‘Saturday Night Live UK’ Review: Tina Fey Helps Give Sky One’s ‘SNL’ Spinoff a Promising Start

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Saturday Night Live UK had its looooooooooooong-awaited premiere this weekend, and let’s get a couple of obvious jokes out of the way.

First of all, congratulations to Saturday Night Live UK on marking the last week nobody will be able to say the show used to be funnier!

Saturday Night Live UK

The Bottom Line Good cast, spotty writing — like the mothership.

Airdate: Premiered Saturday, March 21 (Sky One)
Cast: Hammed Animashaun, Ayoade Bamgboye, Larry Dean, Celeste Dring, George Fouracres, Ania Magliano, Annabel Marlow, Al Nash, Jack Shep, Emma Sidi, Paddy Young

But also, the writers had 51 years to write jokes for the first episode and this was what they came up with?

Hilarious, I know. But given that Tina Fey began her monologue by joking that she’s the youngest

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