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Alec Baldwin Tonight Ties The Steve Martin Record On SNL’s 35th Season Finale -- Even As Fox Mulls Ending THE WANDA SYKES SHOW!!

I am – Hercules!! It’s not an election year, but “Saturday Night Live” keeps garnering bigger 18-49 audiences than anything in late night and dang near anything in primetime (last week’s Betty White outing outperformed everything last week except “American Idol,” “Glee” and “Two and a Half Men”). In fact, I’m told if you ignore a couple of 2008 episodes featuring Sarah Palin and John McCain, you have to go all the way back to a 1994 episode hosted by Steve Martin to find an installment of the late-night franchise that drew more viewers. All this on Saturday, the least-watched night on television. Over on Fox, meanwhile, “The Wanda Sykes Show” is drawing even lower ratings than “Mad TV,” the late-night Saturday show it replaced this season. Fox is expected to announce the cancellation of “Sykes” Monday. It’s widely believed Fox will replace “Sykes” with a new Jamie Foxx-produced sketch show masterminded by “Mad TV” creators Fax Bahr and Adams Small, the “In Living Color” writers who also created “House of Buggin’,” “Chocolate News,” “The Jamie Kennedy Experiment” and “Blue Collar TV.” (For the big screen, Bahr and Small also co-wrote Kennedy’s “Malibu’s Most Wanted” as well as the Pauly Shore vehicles “Son In Law” and “In The Army Now.”) Like “Mad TV” producer Quincy Jones, Foxx became a close associate of the late Ray Charles. Fox execs may believe a personal connection to the late genius singer-songwriter is somehow key to creating the next great late-night sketch show. Tonight brings the 35th season finale of “Saturday Night Live,” which Alec Baldwin will use to tie Steve Martin’s SNL hosting record. Martin and Baldwin, who co-starred in the 2009 feature “It’s Complicated” and together hosted this year’s Oscars, have previously lampooned their SNL rivalry to hilarious effect. From season 31: From season 32: What say you, talkbackers? Is Jamie Foxx funnier than Will Forte, Bill Hader and Kristin Wiig? Is SNL, which I’m told hasn’t been funny in years, finally so awful that a new sketch show from the “Mad TV” creators will finally be able to wipe Lorne Michaels’ brainchild from the airwaves? See you next fall! 11:30 p.m. Saturday. NBC.
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