As Mr. Spicer, Ms. McCarthy asked, “Have you ever told me to say things that aren’t true?”<br />As Mr. Trump, Mr. Baldwin responded, “Only since you started working here.”<br />The best of what to watch and where to watch it, delivered to your inbox twice a week.<br />Melissa McCarthy Plays an Angst-Ridden Sean Spicer on ‘Saturday Night Live’ -<br />By DAVE ITZKOFFMAY 14, 2017<br />This was not, let’s be honest, the best week to be Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary.<br />He’s trying to blend in with his surroundings.”<br />After other reporters suggested that Ms. Sanders should run these meetings full time, Ms. McCarthy, as Mr. Spicer, charged into the room, took over the briefing and attempted to explain<br />that Mr. Trump had not fired Mr. Comey to halt an F. B.I.<br />By Friday there were rumblings President Trump could replace Mr. Spicer or end White House press briefings altogether.<br />“I’m famous, it’s OK.”<br />Ms. McCarthy asked if it would be “like ‘The Godfather,’ when you kiss me and no one ever sees me again?”<br />Mr. Baldwin answered, “Yes.” So saying, they locked lips and ended the sketch.<br />The sketch opened with a White House briefing run by the deputy press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders<br />(played by the cast member Aidy Bryant), who explained that she was filling in for Mr. Spicer.
