John Oliver doesn’t assume a British model of Saturday Night time Dwell is a good suggestion.
Whereas showing on Late Night time with Seth Meyers, the SNL alum requested Oliver what he thought in regards to the UK adaptation of the NBC late-night sketch present.
“It seems like a horrible concept,” Oliver mentioned.
Meyers requested the Final Week Tonight host to elucidate why he didn’t assume a British model of SNL.
“It simply seems like a nasty… We’ve had sketch comedy earlier than,” Oliver famous. “And it simply looks like Saturday Night time Dwell is such a singular group. It’s a cult.”
He continued, “I’m attempting to not say the phrase — It’s a cult. I don’t know how one can impose that cult on to the UK.”
Oliver defined that essentially the most cult-like factor about SNL was that they’ve to remain up all night time on Tuesday.
“That’s ridiculous,” he mentioned. “That’s the type of factor a cult chief would make you do.”
Oliver joked that “it’s been confirmed that SNL is the outlier. It doesn’t must be dictated to the day that you could stay awake on that day or the good chief shall be irritated.”
In 2021, Deadline reported that Sky was engaged on a British model of SNL, and in April 2024, the Comcast-owned community lastly ordered the present to collection. The UK adaptation of SNL will premiere in 2026 with creator Lorne Michaels hooked up as an govt producer, with the present being produced by his Broadway Video and Common Tv Various Studio’s UK manufacturing workforce.
Watch John Oliver’s full interview on Late Night time within the video beneath.
