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The SNL UK cast are back together and spilling on life since the show began, from the best things that have happened to them so far to the stars they’d LOVE to see join Series 2.

Jack Shep, Al Nash, Celeste Dring, Larry Dean, George Fouracres, Ania Magliano, Paddy Young, Emma Sidi and Ayoade Bamgboye reveal their dream guests, favourite moments and what life after SNL UK has really been like.

Who would YOU like to see on Series 2?

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00:00It's me! Postie Pat!
00:02Back for season two, guys. Are you nervous? Or terrified? Or happy? Excited? What's going for your body?
00:09I mean, I'm feeling excited.
00:11I'm excited. I'm excited. I feel like, it feels quite different to the first one, because the first one was
00:16so unknown.
00:17Whereas this is like, we know it a bit better now. It felt like back to school, but you're in
00:21year two?
00:23Well, maybe not year two, that's quite young actually. It's like being in the older year of sixth form.
00:26First year of sixth form, you're like, oh god, I'm so scared. Second year of sixth form, you're like, let's
00:31go smoke behind the bins.
00:34I've not even thought of the work yet, to be honest. I've been quite a geek and a bit dorky,
00:39because I've been like, oh, I get to see my friends.
00:41I'm very excited. It's great to be back together. It's been nice to have some time away.
00:45I've had so much time off, I'm not fully conscious yet.
00:48Yeah, I feel like I've been in a pub garden for like four months.
00:53I'm really excited to go back. Yeah.
00:55Obviously, it's like a funny thing working on a show where it's like, we're going to make it in the
00:59week of.
01:00So obviously, we're all like vibrating slightly, but excited, yeah.
01:03Excited.
01:04Yeah, excited. And also, I think the pressure's always on because it's live, like it's inherent to the thing.
01:09When you heard you're getting another one, was it like straight on the WhatsApp? Like, come on guys, let's go
01:13to the broadcaster and have some shots.
01:14We were in the room together. All of us just looking at each other like, yeah.
01:18Yeah, it was in the last week of season one, which is, yeah, like completely, that never happens.
01:25Yeah. Out of body experience, literally, yeah. But the WhatsApp group must have been popping off throughout.
01:30Oh God, yeah. Yeah, and then I think some of us got to like meet a bit during the summer
01:36and stuff like that.
01:37But then it's so hard to get 11 of us all in the same room at the same time.
01:41God, there were a lot of polls made about dinners that never made it.
01:46Never made it.
01:46What's the best thing that's individually happened to you guys since being involved?
01:50I've got one. Well, maybe, I don't know if this would be your guys as well.
01:53But when we were, sorry to say this, at the BAFTAs, Seth Rogen stopped me and Jack and was like,
02:01SNL is great.
02:02Wow. And I was like, I'm going to have to go drink a whole bottle of wine because I can't
02:07comprehend what has just happened.
02:09That was so cool.
02:10Paloma Faith did that as well.
02:11And I was, because she was having a conversation with Paulie, our musical director,
02:15and I was just trying to do that thing where I walk so they can like have their conversations
02:19and just sort of politely get out of the way.
02:21But Paloma Faith like reached across and grabbed me and pulled me back and was like, I love the show.
02:25Have you got a Paloma Faith impression?
02:26I was like, I love you too, Paloma Faith.
02:28I couldn't, but I wouldn't ever be so disrespectful.
02:31Also, I came up.
02:32When we were walking down the thing and then we saw...
02:35James McAvoy.
02:36James McAvoy.
02:36Yeah, we were like, because you get that a lot walking around like,
02:38because a lot of like the chat shows with the big mega stars are happening in the same building.
02:42So me and Larry were like walking along and James McAvoy is walking in the direction.
02:46We were obviously like, oh, James McAvoy.
02:48And then he was like, really love the show, guys.
02:51And we were like, thank you, Professor X.
02:56I thought we played it pretty cool, right?
02:58Because we were like, oh, thank you, thank you.
03:00Cheers.
03:00Cheers, James.
03:02And then, as soon as we went round the corner, me and George just turned to Shepard going...
03:10Today I'm having hot chocolate with Martin Lewis, money-saving expert.
