We knew, after spotting Melissa McCarthy riding a podium around Manhattan, that she would once again portray embattled White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer when she hosted Saturday Night Live later in the week. But the actual sketch opens with Spicer's understudy, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, engaging with members of the media—who then notice Spicer hiding in some bushes outside.

Things just get worse for Spicey from there, and when his usual bullying tactics become a bit more extreme, the reporters in the room raise a question he'd never considered: What if President Trump routinely lies to him, and worse than that, isn't really his friend? He'll have to go on an existential road trip to find out.

This sketch certainly makes it seem as if it's the last we'll see of Spicer, but who knows? As long as he's got a job in this administration, we'll want to see McCarthy skewering him.

Even by Trump standards, the Trump Train was off the rails this week. Between the shock firing of FBI Director James Comey and Russian diplomats visiting the Oval Office, it seemed as if the president no longer cares how bad anything looks—so long as he gets to keep being president. Which is exactly what Alec Baldwin's Trump said in Saturday Night Live's latest cold open. Watch him humiliate Paul Ryan, explain the (gross) meaning of "prime the pump," explain why he's not like Richard Nixon, and discuss his unique sitting style as he spirals out of control.

The last four months really have been a million years long.

Melissa McCarthy was thrilled to be hosting Saturday Night Live this week, and not just because it was her fifth time at the show's helm (plus another chance to break out the Sean Spicer impression). It was also Mother's Day weekend, and after making all the moms in the audience stand up, Melissa picked one named Joan to take on a whirlwind VIP tour of the studio.

Sure, it starts off pretty normal, but by the time we get to the "hallway llama" and a surprise run-in with Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds, you know it's something special. And at the very end, Joan got to live a TV dream: entering through the SNL host's door to the wild applause of the crowd.

Say, this Joan's pretty quick on her feet—can we add her to the regular cast?

Meet adorable toddler and future Dancing with the Stars contestant Maddie. She may be strapped into a car seat, but she doesn't let that keep her from busting a move to an infectious groove. Just watch as she carefully listens to Bruno Mars' megahit "Uptown Funk," bopping ever so slightly as she waits for the song's biggest beat-drop. If you think her close concentration is cute, just wait till you see how she throws her arms in the air like she just don't care.

Man, this kid must be a blast at wedding receptions.

It's Mother's Day, and you know what that means: Time to frantically call a florist and see if they can do a last-minute delivery! But this Hallmark Holiday isn't just about pampering the strong and resourceful women who gave us life—it's also about reflecting on the many ways they support and influence us the other 364 days of the year.

To that end, please enjoy these mom memes. Then, if you're feel like there's one your mom will especially appreciate, go ahead and text it to her. Yeah, she'll make you explain how you can send a photo on your phone, but just think of that as some extra quality time with her.

Russian President Vladimir Putin took a break from shirtless horseback riding and late-night phone calls with Donald Trump to give an impromptu piano recital in China— well, if you'd call having a cameraman on hand to film the whole thing "impromptu."

According to The New York Times, Putin decided to tickle the ivories while waiting to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing on Sunday. Putin plunked out "Evening Song," by Vasily Solovyov-Sedoi, and "Moscow Windows," by TikhonKournikova, two songs written in the 1950s.

Let's be real, though, he's not very good. Don't quit your authoritarian day job, Vlad.

The clip went viral afterThe New York Times tweeted it with the caption "a piano recital in Beijing showers perhaps a softer side of Vladimir Putin."

Twitter was not impressed with Putin's sub-par piano skills.

But they were even less impressed with The New York Times' headline.

Hey, Vladimir Putin, do you take requests? Play "Putin on the Ritz" next!

A story on Politico about how President Donald Trump "gets his fake news" is currently having a moment on Twitter, an impressive feat for a long, journalistic piece on complicated White House intrigue. But it's easy to see why.

Here's how it opens: the deputy national security advisor, K.T. McFarland, gave Trump two Time magazine covers. One was from the 1970s, and it warned of a looming ice age. The next was from 2008, and it detailed the impending terrors of climate change. From Politico:

Trump quickly got lathered up about the media’s hypocrisy. But there was a problem. The 1970s cover was fake, part of an Internet hoax that’s circulated for years. Staff chased down the truth and intervened before Trump tweeted or talked publicly about it.

If Donald Trump used the internet, he could have Googled the fake news story about the ice age. Here, I did it for him:

But as Politico reports, Trump "rarely browses the Internet on his own." So it's up to his staff to hand him the conspiracy theories that fit each of their agendas, and "they do so to gain an edge in the seemingly endless Game of Thrones inside the West Wing."

