‘Saturday Night Live UK’ Premieres With Healthy Ratings For Sky

For that time s***, 80K is the average, so they got roughly 3x the usual figures.

Sky is the equivalent of Fox in the UK. Do with that information what you will.

"Healthy" sounds like not good but not bqd ether.

"I'm older than I look."

I could only find a low quality copy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BM43qn3dmpc

*Undéraaage

imagine the furor if that sketch was aired on snl us instead

They need to make weekend update longer

The Budger 😂

How were you able to watch it ? I can’t find it on any streaming platforms

Now we need to see it with a British host

It was solid for a first episode. Early-season SNL episodes are often not very good when there has been big turnover on the cast, so I'd wait till a few episodes in before truly judging it.

I'm neither from the UK or the USA. This version is much better than the USA version, by miles.

Nish Kumar’s short lived show had a news segment which weaved in some remote sketch segments. Those were some of the best bits on that show so I had high expectations on the Update segment but was disappointed with what turned up. Opening day blues I hope.

Educate yourself

> Maybe the live-ness of the show is part of the appeal. Now maybe Britons understand why SNL US has lasted so long even in spite of fluctuating quality. The live part is exactly it.

> The episode was really hurt by opening with an incredibly unfunny sketch. I can see that turning people away but it did get better as it went on. That’s probably one of the better backhanded compliments you can hope for these days for the SNL political skits considering how much viewers seem to hate them now, including myself. At least dumb Hitler wasn’t actually shown in this one and we only heard his voice for a second. 

> Maybe the live-ness of the show is part of the appeal. I mean...yeah? It's the one thing that differentiates the show from anything else on TV That's one reason why the comparisons to other sketch shows don't make sense. It's one of a kind in terms of the creative process and execution. Yeah Chappelle's Show has a higher hit-to-miss ratio than SNL but Dave didn't turn around a 90 minute show from scratch from Tuesday to Saturday with a new host every week. And even then the sketches aren't gonna be as polished as they could be if you could do multiple takes and edit and rewrite over weeks to fine tune it. You get what you get even if it ends up being shit It's not the most effective or efficient process but the charm of it pretty much *is* the show

> Maybe the live-ness of the show is part of the appeal. Yes. That's the appeal, along with a weekly celebrity who is often not a comedy personality, and musical guests.

I’m in the uk and not really got onboard with SNL. I know it’s impact on pop culture over the past 50 years. So was curious to see the uk version. I agree about the opening sketch. It dragged on and on and then slammed the brakes on for shouting the “It’s Saturday night” by which point I was already wondering what the fuss was about and made the credits that followed feel even longer. I felt like I’d been watching the show for nearly 15 mins and had more laughs from the adverts before it came on air. What made it worse is what feels like the audience are being forced at gunpoint to laugh at every single thing. Character breathes Audience: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Character: Sir Kier… Audience: HAAAAAAAAHAHAHA Etc

There's different areas of sketch comedy. I lean more towards prerecorded stuff because a lot more can be done to enhance the jokes. But the live staged comedy of SNL can be great with the right performers and writers

> Maybe the live-ness of the show is part of the appeal. It is. Writers will often change the dialogue in order to get the actors to break. John Mulaney did this to Bill Hader a lot so much that one of his characters Steffon developed a tic where he would cover his mouth but it was just Bill hiding his laughter. The current Weekend Update (news segment) has the hosts sometimes write jokes for each other. They have never seen these jokes as they are reading them Michael Che who is black will often write jokes that make Co-host Colin Jost say racist stuff. His reactions are pretty funny. > “You’re gonna get me murdered” Jost will sometimes write jokes for Che making him seem down for police brutality among other this Sometimes the dress reversal which us taped live in front of an audience earlier in the day will have versions of the sketches where there is more breaking so that version will be added to re-airing instead of the live version. One of the Debbie Downer sketches did that since it’s infamous for castmembers breaking. Here is the original Debbie Downer sketch [Debbie Downer - Disney World (2004)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfE93xON8jk)

What other British sketch comedies? There aren't any anymore

It airs Sundays (not sure the time) on Paramount.

Sounds like your wife needs to find someone with a better sense of humour 

I never even heard about it before, nor the actors and couldn't stop laughing, except Tina Feys' sketch which I found mid. Could've been the hype? To each their own anyway.

Out of curiosity, what are some examples of comedy that you like?

Some people just don’t get it, and that’s okay :)

It's funny because we watch american shows and think they're overly lit and produced

It's not like they copy the US sketches. Calling people dumb fucks for liking something different to you is pretty wild but I guess enjoy not watching any US made shows or movies. What gems do you like?