Paid Members Your Fight Site Posted December 12, 2021 Paid Members Posted December 12, 2021 1 hour ago, Devon Malcolm said: Can’t wait to see those sticky note posts with names like Paddy McGuinness and Jason Manford ? Quote
Paid Members Jazzy G Posted December 12, 2021 Paid Members Posted December 12, 2021 Some of the replies sum it all up, really. Quote
Paid Members BomberPat Posted December 12, 2021 Paid Members Posted December 12, 2021 SNL relies on a massive, full-time writers' room, which is just not the culture of comedy writing in the UK. They'd basically have to restructure how British comedy is written from the ground up, that isn't going to happen. So it'll be shit. Quote
WyattSheepMask Posted December 12, 2021 Posted December 12, 2021 Isn’t it more like that they’ve just commissioned a show that’ll imaginatively be titled something like Saturday Night Live: UK and that’s where the similarity begins and ends? It’s basically going to an off-season Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway Quote
Moderators PowerButchi Posted December 12, 2021 Moderators Posted December 12, 2021 Channel 4 did it with Friday Night Live. It was alright if heavy on the Ben Elton. Quote
Paid Members PunkStep Posted December 12, 2021 Paid Members Posted December 12, 2021 I was going to say I'm sure they already tried this in the 80s. I don't think there's any point in having a British version, we see enough of the inevitable contributers on a thousand different panel shows every week. Quote
Keith Houchen Posted December 12, 2021 Posted December 12, 2021 They just just bring back A Stab In The Dark. Baddiel would be up for it as it’s the only show where he was supposed to be the funny one. Not sure what happened to the other bloke though. Quote
wordsfromlee Posted December 12, 2021 Posted December 12, 2021 1 hour ago, BomberPat said: SNL relies on a massive, full-time writers' room, which is just not the culture of comedy writing in the UK. They'd basically have to restructure how British comedy is written from the ground up, that isn't going to happen. So it'll be shit. It's pretty much how most panel shows are written anyway so it could easily be done. Quote
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted December 12, 2021 Paid Members Posted December 12, 2021 The only way this could possibly work is if they throw millions of quid at Kenan Thompson and get him to do it. Otherwise it will be terrible. Almost all of the most popular comedians in this country are awful and the ones that aren't as well known are not going to draw any viewers and a lot of them won't touch it because they know it will be shit and will damage their careers enormously. It's a really awful idea. Quote
Paid Members BomberPat Posted December 12, 2021 Paid Members Posted December 12, 2021 31 minutes ago, wordsfromlee said: It's pretty much how most panel shows are written anyway so it could easily be done. I think a lot of panel shows are written by freelancers or pseudo-freelancers, as most BBC shows have been forever, rather than a dedicated full-time team, though. I may well be very out of date on that, though. Quote
Paid Members PunkStep Posted December 12, 2021 Paid Members Posted December 12, 2021 51 minutes ago, Keith Houchen said: They just just bring back A Stab In The Dark. Baddiel would be up for it as it’s the only show where he was supposed to be the funny one. Not sure what happened to the other bloke though. Curiosity made me look this up. Fucking hell, I had no idea. Quote
wordsfromlee Posted December 12, 2021 Posted December 12, 2021 6 minutes ago, BomberPat said: I think a lot of panel shows are written by freelancers or pseudo-freelancers, as most BBC shows have been forever, rather than a dedicated full-time team, though. I may well be very out of date on that, though. I know shows like Mock The Week, 8 Out of 10 Cats and Have I Got News For You all have the same core group of about five or six writers for the whole of a series with the odd extra person every now and then. As well as the people on the show too, obviously. So it's not a million miles away from the American way. Quote
Paid Members gmoney Posted December 12, 2021 Paid Members Posted December 12, 2021 1 hour ago, BomberPat said: I think a lot of panel shows are written by freelancers or pseudo-freelancers, as most BBC shows have been forever, rather than a dedicated full-time team, though. I may well be very out of date on that, though. Also they're writing gags, not sketches. Saturday Night Live is shite anyway. A million people do improv and sketch comedy in America. About 1% are any good. 0.01% of them get hired for SNL and because of ridiculous time constraints and pressure they're under they're lucky if 1 sketch a week is close to good. About a thousand people do improv and sketch comedy in this country and they're all shit. Quote
Paid Members Carbomb Posted December 13, 2021 Paid Members Posted December 13, 2021 2 hours ago, PunkStep said: Curiosity made me look this up. Fucking hell, I had no idea. +1 Quote
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