4:25AM Defamer Hollywood | When Rome burned people enjoyed watching the fiddler, and now that this country is more effed than ever before, we enjoy watching
SNL. According to a new
report in Variety, “
SNL has experienced a hefty bump in the Nielsen polls this election season, boasting a 50% gain over last season’s first two episodes.” The political climate has to be the reason, because it certainly wasn’t Michael Phelps’s mush-mouthed delivery or the searing star power of James Franco that got people to tune in. No, it’s because the cast of characters who parade across CNN on a daily basis are so ripe for parody. There’s McCain, Palin, Hillary, and Obama, and all of them are just begging to be made fun of.
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