Not that Tina Fey wasn’t busy enough these days winning all those Emmy awards for ‘30-Rock’ while single-handily bringing back ‘SNL’ into relevant pop-culture. No, now she’s going to write a book too. “According to two publishing officials with knowledge of the negotiations, Little, Brown and Company will release a book of humorous essays by the 38-year-old Fey.” Even though I’m generally one to spend more time reading web articles than I am to read something in book form this is a book I’ll definitely want to pick up

Fey has proven that no matter what medium you work in if you make the content awesome people will still flock to it. Ratings for the premiere episode with Fey making her first foray into the Palin impersonation saw a 46% jump in ratings compared to the same episode last year. The top viewed Tina Fey video from SNL has already seen more than 3.2 million views. Count up the top 3 of those clips and you have over 7 million views. That’s almost as many people as the ‘9 million people [who] tuned in to prime-time programs on the top five English-language broadcast networks the night they aired last week, a 4.3% decline from the first week of the 2007 TV season, according to Nielsen Media Research.’

Keep it up Fey, I know I can’t get enough ‘30-Rock’ and I’ll be watching SNL tonight so I can see you, Queen Latifah and someone else make some sense of last Thursday’s VP debate.

Since SNL’s embed code isn’t working properly if you want to check out last week’s skit, or want to find tonight’s skit after it airs just click here.

 

UPDATE:

About 51 percent of viewers who saw at least one of the two Saturday Night Live skits featuring Tina Fey as Sarah Palin watched online, according to a survey by Solutions Research Group and reported today (Friday) by Advertising Age. The survey noted that of these, 23 percent watched it on YouTube; 17 percent on NBC.com, and 4 percent on Hulu.com (jointly owned by NBC and News Corp). 


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