Mario Cantone Gets First Crack at Portraying 'The Mooch'

The Sex and the City alumni didn't wait for SNL to play Anthony Scaramucci.

Tracy E. Gilchrist

Tracy E. Gilchrist is the VP of Editorial and Special Projects at equalpride. A media veteran, she writes about the intersections of LGBTQ+ equality and pop culture. Previously, she was the editor-in-chief of The Advocate and the first feminism editor for the 55-year-old brand. In 2017, she launched the company's first podcast, The Advocates. She is an experienced broadcast interviewer, panel moderator, and public speaker who has delivered her talk, "Pandora's Box to Pose: Game-changing Visibility in Film and TV," at universities throughout the country.

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It's a safe bet that never in the history of a presidential administration has there been a crew as easily lampoonable as Donald Trump's, and they just keep coming. Within hours of introducing the country to the colorful new White House Communication's Director Anthony Scaramucci, the buzz about who would play him on Saturday Night Live began. Sex and the City alumni Mario Cantone's name came up immediately due in large part to the fact that he's something of a doppelganger for the diminutive and mouthy Scaramucci. But Cantone didn't wait for SNL's Lorne Michaels to call. Comedy Central's The President Show scooped him up to play Scaramucci opposite Anthony Atamanuik's as Trump.

The sketch that aired Thursday night featured Cantone's Scaramucci as something of a foul-mouthed soothsayer predicting the firing of Trump's Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, which actually happened a few hours later.

"Can you comment on the fact that only a few years ago you supported Democrats, were pro-choice, and pro-gun control?" a reporter in the sketch asked Cantone's Scaramucci. "You talking to me or him (the Trump character)?" the Scaramucci character replied, as he and Trump bonded over their similarities.

Watch the sketch below.