Why is SNL alum screaming for ice cream on South Jersey beach?
Why is an SNL alum making waves on your FYP?
Cheri Oteri, the diminutive funnywoman who made Gen X teens and 20s roar with laughter every Saturday night in the late 90s, has spent the summer enjoying the Jersey Shore life with self-deprecation and silliness in a series of TikTok videos.
Originally from Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, Oteri was a cast member of “Saturday Night Live” from 1995 through 2000. And like any reasonable person from the ‘burbs, the 60-year-old has a fondness for South Jersey’s beaches.
Her TikTok videos have collected hundreds of thousands of views.
In a clip posted Sept. 1, she asked a popular Longport restaurant to have a “strong, young guy” carry her from her car into the dining room.
Steve and Cookies’ staff obliged. Her video, with 152,000 page views, shows two men basket-carrying the comedienne into a packed lobby.
Oteri’s TikTok also pokes fun at the infamously long wait list to dine at Steve and Cookies, with her telling a hostess she booked the dinner in 2020. That was a callback to a TikTok from June in which she learned there were no reservations available and then suggested she might find a table if another diner had a heart attack.
But Oteri’s zings at summer beach life aren’t restrained to the Downbeach towns.
On Monday, she pedaled a boat to a Hammonton-based oral surgeon’s lakefront home and screamed out a request for an appointment.
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But in a wild, now-viral, 24-second TikTok from Sept. 2, Oteri’s on the beach in Sea Isle City when she spots the Fudgy Wudgy man hawking ice cream from a push cart.
Nearly 2 million people have watched as Oteri lets out an ear-piercing “FUDGY WUDGY!” worthy of a late-night sketch bit. A few days later, she reunites with the shirtless ice cream dude and tells him how the Fudgy Wudgy men of her youth were much different.
Jerry Haught is the Regional News Director for South Jersey and Bucks County. Subscribe to stay informed.
This article originally appeared on Cherry Hill Courier-Post: Cheri Oteri, Saturday Night Live alum, pokes fun at SJ beach life
