Donald Trump bombed last night, according to WAPO

[kpete]

Donald Trump bombed last night, according to WAPO:

Donald Trump’s highly touted and almost certainly inappropriate hosting gig on NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” turned out to be an anemic and halfhearted dud.

Once upon a time, not so long ago, there might be a lesson to learn from Saturday’s boring and misspent episode — but that world no longer exists, certainly not where politics and TV intersect. Everything’s turned upside down. Bring back the old America, I say, the one where our preeminent vehicle for topical satire would have ably skewered a hateful, nonsensical, vainglorious presidential candidate, rather than invite him into the club and give him more of the empty-calorie media attention he seeks.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/tv/trumps-sorry-night-on-snl-an-overhyped-bummer-for-us-all/2015/11/08/29298ac2-85ee-11e5-9afb-0c971f713d0c_story.html

[Lint Head]

1. Agree. Trump is a New Yorker and we'll known by

Lorne. Hell they're both wealthy and surely run in the same circles. SNL is a dead horse and the poor carcass has been beaten into a pile of unrecognizable goo.

[rocktivity]

2. The only way to have made it appropriate

is to give the other twenty-odd candidates to be given a hosting slot.


rocktivity

[patricia92243]

3. What are the ratings? That will tell SNL if he bombed or not. n/t

[kpete]

4. Four Year High

Donald Trump Lifts ‘Saturday Night Live’ Ratings to Near Four-Year High
http://variety.com/2015/tv/news/donald-trump-saturday-night-live-ratings-1201636005/4

[randr]

13. This means that more people are now aware of how bad SNL has become

[davsand]

5. Were people tuning in to see the trainwreck?

I figured the numbers were gonna be good for this episode of SNL simply because it has been so publicized. I also expected that more than a few people turned it on just to see how BAD it really was.

We did not turn it on. I find racism UN-funny EVERY time.


Laura

[kpete]

6. I will not watch

SNL again
except for VERY early re-runs

[RichGirl]

9. I think...

...it was curiosity. Like how the traffic slows going past an accident to get a look.

I don't look at an accident and didn't watch SNL. I have better things to do with my time.

[Fred Sanders]

8. "Bombed" in poll ratings versus "bombed" in eyeball and ear ratings are two different things.

[Fred Sanders]

7. And the GOP boycotted a NBC co-hosted nationally televised debate? Is the mutual love over?

[left-of-center2012]

10. As Trump would say .....

"80% of online polls say I was a HUGE success."

[Octafish]

11. ''Bring back the old America...''

"Did it ever leave, Mr. President?"

[Vinca]

12. The clips I've seen are hysterical. I'm sorry I didn't record it.

If you can't laugh at Donald Trump, who can you laugh at?

[applegrove]

14. Apparently SNL had huge ratings. Maybe that is a good thing if he bombed.

[IcyPeas]

15. I don't think Trump made the show better or worse than usual...

SNL has been bad for years. Last night's show was just typical. meh.