--- title: Sean Spicer Wants Melissa McCarthy to Share Her Emmy description: Following Melissa McCarthy's Emmy win for best guest actress on a comedy series, Sean Spicer suggested that he deserves some of the credit. canonical: https://time.com/4938566/sean-spicer-melissa-mccarthy-emmy-share/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-09-12T21:28:55.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:47:11.439Z og:title: Sean Spicer Wants a Piece of Melissa McCarthy's SNL Emmy og:description: McCarthy won the award for her impression of the former White House press secretary og:url: https://time.com/4938566/sean-spicer-melissa-mccarthy-emmy-share/ 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: Sean Spicer Wants a Piece of Melissa McCarthy's SNL Emmy twitter:description: McCarthy won the award for her impression of the former White House press secretary 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 ---  # Sean Spicer Wants a Piece of Melissa McCarthy's _SNL_ Emmy  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Sep 12, 2017 9:28 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 [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Sep 12, 2017 9:28 PM UTC Although [Sean Spicer](http://time.com/4921240/sean-spicer-pope-francis-donald-trump/) recommended that [Melissa McCarthy](http://time.com/4868579/sean-spicer-melissa-mccarthy-snl-democrats/) “[dial it back](http://time.com/4661057/sean-spicer-melissa-mccarthy-snl/)” following her debut impression of him on [_Saturday Night Live_](http://time.com/4915771/alec-baldwin-saturday-night-live-steve-bannon/), the former White House press secretary apparently now thinks he should reap the rewards of her performance. Following McCarthy’s win for best guest actress on a comedy series at Sunday’s Creative Arts Emmys, Spicer suggested to the [TheBlast.com](https://theblast.com/sean-spicer-melissa-mccarthy-emmy-share/) that he deserves some credit for the honor. “I think we should share,” he replied with a smile when asked if McCarthy owes him part of the award. Spicer resigned from his position in July after President Donald Trump named former New York hedge fund executive [Anthony Scaramucci](http://time.com/4868132/anthony-scaramucci-white-house-communications-director/) as his communications director, prompting a surge of [disappointed tweets from Democrats](http://time.com/4868579/sean-spicer-melissa-mccarthy-snl-democrats/) who said they would miss McCarthy’s parody. “I guess a six-month stint of telling [#alternativefacts](https://twitter.com/hashtag/alternativefacts?src=hash) was all \[Sean Spicer\] could handle,” [wrote Congressman Mark Veasey](https://twitter.com/RepVeasey/status/888433452474916864?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref%5Furl=http%3A%2F%2Ftime.com%2F4868579%2Fsean-spicer-melissa-mccarthy-snl-democrats%2F). “\[Melissa McCarthy\] must also be out of her SNL job. Well, we’ll always have Youtube.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4938566/sean-spicer-melissa-mccarthy-emmy-share/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4938566/sean-spicer-melissa-mccarthy-emmy-share/"},"headline":"Sean Spicer Wants a Piece of Melissa McCarthy's SNL Emmy","datePublished":"2017-09-12T21:28:55.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:47:11.439Z","description":"McCarthy won the award for her impression of the former White House press secretary","url":"https://time.com/4938566/sean-spicer-melissa-mccarthy-emmy-share/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","Saturday Night Live","TV","melissa mccarthy","Late Night Television","sean spicer"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt39cfd4a7b178f8a1/6988ba3697cdffb5f16af79b/sean-spicer-snlspicer.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt39cfd4a7b178f8a1/6988ba3697cdffb5f16af79b/sean-spicer-snlspicer.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 -- \"Alec Baldwin\" Episode 1718 -- Pictured: Melissa McCarthy as Press Secretary Sean Spicer during the \"Sean Spicer Press Conference Cold Open\" on February 11, 2017 -- (Photo by: Will Heath/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)","creditText":"Chip Somodevilla—Getty Images; Will Heath—NBCU Photo Bank/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/4938566/sean-spicer-melissa-mccarthy-emmy-share/","name":"Sean Spicer Wants a Piece of Melissa McCarthy's SNL Emmy"}}]}] ```