SNL has Sarah to thank for largest audience in 14 years!

By golly, 'Saturday Night Live' viewers prefer the real Sarah Palin; largest audience in 14 years--Video | Top of the Ticket | Los Angeles Times
By golly, 'Saturday Night Live' viewers prefer the real Sarah Palin; largest audience in 14 years

"Saturday Night Live" and Tina Fey may mercilessly mock Sarah Palin.

But, goldarnit, they're mercilessly mocking her all the way to one of the banks still in business.Alaska Governor and Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin waves as she leaves NBC after the Saturday Night Live show 10-18-08 which had the highest ratings in 14 years

The Alaska governor and Republican vice presidential candidate has become a genuine media star, guaranteeing high ratings even for an actress like Fey pretending to be her.

But last night with the real Sarah Palin onboard, SNL enjoyed its highest ratings in 14 years -- since the first Clinton term in 1994 when figure skater Nancy Kerrigan and soul singer Aretha Franklin teamed up on the show.

Final Nielsen figures will be out later this week. But early estimates put the average audience at 14 million with the largest number at 17 million for the show's first half-hour, when Palin appeared in the long opening skit. And then she appeared again later in the News Update section.

To see videos of both segments, click on the Read more line below here.

-- Andrew Malcolm

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