{"id":384738,"date":"2026-04-06T13:51:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T13:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/384738\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T13:51:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T13:51:13","slug":"saturday-night-live-uk-review-satirical-spin-off-is-a-real-alternative-to-the-mediocrity-of-saturday-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/384738\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Saturday Night Live UK\u2019 Review: Satirical spin-off is a real alternative to the mediocrity of Saturday TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">The show is really hitting its stride\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Keir Starmer takes advice from Olivia Colman, Peppa Pig and Harry Kane in the cold open sketch of a sparkling edition of \u2018Saturday Night Live UK\u2019. Photo: Sky\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/4059b139-1514-4a49-a489-4798279d74ba.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Keir Starmer takes advice from Olivia Colman, Peppa Pig and Harry Kane in the cold open sketch of a sparkling edition of \u2018Saturday Night Live UK\u2019. Photo: Sky<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">We Irish are the best in the world at begrudgery. We almost take a twisted pride in it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">So much so, in fact, that we\u2019d probably begrudge it if another country were to be seen as being as good at begrudgery as we are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The show is really hitting its stride Keir Starmer takes advice from Olivia Colman, Peppa Pig and Harry&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384739,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1578,93,61,60,129770,1194,9617,15640,3476],"class_list":{"0":"post-384738","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-bbc","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-jamie-dornan","13":"tag-keir-starmer","14":"tag-pat-stacey","15":"tag-sky","16":"tag-virgin-media-television"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384738","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=384738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}