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Donald Trump makes “lifeless” Saturday Night Live host

As a comedy host, Trump makes a pretty good Apprentice boss.

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As a comedy host, presidential candidate Donald Trump makes a pretty good Apprentice boss.

Hollywood Reporter notes:
As lifeless as Trump was for the majority of the show, the writers deserve every bit as much of the onus for entirely failing to work around Trump’s limitations or finding amusing things to do with the lump in the middle. Yes, there have been reports that Trump vetoed skits for being too “risqué,” but the problem with this episode wasn’t a failure to push boundaries, but rather a failure to craft skits with punchlines. Of course, why waste your A-material in an episode destined for season high ratings completely by default?

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  1. It was gimmick casting, and as such was a success. It rated a 2.7 with 18-49s SNL’s highest ratings in 3 years.

    It demonstrates there was nothing but self interest in NBC’s stand against Trump before. They claimed that their firing him from The Apprentice was a moral stance, when they thought it would gain them revenue due to Anti-Trump sentiment, then let him guest host SNL when they thought that would boost revenue.

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