That escalated quickly.
Posted on 03/28/2021 5:45:22 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
Maya Rudolph is brilliant, but the general “SNL” audience considers her part of the family and not a guest host.
Jack Harlow is unknown to just about everyone as a white rapper, and isn’t a draw.
These are the lessons learned from last night’s show as “SNL” had the lowest recorded ratings in over a decade. Going back to 2009 you can’t find a 3.6 million rating. But that’s what happened as Rudolph — albeit wonderful– hosted, and Harlow performed.
The show lost 500,000 viewers from its last airing on February 27th. Post-election, “SNL” has been averaging around 4.1 million.
The season high was 9.1 million on the Saturday after the election, and the numbers stayed around 6 million for three more weeks. But then reality set in: Alec Baldwin as Trump was gone. Trump himself was gone, and with him all acerbic political bashing. The resistance was done. “SNL” suddenly lacked a purpose. It went from being appointment viewing to a pedestrian experience. The fans tuned out.
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That escalated quickly.
Since Trump is no longer around they have no material.
Hasn’t been funny in at least that long.
Come on, man! Get with the program. Biden stumbled because he got konked in the head with a golf ball three times.
They could make fun of Bernie.
He's funny, and his meme did pretty well, so there's a market.
In this thread: a bunch of old farts who haven’t watched SNL since 1980, who don’t know any current pop culture and take every comment or skit as a personal attack.
But, yeah...last night sucked except for the “Boomer Vaccination” video.
She starred in the movie Idiocracy, FWIW.
I can’t believe 4 million people are stupid enough to watch that dreck
Speaking for old farts everywhere, us not having watched SNL since 1980 (longer than that for me) speaks more about you than us.
I wondered why the writer Friedman was so effusive in his praise for the actress. Her family name was Rudashevsky.
Idiocracy is probably one of the most underrated movies ever. Luke Wilson was the star, not Maya. Anyone with an IQ of 5 could play her role but Luke Wilson nailed it as Not Sure. And obviously Terry Crews gave one of the best over the top roles at president camacho.
Yeah but he ain’t funny.
“Maya Rudolph is brilliant”
Whoever wrote this has a different definition of brilliant than I do.
“My question is Who the hell is Maya Rudolph?”
I’ll do you one better...why is Maya Rudolph?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDXfJXDja_g
We watched SNL every week when we lived in Hawaii. It was hilarious! Quit watching about the same time we left. That was in 1973. Hasn’t been funny since then.
Maya is the daughter of singer Minnie Ripperton and music producer Richard Randolph.
Minnie Ripperton was very talented.
I disagree,it was funny through the 70s.
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It's a train wreck now though.
“Maya Rudolph is brilliant”
No, she isn’t.
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