Eli Manning’s ‘SNL’ Ratings Strong But No Match For Brother’s (Or Lindsay Lohan’s)

COMMENTS (12)

• The only way I’d watch is if they put Lohan back on.

  Comment by L — Sunday May 6, 2012 @ 10:17am PDT  Reply to this post

  • After watching this train wreck, me, too, L. It was embarrassingly awful. Even Wiig doing that creepy, over-tanned weirdo wasn’t funny. The live audience was dead silent during that ‘game show’ skit that has to be the worst written piece of dung SNL ever created.

    I want my 1 1/2 hours back.

    Comment by savvydude — Sunday May 6, 2012 @ 6:51pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Eli was cool. He made me chuckle in the court room scene. SNL is distancing itself from Kristen Wiig by giving tine to Abby Elliott and Vanessa Bayer. Why does a smiling Vanessa tries to hypnotize the camera? Stop trying trying to steal scenes Vanessa or Lorne is gonna call you into the Principal’s office.

  Comment by Rome — Sunday May 6, 2012 @ 10:26am PDT  Reply to this post

• Rihanna was awful.

  Comment by nia — Sunday May 6, 2012 @ 11:01am PDT  Reply to this post

• Downplaying Wiig just shows the lack of talent in the other female cast members. They are all just non-descript fill ins. And what does Seth Meyers have on Michaels that allows him to continue to have the head writer’s job?

  Comment by Walter — Sunday May 6, 2012 @ 11:01am PDT  Reply to this post

• Thank god Eli has better timing on the football field.

  Comment by Steve — Sunday May 6, 2012 @ 11:05am PDT  Reply to this post

• Was overall very impressed by eli’s performance. Only the post 12:50 sketches were sub par. Was bummed that shy ronnie didn’t make an appearance, especially if samberg is leaving after this season. He should have done the chris brown verse on “Birthday Cake.”

  Comment by Anonymous — Sunday May 6, 2012 @ 11:24am PDT  Reply to this post

• Eli did what he could with the painfully unfunny writing he was given…although the “Little Brothers” sketch was Hilarious..by far the highlight of the night. Rihanna…second song/performance was better than the first.

  Comment by Watcher — Sunday May 6, 2012 @ 1:06pm PDT  Reply to this post

• The show, per usual, was gawdawful. And what prompted the writers to put Eli in virtually every sketch? I mean, there’s a reason he’s paid to play football and not act. Because there was a lot of not acting going on all over the place. The sketches were uniformly lame. The writing, as always, was subpar. Even Weekend Update was a waste of time. Like the above poster wondered: how does Seth Meyers keep his job as head writer?

  Comment by Rick — Sunday May 6, 2012 @ 2:15pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Eli was ‘cute’ last night, but couldn’t hold up against his older brother – NOT because he couldn’t be as funny, but that the current writing on the show is GOD AWFUL. Weekend Update (with Sasha) was painful and cringe inducing.

  Comment by coppertopolo — Sunday May 6, 2012 @ 2:23pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Eli was hysterical last night. I bet his ratings would have been higher if not for the Mayweather fight.

  Comment by Alex — Sunday May 6, 2012 @ 3:21pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Those are pretty solid ratings considering it was up against cinco de mayo and Mayweather. It was a very funny episode too. Eli did great.

  Comment by nhl19 — Saturday May 19, 2012 @ 6:08am PDT  Reply to this post