(Rich Schultz/ New York Post.)
AP
The joke was on them.
Tanning-obsessed mom Patricia Krentcil toasted “Saturday Night Live” yesterday after the show roasted her — and came up with a terrific punch line.
Asked by The Post what she thought of the performance, she answered — with a straight face — “It was well done.’’
She added, “the whole thing was hysterical.’’
The New Jersey mom became a media celebrity last week when it was learned that she’s facing charges for allegedly subjecting her young daughter to hours in a tanning salon — a claim that she’s hotly denied.
On the show, “SNL” Weekend Update anchor Seth Meyers had described Krentcil as looking like a “baseball glove.”
Krentcil, who faces child-endangerment charges for allegedly putting her daughter, Anna, under the ultraviolet lights when she was just 5 years old, said she watched the entire three-minute segment and can’t get over how much attention her case — and her face — have drawn.
“If you think about it for a second, Iraq and Cuba we’re involved in now,” Krentcil said, “but they care that I tan. ”
The show’s Kristen Wiig put on dark makeup, a leather jacket and white flowery headpiece to mimic Krentcil’s look.
Days earlier, Krentcil ranted that her critics were “fat,” “ugly” and “jealous.” Wiig took the tantrum a little further.
“I can’t blame them for being jealous,” the half-baked fake said.
“I am alluring in a way they’ll never be. Trust me, there are plenty of men in New Jersey who would love to snap into this Slim Jim.”
Wiig, as Krentcil, went on to borrow a line comedian Jimmy Kimmel used last week: “I have the look everyone dreams of: Wile E. Coyote right after something blows up in his face.”
At the end of the segment, Wiig, as Krentcil, put a slice of bread between her thighs and retrieved it as toast.
Last week, The Post told readers about Krentcil’s tan-tics with the mocking headline: “Toast of the Town.”
After her review, Krentcil retreated to her Nutley, NJ, home.
Moments later, Anna, now 6, was outside, playing in the sun.
Krentcil, 44, who had been out running errands, wouldn’t say if she’d stopped off for a quick tan.
But Jerry Siano, owner of Bodies in Heat Tanning Salon in Bloomfield, NJ, Krentcil’s usual spot, said he’d send her away if she came for a quick bronze job.
“I wouldn’t want all the publicity,” Siano said. “It would be a zoo over here, and who needs that? I’m in the business to make people look good.”