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Melissa McCarthy has gone into the streets of Manhattan to lampoon Wh i te House press secretary Sean Spicer. The comedian was captured on video Friday morning riding a motorized lectern in midtown while dressed as Spicer, presumably a sequence that will air when McCarthy hosts the next Saturday Night Live. In the video, McCarthy is seen gliding in the middle of traffic in front of the Time Warner Center, not far from Rockefeller Center, the longtime home of NBC’s Saturday Night Live. NBC would not comment on the video. Spicer has been a frequent target of McCarthy, who has mocked him in the past in skits where she fires a water gun at the press corps and uses the mobile lectern to ram and intimidate journalists.
He’s been a race-car driver, a Santa’s elf, a TV anchorman and now that he leaves the University of Southern California with an honorary doctorate in hand, Will Ferrell told fellow graduates Friday that he’s ready to deliver a baby on an airliner. “Hopefully it will be on United Airlines, from which I will be immediately subdued and dragged off the aircraft,” Ferrell added to roars of laughter as he delivered the commencement address to USC’s 134th graduating class. The Emmyand Golden Globe-nominated actor-writer-producer arrived at the podium on the university’s campus near downtown in full graduation regalia, including a black, white-striped gown. For the most part he shyly ignored a huge ovation as he walked in with other distinguished guests, including actress Helen Mirren, instead waving quickly to family and friends that included his mother, his wife and their three children. Then he took the Class of 2017 through a laugh-filled, self-deprecating 30-minute ride through his career since the day in 1990 he received a degree in sports information journalism from USC. “A program so difficult, so arduous, that they discontinued the major eight years after I left,” Ferrell said. He would go on to star in such films as Get Hard, Elf, Old School, Blades of Glory and Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy. He was nominated for Golden Globes for his roles in The Producers and Stranger Than Fiction and Emmys for his work as a producer on television’s Drunk History. He received the prestigious Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2011.