From 1991 until 1995, comedians Chris Farley and Adam Sandler had the audience of Saturday Night Live in stitches. In the early ’90s, the team looked unstoppable, from battling over the Zagat’s restaurant guide as Bev and Hank to singing about a lunch lady and a lovestruck sloppy joe. That is, until they were fired from SNL in the summer of 1995.

On Howard Stern’s show The Howard Stern Show, the comic spoke up on what it was like to get dismissed from such a renowned show so early in his career.

“I might have been like that 15 years ago if I came on and did well,” Sandler told Howard Stern. “I’m f— old enough now. I realize what Saturday Night Live did for me.”

“But the firing — let’s not downplay this,” said Stern. “At the time, I was hurt because I didn’t know what else I was gonna do,” replied Sandler. “And I know it wasn’t Lorne’s decision. The NBC head dude, I know he didn’t like our gang, me and Farley.”

Sandler, who was on SNL for five years, claimed he may not have quit if he hadn’t been fired.

“I’m not good at saying goodbye. They had to get rid of me sometime,” he joked, before admitting that it “put a little lump in my throat.”

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He continued: “I was probably sad into covering up the sadness with being mad and saying ‘f–k you blah, blah, blah,'” the Uncut Gems star recalled. “But I remember when I saw Farley and he said, ‘Me, too, they don’t want me either.’ We were both like ‘f–k this s–t.’ We got mad together, pretended we weren’t sad, pretended this was for the best.”

Sandler claims he was dismissed after an unusual chat with his boss.

“He was talking to me, and I said ‘Yeah, next year on the show, blah blah blah.’ And he was like, ‘Maybe you don’t go back next year.’ And I was like ‘I don’t know man. I still got a few more things.’ He’s like ‘Yeah, but you did it already.’ I was like ‘I did, but you know…I’ll think about it,’ and he was like ‘I think you thought about it.’”

Along with a touching musical tribute to Farley during his opening monologue in May, Sandler also performed a humorous song called “I Was Fired” to mock his previous job.

“I was fired,” he sang. “I was fired, so sad to tell. Well I never saw it coming. I got fired from SNL. Between two seasons I heard a nasty rumor that I was getting the sack. I tried to call Lorne Michaels, but he never called me back.”

Years before Howard asked the actor about his departure from Saturday Night Live, the Daily Beast quizzed Adam about what transpired behind the scenes.

In 2014, the comic told the site, “We kind of quit at the same time as being fired. It was the end of the run for us. The fact that me and him got fired? Who knows. We were on it for a few years, had our run, and everything happens for a reason. We kind of understood because we did our thing. It hurt a lot at the time because we were young and didn’t know where we were going, but it all worked out.”