If anyone's been following SNL for the past year or so, this should come as absolutely no surprise.
In the wake of Trump's inauguration, SNL has made its business to satirise, highlight and generally lampoon the Grand High Orange's policies and failings on a weekly basis - and it's paying off bigly for them. It's now confirmed that ratings for this season of Saturday Night Live is now its highest in twenty-two years, and all of it largely down to their coverage of the US Presidential Election and its aftermath.
Last week's episode, which saw Melissa McCarthy decimate Trump's press secretary Sean Spicer in one of its funniest sketches in years, is expected to be one of the highest-rated episodes of the season. However, Dave Chapelle's post-election episode topped out the ratings for the current season.
The show, which has been running for 42 seasons, has regularly been the ire of President Trump. So much so, in fact, that Trump was most recently angered by how it made out that his chief henchman Steve Bannon was controlling him rather than the other way around. Not only that, news of SNL's ratings boost will likely infuriate Trump, because we all know how conscious he is about numbers and audience figures.
Via TVLine
