Trump has said he thinks the controversy will boost the ratings for tonight’s show.
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Despite severing ties with Donald Trump over the summer and the petitions, boycotts, and protests calling for the network to not endorse his-ahem-controversial views, NBC allowed the Trump-hosted episode of Saturday Night Live to go on last night, and as everyone probably predicted, it got dynamite ratings. The group said it would pay the $5,000 “bounty” to David.
Donald Trump as host of “Saturday Night Live” brought in ratings for NBC that Trump himself would call “huge”.
Not that it was a fair race; David and Trump may have graduated from the same “What’re you lookin’ at, pal?” charm school, but “Saturday Night Live” is a comedy sketch show, and the one thing Trump has never claimed to be is a sketch comedian. We knew Taran Killam would come out all Trump’d up, because, well, SNL can’t resist the visual gag of two look-a-likes in the same frame.
The are reportedly dozens of protesters with signs who are also chanting and marching on the streets from Trump Tower to NBC’s studio in Rockefeller Plaza. While Trump was talking, a voiced shouted out of camera range, “You’re a racist!” That episode got 7.44 million viewers.
The political action group, which seeks to fight anti-Latino and anti-immigrant racism in the 2016 Presidential election, was offering people the chance to win $5,000 for making a stand against Trump. Strong and Vanessa Bayer put their former porn stars to work in a faux ad for the candidate, whom they continually referred to as Donald “Tramp”. “I said things about her that were mean but completely accurate”, he joked.
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The heckler, however, turned out to be actor Larry David, who played Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders in another sketch.
