Murphy Brown "had fun" adding Sarah Huckabee Sanders to last night's episode using real news footage and a body double

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Murphy Brown snuck into a White House press conference during the George H.W. Bush administration, "so we decided to do it again," says creator Diane English. "We dedicated one of our writer’s assistants to pulling every press conference with Sarah Huckabee Sanders," she adds. "We found five of them where she was wearing the same dress and her hair was the same, so we had a lot of choices for facial expressions and words. That took several weeks. Then you purchase the footage that you want and edit it into the show. We hired a voice double, auditioned body doubles, and our wardrobe people had to make the dress as close as possible. It took a village." How did they pick a body double? "They come into the casting agent’s office, they go on tape, and they do a 360-degree slow turn," says English. "We picked somebody who looked like her size and her height, and had shoulder-length hair."