--- title: SNL Weekend Update: Bill Hader Plays Anthony Scaramucci description: Bill Hader channeled Anthony Scaramucci via FaceTime on Saturday Night Live's limited series Weekend Update: Summer Edition. canonical: https://time.com/4896862/bill-hader-scaramucci-snl-weekend-update/ author: Ashley Hoffman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-08-11T14:03:40.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:46:23.008Z og:title: Bill Hader Debuts as Scaramucci on SNL's Weekend Update og:description: The SNL alum made an appearance to revive 'The Mooch' og:url: https://time.com/4896862/bill-hader-scaramucci-snl-weekend-update/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1e9ddfcce5b8eecc/6988d95a86f68eef7c6e5f66/snl.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1280 og:image:height: 720 og:image:alt: Snl og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Bill Hader Debuts as Scaramucci on SNL's Weekend Update twitter:description: The SNL alum made an appearance to revive 'The Mooch' twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1e9ddfcce5b8eecc/6988d95a86f68eef7c6e5f66/snl.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Bill Hader's 'Anthony Scaramucci' Showed Up to Clear the Air on _Weekend Update: Summer Edition_ > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically. by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Aug 11, 2017 2:03 PM UTC  by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Aug 11, 2017 2:03 PM UTC Anthony Scaramucci may be out at the White House, but on [late night television](http://time.com/4813512/best-political-impressions-2017/), the ousted communications director lives on. [_Saturday Night Live_](http://time.com/4778402/melissa-mccarthy-saturday-night-live-sean-spicer/) veteran Bill Hader was on hand Thursday night to beam into the first of four episodes of _Weekend Update: Summer Edition_. As “The Mooch” explains from the comfort of his luxury apartment, whenever he hears his name three times, he appears, just like Beetlejuice. Hader’s “Scaramucci” called in to dispute a key quote from his notorious [late-July interview](http://time.com/4877548/anthony-scaramucci-interview-reince-priebus/) with the _New Yorker_. Furrowing his brows and rolling his shoulders, he tells host Michel Che that he has no regrets about the sacrifices he made to be “king of idiot mountain for 11 days.” But now that _SNL_‘s gone primetime, there was a catch: throughout the clip, he had to keep his language clean — a challenge he was able to skate around until the very end, when the show had to bleep him out. Still, on the whole it was a very cathartic FaceTime session. 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