--- title: Saturday Night Live: Sean Spicer, Melissa McCarthy Video description: Watch TIME's video comparing Saturday Night Live's impression of Sean Spicer to the real White House press secretary. canonical: https://time.com/4669781/saturday-night-live-sean-spicer-melissa-mccarthy-supercut/ author: Ashley Hoffman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-02-14T19:11:01.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:41:04.465Z og:title: We Made a Supercut of SNL's Sean Spicer and the Real Thing og:description: Shot for shot, see Sean Spicer compared to Melissa McCarthy's impression og:url: https://time.com/4669781/saturday-night-live-sean-spicer-melissa-mccarthy-supercut/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt39cfd4a7b178f8a1/6988ba3697cdffb5f16af79b/sean-spicer-snlspicer.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Saturday Night Live - Season 42 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: We Made a Supercut of SNL's Sean Spicer and the Real Thing twitter:description: Shot for shot, see Sean Spicer compared to Melissa McCarthy's impression twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt39cfd4a7b178f8a1/6988ba3697cdffb5f16af79b/sean-spicer-snlspicer.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch How the Real Sean Spicer Compares to _Saturday Night Live's_ Parody by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Feb 14, 2017 7:11 PM UTC  Left: White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington on Feb. 9, 2017; Right: Melissa McCarthy as Press Secretary Sean Spicer during the "Sean Spicer Press Conference Cold Open" on Saturday Night Live on Feb. 11, 2017. Left: White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington on Feb. 9, 2017; Right: Melissa McCarthy as Press Secretary Sean Spicer during the "Sean Spicer Press Conference Cold Open" on Saturday Night Live on Feb. 11, 2017.Chip Somodevilla—Getty Images; Will Heath—NBCU Photo Bank/Getty Images by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Feb 14, 2017 7:11 PM UTC [Melissa McCarthy’s turn](http://time.com/4660549/melissa-mccarthy-sean-spicer-saturday-night-live-donald-trump/) as a gum-chomping, water gun-toting White House Press Secretary [Sean Spicer](http://time.com/4668069/melissa-mccarthy-sean-spicer-saturday-night-live-watch/) on [_Saturday Night Live_](http://time.com/4665207/saturday-night-live-alec-baldwin-donald-trump/) has been wildly popular. Spicer even commented, telling [_Extra_](http://ti.me/2kj4wv1) that McCarthy “needs to slow down on the gum chewing,” and suggesting she “dial back.” This past week, however, _SNL_ did not take him up on that advice. So how does McCarthy’s impersonation compare to Spicer in real life? Answering that question requires a supercut of the biggest moments from both sketches alongside clips from real White House briefings. 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