Why Melissa McCarthy Had to Play Sean Spicer
by Anna North at the NY Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/06/opinion/why-melissa-mccarthy-had-to-play-sean-spicer.html?_r=0
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“Saturday Night Live,” too, has long put its male players in female drag, sometimes just for laughs and sometimes because it simply had too few female cast members to play all the necessary female roles. In 2013, Kenan Thompson announced he would no longer perform in a dress, tired of being the show’s go-to choice to play black female celebrities from Oprah Winfrey to Maya Angelou. The show subsequently hired two black female cast members, Sasheer Zamata and Leslie Jones. But it continues to put men in dresses — Fred Armisen’s character Regine, a mean, sexually demonstrative girlfriend, cropped up most recently in 2016.
As Mr. Spicer, meanwhile, Ms. McCarthy makes cross-dressing almost beside the point. She wears a fairly convincing wig, and her ill-fitting suit feels more like a joke about the poor tailoring that plagues the president and his administration than about the incongruity of a woman in male garb.
Ms. McCarthy isn’t funny as Mr. Spicer because she’s a woman, she’s funny as Mr. Spicer because she’s made a career of playing aggressive characters who are often angry for no reason. As Megan, in “Bridesmaids,” she broke new ground as a tough, crude woman with bizarre ideas and no boundaries who nonetheless finds romantic fulfillment, and in subsequent films like “The Heat,” she’s established herself as a powerful physical comedian whose best weapon is her snarl. On “S.N.L,” as she lifts up her podium to attack the press corps, it’s clear she was born to play the mouthpiece of an administration already defined by outbursts of rage.
While her gender isn’t the center of her performance, it matters. There’s a bit of an extra bite in a woman lampooning the spokesperson of a president who once bragged about grabbing women’s genitals, and who was reportedly moved to rage last month when attendance at women’s protests around the world dwarfed attendance at his inauguration. Add to that the fact that President Trump reportedly wants his female staffers to “dress like women,” and Melissa McCarthy dressing like a man to play his press secretary feels like a particularly astute way to needle the White House.
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as other DUers have already suggested. That would be excellent!
Letterman commented on his ties, which trump proceeded to talk up as to how wonderful and high-quality they were. Letterman turned one over and on the underside was the embroidered label with "Made in China." Maybe he's changed between then and now. That was awhile ago - when David Letterman still had his late night show on CBS - the slot Colbert has now.
But there you are. I'm basing it on something I saw on reality TV. Which certainly verifies that I'm no expert! 
I never took Spicer seriously - but this brings it to a whole new level of ridicule...
I hope she will return again in future to do an impersonation of Spicer...Just like Alec Baldwin imitating Trump and his Anus Mouth, Melissa McCarthy was brilliant in her imitating the sheer disgust and venom that comes out of Spicer when talking to the Press and American people...
"Trump doesn't like his people to look weak," a top Trump donor told Politico two days after Melissa McCarthy portrayed an aggressive Spicer firing insults at journalists, chowing down on gum and busting out a super soaker during a press breifing.
But President Trump was most bothered by the fact that Spicer was portrayed by a woman, according to the Politico report.
Pretty funny (but miss him) 