David Spade's sarcastic sense of humor did not always endear him to members of his immediate family. "I was playing football with my dad," Spade once recalled. "He told me to go out for a pass. He yelled, 'Go deeper! Deeper!' Then he jumped in his dune buggy and drove away."

[Spade's step-father came home one day "a little tipsy" and found young Spade and his brothers fumbling with tennis rackets, trying to get an escaped pet rattlesnake into a milk jug. (He said, "I'll show you how to get a rattlesnake into a milk jug," grabbed the snake, was promptly bitten, and "ballooned up like the Michelin Man.")]