03:13Are you?
03:13Yeah, we're going to Noops.
03:15Wow.
03:15Are you going to ask him any particular money-saving expert questions?
03:18Yeah, so I'm going to be...
03:19I'm trying to find out what the ISA situation is.
03:22I think some of the rules are changing.
03:24Now that she's watching, I'd love to meet Captain Lady.
03:29Yeah.
03:30What would you ask her?
03:32I'd just listen.
03:36So if you have one special guest that's hosting it with you, let's be ridiculous as we can.
03:41I would love, like, a children's magician.
03:46Mr. Tumble?
03:47Is he a magician?
03:48I don't know what he does.
03:49Well, what he's doing is magic, but I don't know if he's a magician.
03:52I wanted Blobby to be the host.
03:53Oh, that would have been great.
03:55Blobby as a host, Blobby as a host.
03:57The monologue would have been incredible.
03:58Yeah, the monologue.
03:59But don't you think he's quite old now, like, bits of plaster would be cracking off him?
04:03No, he regenerates naturally.
04:04He's got, like, a regenerative source that he's connected to within the Earth.
04:09So he, like, he keeps regenerating.
04:11Unless he is destroyed with a certain sword, I think.
04:15Which we've got.
04:16There's, like, one sword that can kill him, which we have in a vault.
04:18We're not going to use it, yeah.
04:19Under Telegram Center.
04:20Anyone else you fancy?
04:22Oh, he's holding us probably over the 14th.
04:26I think Sade would be sick.
04:28Yeah.
04:29I would love to have, like, the Prodigy or, like, Underworld or Wookiee, like, some legacy dance.
04:36And then they just have the decks and they're kind of...
04:38I'd love, like, Pulp or something.
04:40Oh, that would be so good.
04:40That would be so fun.
04:42Shy Girl.
04:43Shy Girl would be great.
04:44That would be awesome.
04:45I want you to get Spice Girls back together.
04:47Spice Girls would be great.
04:49Sugar Babies would be great.
04:50That would be unbelievable.
04:51George, you're describing your comedy as screaming demons and goblins.
04:55Has that been calmed down since the first go?
04:59I'd say it's more feral, if anything.
05:01Like, you might not see as much of it.
05:04It's happening backstage.
05:04It's happening backstage all the time.
05:06Yeah.
05:07It's really horrible.
05:08Disturbing to see, really.
05:10You can't see that he's got a lead in a harness.
05:13Yeah, yeah.
05:13He's going back there.
05:15He's going to try and attack interviewers all day.
05:18What's more scary, then?
05:19An audience going quiet and silent or forgetting the line 30 seconds before you're on?
05:25Well, we have cue cards, so we never...
05:27If we forgot our lines, we'd have to be, like, facing the wrong direction.
05:32Which is also a worry sometimes.
05:33Yeah, forget which direction you're facing.
05:35Yeah.
05:35Pretty scary.
05:36Yeah.
05:37Audience being silent, I would say, is always bad.
05:40That's terrifying, yeah.
05:41Unless they're silence and reverence at our jokes.
05:43They're just like, that's so funny.
05:44I get really...
05:45Have you ever had that where you've had, like, where you've been doing a gig and...
05:49Or a performance and the audience is silent and that gives you uncontrollable
05:54giggles.
05:55I did a...
05:56I was...
05:57Did...
05:57I did an Edinburgh show in 2015 and we had...
06:01On the last day of the show, we had an audience in of slightly older people.
06:08And it was completely sold out and they were all completely silent.
06:12And there was a sketch in it, Screaming Goblin, where I played a sort of horrible, like,
06:17post-nuclear apocalypse version of Postman Pat called Posty Pat.
06:20And he just screamed at people's faces.
06:22And they were so silent and unresponsive to this whole sketch of me being like,
06:27It's me!
06:28Posty Pat!
06:30That loudly.
06:31But, like, this close to, like, an older lady's face who was just going...
06:36Like that.
06:37That I started uncontrollably laughing during the sketch.
06:39So I was just going...
06:43And I had to just go off and just calm down and we had to move on and we couldn't
06:47finish
06:47the sketch.
06:48There's nothing funnier to me than people being like...
06:50Completely, completely nothing.
06:51Can we bring Posty Pat...
06:53Apocalypsey Pokey...
06:54Put that one...
06:55Yeah, it's hard to nail down the concept when you hear about it.
06:58From this angle.
06:58Can we bring it into series two, perhaps?
07:00Well, we'll have to see.
07:01Well, we'll have to see.
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