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Saturday Night Live's Ratings? Seriously Good

Tina Fey and Amy Poehler on Saturday Night Live by Dana Edelson/NBC Photo

NBC's Saturday Night Live returned from its months-long strike hiatus by putting up its highest overnight rating in two years (since a Feb. 4, 2006, episode hosted by Steve Martin). With Tina Fey 30 Rocking the guest-host slot and Carrie Underwood delighting as musical guest, the episode's 4.1 rating/15 share also marks a 36 percent increase over SNL's pre-strike average this season.

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Matt Webb Mitovich

Feb 24, 2008 8:32 PM

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Tina Fey is awesome. Carrie Underwood is awesome. This doesn't surprise me. I wonder how much SNL's ratings go up when dvr play the next day is added in. I recorded it but haven't been home long enough to watch it yet.
Posted by Leah Feb 25, 2008 2:49 PM Report Abuse

Tina Fey is my Hero. Finally - let's address the crazy Obama favoritism in the news. Even TV guide.com "reported" on Addison stumping for Obama -- but did they report that Ugly Betty was stumping for Hillary? Bitch is the new black.
Posted by bravegal Feb 25, 2008 4:27 PM Report Abuse

This episode was actually funny of course it did well in the ratings.
Posted by chestnu1 Feb 25, 2008 6:41 PM Report Abuse

My dad started telling me abut this when I got home from work tonight. He said all the politcal channels have been showing clips today.
Posted by Leah Feb 25, 2008 9:15 PM Report Abuse

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