Other journalists were just terrified:

The conclusion of the article is this:

A news story tucked into Trump’s hands at the right moment can torpedo an appointment or redirect the president’s entire agenda.

Read the full story over at Politico.

On Sunday night, Miss District of Columbia Kara McCullough won the title of Miss USA for the second year in a row. Before being crowned, McCullough, who Newsweek reports is a scientist working at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, answered a question about whether she thought healthcare was a privilege or a right. She went with "privilege." You can hear her answer in the tweet below.

McCullough also declined to call herself a feminist, saying she preferred the word "equalist."

Kara McCullough's answers caused mixed reactions on social media. Some conservatives agreed with McCullough (who, according to Newsweek, follows President Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump on Twitter), and showed their support for her.

But lots of people disagreed strongly with her opinions. Here's a sample of the varied reactions on Twitter.

So on one hand, you've got a woman of color scientist as Miss USA, which is great! On the other hand, she doesn't seem to know the actual definition of feminism (which has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with man-hating), and she views healthcare as a privilege only for people who have jobs. Hmm.

Sunday was Mother's Day, the one day a year we honor the moms who work so hard the other 364 days a year (and this 365th one, too, actually). Moms never really get a day off, but they do get a day where hopefully their kids show them how very much they love them, with visits and cards and gifts or at least a damn phone call. Moms are the backbone of our society and they deserve the best of everything. Here are some sweet, silly, moving, and completely loving Mother's Day Instagrams shared by celebrities of their moms, their kids, and their kids' moms.

1. John Legend

2. Madonna

3. Nicki Minaj

4. Reese Witherspoon

5. Viola Davis

6. Jessica Alba

7. Tia Mowry

8. Kelly Rowland

9. Khloe Kardashian

10. Kourtney Kardashian

11. The Weeknd

12. Jennifer Lopez

13. Billie Lourd

14. Carrie Underwood

15. Kesha

16. Drew Barrymore

17. Drake

18. Jessica Simpson

19. Pink

20. Alicia Keys

21. Eva Mendes

22. Halle Berry

23. Sarah Michelle Gellar

24. Heidi Klum

25. Amy Schumer

26. Miley Cyrus

27. Justin Timberlake

In recent weeks, we've seen a slew of controversial stories about people getting kicked off airlines. There was the doctor who was dragged off a United flight, these parents who were kicked off their Delta flight, and now there's this family from Jersey City, New Jersey, that was allegedly kicked off their JetBlue flight over a birthday cake. You read that right. A birthday cake.

According to the New York Daily News, Cameron Burke, his wife Minta, and their two kids Cameron Jr. (7) and Camille (9) were on a flight from New York to Las Vegas on May 3 to celebrate Minta's 40th birthday with family. One of their carry-on items was a birthday cake from Tonnie's Minis, a famous bakery in Harlem.

Cameron Burke told the New York Daily News that he had originally placed the cake in an overhead compartment.

"A flight attendant nicely asked me to remove the cake from that compartment, so I moved it to another one," he said.

"She then asked me to move it to the seat in front of me, so I did," he continued.

According to Burke, another flight attendant allegedly appeared a few minutes later and started berating both her colleague and Burke.

"She said I was being non-compliant," Burke told the New York Daily News. He described the flight attendant's behavior as "irrational."

After the encounter with the second flight attendant, another airline employee allegedly approached Burke and asked him and his family to leave the flight. He refused, pulled out his cell phone and started recording. Burke's son Cameron Jr. can be seen crying in the video.

Two Port Authority police officers were called to the plane. According to Burke, they did an investigation and found he did nothing wrong.

JetBlue reps then had everyone aboard the full flight get off the airplane in order to get the Burkes off. Their tickets and rewards points were refunded, and then Burke says they were ordered to leave the JetBlue space.

Of course, the airline's side of the story is a little different. According to the JetBlue, the family had stored the cake in a compartment designated for emergency and safety equipment, and refused several requests to move it.

"The customers became agitated, cursed and yelled at the crew, and made false accusations about a crewmember's fitness to fly," JetBlue spokesman Doug McGraw told the New York Daily News.

"After the customers refused to speak with a team leader about the situation, the Port Authority Police Department was called and the entire aircraft deplaned."

The call to kick the family off the flight was reportedly made by its captain. All other passengers were allowed to reboard the flight to Vegas.

