Despite the fact that John McCain's appearance on Saturday Night Live (SNL) didn't generate Sarah Palin-like ratings who brought 15 million viewers two weeks ago, it was a success after all, being the second-highest-rated episode in 11 years in preliminary Nielsen figures. The last SNL before Tuesday's election that featured a joint appearance by John McCain and Tina Fey as running mate Sarah Palin didn't disappoint in the ratings.

All in all the McCain show was another winner for SNL, which saw the combination of the presidential candidate, wife Cindy McCain, faux running mate Tina Fey (as Palin, of course) and host Ben Affleck (as Keith Olbermann, among others) boost ratings 27 percent over last week's show.

McCain, who guest hosted in 2002, appeared in two skits. The first was the opening, where he and Fey answered Barack Obama's "roadblock" 30-minute ad on Wednesday night with a fake QVC telethon. Also on board for that skit was McCain's wife, Cindy McCain. The candidate made another appearance, like Palin, on "Weekend Update," where he told anchor Seth Meyers that he had settled upon several radical new strategies in the final days of the campaign. One strategy was "The Sad Grandpa."

But the consequences of the show’s success didn’t fail to come out, as it appears that Gov. Sarah Palin had some advice for Tina Fey at a rally in Columbus, Ohio, Sunday night as she warned the actress to get ready for four more years in the role. Since September, SNL has been riding a ratings surge driven by interest in show's take on presidential politics and sparked by Fey's dead-on take of Palin. And it seems that the writer and actress has done an impression of the Alaska governor and Republican vice presidential candidate herself in "Saturday Night Live" skits over the last two months to great acclaim.