‘Saturday Night Live UK’ Review: Tina Fey Helps Give Sky One’s ‘SNL’ Spinoff a Promising Start
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George Fouracres and Jack Shep were among breakouts in the sketch comedy, which will air in the U.K. on Saturdays and on Peacock the day after.
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Share on Facebook Share on X Google Preferred Share to Flipboard Show additional share options Share on LinkedIn Share on Pinterest Share on Reddit Share on Tumblr Share on Whats App Send an Email Print the Article Post a Comment Logo text Saturday Night Live UK had its looooooooooooong-awaited premiere this weekend, and let’s get a couple of obvious jokes out of the way. First of all, congratulations to Saturday Night Live UK on marking the last week nobody will be able to say the show used to be funnier! Saturday Night Live UK The Bottom Line Good cast, spotty writing — like the mothership. Airdate: Premiered Saturday, March 21 (Sky One) Cast: Hammed Animashaun, Ayoade Bamgboye, Larry Dean, Celeste Dring, George Fouracres, Ania Magliano, Annabel Marlow, Al Nash, Jack Shep, Emma Sidi, Paddy Young But also, the writers had 51 years to write jokes for the first episode and this was what they came up with? Hilarious, I know. But given that Tina Fey began her monologue by joking that she’s the youngest person to ever host Saturday Night Live UK , easy punchlines are in play. Related Stories TV 'Saturday Night Live UK' Makes Its Debut: Celebrity Cameos, Edgy Humor -- and Mixed Reactions TV How to Watch the 'Saturday Night Live UK' Premiere in the U.S. While it’s thoroughly baffling that it took Lorne Michaels this long to franchise one of American television’s most beloved and lucrative formats, the transplantation of Saturday Night Live for British audiences went off basically without a hitch. The Saturday Night Live UK premiere was like a funhouse-mirror version of the long-running NBC smash, but not one of those fully committed funhouse mirrors that makes you look three feet tall or precariously wire-thin. No, this was like looking at yourself in a slightly askew mirror and going, “Wow! I look one inch taller than normal!” or “This mirror makes it look like I’m wearing a funny hat.” The premiere was full of easily observable changes of the sort that might make a diff...
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