This week's episode of Saturday Night Live hosted by Louis CK with musical guest fun averaged a 3.0 rating with adults 18-49 in the 25 markets with local people meters up 3% from a 2.9 adults 18-49 rating for the last original episode.
via press notes:
In Late-Night Metered-Market Household Averages for Saturday night
> (with the New York market excluded):
>
> * "Saturday Night Live," with host Louis C.K. and musical guest
> fun, averaged a 5.0/12 in metered-market households, matching the
> show's second-highest overnights so far this season.
>
> * In the 25 markets with Local People Meters, "Saturday Night
> Live" averaged a 3.0 rating, 13 share in adults 18-49, scoring "SNL's"
> top rating in the Local People Meters since September 22 (with an
> episode hosted by Joseph Gordon-Levitt with musical guest Mumford &
> Sons) and matching the show's top LPM result since May 12 (with a
> telecast hosted by Will Ferrell with musical guest Usher).
>
> * In the Local People Meters, "SNL" was the #1 show of the night
> on ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox, topping all primetime programs on those
> networks.
>
> * Versus the same night last year, "SNL" was up 2 percent in
> metered-market households (5.0 vs. 4.9) and up 7 percent in the Local
> People Meters (3.0 vs. 2.8).
>
> * In national ratings so far this season, original telecasts of
> "Saturday Night Live" are up versus one year ago by 7 percent in 18-49
> rating (with a 3.1 vs. a 2.9, "most current") and up 5 percent in
> total viewers (7.8 million vs. 7.5 million).
>
>
Great Episode, Lincoln sketch was the stand out for me.
I wasn’t feeling this eppy much. The main things I liked were Weekend Update and Fun. The sketches were meh; I only really liked the last one.
Once again, SNL is unable to live up to a high-water mark for a second straight episode. At least it wasn’t nearly as awful as Christina Applegate – and I was expecting the night to be s**thouse on account of Louis CK being there.
The hotel and Lincoln bits were great, as was Weekend Update and Fox & Friends (but those are always good ones). Otherwise, the show sucked. The deaf interpreters in the cold open, randomly turning on the singer’s Auto-Tune during the fun performance, the horrible stand-up-style monologue…this is really a time for Seth to yell, “Really?!?”
I can’t wait for the debut of Saturday Night Ricky…should be awesome!
I’m not a fan of Louis CK, so I didn’t like the monologue or the Lincoln sketch. The cold open, Weekend Update and the 12:55 sketch were great, though. The lead singer of Fun. had some major pitch problems, but props for actually singing live. I don’t know if they did the autotune bit on purpose, but it looked that way to me.
@jess: Um, what?
I wonder if next week’s episode is going to be a season high for the show.
Ricky, you contradict yourself, you name four bits that were great and then you say the show sucked. How many jokes work on an great sitcom. BTW, I felt Christina Applegate was a GREAT host.
@elizabeth: Depends on the sitcom. When it’s, say, Raising Hope or TBBT or Modern Family, all of them.
And yes, I know I’m in the minority re: Christina Applegate’s show.
The cold open was the best one this season. By far. Wish they could all be like that. Wish every skit of every show could be like that.
This show was so awful, it was the first and only time that I ever turned SNL off. Good grief! The ratings may have been up, but people were probably expecting a lot more than what was delivered, and that is why the tuned in,
checked it out because of Louie.
One good comedian on a show full of awful sketch actors does not make a good show.
Not that I really expected anything good, but you never know.
I think Louie C.K. is not funny. Brian Regan is funny. Chapelle is hilarious and so are these guys …Jim Carey and Conan O’Brien. But Louis? I don’t understand. That SNL episode was boring.
I’ve DVR’d 4 SNL episodes that I haven’t watched yet. But, for NBC to be crowing that SNL got ‘above average’ ratings on the Saturday before Election Day doesn’t seem so stunning.