“Saturday Night Live” had been on a hot ratings run this fall, bringing in as many as 6.9 million viewers with host John Mulaney and singer Chappell Roan two weeks ago.
Lorne Michaels has been booking star after star, with Billie Eiliish, Stevie Nicks, Coldplay, and Jelly Roll all major attractions.
But this past weekend “SNL” sank like a rock to its lowest numbers so far. The show with Bill Burr as host and completely unknown musician mk.gee tracked only 4.42 million. It was a shade lower than the Coldplay episode which had Nate Bargatze as host. Burr and Bargatze are talented, but they are not the caliber star the show needs to score ratings.
This week, pop star Charlie XCX is both host and musical guest. Why? Who knows? Her “Brat” album was a thing all summer, but that’s over now. Will she be a draw? We’ll see.
A big loss for “SNL” is Maya Rudolph playing Kamala Harris and Andy Samberg as Doug Emhoff. The election debacle has rendered them moot. Hopefully we’ll see a lot of James Austin Johnson as Donald Trump as the sadly elected winner starts adding his cronies to his cabinet. So far, Trump has managed to find the biggest idiots in his circle to run the country.
