(If you don’t watch The Wire, you won’t get any of this.)
Has there ever, in history, been a more improbable comedy team than Chris and Snoop?
When I did my list of favorite characters, I didn’t add them because…well, I hate them and Marlo just a wee bit less than I hate Stringer Bell. And I could only hate Stringer Bell more if he were real.
(And they put Stringer Bell on the cover of Essence, meaning I better not never see another “brothers ain’t shit” article, if you’re gonna put that reprehensible bamma on the cover…and yes, I know he’s not real, OK?)
Anyway, they drop some of the funniest lines in Season 4.
- “Why ain’t in your repertoire no more, nigga.” –Chris
- “Here we lay a couple New York boys, who came too far south for they own fuckin good. Where your Yankee pride at now, bitches?” –Snoop
- Everything associated with the pop quiz to see if the dealers were from New York
- Snoop’s trip, to start the season, to the home improvement store to buy the nailgun
- “Yeah, me too.” –Snoop, to Bunk
And here’s the thing…I don’t believe either character, at any point, told a joke. It’s all hilarious stuff, but no people have ever been so funny without ever really trying to do so.
So yeah, name a more unlikely comedy team. I dare you.
6 Comments
by Diallo
“And we will be brief with you mu’fuckas. I think you know.” Snoop
by Andre
McCain and Palin were pretty funny (to laugh at not with) but unintentionally.
Snoop is like the Lyndie England of the urban criminal drugs scene. I just wished Michael had told her the truth about how she looked before he pulled the trigger.
by LeftCoastVic
“Hey Michael, how my hair look?” Snoop
by Jamaal
Ain’t no reason to dog Michael out for tellin Snoop she looked good before he put a bullet through her brain. He’s a gentleman like that.
On that, though, I absolutely love the Home Depot scene. Especially when she gives him like a 200 hundred dollar tip and when he protests she tells him,”Nah, homie, you earned that. You bumped this like a motherfucker.” Classic television.
by LeftCoastVic
Not dogging on Michael. Its just that from a dark comedy standpoint, the irony of the moment was pretty funny.
by Andre
Jamaaaal, I wasn’t dogging Michael. I didn’t hate Snoop, Chris or even Marlo until they started torturing a blind man.