Melissa McCarthy has returned to Saturday Night Live in an eye-wateringly accurate smackdown of White House press secretary Sean Spicer.
It was a performance equal to, if not better than, Alec Baldwin's impression of President Trump: and that's not an alternative fact.
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Melissa McCarthy nails Sean Spicer
Melissa McCarthy's impression of press secretary Sean Spicer looks set to become a regular feature on Saturday Night Live.
Journalists and political watchers the world over laughed and winced in equal measure as McCarthy mocked Spicer in every manner conceivable - from his chewing gum habit, right down to his big, frumpy suit jackets that look like they've come straight out of a 1980s costume department.
"I'm not here to be your buddy," McCarthy shouts at the start of her performance - reminiscent of the way Spicer tore strips off the media for reporting the truth about crowd sizes at Trump's inauguration.
![Melissa McCarthy as Sean Spicer.](/web/20170206094713im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/u/6/4/j/1/image.related.articleLeadwide.620x349.gu63cx.png/1486368602951.png)
"I'm here to swallow gum, and I'm here to take names," she continues, tipping an entire packet of gum into her mouth.
"Now let me wave something shiny in front of you monkeys."
But that was just the start, with McCarthy launching into a dry spiel about the President's Supreme Court nominee and how, when it was announced, there was a standing ovation "for 15 full minutes".
"You can check the tape on that," McCarthy shouts.
![Actress Melissa McCarthy in the press room during the 2016 People's Choice Awards.](/web/20170206094713im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/m/1/5/0/c/image.related.articleLeadwide.620x349.gu63cx.png/1486368602951.jpg)
"Everyone was smiling, everyone was happy, the men all had erections and every single one of the women was ovulating left and right.
"And no one - no one - was sad. Those are the facts forever."
![Alec Baldwin recreating Trump's brutal phone call with Malcolm Turnbull.](/web/20170206094713im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/u/5/y/5/0/image.related.articleLeadwide.620x349.gu63cx.png/1486368602951.jpg)
Still laughing this morning, at SNL's #Melissa McCarthy's performance as Spicey. So darn darn funny.
— Zazanneblum (@sbzannezanne) February 5, 2017
So we can expect more Melissa McCarthy as Spicey Spicer? Cause she NAILED IT. PERIOD. Not an alternative fact. @nbcsnl
— Val (@Vsue09) February 5, 2017
"Spicey needs his big boy nap". Melissa McCarthy is hilarious!
— Tracy Williamson (@twill82) February 5, 2017
Perhaps the most hilarious aspect of the skit was when McCarthy's character rips on the Trump's administration's habit of spreading outright lies and playing word games when getting caught out.
Just last week, senior White House advisor Kellyanne Conway cited a completely fictional massacre as a justification for Trump barring people from several Muslim-majority nations from entering the United States.
"The travel ban is not a ban, which makes it not a ban," McCarthy's Spicer claims.
A baffled New York Times reporter points out McCarthy herself called the executive order a ban.
"Because I'm using your words," McCarthy fires back. "You said ban. Now I'm saying it back to you."
The reporter, growing more and more confused by the second, says Trump himself has used the word "ban".
"He's quoting you," McCarthy shouts. "He's using your words. When you use the words and he uses them back, it's circular using of the word and that's from you."
When a journalist from The Wall Street Journal asks McCarthy if she's okay, she picks up the lectern and rams it repeatedly into the reporter.
"You cannot come at me like that, I will put you in the corner like CNN," she shouts, as the camera cuts to a CNN reporter locked in a cage and wearing what appears to be a nappy.
The skit finishes with McCarthy using a water pistol to spray a reporter with soapy water to wash out his "filthy, lying mouth".
"That's enough for today, Spicey's gotta go bye-bye now," McCarthy says. "I need a big boy nap."
With a performance like that, and so much more material to draw on, it doesn't look like the Ghostbusters star will be taking a break any time soon.