This weekend, the “Saturday Night Live” show served its audience a helping hand of Tina Fey’s performance of vice-presidential candidate for the Republican Party Sarah Palin.

The “Weekend Update” sketch also featured Queen Latifah, in the role of the moderator of the vice-presidential debate that took place on Thursday, October 2, and “SNL” cast member Jason Sudeikis, who portrayed Senator Joseph R. Biden. The latter, an United States Senator from Delaware, has been nominated by the Democratic Party to run for vice-president, thus rendering him Palin’s counter-candidate. The debate on October 2 was moderated by PBS journalist Gwen Ifill and it was the first one in 24 years to feature a female candidate.

On Sunday, a clip of the „SNL” sketch that was posted on nbc.com reached approximately 1 million views.

On the same day, Nielsen Media Research revealed that the show had rated an average 7.4 within its air-time, which translates as an increase by 42 percent in the metered markets from last season’s fourth episode.

„Saturday Night Live” has been on a winning streak with audiences since it started walking on the political satire road, taking on Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin.

Nevertheless, the show has definitely struck gold with Tina Fey’s interpretation of the latter political figure, Fey portraying Palin for the third episode on Saturday.

CNN political analyst Gloria Borger informed that the tongue-in-cheek irony was not aimed only at Palin, Gwen Ifill and Joseph R. Biden getting their fair share of being made fun of by some spot-on remarks of Queen Latifah and Jason Sudeikis.