NBC stations have begun filing the legally required notice about Donald Trump’s broadcast time on “Saturday Night Live”, noting that it lasted 12 minutes and five seconds.
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U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a rally in Norcross, Georgia October 10, 2015. That is more surprising.
And since it wasn’t all about Trump, a group of bad girls showed up for a HIGHlarious skit, too!
Before his hosting appearance Saturday night on Saturday Night Live, Donald Trump promised that he would deliver big ratings.
In the end, the anticipation far outpaced – trumped, you might say – the reality. Trump shaped the show to his advantage, and NBC let him.
NBC is certainly happy with the ratings boost Trump’s appearance provided, and network president Bob Greenblatt has indicated that Trump is welcome on any NBC show, including Meet the Press, a political news show on which Trump has already appeared after he was sacked from The Celebrity Apprentice.
“I walk into the room, there are 100 [writers] – and they’re all about 17 years old, OK?” He poked just enough fun his own way to seem a good sport but, whether playing the laser harpist in a low-rent band or a sleazy record producer, he stayed mostly above the proceedings, reading his lines with a smirk that suggested he thought he was getting the better of this deal. Preliminary Nielsen ratings measuring households in 56 US markets gave Saturday’s “SNL” its highest rating only since January 2012. The “Trump effect” is also evident in GOP debates, where the first three debates hit 61 million viewers, a statistic that took 13 debates in 2011. He didn’t particularly help himself in his apparent quest to become president, but the “short-fingered vulgarian”, as Spy Magazine used to call Trump in the 1980s, didn’t hurt himself either. But the Republican presidential candidate hosted Saturday’s “SNL” as scheduled.
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“Bring back the old America”, he writes, “the one where our preeminent vehicle for topical satire would have ably skewered a hateful, nonsensical, vainglorious presidential candidate, rather than invite him into the club and give him more of the empty-calorie media attention he seeks”.
