Sean Spicer tells Jimmy Kimmel that Melissa McCarthy's impression 'cost me a lot of money in therapy'

'I don't think he found as much humour in it as others,' he said of Trump's reaction

To be honest, Jimmy Kimmel didn't achieve much in inviting former Press Secretary Sean Spicer on his show, his first interview since leaving the White House.

The host may have breached topics like Donald Trump's Twitter habits, the lies about his inauguration crowd size, and the accusatory use of the term "fake news", but all Kimmel got in return were a bunch of bland, vague diatribes; much less revelatory, in fact, than Spicer's famous outbursts on the job.

One of the few moments in which Spicer's mask seemed to slip in even the slightest way was when Kimmel breached the topic of Melissa McCarthy's impersonation of Spicer on Saturday Night Live.

After a brief clip from the sketch show was aired, Spicer could be heard chuckling and joking as an aside, "it costed me, like, a lot of money in therapy".

The source of Spicer's trauma? Perhaps revealed when Kimmel asked him about Trump's reaction, especially in seeing Spicer played by a woman. "I don't think he found as much humour in it as others," he rather grimly replied.

Spicer also revealed that he was unaware he would be leading a press conference on the very first day of his job, having to make claims Trump's inauguration "was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration — period — both in person and around the globe."

"If it was up to me, I would have probably worn a different suit," he joked. He also explained that he had no personal ill will towards his (brief) successor Anthony Scaramucci, despite thinking he didn't possess the right qualifications for the job.

"I don’t think it’s right to relish in someone else’s problems," Spicer said of Scaramucci's swift tenure. "But again, I think it proved my point that to do this job, is one in which you have to have the proper background."

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