The British version of Saturday Night Live that launched over the weekend closely resembled its American cousin in structure: a cold-open sketch, a host monologue, a mix of live and pretaped sketches, two musical performances, and a centerpiece fake-news segment called Weekend Update. Yet despite the fact that there are around a thousand previous SNL episodes that more or less conform to this format, there was something new the U.K. edition was able to bring to the table, besides different accents and a full cast of fresh-to-U.S.-viewers faces: the first new Weekend Update anchors in almost 12 years.
With every episode of the original Saturday Night Live, current co-anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che extended an astonishing record: They are currently the top two longest-tenured Update anchors in the show’s history, and no one’s in much position to catch them. Jost remains forever slightly in the lead; it was just
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