--- title: Mike Huckabee: SNL's Impression of Daughter Was 'Sexist' description: Mike Huckabee deemed the SNL's impression of his daughter, deputy press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, misogynistic canonical: https://time.com/4781651/mike-sarah-huckabee-sanders-huckabee-sexist-snl/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-05-16T22:30:35.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T09:05:38.107Z og:title: Mike Huckabee Says SNL's Impression of His Daughter Was 'Sexist' og:description: In a skit with Melissa McCarthy as Sean Spicer og:url: https://time.com/4781651/mike-sarah-huckabee-sanders-huckabee-sexist-snl/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltafaa2d864453be10/6988cd8d196cf42cea040245/aidy-bryant.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: Saturday Night Live - Season 42 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Mike Huckabee Says SNL's Impression of His Daughter Was 'Sexist' twitter:description: In a skit with Melissa McCarthy as Sean Spicer twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltafaa2d864453be10/6988cd8d196cf42cea040245/aidy-bryant.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Mike Huckabee Says SNL's Impression of His Daughter Was 'Sexist' > Sponsored content. 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Will Heath—NBC/Getty Images by [Mackenzie Yang](https://time.com/author/mackenzieyang/) ## Mackenzie Yang May 16, 2017 10:30 PM UTC Mike Huckabee was not entertained by Saturday Night Live’s impression of his daughter, White House staffer Sarah Huckabee Sanders. “I thought it was a little bit silly, sexist, \[and\] misogynist, but my daughter is certainly capable of handling a whole lot worse than that,” the former [Governor of Arkansas told Fox Business News](http://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/2017/05/16/sarah-huckabee-sanderss-dad-mike-huckabee-blasts-snl-parody.html). The skit in question featured Melissa McCarthy as Sean Spicer, and Aidy Bryant as Sarah Huckabee Sanders, current Deputy White House Press Secretary. “My father is Mike Huckabee,” Bryant as Sanders says in the sketch. “My mother is a big Southern hamburger.” The sketch poked fun at rumors that Sanders, who led several daily press briefings last week, could soon replace Spicer as press secretary. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4781651/mike-sarah-huckabee-sanders-huckabee-sexist-snl/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4781651/mike-sarah-huckabee-sanders-huckabee-sexist-snl/"},"headline":"Mike Huckabee Says SNL's Impression of His Daughter Was 'Sexist'","datePublished":"2017-05-16T22:30:35.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T09:05:38.107Z","description":"In a skit with Melissa McCarthy as Sean Spicer","url":"https://time.com/4781651/mike-sarah-huckabee-sanders-huckabee-sexist-snl/","keywords":["motto","Television","Saturday Night Live","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltafaa2d864453be10/6988cd8d196cf42cea040245/aidy-bryant.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Mackenzie Yang"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltafaa2d864453be10/6988cd8d196cf42cea040245/aidy-bryant.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Saturday Night Live - Season 42","caption":"Saturday Night Live - Season 42","creditText":"Will Heath—NBC/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/motto/","name":"motto"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4781651/mike-sarah-huckabee-sanders-huckabee-sexist-snl/","name":"Mike Huckabee Says SNL's Impression of His Daughter Was 'Sexist'"}}]}] ```