Elon Musk’s internet hosting gig brings ranking raise to ‘Saturday Night Live’

By ANI
WASHINGTON: SpaceX founder and Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s flip as ‘Saturday Night Live’ host introduced the NBC late-night mainstay its third-highest rankings of the season.

According to Variety, the May 8 version of ‘SNL’ averaged a 4.8 family ranking in Nielsen’s in a single day metered markets and a 2.7 ranking in adults 18-49.

That put Musk’s episode at no. 3 behind Dave Chappelle’s outing as host on November 7 and the October 3 season premiere fronted by Chris Rock. Musk tied the rankings mark set October 24 with the episode hosted by Adele with H.E.R. within the music slot.

Musk had made headlines by revealing that he has Asperger syndrome throughout his opening monologue on the present. He marked the uncommon alternative of a enterprise world character to host the NBC late-night establishment though his pop-culture profile has grown in recent times because of a few of his antics and enterprise ventures, all of which have been spoofed on ‘SNL’.

Elon Musk!: https://t.co/dEaCbOXEvD pic.twitter.com/5BiZOMzKOF
— Saturday Night Live – SNL (@nbcsnl) May 9, 2021

Musk’s prominence in social media and his standing as one of many world’s wealthiest moguls boosted curiosity in his look on the sketch comedy sequence. For the primary time ever, ‘SNL’ was additionally live-streamed on YouTube in additional than 100 international locations.

Musk has been scolded by monetary regulators for his pronouncements about his publicly held companies in uncommon channels for a CEO. During his monologue, he joked about “SNL” being reside and the chance that posed for him. He mentioned, “I could say something truly shocking — like I drive of Prius.”

The most up-to-date ‘SNL’ authentic, the April 10 version hosted by ‘Promising Young Woman’ star Carey Mulligan, averaged 3.6 rankings in 44 in a single day metered markets that measure late-night weekend viewership, and a 1.5 in adults 18-49.

NBC famous that ‘SNL’ so far is having fun with its most-watched season in 4 years primarily based on whole viewers with a mean of 12.6 million throughout 17 episodes so far.

As per Variety, ‘SNL’ will shut out its forty sixth season with two extra authentic episodes: May 15 with host Keegan-Michael Key and musical visitor Olivia Rodrigo and the May 22 finale with host Anna Taylor-Joy and musical visitor Lil Nas X.