3 at Venetian Theater. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday.

As we learned during the first run of “Renegades In The Fast Lane,” the E chord is vital to rock guitar artistry. “With the E chord, you can play a lot of popular rock ’n’ roll,” Felder said in January. “By moving that chord around, you can play just about any song.” Check out his fretwork in January, and you’ll see a guitarist playing of his own E-chord.

Ellen’s capper

In her recent sweep of the Strip, Ellen DeGeneres visited Jennifer Lopez’s show Friday night at Axis at Planet Hollywood. Over the past couple weeks, DeGeneres has hit “Magic Mike Live” at Hard Rock Hotel with Channing Tatum and invited “Absinthe” skaters Billy and Emily England to perform on her syndicated talk show.

Backstage at Axis, DeGeneres donned a replica of the now-infamous jade-green Versace gown Lopez wore to the 2000 Grammy Awards . She then offered to perform as J.Lo’s understudy. Informed that’s not how Vegas residencies work, DeGeneres changed into a black shirt and slacks.

She later said to J.Lo, “Let me know if you ever change your mind.”

In introducing the clip Monday, DeGeneres mentioned that she did things in Las Vegas she would never do. “I had a donut, and I also visited Topgolf . Everything in Vegas is topless, except Topgolf, and I got a hole in one — with the donut, I mean. Not at Topgolf.”

Appearing act

Legendary illusionist David Copperfield hit the Strip on three consecutive nights as he celebrated his 61st birthday, which was Saturday. He was at Lopez’s show on Friday (same night as DeGeneres, as it happens), at “Love” at the Mirage on Saturday, and at Mike Tyson’s “Undisputed Truth: Round 2” at Brad Garrett’s Comedy Club on Sunday.

Copperfield remains the hot-selling headliner in his eponymous theater at MGM Grand, where he typically fills the place for 15 shows a week.

The Gaga factor

Not to be forgotten amid Lady Gaga’s canceled European tour dates is “The Bud Light Dive Bar Tour” that was to stop in Las Vegas July 13. That show, which was reportedly going to be at the Space on 7th, was canceled as word spread about its details.

Word was that the show would be rescheduled later in the summer, possibly when Gaga’s “Joanne” tour hit T-Mobile Arena on Aug. 11, but it never happened.Tour promoter Live Nation announced that the dates running from Thursday in Barcelona, Spain through Oct. 28 in Cologne, Germany have been called off until 2018. The pop-up show is to be rescheduled after that, if ever.

John Katsilometes’ column runs daily in the A section. Contact him at jkatsilometes@reviewjournal.com. Follow @johnnykats on Twitter, @JohnnyKats1 on Instagram.