Celebrity Cameos, Edgy Humor and Mixed Reactions
The reviews are in for Saturday Night Live UK, hosted by Tina Fey with musical guest Wet Leg in its debut this weekend. The sketches on the first-ever international spinoff of Lorne Michaels’ hit NBC show — impressively executed by a relatively unknown cast and watched on Sky by over 220,000 people — were wide-ranging and made use of the U.K.’s over-performing rolodex of British talent. The cold open began with U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer (played as a dawdling, anxious mess by George Fouracres) enlisting the help of a Gen Z consultant (Jack Shep) to work up the courage to send a voice note to U.S. President Donald Trump and declining to go to war with him. “I’ll do anything,” says Fouracres as Starmer. “Except take a stand.” Hammed Animashaun was on standby as a sycophantic deputy PM, David Lammy. Then it came to Fey’s opening monologue from a set not dissimilar at all from its American counterpart. “It’s an absolute honour and kind of historic,” said Fey to the live audience. “Guys, I am …
