(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.