Here’s the first episode’s monologue by Tina Fey.
Yes, and quite annoyingly, no one seems to want to talk about it. As a longtime fan of the original SNL, I’m extremely curious about it, but everyone I’ve asked around here keeps saying “there’s only been one episode, give it time. Chill”
Yeah, I get that. But what did you think of the first episode? No one wants to say. It’s driving me nuts.
SNL is mediocre of itself. Its following is based on it being on for 50 years and having a management team who have been canny at exploiting its cast and characters in various spinoff media. There are the occasional stand out sketches but it’s 95% dreck, perfomed by people phoning it in by reading cue cards.
So without the heritage of the US version, the UK edition is going to be very niche and people are going to wait to commit to it or not.
The best bits of 30 rock are when they make fun of how genuinely bad snl is most of the time.
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UK here, did not know about this. Will continue on as if I still don’t know about it.
There is tons of great British tele and we don’t really need any more yank rubbish.
It really does channel the American SNL vibe. And that’s not necessarily a good thing. I’ve watched a couple of the sketches and they are really hammy and the impersonations aren’t very good (like the Keir Starmer impression).
Tina Fey’s monologue was very good though. But having Graham Norton make a guest appearance in it is like a cheat code.
It was a decent hand-off / launch. It’s expected to take a bit to get their feet. Will be interesting to see how it goes. I do hope it ends up more British humour than American
Desperately needs its own YouTube channel.
Also the Starmer bits were spot on 😂
Yeah and we hate it
EDIT:
also watched the American “Have I Got News For You?” and it wasn’t as good as the British one but that’s just how it is.
