A British SNL? Iconic sketch comedy show is making the trip across the pond

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As Saturday Night Live celebrates its 50th anniversary, the iconic U.S. sketch drama amusement announced Thursday that it plans to motorboat a British version.

U.K. mentation volition diagnostic a formed of British comedians, but volition inactive beryllium overseen by Lorne Michaels

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· Posted: Apr 10, 2025 2:20 PM EDT | Last Updated: 9 minutes ago

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Live from London, it's Saturday night!

Wait, London? You heard that correctly. Saturday Night Live announced Thursday that it plans to motorboat a British mentation of the U.S. sketch drama amusement that is celebrating its 50th day crossed the pond.

The U.K. version, produced with Sky Studios, volition person a British formed of comedians — to beryllium announced aboriginal — and travel the aforesaid format, with celebrated impermanent hosts and prima philharmonic acts.

SNL creator Lorne Michaels volition beryllium the enforcement shaper of Saturday Night Live UK, while staying successful the aforesaid relation with the amusement connected NBC successful New York.

"For implicit 50 years, Saturday Night Live has held a unsocial presumption successful TV and successful our corporate culture, reflecting and creating the planetary conversation, each nether the masterful comedic guidance of Lorne Michaels," said Cecile Frot-Coutaz, main enforcement of Sky Studios.

"We are thrilled to beryllium partnering with Lorne and the SNL team to bring an all-British mentation of the amusement to U.K. audiences adjacent twelvemonth — each unrecorded from London connected Saturday night."

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The long-established amusement regularly roasts the powerful. U.S. President Donald Trump and tech titan Elon Musk person been skewered lately, and some person antecedently hosted the 90-minute show.

SNL airs unrecorded astatine 11:30 p.m. ET from a workplace astatine Rockefeller Plaza and typically opens with a sketch that wraps arsenic the actors crook to the camera, interruption quality and announce: "Live from New York, it's Saturday night!"

Its premix of governmental satire, offbeat skits, fake commercials, comic euphony videos and its regular Weekend Update spoof connected the quality has launched the careers of galore comedians and actors.

Its roster of celebrated formed members see the precocious John Belushi, Bill Murray, Eddie Murphy, Mike Myers, Tina Fey, Will Ferrell, Kristen Wiig, Kenan Thompson and Kate McKinnon.

Efforts to motorboat SNL in different countries, specified arsenic France, Japan and Italy, person typically been short-lived, though a mentation of the amusement remains connected the aerial successful South Korea.