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Chris and Lachel: Altar Falter
The setup
The premise
Here’s the bit.
Chris and Lachel are ready to marry, but Chris keeps finding ways to avoid the words that make it official. Their increasingly exasperated pastor tries reassurance, repetition and a more persuasive incentive, only to discover that the bride has her own questions about the ceremony.
The funny people
Meet the cast. 3
Say it with us
Highly quotable.
Bam, we ain't.
What's the difference between having and holding?
Just be man and wife, you are pronounced.
Behind the scenes
The people who made it.

Robin Thede
Writer
Script
Automatically generated script; wording may contain errors. Speaker labels are inferred.
- 00:02
Pastor
Do you, Chris, take Lachelle to be your lawfully wedded wife?
- 00:07
Chris
Do I?
- 00:11
Pastor ?
Okay. Okay, very cute. The answer, son, is I do.
- 00:15
Chris
For sure. Look at her.
- 00:17
Pastor ?
Sorry, you need to say the phrase, I do, just to make it legal.
- 00:23
Chris
Oh, I got you. Ask me again.
- 00:24
Pastor
Do you, Chris, take Lachelle to be your lawfully wedded wife?
- 00:28
Chris
Don't I?
- 00:29
Pastor
Not quite.
- 00:30
Chris
I don't. Just kidding. Of course I can,
- 00:32
Lachel
babe. Come on. Just say I do.
- 00:35
Chris
Y'all ain't got to rush a nigga.
- 00:37
Pastor
Look, we only have this place for 45 minutes, then they're having a house show.
- 00:42
Chris
OK.
- 00:43
Lachel
Look, babe, we're almost there, OK? You love me, right?
- 00:47
Chris
Yeah, I got love for you, babe.
- 00:49
Lachel
OK, then just say I do.
- 00:51
Chris
All right. All right.
- 00:53
Chris ?
d Da, da, da-da, boom, boom, da-da, bam, we good.
- 01:01
Pastor
Bam, we ain't.
- 01:02
Lachel ?
Chris, it's not hard to serve.
- 01:04
Chris
I mean, it goes without saying.
- 01:05
Pastor ?
It very much does not.
- 01:07
Chris
All right. Hold on. Y'all hot? Is it hot? No. Yeah, it's just me. Whoo!
- 01:13
Lachel
Chris, quit playing and just say it, goddammit.
- 01:16
Chris
It, goddammit. Where y'all going?
- 01:18
Pastor
Settle down. Settle down. I'll handle this. Now, young man, you got this. We're just going to slow it down. Do.
- 01:26
Chris
Uh-huh.
- 01:26
Pastor
You, Chris.
- 01:27
Chris
Me, Chris.
- 01:28
Pastor
Take Lachelle.
- 01:29
Chris
I know her.
- 01:29
Pastor
To be.
- 01:30
Chris
She cool.
- 01:31
Pastor
You're lawfully.
- 01:31
Chris
I'm saying that.
- 01:32
Pastor
Wedded.
- 01:33
Chris
That's a funny word.
- 01:34
Pastor
Wife.
- 01:40
Chris
I mean, I flexed with her.
- 01:41
No way.
- 01:43
Chris
Hard, though, heavy. I fucks with you. Baby, I fucks with you.
- 01:46
Pastor
Son, son, if you don't say I do, you're going to lose your beautiful wife. Now, do you want to tap that ass tonight or not?
- 01:53
Chris
I do.
- 01:53
I
- 01:58
Chris
I do, do. Get back. You know I was playing, because I be playing like that. Just trying to get you in suspense.
- 02:04
Lachel
Thank you, Pastor.
- 02:05
Pastor
Oh, you need to thank Jesus, because that was nothing short of a miracle. Now, do you, Lachelle, take Chris to be your lawfully wedded husband?
- 02:14
Lachel
I zipped.
- 02:15
Pastor
Oh, that's great. To have and to hold.
- 02:17
Lachel
Wait a minute. What's the difference between having and holding?
- 02:20
Pastor
From this day forward.
- 02:22
Lachel
Like this day or the day forward like tomorrow? Because it's already tomorrow in Japan if you think about it.
- 02:27
Pastor
For better or for worse?
- 02:29
Lachel
I mean, does anyone pick worse?
- 02:31
Pastor
In for richer or for poorer?
- 02:34
Lachel
Again, who are these people picking poorer?
- 02:35
Pastor
In sickness or in health?
- 02:37
Lachel
Uh, how sick? How he get sick? Is his throat itching? Because then I'm trying to understand why this think girl's throat is itching.
- 02:43
Whoo!
- 02:43
Pastor
You, too. You deserve each other. Just be man and wife. You are pronounced.
- 02:49
Whoo!
- 02:50
Chris
We heard that, baby.
- 02:51
We pronounced.
- 02:52
Chris
We did it, girl.
- 02:53
Lachel
We married.
- 02:54
Man, we did.
- 02:54
Chris
This is black love right here.
- 02:56
That's right.
- 02:57
Lachel
Thank you. Thank you. Bye!
- 03:01
Oh, shit. Here goes the prize.
The rabbit hole continues
One more couldn’t hurt.
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