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From absurd board games to dead-serious political satire, the debut season of “Saturday Night Live UK” came out swinging with some truly unforgettable comedy. Join us as we revisit the wildest, smartest and most chaotic sketches, featuring everything from a washed-up boy who won’t grow up to a very unsettling dinner party. Which one had you laughing the hardest?
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00:00I'm sorry to be a bother, but you're actually being quite loud.
00:03Is that fair to say?
00:05Welcome to Ms. Mojo.
00:07And today, we're counting down our picks for the funniest, weirdest,
00:10and most unforgettable sketches from the debut season of Saturday Night Live UK.
00:15Look at him, he's a flipping crab.
00:17See, getting defensive like that, it only makes you look more like a great big crab man.
00:22Number 10, Peter Pan's Midlife Crisis.
00:25Well, well, well.
00:26Well, if Wendy Darling hasn't found herself another lost boy.
00:33Oh my God, Peter, is that you?
00:35Surprise!
00:37Did you miss me?
00:38This sketch sees Jack Whitehall play an older, deeply washed-up Peter Pan,
00:42who returns to reconnect with Wendy,
00:44only to discover she's moved on with her life and married a successful neurosurgeon.
00:49Wow, what does husband do?
00:52Professional loser?
00:54I'm a neurosurgeon.
00:55Great neurosurgeon.
00:58Tell me this, mate.
00:59Can you fly?
01:01No.
01:03Didn't think so.
01:04Whitehall fully commits to portraying Peter as the world's saddest man-child,
01:08bitterly trying to flex his flying abilities like they're still impressive in adulthood.
01:12The physical comedy absolutely carries the sketch,
01:15especially whenever Peter drunkenly crashes into furniture while attempting dramatic takeoffs
01:20around Wendy's bedroom.
01:21It gets funnier the more pathetic Peter becomes, especially as his cocky bravado eventually shatters.
01:27Neverland sucks now.
01:29The lost boys got found.
01:32Smee got long COVID.
01:36Tinkerbell's on OnlyFans.
01:39Oh, oh, Peter.
01:41Whoa, oh my god!
01:43What are you doing?
01:43Sorry!
01:44Beneath all the chaos, though, the sketch cleverly reframes the boy who won't grow up
01:48as someone emotionally stuck in the past while everyone else matured.
01:52Now, where were we?
01:54Where were we?
01:57Just checking.
01:58Room for a little one?
02:01Oh, go on.
02:03Let's fly!
02:05Woo!
02:07Number 9.
02:08The Last Supper.
02:09Hello.
02:11I'm David Attenborough.
02:13And it can't be long now.
02:15If SNL UK wanted an early statement sketch, this was it.
02:20George Fouracres plays David Attenborough, who uses his brother Richard's Jurassic Park technology
02:25to resurrect iconic Britons for one final dinner party.
02:29What follows is pure chaos.
02:32Winston Churchill, Isaac Newton, Princess Diana, and others immediately derail the discussion
02:37into arguments over appetizers and food portions.
02:40Shall we get three starters for the table and do picky bits?
02:45Ew!
02:47Freddie says he wants the croquettes.
02:49Oh, yeah.
02:51I'd have the croquettes, but I only wanted a nibble.
02:54Jack Shep absolutely runs away with the sketch as Diana, delivering every line with exaggerated
03:00doe-eyed sincerity.
03:01Host Tina Fey popping in as Agatha Christie only adds to the madness, especially once she starts
03:07treating the dinner like a murder investigation.
03:09There are three croquettes in one order and ten of us.
03:12Therefore, if we order three portions, one person will miss out.
03:15The solution is simple.
03:16We order four.
03:18That means that three people will get two croquettes.
03:22But who?
03:23Another mystery.
03:25It's overcrowded, loud, and very British, which is exactly why it became one of the breakout
03:30sketches of the premiere.
03:31This experiment has been a complete waste of time and money.
03:35The answer I was looking for as to what makes Britain truly great was the NHS and centre
03:43parks.
03:44There!
03:45You've ruined it!
03:46Number eight.
03:47Downing Street, 2046.
03:49I hope this cameo finds you well.
03:52I hear from a friend of yours that it's your special day.
03:55120 years old.
