Why Melissa McCarthy Made a Great Sean Spicer - The New Yorker
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As McCarthy berated the comedians of the press corps from behind her briefing-room lectern, chomping an unholy wad of gum and jabbing her pointer finger in the air, her forehead seemed to seethe and bullishly bulge in rage. The resemblance to Spicer became uncanny, save for the nose, where McCarthy has the advantage of expressive nostrils. Open and shut they flared, as if trying to release gusts of steam, or to send an S.O.S.
The casting of McCarthy as Spicer was a stroke of comedic brilliance, a perfect fit. She got the mannerisms down pat: the pugnacious fighter’s scowl, the verbal gaffes and nonsensical spin tactics, the scorn sprayed indiscriminately at the press corps (a metaphor made literal by the inspired use of a Super Soaker loaded, supposedly, with soapy water), and, most of all, the flicker of fear behind the fury, that mark of the schoolyard bully who knows he’s going to be whupped himself as soon as he gets home. The sketch has now been viewed upward of sixteen million times on YouTube. In a reaction uncommon to this Administration, Spicer initially responded to its popularity with sanguine good humor, joking that McCarthy should take it easy on the gum.
That, however, was on Monday morning. By evening, Politico had reported that the President was displeased with the portrayal, and offended in particular that a woman had been called on to do the portraying. The article quotes an anonymous Trump donor as saying that the President “doesn’t like his people to look weak.” It’s impossible to be surprised by this morsel of news, merely the latest expression of Trump’s mundane, antediluvian misogyny. I find myself actually delighted by it. Getting under the President’s thin skin was already easy. Now all it takes, apparently, is something as basic as gender-switched casting, a commonplace of high-school theatre productions across the country.
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http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/why-melissa-mccarthy-made-a-great-sean-spicer
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No wonder we hear that Trump "regrets" hiring Spicer
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