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Paddy Young: Will Sir Be Laughing Alone? review – morose misadventures of a luckless bachelor

The SNL UK star’s romantic failures and house-share humiliations make for a fun hour of downbeat yet twinkling comedy

The Guardian - UK

The Roundhouse Comedy Festival: A spectacular opening night

4/5 Rising stars and stand-up icons helped kick off the festival in style

Evening Standard

Edinburgh Fringe 2026: Recommended comedy shows to see and tips for the best newcomer

From the big names to the best new acts, these are Andy Beill’s picks of the comedy shows to see at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2026

Evening Standard

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‘Andy Burnham can grow a moustache!’: SNL UK’s Paddy Young on breakout stardom – and impersonating the new PM

Not even a grisly hand injury could halt the rise of the Saturday Night Live UK comedian. And soon he’ll get to parody the prime minister every week. So why can’t he enjoy the good times?

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

The Guardian - 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

Aimee Lou Wood turns ‘mean’ SNL teeth joke on its head in promo for UK show

‘Sex Education’ star is hosting UK show, one year after US sketch series made fun of her appearance in parody skit

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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

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.”

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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

The Independent UK

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.

Evening Standard

‘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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It’s the way they sell ’em: standups across UK turn to merchandise for extra cash

Edinburgh fringe acts and theatres are taking a cue from the music business with the sale of branded items to boost profits

The Independent UK

Edinburgh Comedy Awards: Kieran Hodgson, Ania Magliano and Emmanuel Sonubi among this year’s Fringe nominees

Nominations have been announced for Best Show and Best Newcomer

The Independent UK

Our round-up of Edinburgh Fringe comedy, from Lorna Rose Treen to Paddy Young

As the festival enters its third week, Isobel Lewis gives her verdict on some of the biggest stand-up shows so far

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