{"id":7800,"date":"2017-10-20T00:08:24","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T00:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com?p=2828114&amp;preview_id=2828114"},"modified":"2017-10-20T00:08:24","modified_gmt":"2017-10-20T00:08:24","slug":"martha-stewarts-transformation-from-home-guru-to-snoops-weed-joke-homie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/martha-stewarts-transformation-from-home-guru-to-snoops-weed-joke-homie\/","title":{"rendered":"Martha Stewart\u2019s transformation from home guru to Snoop\u2019s weed-joke homie"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/martha-stewarts-transformation-from-home-guru-to-snoops-weed-joke-homie\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"media_block\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"large-10 large-centered small-12 columns\">\n<div class=\"entry-meta-date\">Published: Oct 19, 2017, 3:03 pm \u2022 Updated: Oct 19, 2017, 3:03 pm<span class=\"single-comments-link\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"byline\">By <strong>Maura Judkis<\/strong>, <em> The Washington Post<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Here are some of the things Martha Stewart has done on her new show with Snoop Dogg: She has worn a blinged-out cheese grater on a chain around her neck. She has drunk out of what can only be described as a pimp cup. She has taste-tested a stoner recipe for a pizza omelet. She has name-dropped Escoffier. She has not flinched when Rick Ross said to her audience, \u201cI wanna make some noise for Martha because baby got back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When did Martha Stewart go from being America\u2019s most earnest homemaker, ready at a moment\u2019s notice to spray-paint silk flowers and shape them into elaborate wreaths, to being America\u2019s coolest grandma, who makes weed jokes and hangs out with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2016\/02\/05\/wiz-khalifa-riverrock-marijuana-colorado\/47732\/\">Wiz Khalifa<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>After she went to prison, of course, but not right after. The cultivation of New Martha, of Hip-Hop Martha, of Martha the Queen of Dank Memes, took time. And it has culminated in \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vh1.com\/shows\/martha-snoops-potluck-dinner-party\">Martha and Snoop\u2019s Potluck Dinner Party<\/a>,\u201d her cooking-show-meets-stoner-buddy-comedy that enters its second season Monday on VH1.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m a very strait-laced person,\u201d Martha told The Washington Post. \u201cI don\u2019t smoke, I hardly drink. It\u2019s kind of an odd combination right from the get-go.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Respectfully: Is Martha all that strait-laced anymore?<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the perception that she is strait-laced that makes it funny just hearing her say the names of her guests, often hip-hop artists: \u201cWe had Lil Yachty. Do you know him?\u201d This is, after all, the same woman who wrote an extensive blog post about bathing her donkeys: Billie, Rufus and Clive. It\u2019s the same woman who, in a roast of Justin Bieber, delivered a withering monologue calling comedian Natasha Leggero \u201cthe dirtiest used-up ho I have ever seen,\u201d and gave Bieber tips for when he \u201cinevitably\u201d goes to prison. If you ever slept on a set of Martha Stewart floral print sheets, you\u2019d be surprised to hear her joke about them, which was: 1. unprintable, and 2. directed toward the rapper Ludacris.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"figure wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/martha-stewarts-transformation-from-home-guru-to-snoops-weed-joke-homie.jpg\" alt=\"Martha Stewart and Snoop Dogg BFFs\" width=\"1000\" height=\"620\" class=\"size-full wp-image-90445\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Snoop Dogg and Martha Stewart \u201care genuinely friends,\u201d according to producer SallyAnn Salsano. (Provided by VH1-Viacom International Inc.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Her show with Snoop is a very particular cultural exchange between two people of seemingly disparate backgrounds, which is a thing America could use more of these days, frankly. Martha tries on a grill, shotguns a beer and glugs out of a 40-ounce bottle of malt liquor this season. Snoop, meanwhile, has learned about lobster thermidor and croquembouche.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe\u2019s taught me how to \u2026 have better food etiquette, how to be more professional in the kitchen,\u201d Snoop said. \u201cI showed her a few things, the ghetto way of doing things,\u201d like his method for making bacon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve learned a lot about music from Snoop and our guests,\u201d Martha said. \u201cHe\u2019s extremely knowledgeable, he\u2019s also very amusing. He\u2019s really laid back,\u201d she said, quoting one of his songs. She genuinely likes rap: \u201cEver since I saw \u20188 Mile.