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The numbers are the best since the Melissa McCarthy-HAIM episode in May 2017, which drew a 2.7 in the demo and 10.38 million in overall viewership.<\/p>\n<p>Representing Murphy&#8217;s first appearance on a regular &#8220;SNL&#8221; episode in 35 years, the episode garnered massive hype ahead of the broadcast. Add in buzz over Lizzo <i>and<\/i> the usual support &#8220;SNL&#8221; receives for its end-of-year\/Christmas episode, and the strong ratings performance was well-anticipated.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Note: &#8220;SNL&#8221; typically shares overnight household ratings for &#8220;Saturday Night Live.&#8221; Its press alert did not include comparable data for this week&#8217;s episode, but it goes without saying that it markedly outperformed everything else this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Eddie Murphy-Lizzo &#8220;Saturday Night Live&#8221; drew monster ratings.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":135879,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1048],"tags":[57,12007,210,13218],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ratings: &quot;Saturday Night Live&quot; Attracts Most Viewers Since 2017 For Eddie Murphy, Lizzo Episode<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In the epitome of an unsurprising outcome, the Eddie Murphy-Lizzo edition of &quot;Saturday Night Live&quot; drew big ratings. 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