Christie gets in a few friendly digs on late-night TV

TRENTON - Gov. Christie said in his debut on late-night comedy television early Wednesday that he was making his own posts on Twitter. He also expressed some doubt about whether Sarah Palin was presidential material.

Christie, a big draw for Republican candidates nationwide this year, has been building a national profile in his first term. Although a regular on news talk shows, he hadn't taken the plunge into comedy until his appearance on NBC's Late Night With Jimmy Fallon.

The governor, who regularly peppers his speeches with jokes, got some in with Fallon.

The host recounted how he had invited Christie on the air after they traded barbs on Twitter. That exchange began when Fallon, joking about Christie's killing a plan to build a new rail tunnel connecting New York and New Jersey, said the only way people would get to the Garden State would remain "by accident."

When he repeated the line on the show, Christie gave him a hard stare, then deadpanned: "You think it's funny, Jimmy? You know what we do to people like that in New Jersey, Jimmy?"

Christie said, as he often has, that too much of the cost of the tunnel was going to fall to his state. "There's nothing New Jersey hates more than getting screwed by New York," he said.

Christie said he did some of the tweeting that appears under his name - and liked doing it.

Fallon asked Christie one of the questions that has become a staple of news interviews, too: Is he considering a run for the presidency in two years?

"No chance," Christie said, adding he was not interested in being vice president in two years, either. He said neither job had the same power that New Jersey's governor gets under the state constitution.

When asked if Palin could be president, Christie responded, "It's a crazy world."

Christie also got the last laugh of the appearance, giving one downside to his job and name-dropping his musical idol, Bruce Springsteen. "Who am I kidding?" he asked. "Bruce is the real boss of New Jersey."