Melissa McCarthy's Sean Spicer Impersonation on SNL is the Laugh We All Need
Saturday Night Live all-star alum Melissa McCarthy made a special guest appearance on this week's Donald Trump-heavy edition of the show to impersonate the president's oft-ridiculed press secretary Sean Spicer during one of his daily White House press briefings that so often go awry.
In the eight-minute segment, McCarthy's version of Spicer appears as angry and impatient as the real-life press secretary, whose caustic treatment of the media has become a source of equal parts concern and nervous laughter.
Not to mention, the disheveled, ill-fitted suit matches Spicer's attire woes to a tee, "period," and all the excitable gestures are there -- raised pinkies, pointed pinkies, gum-chewing, air quotes, you name it.
[...] Spicer's notoriously combative relationship with the press -- along with his distaste for questions that question the administration's policies on legal and/or moral grounds -- is far too real, and McCarthy as Spicer laid thick into that little game of podium dodge-ball throughout the skit.
The McSpicer skit adds to a boatload of Trump-related pans from SNL this week, including host Kristen Stewart's remarks on his notorious Twitter obsession with her relationship status and Alec Baldwin's cold open that mocked Trump's shockingly tense phone communications with the President of Mexico and the Prime Minister of Australia.