In the immortal words of Mark Twain, “Humor is tragedy plus time.” Stephen Colbert tested this theorem on Sunday night when he invited Sean Spicer, former mouthpiece to Donald Trump’s White House, on the Emmys stage, podium and all. It turns out that for the viewers back home, the tragedy of this administration is still very much in media res. And yet Spicer was the favorite comedy prop in after-party selfies for everyone from James Corden to Seth Meyers to L.L. Cool J.

But there is at least one man who used it as a teachable moment. One man who clocked the former press secretary and saw that it was not good. One man who made jokes at Spicey’s expense on Instagram. That hero is Lucius Malfoy. Well, Jason Isaacs, who played Lucius Malfoy in the Harry Potter films, and who’s also starring in the upcoming CBS All Access Star Trek: Discovery.

At the Netflix post-Emmys party on Sunday night he took a photo with Spicer in the background and wrote an unforgettable caption that started thusly: “Hoping to forget politics for one night and bask in other people’s glory at the Netflix Emmys party, and who do I spot at the bar late at night but the poisonous purveyor of lies, Sean Spicer. What were the Emmys thinking celebrating this modern day Goebbels, who was the thuggish face of Orwellian doublespeak just moments ago?”

Comparing his words to those of the insidious government in a dystopian novel, and comparing him to the mouthpiece of Adolf Hitler is . . . a lot! But Isaacs continued with some fun facts:

Three surprising things about him:

1. He comes about up to my nipples

2. He doesn’t think he should hide himself under a rock from shame for the rest of his life.

3. He’s deeply unattractive, from the inside out. Has the aura of a giant festering abscess. Strange, since he was so charismatic at the (elevated) podium.

He hashtagged it “too soon” and “much too soon.” Will there ever be an appropriate time for those helping to prop up the most controversial administration in recent history to rehabilitate their reputation in public? If Twitter and Jason Isaacs have any say in it, not yet.