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That same year, she was the featured comedian in the popular series Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee. In 2019, she replaced Mindy Kaling as the voice of Taffyta Muttonfudge in Ralph Breaks the Internet. In 2018, Villaseñor appeared on the second season of HBO's Crashing. She is a member of Broadway Video's digital studio Más Mejor, which spotlights Latino comedians. She has also done voice work for the animated shows Adventure Time, Family Guy and TripTank, as well as being a semifinalist in season 6 of America's Got Talent and appearing on an episode of First Impressions. After her 2011 appearance on America's Got Talent's regional Seattle showcase, Villaseñor returned to California, and performed in two one-woman shows in Hollywood. Prior to becoming a full-time comedian, she worked as a cashier in a retail store in Prairie Ridge, Washington. She was promoted to the cast of repertory players in 2019, becoming the first Latina to be promoted to that position. Villaseñor is the second Latina cast member in SNL history, after Noel Wells. Villaseñor was introduced as a featured player in 2016, alongside Mikey Day and Alex Moffat.
What better way to call out the absurd behavior of a White House led by a president whose actions are rooted in sexism than by having a woman step in to comment on it with comedy? Donald Trump's reaction to the sketch undoubtedly says it all.Melissa Villaseñor is a comedian and impressionist on Saturday Night Live. But, as The New York Times also mentions, her gender is important for the very reasons stated above. She was the best performer for the role, regardless of her gender. (Monty Python's entire canon, as well as many SNL sketches often featured cisgender men presenting as women as the joke, but it's a pretty outdated - and sexist - form of comedy.)Īs The New York Times points out, Melissa wasn't just funny because of how she was dressed, she was funny because of the talent she possesses while taking on outrageous roles (like her character in Bridesmaids, for example). It's also notable that the joke was not that a woman was dressed as a man, as many sketches featuring men dressed in women’s clothing are often played for effect.
This isn't the first time that SNL has cast an actor in a role that didn't align with the actor's gender, but the effect of this particular sketch was evident. (One of the things it illustrated? The fact that women can and do wear suits, just like Melissa's on SNL, without being in character.)īut the choice to have Melissa McCarthy play Sean Spicer was a deliberate one after all, SNL has a plethora of talented male comedians who could have taken on the role – but none would have made the impact that Melissa did.
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Reports of an enforced dress code also surfaced last week, prompting Twitter to clap back with the #DressLikeAWoman hashtag. Trump has bragged about sexual assault, defended himself against allegations of assault by insinuating that the victims weren't "attractive" enough for him, boasted about "getting a peek" at naked beauty pageant contestants because he can "get away with it," and has, over the course of decades, uttered dozens of sexist comments. But it's impossible to ignore the fact that Trump's career is marked by a long history of misogyny, and that sexism would no doubt impact how the sketch is viewed. Melissa didn't play Spicer as a "feminine" caricature, she created a character that felt bizarrely true to the reality of who Spicer is as a public figure. Yet the fact that a woman had stepped into this role is part of what made the sketch so deeply subversive.
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