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15 Predictions for Episode 1 of ‘Saturday Night Live UK’

For the first time, Saturday Night Live is coming to UK television. We have some ideas about what might happen.

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The day the all-new UK spin-off of Saturday Night Live was announced, we knew. Not in a cynical, contrarian way, but instinctively. The way you can look in a fridge when you’re ill and your gut tells you which food gave you botulism. Then we felt mean about it. Shouldn’t we give these people a chance? An emerging crop of comedians, trying to make weekend TV appointment viewing again, Lorne Michaels (who created SNL back in 1975) at the helm. Surely something about it will land?

Then they released a teaser with Tina Fey playing Mary Poppins for no reason other than “Poppins” apparently sounds like “pop it in” (?) and it turned out we were right, as we always are. SNL UK is going to be bad, in an entirely predictable way.

We think it will feature the following:

A DONALD TRUMP IMPRESSION 

Put your house on it. It will be largely unconvincing—like a faint memory of another comedian’s sub-par impression—but it will successfully hammer home that “orange man equals bad.” Either Al Nash doesn’t do it (successfully curtailing typecasting accusations) or he does and people on X spend the next four days arguing about why it means we do or don’t need ethnonationalism.

A WILDLY OUT OF DATE REFERENCE TO ‘BRAT SUMMER’ 

We were going to predict an appearance from Charli xcx, but then they announced the guests and ruined our fun. But as the last frayed thread of what once was UK monoculture, a Brat reference will surely find its way into the........

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