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PEOPLE & ARTS Monday 6 February 2017
With McCarthy playing Spicer, ‘SNL’ cranks up Trump satire

JAKE COYLE that sparked the bigger fended it: “He’s using your
AP Film Writer response in the NBC show’s words. When you use the
NEW YORK (AP) — Melissa second episode since the word and he uses them
McCarthy lampooned inauguration. McCarthy’s back, it’s circular using of
White House press secre- Spicer insisted that “no the word and that’s from
tary Sean Spicer in a “Sat- one was sad” at Trump’s you.”
urday Night Live” sketch supreme court nominee When a Wall Street Journal
where she taunted report- unveiling. “Those are the reporter asked if she was
ers as “losers,” fired a water facts forever,” she said, OK, McCarthy picked up
gun at the press corps and before accidentally giving the lectern and charged.
even used the lectern to her email password. Off to She warned that she would
ram a Wall Street Journal the side, she kept a CNN put the reporter “in the cor-
journalist. reporter, chastised as “fake ner with CNN.”
“SNL” opened with Alec news,” jailed in a cage. Host Kristen Stewart began
Baldwin reprising his Presi- “I want to begin tonight the show with a mono-
dent Donald Trump and by apologizing on behalf logue recalling Trump’s
phoning foreign leaders of you to me for how you tweets about her roman- In this Friday, Jan. 13, 2017, file photo, executive producer Me-
with chief strategist Ste- have treated me these last tic life. In 2012 when the lissa McCarthy speaks at the “Nobodies” panel at Viacom’s TV
phen Bannon by his side. two weeks,” McCarthy said actress dated “Twilight” Land portion of the Winter Television Critics Association press
Bannon, with hood and in opening the mock press co-star Robert Pattinson, tour, in Pasadena, Calif.
scythe, was portrayed as briefing. “And that apology Trump tweeted that Pattin- Associated Press
the grim reaper. He nod- is not accepted.” son should “dump” her and that is so OK. And Donald, him, he had not responded
ded affirmatively after the Parodying a similar ex- that he could “do much if you didn’t like me then, to Saturday’s show as of
successive calls to countries change, she then haggled better.” you’re really probably not early Sunday afternoon.
like Australia and Germany with reporters over the use “To be fair, I don’t think going to like me now. Be- As Stewart began introduc-
dissolved into Baldwin vow- of the word “ban” to de- Donald Trump hated me,” cause I’m hosting ‘SNL’ and ing the show, she let slip an
ing, “Prepare to go to war.” scribe Trump’s recent im- Stewart said. “I think he’s in I’m, like, so gay, dude.” expletive. She immediately
But it was McCarthy’s mid- migration order. Trump and love with my boyfriend.” Though Trump has fre- apologized and guessed
show sketch impersonat- Spicer have both used the She added: “The president quently criticized “SNL” that she wouldn’t ever be
ing a pugnacious Spicer word, but McCarthy de- is not a huge fan of me. But and its sketches skewering allowed to host again.q