--- 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=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2560 og:image:height: 1440 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=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Sean Spicer Wants a Piece of Melissa McCarthy's _SNL_ Emmy > Sponsored content. 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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. 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