--- title: Sean Spicer Sings I Will Survive in Jimmy Fallon Video description: Jimmy Fallon paid tribute to Sean Spicer by splicing together clips of daily press briefings to the lyrics of the disco hit "I Will Survive." canonical: https://time.com/4872618/fallon-sean-spicer-i-will-survive/ author: Entertainment Weekly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-07-25T15:04:57.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:45:42.379Z og:title: Sean Channels His Disco Star in This 'I Will Survive' Song og:description: Jimmy Fallon paid tribute to the former press secretary og:url: https://time.com/4872618/fallon-sean-spicer-i-will-survive/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd6f3ef9371b33640/6988d708656a3f47f7bd0fab/sean-spicer-i-will-surive.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4000 og:image:height: 2250 og:image:alt: White House Press Briefing With Sean Spicer og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Sean Channels His Disco Star in This 'I Will Survive' Song twitter:description: Jimmy Fallon paid tribute to the former press secretary twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd6f3ef9371b33640/6988d708656a3f47f7bd0fab/sean-spicer-i-will-surive.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch Sean Spicer Channel His Inner Disco Star in This 'I Will Survive' Farewell Song > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically. by [Oliver Gettell / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Oliver Gettell / Entertainment Weekly Jul 25, 2017 3:04 PM UTC  Sean Spicer arrives to a press briefing at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Monday, June 26, 2017. Sean Spicer arrives to a press briefing at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Monday, June 26, 2017. Andrew Harrer—Bloomberg /Getty Images by [Oliver Gettell / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Oliver Gettell / Entertainment Weekly Jul 25, 2017 3:04 PM UTC Sean Spicer’s days as White House press secretary may be over, but his pop culture legacy lives on. On Monday’s episode of _The Tonight Show_, Jimmy Fallon paid tribute to the once-embattled spokesman by splicing clips of his daily briefings together to form a rousing rendition of Gloria Gaynor’s disco anthem “I Will Survive.” It was a tongue-in-cheek but somehow fitting song for Spicer, who [resigned from the Trump administration](http://ew.com/tv/2017/07/21/sean-spicer-resignation-cnn-contributor-fox-news/) last week after the president appointed Wall Street financier [Anthony Scaramucci](http://ew.com/tv/2017/07/21/anthony-scaramucci-donald-trump-briefing/) as his new communications director. Watch Spicer’s musical stylings below. _The Tonight Show_ airs weeknights at 11:35 p.m. ET on NBC. > [](https://twitter.com/FallonTonight/status/889619362797297667) _This_ [_article_](http://ew.com/tv/2017/07/24/sean-spicer-sings-i-will-survive-jimmy-fallon-mashup/) _originally appeared on_ [_EW.com_](http://www.ew.com) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4872618/fallon-sean-spicer-i-will-survive/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4872618/fallon-sean-spicer-i-will-survive/"},"headline":"Watch Sean Spicer Channel His Inner Disco Star in This 'I Will Survive' Farewell Song","datePublished":"2017-07-25T15:04:57.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:45:42.379Z","description":"Jimmy Fallon paid tribute to Sean Spicer by splicing together clips of daily press briefings to the lyrics of the disco hit \"I Will Survive.\"","url":"https://time.com/4872618/fallon-sean-spicer-i-will-survive/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","Music","viral","White House","Musical","Late Night Television","sean spicer"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd6f3ef9371b33640/6988d708656a3f47f7bd0fab/sean-spicer-i-will-surive.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Oliver Gettell / Entertainment Weekly"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd6f3ef9371b33640/6988d708656a3f47f7bd0fab/sean-spicer-i-will-surive.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"White House Press Briefing With Sean Spicer","caption":"White House Press Briefing With Sean Spicer","creditText":"Andrew Harrer—Bloomberg /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/4872618/fallon-sean-spicer-i-will-survive/","name":"Watch Sean Spicer Channel His Inner Disco Star in This 'I Will Survive' Farewell Song"}}]}] ```