'SNL': Melissa McCarthy's Sean Spicer is on a roll(ing podium)

Not to hyperbolize but this might have been the most important Saturday Night Live sketch of Sean Spicer's career, what with speculation that President Trump is considering replacing him with a Fox News personality.

Deputy press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders (who described herself as the daughter of Mike Huckabee "and a big Southern hamburger") did her best to cover for her absent boss, assuring reporters that he was not, in fact, lurking in the bushes.

But when a couple of journalists asked if the "articulate and charming" Sanders (Aidy Bryant) could take over press briefings on a permanent basis, that was too much for the pugnacious press secretary.

Melissa McCarthy's Spicer shot down a question asking him to comment on tweets calling the president "unhinged," insisting, "If he's crazy, he's crazy like a fox ... with mental problems."

When it comes to accusations that his boss colluded with the Russians to win the election, Spicey insisted, "he's innocent. How do we know? Because he told us so. Period. Then he hired lawyers to agree with him. And they're gonna prove it with a certified letter which you know is the truth is because it costs an extra two dollars to have it certified!"

And because it just ain't a Spicey sketch without educational props, he called for his "little Russian dollies."

"Here's Trump. He's the biggest one and he's the most beautiful. And he wasn't happy with the performance of the FBI director Comey because he wasn't being nice to our friend Hillary (pointing to Maleficent) ... So what actually happened is Trump conferred with his good, good friend Steve Bannon (Slimer from Ghostbusters) and the decision to fire Comey was even confirmed by Trump's tiniest little buddy Jeff Sessions (Pikachu)."

Then another reporter really tried his temper by asking, "Are you surprised Trump fired Comey before he fired you?"  (To be fair, everyone in the room was thinking the same thing, but she got a Greek column hurled at her  for asking.)

Finally, the most important question regarding Spicer's credibility: "What if Trump is lying to you?"

The reporter continued, "And if he's your friend, why does he make you come out here and humiliate yourself every day?"

A defiant Spicer insisted, "He doesn't make me. I like it. I get off on it."

But the seeds of doubt had been planted, and Spicey ended the briefing, hopped on his mobile podium and headed to New York to seek answers from his boss about whether he was about to be fired. (Well, then he had to go to New Jersey, to where Trump actually was, but then he sought those answers.)

Trump tried to sidestep the awkward conversation by asking Spicer to kiss him ("I'm famous. It's OK").

"Is this like The Godfather where you kiss me and nobody ever sees me again?" he asked worriedly.

"Yes."