Elon Musk Brings Ratings Lift to ‘Saturday Night Live’

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Elon Musk’s turn as “Saturday Night Live” host brought the NBC late-night mainstay its third-highest ratings of the season. The May 8 edition of “SNL” averaged a 4.8 h…

” host brought the NBC late-night mainstay its third-highest ratings of the season.

Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, made headlines by revealing that he has Asperger syndrome during his opening monologue. Musk marked the rare choice of a business world personality to host the NBC late-night institution although his pop culture profile has grown in recent years thanks to some of his antics and business ventures, all of which were spoofed on “SNL.”

Musk has been scolded by financial regulators for his pronouncements about his publicly held businesses in unusual channels for a CEO. During his monologue, he joked about “SNL” being live and the risk that posed for him.The most recent “SNL” original, the April 10 edition hosted by “Promising Young Woman” star Carey Mulligan, averaged 3.6 rating in 44 overnight metered markets that measure late-night weekend viewership, and a 1.5 in adults 18-49.

 

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'Could yous stop eatin' na Wawa hoagies over d' dead bodies' 😀

Well,the good old formula works well - the more scandalous a person appears in a show,the higher the ratings of that show will be!!😉🙂

Elon was good but overall the show was terrible and not very funny

I cant believe SNL is still on. It's not funny.

With IMDB ratings of 6.4 (Rock), 7.2 (Chapelle), and 4.8 (Musk, by far the lowest rating of the season). The stunt casting got people to tune in who then didn’t like what they saw. Hardly an accomplishment, getting people to watch so they find out how much they dislike your show.

Well that seals it, get Bezos and Zuck on the horn Lorne. Let's trot out all the techbros. It's like Make A Wish but for bored billionaires.

Well yeah, he’s an alien.

Because we are morbidly curious and wanted to watch a live train wreck. A world of rubber neckers

Curiosity from all the bad press previews. And all he wanted you to know, he has Aspergers a highly functioning aspect of Autism, most of whom are geniuses.

Okay, but that doesn't change the fact that in Australia there are 48 million kangaroos and in Uruguay there are 3,457,480 inhabitants, so if kangaroos decide to invade Uruguay, each Uruguayan will have to fight 14 kangaroos

3 in all time ratings...dead last in comedy

It was genuine sweet fun, some cute sketches ( favorite sketches : Chad on Mars and Luigi sues Warrior) and Elon being very charming and open about himself. The skits were fun and original. Elon is funny. Didn't know that about him. Good SNL episode.

Elon SUCKED and so did the show.

As an SNL viewer I think the public in general is excited to take a break from the normal actor, actress, Hollywood celebrity. Elon musk essentially proved an untrained layman could read cue cards and wear goofy costumes, while being self-deprecating, honest and funny.

Sadly, it was the most cringey episode since Trump in 2015.

Por aquello de la 'casualidad', NaveDelMisterio... CuartoMilenio 🚀

It was entertaining

Fucking entertainment of the masses

Just here to see how Rich really feels about this episode?

This country obviously loves a shit show. First time MAGA clan turns channel from Fox.

It was also shown internationally and on you tube for him being on there so I don’t believe these ratings

You came on here to bitch.

I laughed:)

Doge day afternoon

Can you take doge to the moon

He was good.

The characterizations of Italian immigrants and Italian Americans in this episode are an outrage. So much for the ratings while disparaging and undermining some of America's hardest-working people.

Wait I thought the woke was the popular crowd 🤯

All these tweets about how good Elon was on the show. JFC. People are nuts.

SNL has outlived its usefulness

EMERGENCY 🚨 WHY DOGECOIN CRASHED! DOGECOIN STILL WORTH BUYING AFTER ELON...

Turned off after opening monologue

“ It’s provocative. It gets the ppl going “

That's cuz we were there to watch a potential trainwreck, but it was a delightful fender-bender.

So would WRITING so would a car crash, even.

Gross.

Elon was a terrible SNL host. He may be a billionaire, but he can't act.

They probably wanted to watch that dumpster fire

No kidding, SNL has been dead among younger audiences for years. This was the first thing to make them relevant in a long time and they still struggled to pull it off. That Baby Yoda bit was terrible. Same with the Gen Z hospital and Wario bit. Elon held the show together.

If that's what it takes, SNL is over

Yeah people wanted to watch that dumpster fire for some reason

He killed it. Elon was incredible!

And he was not terrible.

Both elonmusk and nbcsnl sux.

Now you know he was on the show

Only funny sketch was the Mare of Easttown one.

the whole reason they brought in elon is to introduce younger people and GenZ to SNL.

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