03:57Well, doesn't time fly?
03:59Uh, Sir David Attenborough.
04:01SNL UK delivered perhaps its sharpest political sketch of the season with this dystopian cold
04:06open set in 2046.
04:08The audience is initially led to believe George Fouracres is once again playing Keir Starmer,
04:14only for the dramatic reveal to show Peter Serafinowicz is right-wing politician Nigel
04:18Farage instead.
04:19King Trump assures us he's almost negotiated a ceasefire over the street of Hormuz.
04:24Oh, that's a lovely photo.
04:28Oh, phew, for a minute there, it felt like we were on the brink of World War IV.
04:37Serafinowicz perfectly captures Farage's smug confidence as he casually discusses deportations,
04:42King Trump, and his coalition with Conservative Party leader Kemi Badnock, played to perfection
04:48by Iowati Bomboye.
04:49It's out of time.
04:50Come on, we're late for the straight pride parade.
04:53Of course!
04:54Oh, let's see what the weather's saying.
04:59Oh.
05:00The sketch then swerves into sci-fi territory when Fouracres' exhausted Starmer and Celeste
05:05Dring's Angela Rayner arrive via time machine to confront the potential future awaiting Britain.
05:11Between the political satire, absurd escalation, and meta jokes, this was SNL UK at its finest.
05:17If my days really are numbered, then I should seize every moment. Enjoy every day as Prime Minister, because I've
05:27only got three years left. Thank you for this wonderful lesson.
05:33Number 7. British Pork Ad
05:36The Amy Lou Wood hosted episode has been hailed as perhaps the best episode of the entire season, and it's
05:41because of sketches like this.
05:43Plenty of taste, British pork. Great value for money.
05:47Fred's got plenty, and Arthur's got plenty.
05:49We've all got plenty.
05:51Plenty to go around.
05:53My wife's got what it takes.
05:54This one is a faithful recreation of a genuinely bizarre 1984 British pork commercial, and the discomfort is entirely the
06:02point.
06:03George Fouracres leads as the dad, who has to deliver his lines with an intensity that makes the whole thing
06:08feel deeply unsettling.
06:10Got what it takes, my wife. Got friends round. Got roast pork for lunch.
06:14That's it, I think.
06:14That seems extreme.
06:17Well, the pork water loving it.
06:20The slightly off reactions, the loaded glances between the parents, something is very wrong at that dinner table, and nobody
06:28can quite articulate what.
06:30Fouracres corpsed hard during the sketch, as did almost everyone else at the table.
06:35He later apologized on Instagram, saying he'd been obsessed with the original ad for years.
06:40I can do it.
06:41Okay.
06:41You can do it.
06:43I know that, Tony. Right? The pork board know that.
06:49It's time for you to show that to the world, okay?
06:52Number 6. Operation. A party game with a problem.
06:55This sketch managed to turn a children's board game into a full-on psychological thriller.
07:00It's simple. You just...
07:04Oh?
07:06Okay, that was a warm-up.
07:09Oh.
07:10You can leave it, babe.
07:11No, no, no. It's fine. It's easy.
07:13After a man fails while playing Operation at a party, he soon becomes horrifyingly obsessed with mastering the game.
07:19This obsession slowly destroys his marriage, his career, and eventually his entire grip on reality.
07:25It's just a game.
07:27It's not just a game.
07:28It literally is. It says it on the box.
07:31It's six-class.
07:36Stop looking at me.
07:39This escalation is what makes it brilliant.
07:42With every time jump, host Riz Ahmed commits with the seriousness of someone starring in a prestige drama.
07:48Most people could smell the climax coming from a mile away,
07:51and yet the way it's executed is so bizarre that it might actually leave you terrified.
07:57Indeed, comedy and horror are two sides of the same coin.
08:01You have to believe me.
08:01You're supposed to be pieces.
08:03And then a butterfly and a break-up.
08:04Why ever say you're coming with me?
08:05Number 5. Mastermind.
08:07Things my mom has told me about people I've never met and have no connection to.
08:12That was the specialist subject in this parody of the long-running game show.
08:15That's right. Your mom, Sue, is a glorious gossiper who seems to know everything about everyone.
08:21In two minutes, your time starts now.