\u2019 It started with Eminem \u2026 I like that kind of poetry.\u201d And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2015\/04\/19\/denver-420-rally-2015-civic-center\/33684\/\">Rick Ross<\/a>: \u201cWe\u2019re email pals.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>\u201cThese guys are genuinely friends\u201d<\/h3>\n<p>Snoop is becoming Martha, and Martha is becoming Snoop, and it\u2019s been happening for years, before our very eyes. He first appeared on her show in 2008, putting cognac in his mashed potatoes, teaching her the phrase \u201cfo shizzle.\u201d A year later, they made brownies with green sprinkles and a wink and a nod, because those green sprinkles stood for an altogether different green substance. Then a Reddit Q&amp;A in which Martha said Snoop was a person she would like to get to know better, and then the Bieber roast. After that, SallyAnn Salsano, who also produced \u201cThe Jersey Shore,\u201d realized that they would be the perfect odd couple for a cooking show.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese guys are genuinely friends, and that\u2019s why I think it works so well on screen,\u201d Salsano said. \u201cTheir relationship is real.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2017\/02\/06\/snoop-dogg-martha-stewart-super-bowl-ads\/73106\/\">Snoop Dogg, Martha Stewart dish out weed puns aplenty in Super Bowl ad<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Some of the show\u2019s best comedy comes from how Snoop and Martha play off each other when she says something contrary to type or he eats something delicious. Snoop will look at her and say, \u201cMartha,\u201d amused and awed. There is recipe instruction, but it\u2019s not really about that. The format is basically: Snoop and Martha each make dishes according to a (usually stoner-friendly) theme, like tacos or grilled cheese, and invite celebrity guests over to hang out. This season will feature Laverne Cox, RuPaul, T-Pain, Ty Dolla $ign and P. Diddy, among others.<\/p>\n<p>Snoop is, unsurprisingly, high for every episode.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe comes onto the set pretty high, and leaves pretty high,\u201d said Martha, laughing, but he\u2019s \u201cnot incompetent or incoherent at all. That\u2019s the way he lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSometimes I may smoke one blunt, sometimes I may smoke 100 blunts,\u201d Snoop said. \u201cIt depends on what\u2019s necessary for me to do what I\u2019m doing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And then he has some cocktails, because many episodes kick off with Martha demonstrating a drink recipe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery episode I was drunk. Every one,\u201d Snoop said. \u201cThe lines become that much more easier, the flow becomes natural. It\u2019s more relaxing. You\u2019re not doing a job, you\u2019re just having fun.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Martha is having fun, too. She seems cannily aware of her role as the comedic straight man, the person who can send Jamie Foxx into peals of laughter by sucking on a helium balloon, as she does during season two\u2019s \u201cBirthday Party\u201d episode, while misquoting Migos\u2019s \u201cBad and Boujee\u201d: \u201cRain drop. Drop top. Smoking on kush in hot box.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Martha was once so earnest that her daughter, Alexis, hosted a show poking loving fun of her mother. Ana Gasteyer\u2019s \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d impressions of her were of a woman with a quiet rage within. People didn\u2019t know Martha was funny \u2013 much less that she could go toe-to-toe with some of the filthiest comedians. It\u2019s been in her all along, said Kim Miller-Olko, senior vice president of television and video for Sequential Brands Group, one of the show\u2019s producers.<\/p>\n<p>While \u201cIt\u2019s not like she\u2019s a truck driver,\u201d the Bieber roast \u201cwas who she is when you\u2019re in the car with her. That sense of humor is very much her,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<h3>Finding common ground in home cooking<\/h3>\n<p>Martha wouldn\u2019t describe her sense of humor as dirty.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy business partners wouldn\u2019t like that description of me. I like humor, I like all kinds of humor, I don\u2019t watch horror movies, though, and I don\u2019t watch porn. I don\u2019t watch any bad stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(If you\u2019re surprised to hear prim, proper Martha Stewart even use the word \u201cporn\u201d in an interview, know this: Martha knows what sexting is, and she\u2019s done it, she told Andy Cohen).