Saturday Night Live is an absolute institution on American television. The show has been airing Saturday nights since all the way back in 1975, and it is undoubtedly the most well-known and prolific sketch comedy show there is. SNL has paved the way for bona fide Hollywood superstars like Eddie Murphy, Bill Murray, Will Ferrell, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Tina Fey…the list goes on and on. Regardless of how you feel about the comedy of SNL or the quality of the talent, pretty much everyone would agree that the show is one of TV’s greatest and most important success stories.
While SNL is a decades-old series here in the states, our friends in the UK are just getting in on the brand. An official UK version of SNL just started airing a few weeks ago, and it operates pretty much exactly as the American version does, albeit with a different principle cast and (sometimes) different celebrities. The most episode saw Aimee Lou Wood (The White Lotus, Sex Education) as the celebrity host, and in one skit she took on a portrayal that will definitely get Nintendo fans talking.
As you can see above, Wood played the role of Princess Peach in a skit where she’s living in a Brooklyn apartment with Mario. While Nintendo might like to portray Mario and Princess Peach as happy-to-lucky, SNK UK has a very different vision in mind. The skit plays on stereotypes from both the Mushroom Kingdom and New York City, and as with all SNL skits, your mileage in terms of humor might vary. Still, it’s great to see Mario characters getting even more mainstream attention, and there’s even some name-drops from another famous Nintendo franchise!