{"id":217905,"date":"2026-05-02T22:11:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T22:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/217905\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T22:11:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T22:11:10","slug":"keir-starmer-hijacks-king-and-queens-royal-plane-in-snl-uk-sketch-the-irish-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/217905\/","title":{"rendered":"Keir Starmer hijacks King and Queen\u2019s royal plane in SNL UK sketch \u2013 The Irish News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sir Keir Starmer has hijacked King Charles and Queen Camilla\u2019s royal plane in an Austin-Powers inspired SNL UK sketch.<\/p>\n

The sketch comedy show opened on Saturday night with a political skit that featured the King and Queen as they returned to the UK following their historic visit to the US.<\/p>\n

Discussing the visit, Camilla (Emma Sidi) praised Charles (Larry Dean) for his speech to Congress to which he replied: \u201cMission accomplished Camilla. Still, I\u2019m glad to be heading home. I just hate being any country where my mummy is not on the money.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"GlasgowGlasgow comedian Larry Dean (Sky UK\/PA) <\/p>\n

The pair are offered chicken or fish for their flight meal before they are interrupted by the pilot who declares that they are turning the plane around back to America.<\/p>\n

\"My<\/a>\"Kneecap:<\/a><\/p>\n

Sir Keir (George Fouracres) appeared from the cockpit to reveal that he is the pilot and explained: \u201cI was dusting off some of my old legal textbooks, and I came across a rather intriguing statute. Did you know that a prime minister cannot be removed while the monarch is out of the country?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat other choice did I have doing a good job?\u201d<\/p>\n

One of the flight attendants swooped in and punches Sir Keir before revealing it\u2019s Angela Rayner (Celeste Dring).<\/p>\n

She said: \u201cI\u2019m taking us home because I\u2019ve been looking through some old legal textbooks and I\u2019ve realised, if you\u2019re not in the country, then I can\u2019t do this thing I\u2019m planning.\u201d<\/p>\n

She is quickly taken out by another flight attendant (Jack Shep) who described himself as the \u201cone member of the British public who loves Keir Starmer\u201d.<\/p>\n

\"AimeeAimee Lou Wood at the launch party for HBO Max UK in London (Lucy North\/PA) <\/p>\n

He added: \u201cThat\u2019s right. I was indoctrinated online by the radical centre left and now I\u2019m in charge of this plane.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, as he muttered his last word he collapsed before Charles said: \u201cI knew there was something fishy about that chap.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s why, right after take off, I secretly slipped 47 of you weed gummies, darling.<\/p>\n

\u201cLike I\u2019ve always said, you come for the king, you best not miss.\u201d<\/p>\n

Saturday\u2019s show stars Sex Education and White Lotus actress Aimee Lou Wood as its host with music from British breakthrough artist, Meek.<\/p>\n

The Sky Original show is broadcast live from London and sees a different host each week alongside the show\u2019s cast, which includes actor Hammed Animashaun and comedians Ayoade Bamgboye and Ania Magliano.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sir Keir Starmer has hijacked King Charles and Queen Camilla\u2019s royal plane in an Austin-Powers inspired SNL UK…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217906,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123,55529,85946,6666],"class_list":["post-217905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-showbiz","tag-snl-uk","tag-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}