08:24Who recently had a tire stolen off their caravan whilst holidaying in Dorset?
08:28Peggy and Len.
08:29As a mastermind category, it's almost too good, and the sketch absolutely delivers on every ounce of its potential.
08:36Host Jack Whitehall plays the contestant, who piles up brilliantly absurd anecdotes about people he has zero personal connection to
08:43whatsoever from the stable of his own mother.
08:46What noise has Miriam Martin's air fryer started making?
08:54Hamid Anima Chown's impression of host Clive Myrie is razor sharp, made even more delightful by the fact that Anima
09:02Chown is himself a former celebrity mastermind champion.
09:05The biggest complaint from fans was that it ended too quickly, which is usually the sign of a great sketch.
09:11Ben, at the end of that round, you have ten points and one pass. The answer was, of course, she
09:15was kicked to death by a horse.
09:18Yeah, sorry, I was scrolling when she told me I should have paid attention.
09:22That's why you must always listen to mummy.
09:25Number four, looking through the mirror.
09:28I've had tapas with the Tiger King and done karaoke with the KKK.
09:32Everything a boy could dream of.
09:35But there's always been one person I've wanted to interview, and of all the places I was to meet him,
09:40in a travel lodge in Bromsgrove.
09:42The first season of SNL UK delivered a string of unexpected cameos, but this one certainly took the cake.
09:48The sketch begins with Larry Dean putting on a hilariously accurate Louis Theroux impression, perfectly capturing the soft-spoken awkwardness
09:55and overly careful phrasing that defines the documentary and style.
09:59So, Louis, you always seem to look at other weird people and not at your weird self.
10:04Does that get old? Do you think I'm getting old? Can I say that? Is that fair to say?
10:10This is starting to feel like a bit of a weird weekend.
10:13Then, things escalate.
10:15Al Nash appears as another Theroux reflection, followed by host Nshuti Gatwa in the same wig and outfit,
10:21creating an increasingly absurd trio of identical Therouxes questioning one another in circles.
10:27Just when the sketch couldn't get any more surreal, the real Theroux appears at the door to complain about the
10:32noise.
10:33The deadpan seriousness from everyone involved somehow makes the sketch even more ridiculous.
10:38I was too bashful to ask for a second for water, so I ravaged my way through those tiny UHT
10:43milks,
10:44and I hurt all eight of my thumbs opening the packets.
10:47Is it late? Is that right? Is that fair to say?
10:50Number 3. The Bastard Seagull.
10:53Esteemed colleagues, I present a tale of unspeakable terror.
11:00I give you the Bastard Seagull.
11:07This is perhaps the sketch that best captures SNL UK's weird little identity.
11:12Framed like a gothic literary reading, several authors gather to discuss humanity's greatest horrors.
11:18While the others describe vampires and werewolves, George Fouracres solemnly recounts the time a seagull flew into his bedroom.
11:25The man awoke with a start to find the seagull very close, but a pubes' length from his face.
11:36He screamed,
11:40Fouracres enters looking completely ruined already, covered in filth with disheveled hair.
11:45His narration grows increasingly dramatic as the seagull evolves into a genuinely terrifying force of chaos.
11:52The dead serious delivery is crucial here.
11:55Fouracres takes a premise that shouldn't sustain more than 30 seconds,
11:59and somehow stretches it into something magnificent.
12:01Of course, the titular creature eventually makes an appearance, immediately proving his point.
12:06There is nothing scary about a seagull, sir!
12:17Number 2.
12:19Traitors.
12:19A very confident mistake.
12:21But now it's time for the faithfuls to return to the round table.
12:26Can they uncover who amongst them is a great big crab man?
12:32There aren't many shows that have gripped Britain in recent times quite like the traitors.
12:37So, of course, SNL UK had to take aim at it.
12:40Celeste Strings' impression of Claudia Winkleman is unsettlingly accurate.
12:44The coat, the fringe, the theatrical gravitas, it's all there.
12:49The sketch uses this as a launch pad to take aim at something real.
12:52The racial bias conversations that have surrounded the show since its first series.
12:57Well, I'm obviously not a great big crab man.
13:00But to be fair, that is exactly what a great big crab man would say.
