Snoop Dogg has the best job at the Games.

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Welcome back to Best Jobs at the Olympics, a Slate series in which I attempt to determine which of the jobs at the Olympics are the best jobs at the Olympics. Today’s nominee for the best job at the Olympics: Snoop Dogg.

Nominee: Snoop Dogg

Where to find him: Roaming around various Olympics events and popping up here and there on NBC

Job description: Enjoy the hell out of the Olympics, comment occasionally on your experience of the Olympics, get other people hyped to see that Snoop Dogg is at the Olympics

Why this might be the best job at the Olympics: You have a very important role. As Snoop Dogg, you are the foremost flâneur of the 2024 Paris Games. For two weeks, you will roam throughout the city, excitedly watching as many Olympic events as you can, while making all the relevant athletes excited that you, Snoop Dogg, are there watching their events. Occasionally, NBC will cut away to you watching some event or another, but you won’t necessarily need to do or say anything different when this happens. You just need to keep on being Snoop Dogg. That’s it, that’s the job.

At times, you will have to go on NBC to talk about the Olympics, and that will also be fun for you, not to mention for everyone sitting at home watching you talk about the Olympics. You will add a level of quirky flair to NBC’s oft-saccharine coverage, just by being yourself. The fact that you won’t have many valuable insights to add about the sports you’re watching won’t bother anyone, and it shouldn’t bother you, either. As it turns out, very few of NBC’s roving Olympic correspondents have many valuable insights to add. Secondly, you have immense insight to add on the topic of being Snoop Dogg, which is, after all, your job.

You will get rave reviews for successfully being Snoop Dogg at the Olympics! Your charming, mildly anarchic presence will enliven NBC’s resolutely normcore broadcasts. “Why did it take NBC 30 years to send Snoop Dogg to the Olympics?” media critics will ask rhetorically. When gently reminded that you actually had your own Peacock show in 2021, at the Tokyo Olympics, these same critics will only slightly adjust their initial complaints. “Why did it take NBC 27 years to send Snoop Dogg to the Olympics?” they will say. You will give America’s media critics an excellent new “angle” about which to yell at NBC.

You will be greeted warmly, with great excitement, pretty much every time you enter any Olympics room. You’ll soon realize that most people are very excited to see Snoop Dogg at the Olympics, and that they want to have their pictures taken with you. Posing for selfies will be a big part of your job as Snoop Dogg at the 2024 Olympic Games, and it will make you feel all warm inside to know that, for years thereafter, these selfie snappers will be showing their pictures with you to literally everyone whom they meet. “That’s me, at the Olympics, with Snoop Dogg!” they will say, and “at the Olympics” will be only the second most exciting clause in that sentence.

As Snoop Dogg, you will get to be part of the opening ceremony! You’ll get to carry the Olympic torch for a while, though not for as long as your Best Jobs rival, the parkour torch guy. But, then again, the parkour torch guy didn’t get to go on TV during the opening ceremony and chit-chat with Peyton Manning and Simone Biles’ mom. A lot of people will try to start some sort of feud between you and the parkour torch guy, but you will ignore their provocations. To be Snoop Dogg at the Olympics is to be a messenger of peace.

Perhaps the best part of your job is that you will never, ever have to worry about being replaced by a young up-and-comer. There are no young up-and-comers for the job of Snoop Dogg! There is only one Snoop Dogg, and it is you: Snoop Dogg.

Why this might not be the best job at the Olympics: At times you might get exhausted from watching all of those Olympic sports. Although you do a great job keeping it light and fresh, the fact remains that you, Snoop Dogg, are 52 years old, and fatigue sets in earlier now than it did when you were a younger man. If you close your eyes while watching some sport, the cameras will likely pick up your catnap, and you will become the “main character” of X, formerly Twitter, for as many as 15 minutes. “More like Snooze Dogg,” people will say. You will risk losing much of your cred.

As NBC’s foremost Olympics enthusiast, you may find yourself being forced to manufacture enthusiasm for sports that you do not actually care about—such as, I don’t know, racewalking. This insincere impulse will directly conflict with your lifelong desire to keep it real. The cognitive dissonance between your TV persona and your true feelings may well lead you into some broader identity crisis. You will stay up nights wondering which of your selves is your real self, and the lost sleep and subsequent on-camera exhaustion will only play further into the hands of your Snooze Dogg razzers.

Though at first perhaps subconsciously, you may gradually come to resent the very specific ways in which NBC expects you to be “on” every time they put you on camera. You are more than just a good-vibes clown, after all, and you will sometimes want to show your range by sharing some technical swimming insight in the manner of Rowdy Gaines. Instead, your producers will keep prodding you to use words such as shizzle. You may come to feel oppressed by the soft bigotry of low expectations.

You may occasionally encounter people who don’t know who you are, and you might become confused about why these people don’t want to take selfies with you. “Everyone else in Paris loves me. Did I do something to offend these people who don’t?” you will think. “Do they somehow know how I really feel about racewalking?” You will attempt to overcompensate by screaming, “I love racewalking” at the top of your lungs, but your shout will only startle them, and they will flee from the room, thus making you feel even worse. You will regretfully acknowledge that there is no pleasing everybody.

At times you may become worried that your children—young up-and-comers that they are—may be plotting to supplant you and steal your correspondent’s role at future Olympics. “It’s just like Succession,” you’ll tell yourself, and you will deploy elaborate countermeasures to ensure that they can never take your throne. You’ll find yourself shouting, “Fuck off!” a lot, which will alarm your NBC colleagues and cause you to get “bleeped” on air. “More like Crude Dogg,” the smart-asses will say, as if they never listened to “Ain’t No Fun.”

How this could be a better job at the Olympics: At the closing ceremony NBC could reveal that you, Snoop Dogg, were the parkour torch guy all along.

Verdict: As a reminder we score our Best Jobs at the Olympics candidates on the amount of exposure a job gets, how enjoyable the job seems, the job’s enviability quotient, and whether the worker gets to wear a funny hat. I’ll give Snoop Dogg 2.5 out of 3 for exposure, because he has been omnipresent in Paris this year. 1.5 out of 3 for enjoyability, because after a certain point it probably feels like torture to have to pose for another damn selfie. 2 out of 3 for enviability, because it ain’t no fun to be mocked by anonymous eggs on X, formerly Twitter. And 1 out of 1 in the funny-hat category, because while Snoop Dogg doesn’t have to wear a funny hat, I am certain that nobody would stop him if he chose to do so. 7 out of 10 for Snoop Dogg. This is currently the best job at the Olympics.