Melissa McCarthy says she’s “watching and observing” Sean Spicer as she gears up to reprise her gender-bending role as the White House press secretary on “Saturday Night Live.”

“I [hope] for everyone to have clarity and better things to say. And in the meantime, I just squirrel away notes,” McCarthy told USA Today in an interview published Tuesday.

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The “Ghostbusters” actress won rave reviews when she debuted an exaggerated impersonation of a gum-chewing, uber-combative Spicer on “SNL” last month.

McCarthy, 46, credits Kent Sublette, a cowriter on the long-running NBC sketch comedy show, with the casting move.

“It was his idea,” McCarthy said. “He called me when he knew I was in New York, so he gets all the credit for that. At first I thought, ‘What are you talking about?’ And he’s like, ‘I just think we have to have an outlet for how so many people are feeling.’”

“SNL,” McCarthy said, is “there to skewer and kind of be a watchdog — in a playful way — of what’s actually happening. It’s just that perhaps we have gone further in reality than we thought we ever would.”