Question: What actor, known for his roles in movies like The Waterboy and The Wedding Singer, founded the company Happy Madison Productions?

Context articles: The Goldbergs (season 4)
Anger Management (film)
Happy Madison Productions
Adam Sandler
Allen Covert
The Shortcut
Grown Ups 2
Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star
The Goldbergs (season 2)
The Gong Show with Dave Attell

The fourth season of the American television comedy series "The Goldbergs" premiered on ABC on September 21, 2016.
 The season was produced by Adam F. Goldberg Productions, Happy Madison Productions, and Sony Pictures Television, and the executive producers are Adam F. Goldberg, Doug Robinson, and Seth Gordon.
 The season contains 24 half-hour episodes.
 The season concluded on May 17, 2017.
Anger Management is a 2003 American slapstick comedy film directed by Peter Segal, written by David S. Dorfman, and starring Adam Sandler, Jack Nicholson, and Marisa Tomei.
 It was produced by Revolution Studios in association with Sandler's production company Happy Madison Productions and was distributed by Columbia Pictures.
Happy Madison Productions is an American film and television production company founded in 1996 by Adam Sandler which is best known for its comedy films.
 Happy Madison takes its name from the films "Happy Gilmore" and "Billy Madison", two box office successes starring Sandler himself, both produced by Robert Simonds.
 The elderly man depicted in the logo is Sandler's late father, Stanley.
Adam Richard Sandler (born September 9, 1966) is an American actor, comedian, screenwriter, film producer, and musician.
 After becoming a "Saturday Night Live" cast member, Sandler went on to star in many Hollywood feature films that combined have grossed over $2 billion at the box office.
 He is best known for his comedic roles, such as in the films "Billy Madison" (1995), the sports comedies "Happy Gilmore" (1996) and "The Waterboy" (1998), the romantic comedy "The Wedding Singer" (1998), "Big Daddy" (1999), and "Mr. Deeds" (2002), and voicing Dracula in "Hotel Transylvania" (2012) and "Hotel Transylvania 2" (2015).
 Several of his movies, most notably the widely panned "Jack and Jill", have gained harsh criticism, culminating in a shared second place in the number of Raspberry Awards (3) and Raspberry Award Nominations (11), in both cases second only to Sylvester Stallone.
 He has ventured into more dramatic territory with his roles in "Punch-Drunk Love" (2002), "Spanglish" (2004), "Reign Over Me" (2007), "Funny People" (2009) and "The Meyerowitz Stories" (2017).
Allen Stephen Covert (born October 13, 1964) is an American comedian, actor, writer, and producer.
 Best known for his starring role in the 2006 comedy film "Grandma's Boy", he is also a frequent collaborator with actor and friend Adam Sandler with prominent roles in such films as "Happy Gilmore" (1996), "The Wedding Singer" (1997), "Big Daddy" (1999), "Little Nicky" (2000), "Mr. Deeds" (2002), "Anger Management" (2003), "50 First Dates" (2004), and the Happy Madison Productions film "Strange Wilderness" (2008).
The Shortcut is a 2009 American horror film directed by Nicholaus Goossen.
 The film stars Andrew Seeley, Shannon Woodward, Dave Franco and Katrina Bowden.
 Adam Sandler's production company, Happy Madison Productions (under the name Scary Madison Productions) made it and Sandler served as an executive producer.
 The film was released direct-to-DVD on September 29, 2009 in the United States.
Grown Ups 2 is a 2013 American comedy film directed by Dennis Dugan and co-produced by Adam Sandler, who also starred in the film.
 It is the sequel to the 2010 film "Grown Ups".
 The film co-stars Kevin James, Chris Rock, David Spade, Nick Swardson, and Salma Hayek.
 The film is produced by Adam Sandler's production company Happy Madison Productions and distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing.
 The film was released on July 12, 2013.
 The film grossed roughly $247 million on an $80 million budget.
 Like the first film, it was widely panned by critics.
 It was nominated for nine Razzies at the 2014 Golden Raspberry Awards.
Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star is a 2011 American comedy film produced by Happy Madison Productions and distributed by Columbia Pictures.
 Adam Sandler, Allen Covert, and Nick Swardson (as the film's lead actor) co-wrote the script and Tom Brady directed.
 It was released on September 9, 2011.
 It was a disastrous box office bomb and was overwhelmingly panned by film critics, earning a 0% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
 It was nominated for six Razzies, including the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Picture, but lost to the film "Jack and Jill", another film from Happy Madison Productions.
 Many have now considered the film to be one of the worst ever made.
The second season of the American television comedy series The Goldbergs premiered on ABC on September 24, 2014.
 The season was produced by Adam F. Goldberg Productions, Happy Madison Productions, and Sony Pictures Television, and the executive producers are Adam F. Goldberg, Doug Robinson, and Seth Gordon.
The Gong Show with Dave Attell was a revival of the 1970s Chuck Barris comedy game show called "The Gong Show", hosted by comedian Dave Attell.
 The show premiered on July 17, 2008.
 It was produced by Adam Sandler's production company Happy Madison Productions and Sony Pictures Television.