Saturday Night Live hosted by Jon Hamm and featuring musical guest Michael Bublé, easily dominated its time period with a 5.0/12 household rating/share in the preliminary metered-market ratings. We'll have to see how it does in the finals, but it was down a bit versus the last original episode on January 16 hosted by Sigourney Weaver with musical guest The Ting Tings (5.4/14) and it looks to be well off the pace of Charles Barkley and Alicia Keys which averaged over 10 million viewers.
I'd guess Hamm's appearance will be in the range of 6.5 to 7.5 million average viewers. Still, well ahead of the pace (by more than 3x) the typical episode of Mad Men!
I didnt find most of the stuff that funny!!! so good that it went down in the ratings
I haven’t watched Saturday Night Live in 5 years. Have no clue who’s on.
I thought this was one of the funniest episodes in a long time. I find Jon Hamm’s humor and performance to be awesome.
I guess Jon Hamm is no Charles Barkley. Haven’t watch SNL since Tina Fey was doing her Palin schtick.
Probably the funniest of the season. Not that there was much funny to top.
They need to bring back Mad TV to compete with SNL!!!
Jon Hamm’s stints are consistently fantastic. I don’t even know how it could compare to Charles Barkley, who was almost lip reading ahead on the teleprompter…. Plus they had some funny funny stuff. Hamm and Buble… being my favorite.
Charles Barkley from what I heard was atrocious. I am talking about who’s the bigger audience draw.
A lot of people don’t know Jon Hamm because Mad Men doesn’t break two million viewers for their episodes. Fact is, the guy is funny and the writers seem to step up when he is hosting. There were half a dozen funny sketches Saturday night, which is six times more than normal.
this was the first episode in a while where the digital short was not the only funny thing
Hamm is the most solid, all around performer that they’ve had on in a long time. The majority of the hosts they get just walk through their parts. Hamm actually puts in a great performance.