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“Saturday Night Live” Ratings Collapse to LOWEST in Over a Decade As Show Pairs “Family Favorite” Maya Rudolph With Unknown Musical Guest Jack Harlow
Showbiz 411 ^ | 3/28/2021 | Roger Friedman

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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To: marcusmaximus

“My question is Who the hell is Maya Rudolph?”

She was in that documentary about the future called “Idiocracy “🤣.


41 posted on 03/28/2021 6:55:43 PM PDT by willk (A bias news media is not a free press.)
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To: marcusmaximus

Martin Short was getting lots of under boob action last night


42 posted on 03/28/2021 6:56:40 PM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom Hi Dad)
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To: Dacula

Thanks. Minnie Ripperton had a great voice.


43 posted on 03/28/2021 6:59:43 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
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To: Afterguard

It debute in 75 dumbass


44 posted on 03/28/2021 6:59:58 PM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom Hi Dad)
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To: marcusmaximus

If SNL would do skits of Hunter Biden dope/sex deals, Joe forgetting his name and Andrew Cuomo playing grab ass with his staff their ratings would skyrocket.


45 posted on 03/28/2021 7:01:18 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: SkyDancer
Yeah but he ain’t funny.

He's funny to me.

Hilarious, even.

He may be brilliant.


46 posted on 03/28/2021 7:09:31 PM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: Mears
I disagree,it was funny through the 70s.

It was funny on May 12, 1976.

I laughed.

Something about a samurai and some chips. And pepsi, I think. Or was it coke?


47 posted on 03/28/2021 7:12:39 PM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: marcusmaximus

It’s a show for WOKE white democrats with chips on their shoulders...

That’s a fun crowd.../s


48 posted on 03/28/2021 7:18:45 PM PDT by GOPJ (https://s3media.247sports.com/Uploads/Assets/21/315/10315021.jpeg?width=600&fit=bounds)
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To: Rebelbase; Mears
They should do a skit with Maya Rudolph (she does a mean Kamala) as Kamala at a press conference.

Some fake news fake journalist stands up and asks,

"When you were S'ing Willie Brown's D, did you know he was married?".

*she responds*

LIVE FROM NEW YORK...ITS SATURDAY NIGHT!

RATINGS!!!!!!!!!!!!


49 posted on 03/28/2021 7:20:25 PM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: bagster

Bernie is funny? His politics are I guess. The only thing about SNL I liked was their skit about a different ending to It’s A Wonderful Life where Potter got it big time.


50 posted on 03/28/2021 8:15:21 PM PDT by SkyDancer (To Most People The Sky's The Limit ~ To A Pilot, It is Home)
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To: max americana

I agree completely. By the way, I would take President Camacho over Biden any day of the week.


51 posted on 03/28/2021 9:42:09 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: SkyDancer

Yeah, that was when Dana Carvey, Jon Lovitz, and that crew were the cast.


52 posted on 03/28/2021 9:45:18 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: bagster

It’s acceptable to make fun of Bernie (even though he’s Jewish).


53 posted on 03/28/2021 9:49:34 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofXxinOtPiQ&ab_channel=ldy1973

Best SNL monologue...ever. (audio only)


54 posted on 03/28/2021 9:51:07 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: Rebelbase
If SNL would do skits of Hunter Biden dope/sex deals, Joe forgetting his name and Andrew Cuomo playing grab ass with his staff their ratings would skyrocket.

They should do that. While saying nothing about Joe Biden and Kamala Harris because they're "off limits". But they won't because Hunter Biden and Andrew Cuomo are Democrats, therefore that would make the Party look bad. Can't do that.

55 posted on 03/28/2021 9:52:12 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: marcusmaximus

It may have been the worst SNL I’ve ever seen...and I’ve seen a lot.

It’s a guilty pleasure of mine, like watching two drunk chicks fight outside the bar.


56 posted on 03/28/2021 11:12:07 PM PDT by Az Joe (I CONDEMN WOKE SUPREMACY! )
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To: Afterguard

“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”

Cool story Bro, the first episode of SNL aired on October 11, 1975. You must be confusing SNL with Laurence Welk.


57 posted on 03/29/2021 2:20:31 AM PDT by DAC21
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To: Dacula; All

Yes and at the end of Ripperton’s hit
Loving You, she took delight in her daughter’s antics in the studio and
ad libbed “Maya, Maya, Maya..”


58 posted on 03/29/2021 2:32:49 AM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: marcusmaximus

I quit watching SNL when the TV station removed FANTASTIC THEATER (SI-FI movies)and started showing SNL. Watched it only to see if Fantastic Theater would be on after. It wasn’t.


59 posted on 03/29/2021 6:16:23 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ((Democrats have declared us to be THE OBSOLETE MAN in the Twilight Zone.))
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To: Army Air Corps

Brilliantly done. I’ve put it on DVD to play at the end of the movie since a couple of family members like that movie and I’m “forced” to watch it only if I get to play the SNL ending.


60 posted on 03/29/2021 7:07:28 AM PDT by SkyDancer (To Most People The Sky's The Limit ~ To A Pilot, It is Home)
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