Against dramatic music and lighting that evoked Mr. Trump’s boardroom reality show, “The Apprentice,” Mr. Baldwin evaluated the two candidates. Instructing Mr. Fallon to “fix everything,” Mr. Baldwin sat himself at a smaller desk, next to the larger one he’d started at, where he and Mr. Fallon proclaimed the start of the show. Later in the program, Melissa McCarthy (appearing by satellite from Los Angeles) reprised her recurring “S.N.L.” role as Mr. Spicer, the White House press secretary. As Spicer, Ms. McCarthy took the press room podium dressed in an Easter bunny costume and said she would deliver an apology. “Spicey finally made a mistake.”After stumbling over Mr. Assad’s name — she called him “Bazooka Phylicia Ahmad Rashad” — Ms. McCarthy said, “I know they’re not really called Holocaust centers.

Source: New York Times April 16, 2017 06:11 UTC