Aubrey Plaza's Saturday Night Live hosting stint garners NBC season-best ratings number for key demo

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Aubrey Plaza's hosting stint on this week's Saturday Night Live garnered the NBC show its highest ratings of the season in the key demographic of people 18-49.The January 21 edition hosted by the 38-year-old actress, who hosted with Sam Smith, 30, as musical guest, garnered a 0.98 rating, marking the show's most-viewed episode of the season in the key demo, Deadline reported.The episode hosted by the actress - who has garnered breakout buzz for her work on season two of HBO's The White Lotus - racked up 4.8M total viewers, according to Nielsen.

The latest: Aubrey Plaza's hosting stint on this week's Saturday Night Live garnered the NBC show its highest ratings of the season in the key demographic of people 18-49The episode marked the comedy's second-highest rated episode of its 48th season, behind the December 10 episode hosted by Steve Martin and Martin Short, which drew 5.1 million viewers.This past week's episode also reflected a 30 percent spike in the demo and 13 percent increase from the show's average in the fourth quarter timeframe.

The show hosted by Plaza - who was on Parks and Recreation from 2009 to 2015 - is currently the top-performing episode on Peacock and NBC's digital platforms.

President Joe Biden, who is from Delaware, made a special video appearance for the actress, who is from Wilmington, Delaware.