13:07Rather than addressing it literally, the sketch conjures a great big crab man as its central metaphor.
13:13Visual gags, sharp writing, and knowing winks to traitors superfans make this one land on every level.
13:20I'm obviously not a great big crab man, you idiots!
13:23Him right now.
13:28What the hell are you playing at?
13:31Biting social commentary wrapped in a giant crustacean costume.
13:35Genuinely, what more could you ask for?
13:37Okay, I'm just gonna say it.
13:39There's someone who is slipping under the radar.
13:42At tomorrow's round table, the person I'll be looking at...
13:46Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, I'll pack my box.
13:48Before we unveil our top pick, here are a few honorable mentions.
13:5245 seconds with 4 acres.
13:53This recurring sketch features 4 acres raising important issues in his oddball style.
13:58Degas and carrots and peas and yams.
14:01Epstein didn't kill himself.
14:03He tried to draw a skeetie plow.
14:04Epstein didn't kill himself.
14:06Single phrase for the days, mate.
14:08The London, the siege of the world he gave.
14:10For killing the twat who stood to gain.
14:12From saying his name, we must refrain.
14:18Hostage.
14:19Hostage.
14:19A kidnapper takes a hostage only to end up emotionally invested in her situationship.
14:24When I was watching you, both through the tiny crack in the wardrobe door,
14:32I thought you looked really comfortable together.
14:34Oh my god!
14:36Oh my god!
14:38Girl, thank you for saying.
14:40Pub song.
14:41Proof that British tourists can travel thousands of miles and still go to a Wetherspoons.
14:46They are quite similar.
14:48I'm on the sexy mamas.
14:49I got the Irish tapas.
14:51Got no potatoes gravis, but I got the plain potatoes.
14:53From Dublin to Marbella.
14:54I've never tried paella, but I'm a lucky fella.
15:00Falling down a hill with Helen Birch.
15:0360 seconds have set up for one gloriously stupid payoff.
15:06We're here as ever, just on the outskirts of St. Helens.
15:10Very nearly into Haddock Village proper, which is just beyond the brow of this hill.
15:15And here's a lovely birch I found.
15:17Oh no!
15:18Wait!
15:19Wait!
15:19Wait!
15:20No!
15:26Nighttime incident.
15:27The sinister Jules Holland nightmare fuel we never knew we needed.
15:31Until now.
15:32You didn't give me my hour.
15:34Why don't you join me in my boogie woogie wonderland forever?
15:40Come to the name!
15:46Dad?
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16:05Fortune calls, rise and ruin, night and noon, all are prisoners of the need.
16:22Every so often, a sketch arrives that transcends the format entirely.
16:30Princess, it's a me, Mario!
16:33I'm home!
16:35This is that sketch.
16:36Mario and the princess have saved the kingdom, completed the quest,
16:40and are now living in a Brooklyn apartment where things are considerably less heroic.
16:45George Fouracres as Mario comes home after losing yet another job.
16:49Why didn't you at work?
16:50The city run out of pipes to fix?
16:53I lost another job to the friggin' Petroff brothers.
16:57Those Bulgarian sons of bitches, they always undercut me.
17:02Amy Lou Wood plays the princess as someone deeply tired of living with a man
17:06who apparently does nothing but day drink.
17:08The two deliver performances with a raw, committed emotional intensity,
17:12the likes of which we haven't seen since Marriage Story.
17:15Listen to me, Mario! Just face it!
17:17You never wanted me, okay?
17:19You just wanted to be the guy that saved me from Big Bad Bowser!
17:22Stop it!
17:23I tell you you never mentioned that,
17:25it's scaleless and the b**** you name ain't in my house!
17:27Yoshi tears the place apart.
17:29Jack Shep appears as a mushroom Mario suspects the princess is carrying on with.
17:33Every single element works.
17:35To achieve such a pitch-perfect sketch in the first season is incredible.
17:40Mario, you're drunk! Stop it, you're crazy!
17:43There's some boad in there.
17:46I'm pulling the champ up there and down.
17:49On his head!
17:50Mario, stop it!
17:51Come out of here!
17:51Stop it!
17:52Come out of here, figury butta!
17:54Did your favorite SNL UK sketch make the cut?
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