The recent “Saturday Night Live” episode was something, of sorts. First, host Kristen Stewart blasted Donald Trump in her opening monologue for his comments about her and then-boyfriend Robert Pattinson. She later dropped the F-bomb, and then called herself “so gay,” confirming long-term suspicions of her sexual orientation.
But another, most-talked about performance in the episode was alumna Melissa McCarthy’s spot-on impression of White House press secretary Sean Spicer’s infamous blowout. Larry Getlen for Decider deemed the skit “the best one since Tina Fey as Sarah Palin.”
Getlen wrote, “McCarthy’s incredible take on Spicer, all aggressive abandon, drove home for me everything missing from Baldwin’s Trump – and most of the show’s other impressions of late, few of which have even a modicum of McCarthy’s fire.”
“So there was something special in how the studio crowd didn’t catch that the Spicer impressionist was McCarthy until she was deep into her first full sentence. I caught it at home on her entrance – despite the excellent make-up job and buttoned-down hairdo, one could tell from the eyes and voice it was clearly her – but could see how the crowd in the studio, watching at a distance, wouldn’t be able to tell for sure until she spoke a full sentence. The audience’s thrill at the realization was palpable, and all the more amazing for its rarity, providing a moment of true surprise in a show where even the hardest-hitting comedic commentary usually comes off like predictable reaction,” he added.
Spicer has since seen the skit, and talked to Extra at the Super Bowl on Sunday. He said, “[She] needs to slow down on the gum chewing; way too many pieces in there. [And perhaps she] could dial back [a bit].”
Now when he put it that way, does this mean Spicer nonetheless approved?