<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s all so funny that a cynical person might wonder if this is a calculated effort to expand her brand among millennials. After she published an essay about how much she loves drones, the Daily Dot wrote that Martha was \u201ctrolling the internet into oblivion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe internet\u2019s oblivion or my oblivion?\u201d asked Martha, when I read that line to her. \u201cI can\u2019t imagine what that means.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrolling means you\u2019re fishing, it means you\u2019re dragging a line \u2026 so it doesn\u2019t really make any sense, that statement, does it? Does it to you?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I tried to explain that the internet has a different definition of trolling, and that in this context, the word meant being cheekily provocative. And I wondered: Was Martha trolling me?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, I\u2019m doing a fun show,\u201d she said. \u201cWe\u2019re having interesting guests, we\u2019re doing all sorts of great, I would say funny things. We\u2019re trying to give people a little bit of information and a lot of enjoyment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For all their odd couple dynamic, Martha and Snoop aren\u2019t so different. They\u2019re both lifestyle gurus \u2013 Snoop has a cannabis company with artful packaging, a digital media company and a series of apps. They\u2019re both rich people who live in fancy homes, attended to by staff. When they appeared on \u201c$100,000 Pyramid,\u201d Martha grilled Snoop on the intricacies of interior design: wainscoting, sconces, credenzas. He answered every question correctly.<\/p>\n<p>At one point a meme went around, a picture of Snoop and Martha from the holiday brownie episode of her show, clad in a three-piece suit and a holiday sweater, respectively. The caption reads: \u201cBe mindful of stereotypes! Only one of them is a convicted felon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Except it\u2019s not true: Snoop, too, is a felon, having been convicted of drug possession and possession for sale in 1990.<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s the spirit behind that meme that is the force of the show: Anyone can find common ground over a good meal, even two people who seem so different.<\/p>\n<h3>\u201cNo baloney sandwiches\u201d in Snoop\u2019s upcoming cookbook<\/h3>\n<p>Snoop is writing his own cookbook, one more thing he\u2019ll have in common with Martha. It will feature recipes from the show.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople were inquiring about those dishes, and how can we do it. I was like, you know, (expletive) it, I\u2019m gonna do a cookbook.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s going to be refined: \u201cI didn\u2019t put no baloney sandwiches in there. That might be in my second book. That might come with the hood recipes in there too,\u201d he said. \u201cI wanted \u2026 (people) to know that it was good and coming from a cooking perspective, and not just me just doing it to be doing it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And it won\u2019t be about cooking with cannabis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m gonna be on cannabis while I\u2019m cooking, but ain\u2019t no need to put it in the food.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Martha says she doesn\u2019t consume cannabis, though she says she has gotten a contact high from being around Snoop. He has gifted her with marijuana seeds, and she hasn\u2019t yet planted them, but is considering doing so at her Maine household (\u201cI need to find out if I need a license.\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>Even though it would seem the ultimate culmination of both personal brands, Snoop and Martha have no plans to launch the most logical merchandising spinoff of their show: a line of gourmet cannabis edibles.<\/p>\n<p>New Martha makes weed jokes. Old Martha wants to grow something else.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d rather do a line of my own hydrangeas or my own tulip bulbs,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .row --> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><\/div>\n<p>The cultivation of New Martha Stewart, of Hip-Hop Martha, of Martha the Queen of Dank Memes, has culminated in &#8216;Martha and Snoop&#8217;s Potluck Dinner Party,&#8217; with Season 2 set to debut on VH1. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7290,2435,6957,6813,77,5667,6958,9,5019,5921,1,3,5271,61,1736],"tags":[7292,2436,6960,6818,2655,5673,6961,5022,5936,5277],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7800"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}