What a pal! Comedian Rob Schneider showed up at the premiere of Adam Sandler’s Netflix special Love You this week with a copy of his new book, You Can Do It!, firmly in his grip. There’s no better way to support a friend’s project than hopping on his platform to promote your own stuff.

Speaking of self-promotion, Schneider used the red carpet to tell The Hollywood Reporter that he’s killing it as a comedian these days, despite recently being kicked off the stage at events ranging from a hospital fundraiser to a gathering of Republican muckety-mucks.

When people are “yelling” at him during sets, that simply means “I’m doing it right,” he boasted. “The thing about free speech is, free speech is all speech. Free speech isn’t for the nice stuff. It isn’t for the socially acceptable stuff. Free speech is the speech that challenges you.