--- title: Late Night Hosts Poke Fun at Anthony "The Mooch" Scaramucci description: Stephen Colbert, Seth Meyers and Trevor Noa sized up the latest addition to the Trump administration, and he already has a nickname. canonical: https://time.com/4872361/colbert-seth-meyers-trevor-noah-anthony-scaramucci/ author: Entertainment Weekly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-07-25T14:51:52.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:45:40.205Z og:title: Stephen Colbert, Seth Meyers and Trevor Noah Poke Fun at Anthony 'The Mooch' Scaramucci og:description: Out with the old, in with the Mooch og:url: https://time.com/4872361/colbert-seth-meyers-trevor-noah-anthony-scaramucci/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcc9023c792f33327/6988d6fd97cdff76e06b1bad/anthony-scaramucci-late-night-hosts.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: White House Communications Team Reshuffled, With Sean Spicer Resignation And Anthony Scaramucci Appointed Director og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Stephen Colbert, Seth Meyers and Trevor Noah Poke Fun at Anthony 'The Mooch' Scaramucci twitter:description: Out with the old, in with the Mooch twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcc9023c792f33327/6988d6fd97cdff76e06b1bad/anthony-scaramucci-late-night-hosts.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Late Night Had a Field Day Mocking Anthony 'The Mooch' Scaramucci > Sponsored content. 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Anthony Scaramucci answers reporters' questions during the daily White House press briefing in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House July 21, 2017 in Washington, DC. Chip Somodevilla—Getty Images by [Nick Romano / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Nick Romano / Entertainment Weekly Jul 25, 2017 2:51 PM UTC With [Sean Spicer out as White House Press Secretary](http://ew.com/news/2017/07/21/sean-spicer-resigns-white-house-press-secretary/) and [Anthony Scaramucci ushered in](http://ew.com/tv/2017/07/21/anthony-scaramucci-donald-trump-briefing/) as the new communications director, late-night TV hosts have new material. Stephen Colbert of _The Late Show_, Seth Meyers of _Late Night_, and Trevor Noah on _The Daily Show_ sized up the latest addition to the Trump administration, and he already has a nickname: “The Mooch.” Once Colbert got over the “Bohemian Rhapsody” joke (“Scaramouche, Scaramouche, Can you do the fandango?”), he said, “I think this is not a good sign for the Trump administration when six months in they’re already running out of story lines so they’re adding crazy new characters,” Colbert said of Scaramucci, looking like a “lawyer whose ad is above the urinal.” He further mocked, “Scaramucci is like adding Scrappy-Doo or Chachi to _Happy Days_.” Colbert, debuting his Scaramucci mobster impersonation, referred to reports of White House staffers calling the communications director “a joke” and “a Trump-world hanger-on who isn’t qualified for the job.” Colbert said, “Wait, have you seen the Trump administration? Those are the qualifications for a job. We’ve got his resumé right here. Anthony Scaramucci, special skills: Being a joke, Trump hanging-on, and whacking stoolies.” Ultimately, he thinks Scaramucci will “fit in with the Trump administration just fine,” after screening a clip of Scaramucci telling Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee to keep using makeup. Meyers described the entrance of Scaramucci, an “experienced schmoozer,” as, “The Mooch gave us a smooch after Spicey screwed the pooch.” “He’s a human pinky ring,” Meyers mocked. “He is the human embodiment of a double-parked BMW. He looks like the guy who leaves a doo-wop group over creative differences. He looks like the only magician you could get on short notice. I could go on and on… you know what, let’s! He definitely calls waitresses, ‘Sweetheart.’ His yearbook quote was, ‘Don’t worry about it!’” Noah, too, was sure to point out “The Mooch Smooch.” “It also seems like an overly familiar way to treat the press, but it was better than his original goodbye which was just making out with each of them individually.” _This_ [_article_](http://ew.com/tv/2017/07/25/anthony-scaramucci-stephen-colbert-seth-meyers/) _originally appeared on_ [_EW.com_](http://www.ew.com) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4872361/colbert-seth-meyers-trevor-noah-anthony-scaramucci/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4872361/colbert-seth-meyers-trevor-noah-anthony-scaramucci/"},"headline":"Late Night Had a Field Day Mocking Anthony 'The Mooch' Scaramucci","datePublished":"2017-07-25T14:51:52.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:45:40.205Z","description":"Stephen Colbert, Seth Meyers and Trevor Noa sized up the latest addition to the Trump administration, and he already has a nickname.","url":"https://time.com/4872361/colbert-seth-meyers-trevor-noah-anthony-scaramucci/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","politics","Comedy","White House","Donald Trump","Late Night Television","trump"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcc9023c792f33327/6988d6fd97cdff76e06b1bad/anthony-scaramucci-late-night-hosts.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nick Romano / Entertainment Weekly"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcc9023c792f33327/6988d6fd97cdff76e06b1bad/anthony-scaramucci-late-night-hosts.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"White House Communications Team Reshuffled, With Sean Spicer Resignation And Anthony Scaramucci Appointed Director","caption":"White House Communications Team Reshuffled, With Sean Spicer Resignation And Anthony Scaramucci Appointed Director","creditText":"Chip Somodevilla—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/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4872361/colbert-seth-meyers-trevor-noah-anthony-scaramucci/","name":"Late Night Had a Field Day Mocking Anthony 'The Mooch' Scaramucci"}}]}] ```