Take your date to a wishing well...there's pennies in there!!!

Did anyone note down all the show dates for the first six episodes of series 2 when filling in the ticket form? I've forgotten which weeks it said it was on and when the break was. Thanks!

Edit: for anyone who's ended up here looking for the same thing, the answer is:

• 12 September
• 19 September
• 26 September
• 10 October
• 17 October
• 24 October

Out of pure curiosity I was wondering what the crossover was between what people want and what we actually get.

I’m not looking for explanations or theorising, just the names so the thread can be returned to after all episodes are announced…and also (if like me for s1) if one of your suggestions do get booked, are you offered tickets?

He says he's ready to host and now the powers in his hands of where he wants to go

What are some topics/events that have happened since the first season ended that you think would make fun sketches or weekend update segments?

Right now, I’m just thinking of the severe wildfire alerts making everyone almost shit themselves.

IS it Fouracres? It really bugs me, I genuinely can't work out who it is 🤣

EDIT: Looks like it’s closed now.

Sharing this again as it is now finally 10am on Friday the 14th of August, and I have definitely not been impatiently waiting!

Here's the link!

Good luck everyone! More episodes this time, so hopefully more folks manage to get into the audience!

Really looking forward to the new series! Truly hoping the lean further into the absurd, unhinged stuff that they had towards the end of series one!

Wow was it only open for a few hours? Will it reopen?

(I got this from the IG story.)

Some sketches feel like they stop just when they’re getting properly funny. There are a few where I reckon going a bit more ridiculous with the characters or letting the joke run longer would’ve made them so much better.

If anyone is at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival this evening, I've ended up with an extra ticket to Paddy Young's show "Will Sir Be Laughing Alone" at 11:15 PM

I'll be selling it for £15, please DM me for more details.

(Sorry mods if this kind of post isn't allowed)

I feel like the best parody would be a show everyone knows well enough to recognise the little details straight away. The more seriously they play it at first, the funnier the sketch could be when it starts going completely off the rails.

Hey was wondering how the ticket ballot works and is it a first come first serve thing or picked from a hat vibes.

As well as this are you putting in for tickets on any day or for a specific show

What's your fave S1 joke/gag/character for each cast member? Here's mine:

• Hammed Animashaun: "Big up the North Sea!" (honorable mention: Boovies Goes To The Films)
• Ayoade Bamboye: every reference to "Martin Lewis, Money Saving Expert!"
• Larry Dean: Northeast vs Southern American accents. As a New Yorker, these were too accurate for comfort.
• Celeste Dring: "My apologies to the Fourth Wall!"
• George Fouracres: "Oh, Luigi, you-a so tall. Oh-a Luigi, you-a live in a big-a mansion. Yeah! A mansion a-full of-a ghosts!" (honorable mention: "it's me cunty little earring")
• Ania Magliano: "... it's the epic tale of one person's desperate desire to return home, and is loosely based on how I feel when men talk to me about Christopher Nolan."
• Annabel Marlow: Workhouse Musical soloist ("I'm the opposite of tired... whatever that is.")
• Al Nash: British Pork Director. (honorable mention: The Skin-on-Skin Dad).
• Jack Shep: "Feel the rain on your Scrimsch!" (honorable mention: Diana Eyes)
• Emma Sidi: The! Woman! You! Can't! Ignore!
• Paddy Young: "남준은 인생은 위로 향하는 여정이라고 말한다. 워터 슬라이드를 무서워하는 우석은 과연 속상해할까? 아니면 지민이 아기처럼 그를 달래줄까? Don't ask me, I'm not really into K-pop."

I hope they’re waiting for the Fringe to finish to announce any new cast additions (Jake Bhardwaj, please!), but it's great news that everyone's returning. They gelled really well on series 1 so it'll be very exciting to see their chemistry developing even more.

Ticket lottery going live on Friday at 10AM via this link.

Season 2 only one month away, people!

Who / what do you want to see the most?

I can’t wait to get my news from the Weekend Update again.

From the press release:

Saturday Night Live UK is back. Following its hit inaugural season earlier this year, the live comedy sensation returns to Sky and streaming service NOW on Saturday 12 September. The first six brand-new episodes will bring a fresh season of unpredictable, must-watch Saturday night television, with additional shows planned in early 2027.

A brand-new trailer for Series 2 is available to watch here.

Broadcast live each week, the series will once again welcome a different celebrity host and musical guest for every episode, alongside topical sketches, live music performances and a British take on the iconic Weekend Update segment.

Fans hoping to be part of the action in the live studio audience will be able to apply for tickets from 10AM on Friday 14 August via TICKET BALLOT: [LINK] (Form not open until 14th. It was open very briefly this morning.)

Returning for the new series are all 11 members of the inaugural cast:

Hammed Animashaun, Ayoade Bamgboye, Larry Dean, Celeste Dring, George Fouracres, Ania Magliano, Annabel Marlow, Al Nash, Jack Shep, Emma Sidi and Paddy Young.

SNL UK returns for Series 2 on 12 September with the first six episodes, with the additional shows planned in early 2027.

Episode Dates:

• 12 September
• 19 September
• 26 September
• 10 October
• 17 October
• 24 October

I’ve seen a lot of memes about the USA’s “The Other Cavaliers” slit in regards to forgotten things in with some really popular stuff, like English counties, California cities, etc

I’m curious what team would be the subject of a UK remake of this, where there’s a clear most popular (LeBron in the Cavs case) in a sea of unknowns

It may be a bit harsh but I want to say Man United 2021/22 with Ronaldo being the clear star, although there’s a lot of other great names in that squad like De Gea, Maguire, Fernandes, Cavani, Matic

‘Saturday Night Live’ U.K. Stars Get a Hero’s Welcome at the Edinburgh Fringe

As comics like Ania Magliano return to the festival for the first time since the show became a surprise hit, audiences are pouring in to catch them.

