Alternative facts, anti-Semitism, #MuslimBan and more were on the docket in comedian Melissa McCarthy’s surprise appearance on last night’s Saturday Night Live as U.S. Press Secretary Sean Spicer.
McCarthy appears as Spicer giving a press conference, and starts off by satirizing Spicer’s “rocky start” in his relationship with journalists.
“When I say ‘rocky start,’ I mean it in the sense of Rocky the movie, because I came out here to punch you in the face!” McCarthy yells animatedly at the beginning of the skit.
She continued, telling reporters: “I’d like to begin today by apologizing on behalf of you, to me, for how you have treated me these last two weeks.”
Unforgiving, McCarthy said she wouldn’t accept the press’s “apology,” because “I’m not here to be your buddy. I’m here to swallow gum and I’m here to take names.”
The skit poked fun at the recent chaos around the origin of U.S. President Donald Trump’s travel ban. After a reporter asked a question about the ban, McCarthy cuts him off.
“The travel ban is not a ban, which makes it not a ban,” she responded confidently.
At one point, a reporter at the conference expressed confusion about one of the notions McCarthy had posed.
“My words too big? I gotta show you in pictures?” McCarthy asked exasperatedly before pulling out a box of props, which included a knot, a guy, a visor and two stuffed animals.
McCarthy as Spicer signed off by telling the press that she was on her way to take a “big boy nap.”
Also in the show, Alec Baldwin returned to the role of President Donald Trump, and placed some pretty disastrous phone calls to fellow world leaders — while egged on by an evil Stephen K. Bannon character.
On Twitter, chatter about the Spicer sketch overtook talk of Baldwin as Trump during the cold open, which typically is the most high-profile moment of any SNL episode (especially since real-life Trump has publicly denounced Baldwin’s take in the past).
Comedians tweeted they saw a master at work. Journalists took particular delight at having their world lampooned. Critics raved about the best sketch in ages.
Baldwin will host SNL next week.
With files from The Washington Post
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