Fo Shizzle! It’s the Snoop and Martha Show

Yes, Martha Stewart and Snoop Dogg will be cohosting a weekly cooking show for VH1.

“Martha & Snoop’s Dinner Party” is not the fever dream of The Onion or any other parody site. It’s real. And you really shouldn’t find its existence all that surprising.

“My home girl Martha and I have a special bond that goes back.”

Some mainstream media sites are excited to report this news as an incredibly unlikely pairing of two entirely different personalities. It writes itself: She’s a septuagenarian best known for cookbooks and TV shows for homemakers. He’s a popular “gangsta” rapper best known for incessantly promoting and partaking in weed.

Talk about a wacky duo, right?

If this were still 1997, sure. Back then, you’d never put Snoop (real name: Calvin Broadus Jr.) and Stewart in the same sentence. Snoop was one of the hottest performers in West Coast hip-hop. Stewart was the queen of the kitchen, having just launched Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, an umbrella for her television, publishing, and merchandising ventures.

But in the intervening two decades, a lot has changed.

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Snoop still records music, but he’s become a household name for all demographics through appearances on both reality and scripted shows; he even appeared on three episodes of the soap opera “One Life to Live.” The only thing less “gangsta” would be if Ice-T, the rapper who recorded a metal song titled “Cop Killer,” would go on to play a cop for 16 seasons of “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.” (Oh, wait. That actually happened.)

Stewart, meanwhile, has parodied her persona in the Adam Sandler comedy “Pixels” and the new film “Bad Moms.” She has also made several TV appearances, including Comedy Central’s Justin Bieber roast, which also featured Snoop. And then there’s the little matter of Stewart’s time behind bars, something she and her cohost have in common.

[lz_infobox]Although he’s largely kept his nose clean in recent years, Snoop — who has claimed he was a professional pimp in the early 2000s — was jailed for a variety of drug convictions in his early life, and was acquitted on a murder charge in 1996. Stewart served almost five months in federal prison in 2004-05 following several felony convictions related to selling all her shares in ImClone Systems stock a few years earlier. She served five subsequent months of house arrest, replete with an electronic monitoring anklet that presumably didn’t restrict her from making spectacular soufflés and salads.[/lz_infobox]

So this is still an odd couple — but it’s not “Donald and Hillary Flip Houses” odd. And it’s safe to assume “Martha & Snoop’s Dinner Party” won’t include the formerly detained duo trading tips on how to make the tastiest pruno (makeshift prison wine) or how to best accessorize an orange jumpsuit. They’re both grandparents, after all.

But if that’s off the table, it’s unclear what’s left for these two to talk about on VH1, home of “Dating Naked.” The VH1 press release announcing the show is about as illuminating as you’d expect a VH1 press release to be.

It has the requisite Snoop quote: “My home girl Martha and I have a special bond that goes back. We’re gonna be cooking, drinking, and having a good time with our exclusive friends. Can’t wait for you to see how we roll together!”

It has the requisite Stewart quote: “At our dinner party, we will exemplify America’s fascination with food, entertaining and celebrity. [The show] will redesign the traditional food competition shows in a new, different and very funny way… I can’t wait to get Snoop in the kitchen!”

Okay, so at least there’s one clue in there: Apparently it’s some kind of food competition show. So maybe it’s “Chopped” but with celebrities cooking every week — and far fewer tear-jerking stories about each contestant’s personal challenges. (Which makes for an amazing drinking game, BTW.)

“I can’t wait to get Snoop in the kitchen!”

At least that’s a bit of a change-up for VH1, which has spent most of the past decade giving viewers an intimate window into the lives of celebrities who really stretch the perception of “celebrity.”

From “K.Michelle: My Life” and “Candidly Nicole” to “Stevie J & Joseline Go Hollywood” and “Family Therapy with Dr. Jenn,” VH1 productions are not so much “who’s who” as they are “Who?” and “Who?”

Different as they may be, Snoop and Stewart won’t come close to representing the strangest pairing in the history of VH1. This is the network that aired “Strange Love,” which depicted the brief, turbulent relationship of diminutive rapper Flavor Flav and Amazonian former supermodel Brigitte Nielsen.

Given VH1’s interpretation of “celebrity,” one can’t help but wonder just how much star power we can expect on “Martha & Snoop’s Dinner Party.” Then again, with a concept like this, weirder is probably better.

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And what will be on the menu? Will Stewart teach Snoop quick meals to cure the munchies? Will Snoop hook up Stewart with his favorite recipes for edibles? Would this show last even a dozen episodes on any network other than VH1? (“Dating Naked” has somehow managed three seasons to date.)

To find out, we’ll have to wait until — actually, that’s not clear either. The press release just says the show will premiere in “Fall 2016,” and considering we’re two weeks into August, the clock’s ticking. Not that we’re figuring the production time frame will rival “Game of Thrones” or even a local auto dealership commercial.

Still, it might be unfair to judge “Martha & Snoop’s Dinner Party” prematurely. It could be the best VH1 show ever — which would be clearing a bar that’s laying on the ground, but it’s something. And until the inevitable announcement of “Landscaping Naked with James Franco & Grumpy Cat,” we’ll take whatever guilty pleasures we get.