‘SNL’ alum Hader channels inner Mooch
In its special prime-time run, “Saturday Night Live”-lite wasted little time in satirizing Anthony Scaramucci with a little help from Bill Hader.
Kicking off the first of its four Thursday episodes of “Weekend Update: Summer Edition,” Hader returned to his old stamping grounds to play the former White House communications director who left quite the impression during his brief tenure, thanks in part to a phone conversation with a New Yorker reporter.
The lampooning started when “Weekend Update” co-anchor Colin Jost referenced the Trump administration’s revolving door, with Scaramucci, press secretary Sean Spicer and chief of staff Reince Priebus out.
After proclaiming “MOOCH!” several times and poorly clarifying his comments from that vulgar New Yorker exchange, Hader’s Scaramucci played up the public’s fascination with him.
“Everybody loves the Mooch,” Hader as Scaramucci said with exaggerated hand gestures to match an exaggerated Italian accent.
When co-anchor Michael Che suggested he would have liked Scaramucci to have stuck around a little longer, Hader’s Scaramucci agreed but said he had no regrets.
“All I did was sell my company, miss the birth of my child and ruin my entire reputation, all to be king of Idiot Mountain for 11 days,” he said.