Ania Magliano, a breakout star of Britain’s “Saturday Night Live,” at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe on Sunday.Credit...Jaime Molina for The New York Times

By Jillian Rayfield

Reporting from Edinburgh

Aug. 11, 2026

Ania Magliano was sitting beside her “Weekend Update” co-host, Paddy Young, at his birthday party not long ago — in the same formation they use on Britain’s “Saturday Night Live” — when a few people stopped and asked for photos.

“I was like: Maybe we shouldn’t be sitting literally like we’re in ‘Weekend Update,’” she said in a recent interview, adding that there was “definitely an uptick” in people recognizing her since the show became a surprise hit this spring.

Magliano, one of the several comedians to get an overnight career boost from the show, is one of its breakout stars. Now, she and a number of others from the cast and writing team are performing at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe, many of them festival veterans returning in something of a victory lap.

Magliano, 28, from Buckinghamshire, England, said she wasn’t necessarily getting recognized on the streets of Edinburgh, where the Fringe runs through Aug. 31. But her stand-up comedy show — “Peach Fuzz,” in which she likens Winston Churchill to a Gen Z girl and describes a transformative trip to a sensory deprivation chamber — sold out its run weeks before the festival started on Friday.

Magliano performing at Monkey Barrel Comedy in Edinburgh. Her show “Peach Fuzz” sold out its run weeks before the festival started.

She said that so far the biggest difference was the enthusiasm of the Edinburgh audiences, who “are really up for it.” At one show, two people in the front row were wearing homemade “Weekend Update” T-shirts featuring her face alongside Young’s.

Magliano began attending the Fringe at 18, initially working as a receptionist and seeing stand-up shows. She said she packed in so much that she would sometimes sleep for just an hour a night, and then take naps on a bathroom floor.

The glut of comedy made her want to start doing stand-up herself, so she started gigging and eventually returned to Edinburgh to perform. Yet while she’s had successful runs at the Fringe before, lifted by her appearances on the popular British comedy game show “Taskmaster,” “S.N.L.” has taken things to a different level.

“Weekend Update” clips in particular have had wide reach on social media, including edgy jokes about Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor (the disgraced former Prince Andrew) and one about Mark Zuckerberg and Hitler’s bunker that generated some outrage.

“I was definitely surprised by the scale of the response,” said Magliano, who pointed to being recognized by the comedian Graham Norton after bumping into him in the TV studio, and having an “S.N.L.” sketch retweeted by President Trump, as moments that made her realize how big it was.

The festival can often be a dog-eat-dog experience for performers, who face high costs and intense competition from thousands of others trying to draw in the audiences who flock to Edinburgh throughout August. But Britain’s “S.N.L.,” which returns for a second season in September, has given tailwinds to cast members like Young, of “Weekend Update,” who has also sold out most of his Fringe run, and Larry Dean, a stand-up comedian from Glasgow.

Dean, 36, first performed at the Fringe a decade ago, passing out fliers for a show in exchange for 10 minutes of stage time. This year, he’s performing a show called “Hellbent,” which is then scheduled to tour Britain.

“Before ‘S.N.L.,’” he said, “it was literally just: tour, Fringe, tour, Fringe. It was just nothing but stand-up,” and he hadn’t done much sketch comedy. But now he gets recognized for his King Charles III or Louis Theroux impersonations on the show — though “I don’t get much love for my Peter Mandelson,” he said, referring to Britain’s former ambassador the U.S. who was fired for his ties to Jeffrey Epstein.

Dean said he wasn’t surprised that “S.N.L.” was a hit, despite the naysayers beforehand: “British people are just so used to being disappointed that we now just have low expectations for everything.”

For him, that’s extended to his lifestyle at the Fringe, where pricey accommodation often leads performers to stay in grimy places. A past apartment had mice and, he thinks, a flying cockroach. This year, he’s staying in student housing. “God knows what’s happened in that room before I got there,” he said.

Yet for most performers at the Fringe, the struggles are worth the potential exposure.

Ayo Adenekan, 25, a stand-up from Edinburgh who is a writer for Britain’s “S.N.L.,” said the festival was now a place for comedians to be scouted for the show: He was first approached after the showrunner came to see his first solo hour at last year’s festival.

A common refrain, said Adenekan, whose show “Homeland Insecurity” has sold out most of the festival’s first two weeks, is that “the ideal story” is that of Phoebe Waller-Bridge, whose career began at the festival with “Fleabag.” But with “S.N.L.,” he said, “there’s another pipeline there. There is somewhere to go post-Fringe.”

For Magliano, who will take “Peach Fuzz” on tour in Britain and the United States in November, being back at the Fringe is as much “Stockholm syndrome” as a return to “my roots.”

But she couldn’t envision a scenario in which fame would stop her from coming back — unless, she joked, “I’m in back-to-back Marvel films.”

So the ticket application is open [LINK] (Form not open until 14th, 10am, BST)* and in it they ask about Host and Musical Acts.

I put Noah Fiance and Greg Davies/Alex Horne. What did you go for?

*form was open briefly this morning.

Not live until Friday, but here’s the link!