Melissa McCarthy makes ‘SNL’ cast break character in wild parking lot fights

“Saturday Night Live” brought back a fan favorite sketch, this time with a holiday twist.

Martin Short hosted the late-night sketch comedy show on December 21 along with musical guest, Hozier. The episode featured the skit “Parking space change,” which acted as a callback to when Quinta Brunson hosted in April 2023.

The “Abbott Elementary” star and creator appeared in a similar skit called “Traffic Altercation” where she and Mikey Day engaged in some animated and often inappropriate gestures while they were stuck in a traffic jam on the highway.

This time, Short was competing with Day for a parking space at a mall on the afternoon of Christmas Eve.

At the beginning of their exchange, the men reasonably try to communicate their ownership of the place, with Day insisting that the place was his with some simple gestures, while Short claimed that his wink was on, as conveyed by his aggressive winking.

Tensions escalated from there, with Day claiming he reached the site first, to which Short accused him of being blind. The skit continued to take dark and inappropriate turns as their argument over the parking lot continued without resolution. At one point, Day’s daughter, portrayed by Chloe Fineman, got involved, albeit with some NSFW moves.

Day accused Short of being a liar after sharing that he was disabled due to his high blood pressure, using his hand to gesture that his nose was growing à la Pinocchio. Short responded by claiming that he would never lie because he was a “super Christian,” as represented by him doing his best Superman pose and then holding his arms out like he was on the cross.

Finally, Short said that if Day wouldn’t listen to him, then maybe he would listen to his wife, portrayed by Melissa McCarthy. Although Day did not initially see Short’s wife, McCarthy arrived hot on the scene and began banging on the passenger window.

“Drive away right now or I’ll kill you right now,” she threatened the father-daughter duo. “And I’ll make your stupid daughter watch.”

After the threats intensified, McCarthy paused to take a sip of an iced coffee before promptly spitting it out the window again.

Day and Fineman could barely hold it together as McCarthy used her chest to wipe the drink from the window, pausing every few seconds to stare at them before pressing her chest against the window again. At one point she even licked a line clean of the window so she could get a better look at the duo before sneaking away.

That was the last straw as Day eventually handed over the place to Short, who appeared overjoyed at the win.

McCarthy wasn’t the only celebrity cameo during last night’s episode.

The show started with a star-studded cold that saw Short be recorded in the Five-Timers Club.

The sketch featured several members of the club, including Tom Hanks, Paul Rudd, Tina Fey, Alec Baldwin, Scarlett Johansson, Kristen Wiig, Emma Stone and John Mulaney.

Although not a member of the club, Jimmy Fallon presented Short with his honorary purple velvet jacket, and Colin Jost tried to enter with his wife, Johansson, but she ditched him for the shindig and shut the door in his face.

Rudd appeared in several skits throughout the night, including during “Sábado Gigante Christmas special” together with Marcello Hernández and as himself during “Christmas Airport Parade.” McCarthy played a port agent in the sketch, while Hanks appeared not as himself but as Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, a nod to the 2016 film “Sully.”

This article was originally published on TODAY.com