Showing posts with label Sean Spicer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sean Spicer. Show all posts

Sunday, May 14, 2017

"Spicey" Seans Spicer On SNL About To Disappear? Drama Erupts!

"Sean Spicer" hiding in the bushes on SNL last night. 
As promised, Melissa McCarthy did her Sean Spicer bit on SNL again last night.

As is fitting with the Trump administration, it had all the hallmarks of elementary school drama, with maybe a little "Godfather" thrown in.

If you missed it, here it is. And below that, a bonus if you missed it, too: It's SNL's take on Trump's unhinged interview with NBC's Lester Holt.





Thursday, May 11, 2017

Looks Like "Spicy "aka Melissa McCarthy Is Coming Back To "SNL" Be Prepared!

UPDATE

This story just got a lot more fun.

Sean Spicer, er, I mean Melissa McCarthy dressed up as Sean Spicer, was seen this morning driving his/her motorized podium down 58th Street in New York this morning.

"Sean Spicer" in his usual angry way, drove the podium down the street, aggressively yelling at people to get out of the way. This was fun!!!!

Here's the video. (Previous discussion/video is below this new video in this post:




PREVIOUS DISCUSSION:

Apparently, White House Spokesman/Comic Punching Bag Sean Spicer is going to get another whacking from "Spicy" Melissa McCarthy.

This teaser came out Wednesday:


Wednesday, April 5, 2017

The Muppets And Sean Spicer Are "Phenomenal" Doing The Classic "Mahna Mahna" Song.

The Muppets and Sean Spicer have unwittingly collaborated
on a "phenomenal" new version of "Mahna Mahna."
The famous Muppet song, "Mahna Mahna " has gotten many parody treatments over the years and I've got another one for ya.  

Last October, during the Presidential debates, I brought you a Mahna Mahna episode in which we had Hillary Cliinton enduring Donald Trump's gibberish. 

Now he's president, and he and his spokesmodel, Sean Spicer keep reminding us of what a "phenomenal" job the Trump administration is doing.

Naturally, then, the ever-helpful Late Show With Stephen Colbert brought us this brief but glorious Mahna Mahna collaboration between the Muppets and Sean Spicer, with an assist from Trump himself.

You're welcome.

Sunday, February 12, 2017

Melissa McCarthy/Sean Spicer Strike Again

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:

Sunday, February 5, 2017

"Sean Spicer" Aka Melissa McCarthy Holds Combative SNL Presser

Melissa McCarthy slayed it last night on Saturday Night Live
as an unhinged White House spokesman Sean Spicer.  
Yeah, I get it, this is the second time in two days I featured Melissa McCarthy, but as you might have heard, she had a surprise command performance on "Saturday Night Live" last night.

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:

Sunday, January 22, 2017

Trump: "Mine Is Bigger Than Yours"

The Women's March in Washington DC and many other cities
Saturday was even bigger than Donald Trump's ego
and he is STILL fuming about it instead of being President
Well, the first full day of the Donald Trump administration Saturday was a total waste, wasn't it?

At least for him it was.

Trump could have gotten down to work dismantling Obamacare, throwing people off insurance plans, restricting rights for women and gays, changing regulations to give money to his rich cronies and starting a war with Iraq or something,.

Instead, he had a day-long hissy fit over the size of the crowds at his inauguration. And the much bigger crowds at the Womens' Marches in cities across the nation, including the nation's capital.

We ended the day with the embarrassing spectacle of Trump's press secretary, Sean Spicer, reading from a prepared statement no doubt ordered by his boss. Spicer  yelled at the media for supposedly about the lackluster crowd sizes at Trump's inauguration Friday.

"This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration, period, both in person and around the world," Spicer thundered.

Well, no, it wasn't, and the raging Spicer statement was full of lies. But that's besides the point for Trump, who, rather than feeling a sense of accomplishment for getting something done, only feels good if the ratings are yuuge, as he would say, be it crowd size, television ratings, or fan letters or something stupid like that.

I've always noticed it's particularly galling for Trump to be outdone by women. I'm sure Saturday's Womens' Marches really set him off.  He was outdone by women!  The horrors!

In every city where they were held, attendance was much higher than anyone expected.  Half a million in Washington DC. Even where I live in Vermont, a Women's March was held in tiny capital city of Montpelier, population 8,000.

Close to 20,000 people showed up for the rally in Montpelier, such a huge crowd that Vermont State Police had to close off Interstate 89 exits into the city because the area was so overrun with cars and people attending the rally.

Facts don't matter to Trump and his minions, though. Because his mantra is always: "Mine is bigger than yours."

I don't know if his denying of facts is very scary or hilarious. Probably both.

Berating the press for reporting accurately, creating alternative "realities" and demanding the press do their bidding or else is the terrifying stuff of North Korea and the Soviet Union.

On the other hand, this kind of bullcrap is hilarious. Spicer today is being compared to Baghdad Bob, the Iraqi information minister who bombastically declared the during the American invasion of Iraq in 2003 that, among other things, no American troops had successfully invaded while U.S. tanks rolled by in the background.

All this makes Trump looks small and silly, and a passing fad. Too bad he's already President.

Now we know how to shut down anything the Trump administration wants to do. Hit him in the that monstrous ego of his, and he won't get anything done.

But then we get the depressing back and forth that will go on forever. Today's news headlines surely pissed Trump off even more.  A couple examples:

The New York Times:

"With False Claims, Trump Attacks Meia on Turnout And Intelligence Rift. "

CNN Money: 

"White House Press Secretary Attacks Media For Accurately Reporting Inaugural Crowds."

Trump's minions predictably fired back Sunday. The odious Kellyanne Conway, counselor to President Trump, had a big fight with Meet The Press host Chuck Todd Sunday morning, in which she said that Spicer didn't lie, but gave "alternative facts."

Todd pointed out that "alternative facts" are falsehoods, and it all went downhill from there. Conway finally sniffed, "If we're going to keep referring to the press secretaty in those types of terms I think we're going to have to rethink our relationship here."

Awww...

Trump is never as successful as he claims he is, and he's clearly in over his head here. He's too busy massaging his ego to actually do any work, so the future of his presidency is already pretty uncertain.

Unfortunately, so is the rest of the country's future for the next several years.