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Saturday Night Live UK review – Jeff Goldblum will do anything for attention

3/5 As the sketch show returns for a second season, its cast is growing in confidence but it still feels a bit doomed

The Independent UK

‘It’s like failing your driving test every week’: SNL UK stars on returning to one of the most brutal jobs in comedy

THE SATURDAY INTERVIEW: Despite some early scepticism, the UK’s first series of the legendary live sketch show was a joyous success. As it returns for a second run, its cast tell Lauren Morris about the high-octane nature of putting on a fresh, punchy night of entertainment every Saturday night

The Independent UK

Knitting, Tom Cruise and sex: What it takes to make people laugh at the Fringe today

COMEDY : The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is back for its 49th visit to the Scottish capital, even though finding the funny can prove difficult with the world in turmoil. Four comedians tell Lauren Morris how they plan on procuring giggles this year

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‘Men have 30 seconds to get a laugh. Women have 10’: standup Bella Hull on proving herself in rough clubs

She started standup at 17 playing ‘unsafe basements’ and braving revolting hecklers – and even worse headline acts. Now she writes for SNL and is giving Edinburgh a blast of her surreal comedy

The Guardian - UK

‘If you’d done that in the 90s, you’d have been torn to pieces!’: comedy icons share their Edinburgh fringe survival tips with first-timers

How do you deal with nerves or bad reviews? What if you don’t sell any tickets? For debutants, the list of potential worries is huge. So we paired a few up with veterans to talk past mistakes, coping strategies – and the odd celebrity encounter

The Guardian - UK

Ania Magliano: Peach Fuzz review – body and soul comedy from superb SNL UK star

The co-host of Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update delivers an expertly constructed set of jokes about her quest to live a more embodied life

The Guardian - UK

Show me the funny: essential comedy at Edinburgh fringe 2026

Elf Lyons mixes humour and heartbreak, Frank Skinner works the crowd, Kristen Schaal returns with a secret – and one man sings the same song over and over again

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SNL UK star Ania Magliano thought her casting was a ‘mistake’

Ania Magliano has confessed that she first thought her casting on SNL UK was a “mistake”.

The Independent UK

Saturday Night Live UK’s Jack Shep: ‘Lads shouted Diana at me in the street – it was hot’

INTERVIEW: The ‘Saturday Night Live UK’ breakout comic blew up with his star turn on the Sky sketch show. He tells Lauren Morris about newfound fame, his football coaching career and his thoughts on Keir Starmer

The Independent UK

Ania Magliano: On Saturday Night Live you’re contained. Stand-up is the real me

After the intensity of Saturday Night Live – now renewed for a second season – comedian Ania Magliano is unleashing herself on a UK stand-up tour

Evening Standard

People were rooting for SNL UK to fail – a huge swell of fan and comedian support might save it

Viewers had been ‘frothing at the mouth for SNL UK to fail’, show writer Bella Hull told The Independent

The Independent UK

Saturday Night Live UK review – Some hits, some misses, and a bang-on Princess Di impression

3/5 First ever British edition of iconic American show was hosted by Tina Fey and included gags about Starmer, Attenborough and ‘Come Dine With Me’

The Independent UK

SNL UK's lead producer James Longman: ‘We need comedy more than ever in this rough world’

The Sky series will air from London on Saturday at 10pm, with SNL stalwart Tina Fey hosting the opening episode

Evening Standard

‘Magical chaos’: Saturday Night Live UK to launch tonight

‘SNL’ is finally arriving in the UK after 50 years – and the stars aren’t letting the pressure get on top of them

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New SNL UK Trailer Goes Viral Thanks To Tina Fey’s Brutal Epstein Files Joke While Dressed As Mary Poppins

Netizens were divided after Tina Fey appeared in a teaser sketch to promote the upcoming launch of the UK edition of “Saturday Night Live.”

The Independent UK

Tina Fey makes Epstein Files joke as Mary Poppins in new Saturday Night Live UK trailer

‘We’re not in them, we’re just going to do jokes about them’, comedian Ania Magliano told the SNL legend in the sketch

Evening Standard

Tina Fey pulls ‘Epstein files’ from bag in Mary Poppins gag for SNL UK teaser

Fey will host the UK series’ first episode on March 21.

The Guardian - UK

‘How could this be anything other than funny?!’ Behind the scenes of Saturday Night Live UK

SNL is a US comedy institution – can a British version rise to the challenge of finding the funny in our comparatively beige politicians every week? We speak to the team hand-picked to do just that

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The Independent UK

Saturday Night Live UK: Meet the cast taking centre stage on the British SNL

The cast is made up of TV newcomers and stars you’ll recognise from the likes of ‘Big Boys’ and ‘Taskmaster’

The Guardian - UK

Ania Magliano: ‘My favourite gig? I did some material about vibrators and a 92-year-old gave me tips on settings’

The standup on Taskmaster, her time in the Cambridge Footlights and the geniuses behind Colin the Caterpillar

The Guardian - UK

A Six follow-up, an LA clown … and War Horse rides again: theatre, comedy and dance autumn preview

Why Am I So Single sets dating angst to music; more Hollywood stars hit the West End; and a Brummie dance trilogy reaches its finale

The Guardian - UK

Ania Magliano: Forgive Me, Father review – winning comedy about commitment and a lost coil

The standup delivers bullet-proof set-pieces in a masterclass on threading emotional significance through joyful autobiography

Evening Standard

The Edinburgh Fringe Comedy Roundup: the best of the week

The Standard’s comedy critic has his say on the best shows of the week

The Guardian - UK

The best theatre, dance and comedy tickets to book in 2024

The new year’s hottest shows include stage versions of Minority Report, Spirited Away and La Strada, performances by Keeley Hawes and Ian McKellen – plus laughs from Julia Masli, Rhod Gilbert and Ania Magliano

The Guardian - UK

Ania Magliano: ‘I have quite a lot of jokes about men being violent. There’s a dark undercurrent’

The comedian has turned her traumatic experiences into an Edinburgh comedy awards-nominated show – with a little help from a Thai boxing retreat and a botched haircut

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