Female Comedians Volunteering to Play Trump Staffers on SNL

After Melissa McCarthy rocked the White House with her Sean Spicer impression, female comedians are begging to be cast as Trump Staffers on SNL.

It was the guest star turn on Saturday Night Live that rocked the weekend news cycle. Melissa McCarthy roared out of the gate in male drag, doing a dead on impression of the bizarrely unhinged propaganda distributing device known as Sean Spicer. But what rocked the White House about her defining portrayal was not her voice, the prop box, the screaming or the ramming the press corp with her podium. It was, in the president’s eyes, the fact that Spicer was being played by a woman.

We’ve all known, throughout the entire campaign that Trump has serious gender conformist issues, to put it nicely. But the reminder to women comedians that they can get to Trump simply via their gender seems to have prompted some of them to start openly campaigning to be cast as various Trump staffers.

The big one, naturally, is Rosie O’Donnell, whose “feud” with Trump has spanned decades at this point. She’s smartly set her sights on playing Trump’s most powerful advisor, and the man many conspiracy minded people say is the real man running the show, Steve Bannon. Bannon is currently being portrayed by a (male) comedian dressed in a cheap halloween death costume, a silent admission that the show hasn’t figured out the proper angle to attack someone that willing to revel in their own monstrous reputation.

O’Donnell even went so far this week as to have herself photoshopped into a Bannon like outfit to show how effective she’d be.

As of right now, it’s not true–or at least if it is, no one is admitting to it. But the hope that SNL will consider diminishing Bannon in Trump’s view by having him portrayed by a woman remains.

Meanwhile, in things that are actually dangerous to the country, congress approved Betsy DaVos as education secretary this week, which suggests that Kate McKinnon’s turn as the woefully ill prepared education secretary may be a more permanent one. That is, unless Christine Baranski gets her way to be cast in the role.

Speaking to Vanity Fair, the star of the forthcoming The Good Fight on CBS openly campaigned to be chosen.

"“It would seem somewhat logical—we have that strong jawline, don’t we?I can play people with whom I drastically disagree. The [SNL] sketches have been unbelievable all through the election, and the post-election. So yeah, we could have a revolving door of people playing the cabinet members and all.”"

Even Billy Baldwin, Alec Baldwin’s less famous brother is trying to get in on the act, seeing if he can play a Trump too. Since Alec plays Donald he’d like to be cast as Eric.

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Will any of these casting come to pass? We’ll have to tune in next time it’s live from New York on Saturday Night.