Though I haven’t seen an official NBC press release yet, the Internet has been buzzing over John McCain being set to appear on tomorrow night’s Saturday Night Live. I predict it doesn’t do anywhere near the ratings that the real Sarah Palin meeting the Tina Fey version drew a couple of weeks ago. To NBC’s good fortune, last week’s episode guest hosted by Jon Hamm (Mad Men’s Don Draper) retained more of those viewers than I thought.
I give NBC credit for not being slimy. While I typically am averse to slime myself, I’d have had to at least *think* about starting some sort of rumor that ratings juggernaut Sarah Palin might join McCain (and perhaps suggested a Tina Fey sighting). Ben “my movies might stink, but I married Jennifer Garner and you didn’t, ha!” Affleck is this week’s guest host.
Saturday Night Live has definitely experienced somewhat of a revival due to Fey’s Palin, and Palin herself (and this didn’t hurt 30 Rock either). I’m 100% certain that McCain’s appearance won’t do as well as Sarah Palin’s and I’m doubtful it will even fare as well as Jon Hamm’s appearance last week. We’ll see. But as Bill notes, Palin is “fresh” and McCain is…not.
robert… what’s with all the poopiness on snl? you sound like a bitter old man screaming at kids to get off his lawn. it also sounds like you can’t wait for ratings to go down. i know you are out of the age demo for snl but let them kids have their fun.
of course mccain won’t do the same numbers as palin. that was a perfect storm of the fey/palin thing. this is just an old man who probably also likes to scream at kids to get off his many lawns.
Tom? I’m just prognosticating. I don’t care either way. What part of that (or anything else) sounded like I’m rooting against SNL?
BTW, I have a few more years in the key age demo NBC headlines its press releases with, but I think SNL, despite the press releases is more targeted to under 35, and I am definitely out of that. But I have absolutely nothing against the show.
What I do find interesting, but only from the point of view of “a mild curiosity”, is that the vice presidential nominee has more (for purposes of TV ratings) star power than the presidential nominee.
It appears Jon Hamm’s appearance was actually below the season average for the show, so I think tomorrow night’s episode should definitely beat it. It’ll probably be closer to the range of the season premiere (7.5 HH rating), maybe a little higher.
oh robert… don’t take me so seriously… the tone to me when i read it sounds fuddy duddyish… just a bit. was just having fun. no biggie. i’m probably wrong.
John McCain is not very interesting. This election has never been about McCain — just as it isn’t about Joe Biden.
In very important ways, this election is almost becoming about Obama vs. Palin. The VP debate beat the first Presidential debate in the ratings (if memory serves). Palin attracts significantly larger numbers of people to her rallies than McCain. And I think you’re right that McCain’s SNL appearance won’t have nearly the ratings Palin’s did. The bride’s maid (Palin) has really outshone the bride (McCain) this year — and that really says more about McCain than it does anyone else.
Outlander, Indeed, and Palin is very Fresh. She’ll be back.
damn, i had every intention of slipping the Fresh link in and it slipped through the cracks. added.
The Hamm episode was slightly below the season average, but only because that average is greatly inflated by the Palin episode. Tomorrow night’s episode will probably be the second highest rated of the season, partly because of McCain, but also because it’s the last episode before the election.