Burke says he was able to get a flight to Vegas out of Newark the next day, and intends to file a lawsuit against JetBlue.

Is no airline sacred?

An anonymous woman has gone viral for posting a hilariously honest Facebook rant about washing her "front bottom" (AKA, her vagina) with a shower gel that made her feel like her "flaps" were "on fire." It is quite the cautionary tale.

The woman posted the glorious warning to her Facebook page, "I Know, I Need To Stop Talking," detailing why you should never wash your nether regions with Original Source's Mint and Tea Tree shower gel.

The author writes about how she ran out of her trusty rose shower gel, and turned to a mint and tea tree soap that promises "7,927 tingling leaves" in each bottle. That description alone would deter most from using the gel on sensitive areas, but not this brave lady.

All was well until she decided to soap up her vagina, and felt a sensation that was less tingly and more....pain.

I washed my arms and shaved underneath them. I washed my neck, breasts, stomach and back. Thus far, it had been a positively first class bathing experience.

And then.

AND THEN.

Oh. Dear. God.

MY VAGINA WAS ABLAZE.

Unfortunately, no amount of rinsing could reverse the damage at that point. At least the harrowing experience provided inspiration for this truly masterful description:

MY FLAPS WERE ON FUCKING FIRE. I had a quick look at the ingredients list to see if it contained gasoline. It did not. There was a warning though. ‘KEEP AWAY FROM EYES.’ Keep away from eyes? KEEP AWAY FROM EYES? Frankly, my eyes were the least of my problems right now.

I frantically scrubbed my flaps, which by now felt as though they were being ceremoniously scrubbed by ants wearing ice skates laced with chilli sauce. ‘7,929 tingling leaves’ claimed the front of the bottle. Tingling? TINGLING? This wasn’t tingling my minge. It was starting a fucking bush fire down there. (Pun entirely intended. You can thank me later.)

The anonymous blogger wrote that it took about 12 hours for her vagina to feel normal again, and concluded her post by suggesting some updated branding for Original Source.

May I suggest a rebranding of the front of your bottles of Mint and Tea Tree Shower Gel? Something along the lines of the following:

‘7,927 tingling leaves which will accost your genitalia until it screams for mercy.’

If nothing else, it will certainly stand out on the shelf.

Anyways, thanks for brightening up my morning. And my front bottom, which has never been so lively.

Consider yourself (and your genitals) warned.

A very fake news story on Friday announced to the world that Lance Armstrong, famous cycler and performance-enhancer, had died after a secret battle with colon cancer.

Lance Armstrong ain't dead, so he did what most not-dead people do—he posted a video to Instagram.

Holding the hoax story on his phone, the camera zooms out to reveal a baffled Armstrong. "The rumors of my death are greatly exaggerated," wrote Armstrong, quoting Mark Twain.

It does not appear that Armstrong has been secretly battling colon cancer, or that any other detail in the fake news story was true.

The comments on Armstrong's post ranged from troll to troll to legitimate relief over the news that the 45-year-old is still alive.

Don't call it a comeback.

Hey, popaholics, make your Monday a little better by watching this video of Dr. Pimple Popper wrestling what she dubbed the "bowling ball" lipoma out of her patient's back. Dr. Pimple Popper, a.k.a. licensed dermatologist Dr. Sandra Lee, wrote in the caption of the video that she hoped to be able to pop the lipoma (a benign tumor made of fat) whole, but alas, it was not to be, because there were too many "fibrous bands" keeping the lipoma in place.

The real popping struggle begins at about 5:48 in the video.

Also, as Dr. Lee explains, the lipoma was not "well encapsulated," meaning it tore easily, another barrier in the way of removing it as a whole. So she does what she does best—just digs around and starts grabbing out handfuls of the fat, like taking out the innards of a chicken.

According to the video caption on YouTube, the patient wrote to Dr. Lee about a month later, to tell her he was doing well, but that he missed his "built-in pillow" a little bit. Luckily, he has his wife for that now.

5. Avril Lavigne, because the internet thinks she's dead.

Avril Lavigne, the Canadian mall punk who made ties and tank tops on females a thing in the early 2000s, was declared dead by the internet in 2015. The conspiracy theory is back with a vengeance.

According to the theory, Avril, a sk8er gurl, had apparently said "see you later, gurl" back in 2003, and has been replaced with a lookalike ever since. Twitter user Givenchyass outlined the hypothesis in excruciating (and convincing!) detail.

