Chris Christie Appears on Saturday Night Live And Fits In Perfectly With The Cast (That Is, He's Not Funny)

When I heard Christie was going to be on SNL, I had my own quickie idea for a sketch. Christie plays a salesman selling something silly -- let's say, he sells Crocs. He suggests a type of Crocs to a potential customer -- let's say Blue Plastic lined with Fur -- and the customer balks. At this point someone hands him a microphone and he begins giving a version of one of his YouTube dressing-downs -- playing to the audience of ten other people in the Crocs department -- explaining how our future demands we wear Blue Fur-Lined Crocs and further explaining that the reluctant customer is being taken in by other shoe salesmen who tell her a pack of pretty lies about footwear not having to be blue, plastic, or lined with fur.

After making the sale, he puts down the microphone, handing it off to a younger assistant Crocs salesman, then tries with the next customer, again being handed the microphone. And so on for three customers, with escalating barbs from Christie, maybe one person talks back and then he really gives it to them (suggesting the reluctant customer might be racist).

Anyway, instead, he makes a few jokes about how New Jerseyans are rude and impatient. Several weak jokes are just designed as flattery -- he's wearing the fleece so often, of course, because he's workin' so hard.

posted by Ace at 11:18 AM

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