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Showing posts with label Melissa McCarthy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Melissa McCarthy. Show all posts
Melissa McCarthy, as White House Spokesman Sean Spicer,
attacks a reporter with a leaf blower on last night's SNL.
This may turn out to be a weekly feature, the way things are going.
Melissa McCarthy returned last night to Saturday Night Live as the always angry and frustrated White House Spokesman Sean Spicer.
Last night's episode had the usual zany props, this time an enormous stick of gun, dolls and a leaf blower. McCarthy/Spicer put all those things to good use.
A bonus SNL video is below the McCarthy/Spicer one in this post.
As always, tempers flared during the McCarthy/Spicer "press briefing" Watch and be prepared to laugh a lot, once again:
Also, last night on SNL, creepy White House counsel Kellyanne Conway goes totally "Fatal Attraction" on CNN's "Jake Tapper" In real life, the actual Tapper declined to have Conway on his news show because she lacks credibility.
SNL helpfully re-imagines the aftermath of Tapper's decison. The great SNL comic actor Kate McKinnon nailed Kellyanne on this one (By the way, McKinnon also shined as Jeff Sessions and Elizabeth Warren elsewhere in last night's SNL.
A few people thought this skit was sexist. Maybe. But I still thought it was really funny. Here's the "Fatal Attractions" skit:
The skit featured McCarthy as a totally unhinged Trump spokesman Sean Spicer, having one of his combative press briefings with the media.
I won't spoil it with specifics, but McCarthy nailed it. (And there was a glorious brief appearance by Kate McKinnon as a ditzy Education Secretary nominee Betsy DeVos)
In case you haven't seen it, watch and prepare to laugh out loud:
There are no consequences that will stem from this commercial. It's just McCarthy "saving the environment" in her Kia Niro.
But maybe it will change the world. Because it gave me a belly laugh because it was so inconsequentially funny. I hope it does the same for you, because this is what we all need right now.
So thank you, Kia and Melissa McCarthy, for turning us into two year olds who will laugh at anything. No matter how gloriously stupid.
I've featured a couple in this blog already. But I can't resist another one. Melissa McCarthy isprobably the Queen of hilarious physical comedy, and she lip syncs spectacularly.
