Billboard reports that protesters are marching in the streets of NY City due to Donald Trump’s views on immigration ahead of his upcoming hosting gig for tonight’s edition of Saturday Night Live.
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For the most part, NBC has to be feeling pretty good about themselves commercially.
The Trump show was the highest rating for SNL since January 7, 2012, when an episode hosted by retired basketball star Charles Barkley pulled in a 7.0 rating, said the Comcast Corp.-owned network.
This is not the first time that Trump hosted the NBC show.
So commercially, there’s no doubt that NBC got what they wanted to out of the show and may think about bringing on more controversial guests in the future because of it.
He indeed was interrupted with a cry of “You’re a racist!” – but it turned out to be from comedian Larry David, who co-produced “Seinfeld”.
The early ratings are in for Donald Trump’s appearance on “SNL” and they’re solid, but not “huge”.
But the 69-year-old has courted controversy for his statements on immigration, promising that if he becomes president, he will expel immigrants who are in the United States illegally and build a wall along the US-Mexico border.
“I feel like they’re giving him a platform”, said Hazel Hernandez, 26, who emigrated from El Salvador and now lives in Brooklyn.
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The show also featured a twist on M.I.A.’s “Bad Girls” video that found cast members living on the edge by stealing soda at fast food restaurants, leaving ice cream cartons in uncool places, and practising a few irregular wiping methods.
