If you’re like me, you believe one of the only silver linings to the current Trump sturm cloud is watching Melissa McCarthy portray WH Press Secretary Sean Spicer on SNL. Learning that the portrayal infuriated Trump and made him consider firing Spicer just makes it all the sweeter.
Well, yesterday, The Washington Post published a story about how McCarthy landed the role:
So how did this year’s big political comedy moment come to be? It all started with an airplane pitch about a monologue to Kristen Stewart, McCarthy explained to The Hollywood Reporter.
McCarthy was headed to New York for a movie shoot, while Stewart was en route for her SNL hosting gig. “She has a reputation for not loving to be interviewed, which I think becomes very funny, so I shamelessly pitched her [this monologue idea where she’s] doing the worst opening ever,” McCarthy told THR for their cover story about SNL’s “yuuuge year.”
At the same time, SNL writers had been watching Spicer’s first few press briefings. “They were just so insane,” writer Kent Sublette told THR. “It was a Tuesday, and one of our producers, Erik Kenward, told me that Melissa had flown out with our host and had a monologue idea. That’s when I just blurted out, ‘Melissa should play Spicer.'”
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The idea was quickly pitched to Lorne Michaels, who said, “Let’s make it happen."
And the rest is history:
How about you?
In bad situations, what are your silver linings?
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