{"id":783836,"date":"2026-09-27T02:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T02:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/783836\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T02:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T02:20:10","slug":"snl-uk-andy-burnham-joins-oasis-who-are-russian-spies-in-cold-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/783836\/","title":{"rendered":"‘SNL UK’: Andy Burnham Joins Oasis, Who Are Russian Spies In Cold Open"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThere was something a bit off about Oasis\u2019 sometimes feuding-yet-touring brothers in the Saturday Night Live UK<\/a> cold open this week.<\/p>\n

\n\tSNL UK<\/a> kicked off its Season 2 Episode 3 with new UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham, played by George Fouracres, returning to his beloved home of Manchester following a speech to the UN where he socked it to Russia, according to his good pal Angela Rayner (Celeste Dring). \u201cI\u2019m sick of Russia trying to divide the British people. We can divide ourselves thank you very much,\u201d jokes Burnham.<\/p>\n

\n\tBefore long, Oasis\u2019 brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher, played by Jack Shep and new cast member Freddie Meredith, arrive to offer Burnham the opportunity of a lifetime. Their guitarist has pulled out and Burnham, a guitar player himself, can step in. \u201cAnge, cancel the budget I\u2019m going on tour,\u201d he tells Rayner. <\/p>\n

\n\tBut alas, Burnham is asked to input numerous personal details \u2013 a gentle poke at critiques of Oasis\u2019 expensive and dynamically priced tickets \u2013 and once done Liam and Noel emerge as two Russian spies.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cOasis has always been Russian pop. All songs were made in a lab by Kremlin scientists. \u2018Wonderwall\u2019 is really \u2018Wonderful Wall\u2019 about the Berlin Wall,\u201d says Russian spy Liam.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the end, following an extended joke about his flip-flopping on calling a general election \u2013 \u201cI for example could hold a general election and easily smash it, but as I announced yesterday, I want to, but I could\u201d \u2013 Burnham orders the \u201cRussian Mancs\u201d to \u201cleave Britain and go back to being Oasis.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe cold open came in the third ep of the second season of Sky<\/a>\u2018s SNL UK. Amelia Dimoldenberg<\/a>, creator of Chicken Shop Date, which launches its final season next week, follows in the footsteps of Jeff Goldblum and Jamie Demetriou to host this week. <\/p>\n

\n\tAll of SNL UK\u2019s cast members have returned for Season 2, including Hammed Animashaun, Ayoade Bamgboye, Larry Dean, Dring, Fouracres, Ania Magliano, Annabel Marlow, Al Nash, Shep, Emma Sidi and Paddy Young, with Meredith making his debut.<\/p>\n

\n\tSNL UK is produced by Universal Television Alternative Studio\u2019s UK production team and Broadway Video. Lorne Michaels serves as executive producer. James Longman is lead producer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There was something a bit off about Oasis\u2019 sometimes feuding-yet-touring brothers in the Saturday Night Live UK cold…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":783837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[81920,96,151807,7355,170739,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-783836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-amelia-dimoldenberg","tag-entertainment","tag-saturday-night-live-uk","tag-sky","tag-snl-uk","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=783836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/783837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}