Dr. Evil of Austin Powers fame made a guest appearance on Wednesday’s episode of The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon. The villain came on the show to talk about his recent firing from the Trump administration, because even his over-the-top vision of world domination apparently was not evil or wicked enough to last in President Trump’s terrifying regime. Late night comedy is so creative, isn’t it?
Reprising his role as Dr. Evil, Mike Myers spoke to Jimmy Fallon as the most recent ejection from the White House, mentioning that it was his idea for the border wall, that his closest friend in the administration was fellow “evil doctor,” Ben Carson, and that deporting dreamers was too evil of an idea even for him. He also announced his own presidential campaign for 2020, with running mate Mark Zuckerberg.
Fallon started the mock interview by asking Dr. Evil what his job was in the Trump White House. He replied, “Well naturally, I was going to be secretary of evil, but Steve Bannon got that job.” Evil ended up being “more of an ideas guy, really.” When asked what kind of ideas he came up with, Dr. Evil said, “The wall, the wall. That was all me,” though, he added that he was pushing for more of a “moat with spiky blowfish.”
If you’re a fan of Austin Powers, you might remember that the doctor’s penchant for grandiose evil ideas had him install a pool in his lair, filled with sharks “with frickin’ laser beams attached to their heads.”
“All the most evil stuff was me,” the character claimed, including Donald Trump’s “space force.” However, when Fallon asked him about the idea of deporting dreamers, Evil replied, “No Jimmy, even I have my limits. I’m evil, but I’m not a monster.” True. Everyone knows that Dr. Evil is a bumbling idiot, whose maniacal ideas are too comical to be taken seriously. But for the writers of late-night political comedy, Trump is the actual calculating evil genius.
Dr. Evil claimed that he “got along swimmingly with Ben Carson.” When asked why, he answered, “We were both evil doctors that didn’t know why were there.” He also mentioned that he thought it was “particularly evil” that Carson used 30 thousand taxpayer dollars for office furniture.
“What about Don Jr.?” Fallon asked. Dr. Evil replied that he thought he was “creepy AF”(As f-ck,) adding that the president’s son “looks like he’s missing a facial feature, you just don’t know which one.” The villain also told Fallon that Jared Kushner’s time was up, exclaiming, “That b-tch be gone!”
Fallon then asked Evil what his next move would be after his White House ousting. He replied that he would be promoting his new memoir of his time working for the Trump Administration. The title of his tell-all book was “Fire and Fury and Also Evil: And More Fire and Also Magma Too.”
Dr. Evil also announced that he was running for president in 2020. He pulled out a mock MAGA hat, with the white lettering changed to say “Make the World Evil Again.” He also stated that he had decided on a running mate, “the only man who’s more hated right now than Donald Trump,” Mark Zuckerberg. Of course, it’s no surprise that “Evil/Zuckerberg 2020” is the kind of cartoonish evil that late night hosts would attribute as a follow-up to the dastardly Trump Administration.
