After Tina Fey’s impersonation of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin managed to bring a big chunk of viewers to the Saturday Night Live show for its past three episodes, last Saturday it was the real Palin’s turn to let people know what she was made of.

And she sure did a great job, pulling the best preliminary ratings the show has registered in fourteen years out of her vice-presidential nominee hat, which many deem as not quite fitting her.

Palin scored Saturday Night Live an estimated number of 14 million viewers, which counts as the late-night show’s highest rating since the March 12, 1994, edition that featured Aretha Franklin.

Just to top that large audience with a cherry, it seems that the Republican Party’s choice to run for United States vice-president Sarah Palin was a much better crowd-bringer that Joseph Biden and John McCain combined. The former, who is Palin’s counter-candidate in this year’s elections, was the guest of NBC's "Tonight Show" on its Thursday edition, while the latter, her own running mate, made an appearance on David Letterman’s the „Late Show” on CBS, also on Thursday.

Saturday Night Live featured, alongside Palin, actor Josh Brolin, who plays U.S. president George W. Bush in Oliver Stone’s movie “W.,” and SNL guest host Alec Baldwin, an Emmy- and Golden Globe Award-winning American actor.

If Tina Fey’s three skits have attracted many viewers to the Saturday Night Live show, her spot-on irony and remarks taking aim at the vice-presidential candidates having been quite the crowd-pleaser, it seems that last Saturday, Sarah Palin got the last laugh, by making SNL’s ratings to soar by 161 percent above the show’s averages.