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Melissa McCarthy Goes Ballistic On 'SNL' To Slay Sean Spicer Role Again

A furious “Spicey” tells it like it is to reporters -- or, as he calls them, “dumb babies.”

Melissa McCarthy's White House press secretary Sean Spicer roared back to "Saturday Night Live" louder, angrier and more preposterous than ever — and with amuch bigger wad of chewing gum.

If Spicer himself thought it was time for "SNL" to tone down the mean, McCarthy only amped it up. She was even more explosive as she mocked fake facts, extreme vetting, Spicer's outlandish treatment of the media and the Trump administration's slam on Nordstrom's for dumping Ivanka Trump's products.

McCarthy's barely contained "Spicey" struggled to control himself at the very start of a press conference in the cold open.

"OK, now I'm gonna open it up for questions and I'm probably gonna' freak if you start asking stupid questions. Speaking of freaks and stupid ones, Glenn Thrush, New York Times, stupid hack, go," McCarthy snapped.

When cast member Bobby Moynihan, playing Thrush, asked about the court decision against Trump's travel ban, a furious Spicey pointed skyward, saying: "You're testing me, big guy." Spicey vowed to take it all the way to the "People's Court." When Thrush explained that it's not a real court, a livid Spicey shouted: "Don't eff with me, Glenn."