WE HARDLY KNEW YA, MOOCH
Comedians bid farewell to White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci
THE LATE SHOW WITH STEPHEN COLBERT
Just days earlier, Stephen Colbert welcomed Scaramucci to his post, singing a rendition Bohemian Rhapsody (“Scaramouche, Scaramouche, can you do the fandango?”).
But Monday night, Colbert switched to the more sombre part of Queen’s famous song, changing the lyrics to “Mama, I just got canned ... barely got to the White House, said some dumb stuff now I’m out ... Mama, my job had just begun, and now I’ve gone and thrown it all away.”
“Now I guess it’s time to say goodbye,” Colbert said. “We hardly knewcci.”
He joked that it was time for him to get rid of all of his mooch memorabilia — his “moochandise.”
THE DAILY SHOW
On Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, Trevor Noah also took a sarcastically melancholy approach to bidding the Trump-like New Yorker farewell, featuring an “in memoriam” tribute similar to those broadcast at the Academy Awards.
“The guy got fired before the job began!” Noah said, in reference to the fact that Scaramucci’s communications job was not supposed to start until Aug. 15.
“It’s like the song of the summer,” Noah said. “Scaramucci came into our lives, made everyone obsessed with him for like a week, and then left us with nothing but memories and a bunch of weird moves.” He showed a video clip of Scaramucci blowing a kiss during a news conference last week.
LATE NIGHT WITH SETH MEYERS
On Late Night With Seth Meyers, the host noted that Scaramucci’s tenure was as long as his last name. He joked that Trump has fired so many members of his White House staff that “at this point getting fired is part of orientation.”
He talked about how former White House chief of staff Reince Priebus was ousted shortly after Scaramucci’s public, vicious feud with Priebus.
“Scaramucci got Priebus fired, and then he got fired two days later,” Meyers said. “That’s like telling someone ‘see you in hell’ and then literally showing up in hell the next day.”
THE TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JIMMY FALLON
Jimmy Fallon, in recounting the news of the day, he added a make-believe twist: “This was a little awkward. When Scaramucci called an Uber to pick him up at the White House, Sean Spicer was driving. Imagine the odds of that happening.”
Spicer, of course, resigned as the White House press secretary on the day of Scaramucci’s hiring.
Fallon also mentioned the news last week that Scaramucci missed the birth of his son last week, when he was in West Virginia with Trump. Scaramucci reportedly sent his wife a text reading, “Congratulations, I’ll pray for our child.”
“Trump was like, you don’t text your wife after she has your baby,” Fallon quipped. “You tweet her.”
JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE
Jimmy Kimmel, meanwhile, joked he landed the first “exclusive interview” with Scaramucci after his firing which, of course, wasn’t true. The fake audio played was almost entirely bleeped out due to profanity — spoofing Scaramucci’s vulgar rants in a New Yorker interview.
With all the shakeups in the White House, Kimmel said, it’s only a matter of time before Trump replaced Ivanka Trump, his daughter and a White House adviser, with his other daughter, Tiffany.
Then, Kimmel summed up the night: “How did we lose the Mooch already?”