\n\t\u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d U.K. has set its writing team, led by head writer Jonno Johnson (\u201cParlement\u201d).<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cThe number of funny, talented writers we have got to work on \u201cSNL\u201d U.K. is ludicrous,\u201d said Johnson. \u201cSome of them have been doing this for years, some of them it\u2019s their first ever writing job. All of them make me giddy to come to work each day. Could not imaginably feel luckier that we get to make this show together.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tJohnson is joined by Celya AB (James Acaster\u2019s \u201cSpringleaf\u201d), Omar Badawy (So You Think You\u2019re Funny winner), Gr\u00e1inne Maguire (\u201cThe Last Leg\u201d), Laura Claxton (\u201cNever Mind The Buzzcocks\u201d), Chris Cantrill (\u201cAlma\u2019s Not Normal\u201d), James Farmer (\u201c8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown\u201d), Humphrey Ker (\u201cWelcome to Wrexham\u201d), Omodara Olatunji (\u201cSay! Less!\u201d), Joseph Moore (\u201cTwo Hearts\u201d), Lorna Rose Treen (Chortle\u2019s Best Sketch Act Award), Hari Kanth (\u201cHorrible Science\u201d), Louis Waymouth (\u201cThe Late Late Show\u201d with James Corden), Keith Akushie (\u201cSiblings\u201d), Bella Hull (\u201cHave I Got News For You\u201d), Ayo Adenekan (ISH Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Newcomer for \u201cBlack Mediocrity\u201d), Nathan Foad (\u201cNewark, Newark\u201d), Al Roberts (\u201cStath Lets Flats\u201d) and Ellie Fulcher (\u201cEat The Rich (but maybe not me mates x)\u201d for Soho Theatre).<\/p>\n
\n\tCharlie Skelton (\u201c8 Out of 10 Cats\u201d) serves as head writer for Weekend Update.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe series, a British version of \u201cSNL,\u201d will launch on March 21 on Sky and its streaming platform NOW.<\/p>\n
\n\tSky\u2019s director of unscripted originals Phil Edgar Jones said: \u201cAs \u2018SNL\u2019 U.K. races towards launch our brilliant team of writers are already hard at work crafting some sublime and (importantly) funny sketches for our equally brilliant cast to perform. I\u2019ve been lucky enough to attend a couple of table reads and I am delighted to report I cried laughing. We cannot wait to share the fun with a wider audience.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cSNL\u201d U.K. is produced by Universal Television Alternative Studio\u2019s U.K. production team and Broadway Video for Sky and NOW.<\/p>\n
\n\tLorne Michaels is executive producing, James Longman will serve as lead producer, Liz Clare as director.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d U.K. has set its writing team, led by head writer Jonno Johnson (\u201cParlement\u201d). \u201cThe number…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325479,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,61,60,150804,282],"class_list":{"0":"post-325478","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-snl-uk","12":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}