Melissa McCarthy’s Sean Spicer reaches a breaking point on Saturday Night Live
If New Yorkers were wondering why Melissa McCarthy was rolling through the streets of Manhattan on a motorized podium in full Sean Spicer makeup Friday, they didn’t have to wait too long for the answer
“Spicey’s back.”
Midway through last night’s episode, the Saturday Night Live host emerged from the White House shrubbery and pushed aside Aidy Bryant’s Sarah Huckabee Sanders — the White House’s temporary fill-in at press briefings — to deliver another rendition of her aggressively disagreeable imitation of Spicer.
Upon taking a fire extinguisher to one reporter and verbally abusing Bobby Moynihan’s portrayal of New York Times reporter Glenn Thrush, McCarthy’s Spicer doubled down on his boss’s defense for firing FBI Director James Comey.
“Let me just put this whole Russian thing to bed once and for all,” says Spicer. “Trump is innocent. How do we know? Because he told us so. Period.”
She then proceeds to pull out Russian nesting dolls –which, perhaps surprisingly, is not the first time those specific props have graced a political press conference in recent months — to explain the situation. But the White House press corps were not satisfied.
“Were you surprised that he fired Comey before he fired you?” one asks. In response, Spicer throws one of the room’s pedestals.
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Spicer insists that he’s being honest and is simply saying what President Donald Trump is telling him.
“But what if he’s lying to you?” asks Thrush, sending Spicer into a crisis of conscience. And upon being informed of reports that Trump might fire him, Spicer embarks on his podium to New York and then New Jersey, where he finds Trump at his golf course.
“Have you ever told me to say things that aren’t true?” he asks.
“Only since you started working here,” says Trump, played by Alec Baldwin. He maintains that he won’t fire Spicer, before playfully tickling him.
“Sean, kiss me,” Trump says.
“Is this like The Godfather where you kiss me and no one ever sees me again,” asks McCarthy’s Spicer, who initially resists.
“Yes,” replies Trump, as the two faux-officials embrace for a long, climatic kiss.
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— Saturday Night Live – SNL (@nbcsnl) May 14, 2017
Just before the sketch ends, McCarthy’s Spicer exclaims, “I had a good run!”