It all goes back to Avril's humble origins in a small town in Ontario, Canada. After her 2002 debut album "Let Go" took off, the world couldn't, well, let go, and "she couldn't handle the paparazzi." Avril apparently hired a lookalike by the name of Melissa Vandella to pose as her around LA so she could sk8 along in peace.

Now, this Illuminati plot involved Avril and Melissa quickly becoming best friends, and "according to an unknown source," Avril taught Melissa to croak sing like her, just for kicks.

Now here's where it gets dark and twisty.

According to Givenchyass:

“tragically, avril’s grandfather passed away and it hurt her so much. he was her bestfriend and her biggest supporter. she basically lost it. she was so distraught… she would lock herself in her apartment and write for weeks on end. finally she finished the songs for the next album and if you’ve heard that album.. you know what I mean when I say it’s depressing. she recorded those songs, having to frequently take breaks in between sessions to cry and calm down. she was absolutely heartbroken. other sources even said she threatened to kill herself and tried to attempt several times because she felt she couldn’t go on without him. and the next part of this theory is that she actually succeeded. it is said avril hung herself in late 2003.”

The theory insists that proof can be found in "Avril's" later lyrics, her new chin shape, and distinctly different style.

The thread went crazy viral over the weekend, with over 159,000 people mourning the (allegedly) late punk princess.

Rest in peace, Avril. Or if you're still out there, keep holdin' on, 'cause you're gonna make it through (make it through).

4. The Eurovision prankster who mooned everyone and faces up to five years in jail.

Vitalii Sediuk, a Ukrainian self-proclaimed humorist, rushed the stage at Saturday's Eurovision Song Contest, shared the view of his bare buttcheeks to hundreds of millions of viewers around the world. The Ukrainian interior minister didn't find it so funny.

Eurovision is like the Pop Star Olympics: countries in Europe (and Australia and Israel) send a tribute to perform for the international audience, and judges and viewers rate them on both songwriting and style. This year, Portugal won by sending a ponytailed crooner who's been called the "Portugese Edith Piaf."

When the 2016 champion Jamala returned to the Eurovision stage to perform while the judges were tallying the 2017 votes, Sediuk jumped alongside her. He pulled his knickers down and shook his groove thing for an international audience of millions.

The prankster has been in the news before: he rushed the stage at the 2013 Grammys to declare his love for Adele and flung himself at Brad Pitt in 2014.

Sediuk tried to go incognito by wearing an Australian flag, and social media joked about how Australia technically shouldn't even be in Eurovision in the first place.

The mischievous mooner was arrested on charges of hooliganism, and could face anything from a fine to five years in jail, no ifs, ands or butts.

3. Jessica Alba, because her baby wipes are moldy.

Jessica Alba's Honest Company is recalling its baby wipes"out of abundance of caution" due to the possible presence of mold, which is the last thing you'd want in your baby's buttcrack.

It's the latest step in an Honest journey of legal battles and screw ups. Just back in January, the company recalled their baby powder for concerns it could cause eye and skin infections, and in 2015 was sued by a customer who declared that their sunscreen was straight-up "ineffective."

Her line of "organic" baby products is almost as full of f*ckups as her Fantastic Four franchise. Ayo!

Well, at least she's Honest.

2. Kylie Jenner, because her boyfriend was arrested for inciting a riot.

Kylie Jenner's got a new boyfriend and he's way too popular in Arkansas.

Rapper Travis Scott (real name: Jacques Webster, slightly less cool) was performing in Rogers, Arkansas and encouraged his fans to rush the stage and bypass security.

The view of the audience is crazier than any possible show.

Scott was arrested soon after he got offstage, and faces charges of endangering a minor, disorderly conduct, and inciting a riot.

More than just peoples' eardrums were injured: According to the Rogers Police Department, a security guard, a police officer and several others were hurt and were treated at the venue by the fire department or rushed to the local hospital.

Damn. Maybe Kylie can send them complimentary Lip Kits so they can kiss their injuries and make them better.

1. This Florida man who called 911 asking to be deported.

Florida Man Cesar Sanchez called the cops in Naples, Florida, asking the operator to send him back to Guatemala. That's one way to get a free flight.

The Associated Press reports that in the audio recording of the 911 call, Sanchez says he isn't well, but adds, "It's not an emergency. All I want is to be deported."

Sanchez was charged with misusing an emergency call number, which is a misdemeanor. He's still in custody at the county jail and set to be arraigned on May 31. The arrest report rights that Sanchez should be held for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, implying that he'll get his wish.

Dreams really do come true?