Lorne Michaels is launching a British SNL spinoff next year, and many people think it’s a terrible idea. IDK, it could work? Or it could be awful. [Pajiba]
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Trump cabinet member thinks his staff should bake cookies. [Jezebel]
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I hope Bezos faceplant memes take over the internet like the memes of Muskrat jumping up and down to support mango like a wimpy weenie in PA and the muskrat/mango marriage memes. Facebook seems to be censoring these joy nuggets as much as content from people like Heather Cox Richardson and other prominent liberals are being censored.
Bluesky doesn’t.
Re: a British SNL – it could work but depends on the cast and writers.
I remember shows like Morcambe and Wise which has a similar premise.
South Korea has a long running version of SNL. I’ve tried watching it a few times. It’s often very culturally specific and a lot of it goes over my head. I’d expect the same of a British version.
I feel like the typical British sense of humor will work well in the SNL skit format.
The majority of the skits will gear towards Meghan and Harry. 100%
That’s honestly really unlikely. Outside of the minority of the population that are super right wing, few Brits take any interest in Harry or Meghan or Brits in general. 99% of all the coverage online and the forums discussing them, it’s Americans. Even MailOnline gets most of their clicks from IP addresses located outside the UK.
There are a million comedy panel and satirical news shows on British TV already and Harry and Meghan are rarely mentioned unless they’ve done something to create a headline, and the tone generally is pretty neutral, maybe lightly taking the P, but nothing nasty the way South Park and other US shows have portrayed them.
An American show is a thousand times more likely to do a sketch about Harry and Meghan or the BRF than a British show because they’re much, much more an American obsession than a British one. Tabloids don’t represent British people at all.
Does anyone remember HEADCASES it was like a newer version of Spitting Image,it was hilarious.
I could swear they’d already tried an SNL spinoff in the UK. Maybe it was just a similar format (there have certainly been similar shows, some worked and some didn’t).
UK and USA have different work cultures. I always hear from SNL people how long their working days are and how stressful it is to work there. That is why most of them only stay for 3-4 years. I don’t think a similar show would work there. UK TV doesn’t also make as much money to justify a big writers’ room.
That’s definitely true of the UK generally, but the TV industry is a bit of an exception. 12-18 hour days are the norm in TV regardless of which side of the Atlantic you’re on. A lot of people in British TV work similar hours as the SNL crew as standard.
It’s true we don’t do writers’ rooms, though; it’s more usual for a single writer to write every single episode in an entire season, whereas in the USA, drama and comedy writers expect to do a lot less actual writing work, and a lot more throwing ideas around in a room.
I don’t think you necessarily need such super long days to be able to make quality shows, though. The UK has a long history of SNL-type shows (though some amazing topical political comedy shows were cancelled during the last Tory government in really outrageous BBC censorship, for example The Mash Report, which wasn’t a million miles from SNL).
Anything would be better than the American SNL. I do not find that show funny and never have. There might be a skit or two I see online that is amusing but they are very far and few between.
I’d rather watch my toe nails grow than to be forced to watch an entire episode of SNL.
I wouldn’t watch it.