By Danielle Jenkins

The hit American comedy show, Saturday Night Live (SNL), is coming to the UK in March with a whole new cast.

The new variation of the internet sensation is set to have an 11 week run and feature up and coming UK comedians, while also bringing in new musical guests each week, just like the original.

The current confirmed casts includes Glasgow born and award winning comedian, Larry Dean, along with former taskmaster contestants, Edinburgh fringe performers, and sitcom actors.

Following along with the original, the show will also be filmed in front of a live audience and will be rehearsed the week of the show and will presumably feature an opening monologue if it continues to stick to the blueprint.

Bad Bunny performing on Saturday Night Live

SNL UK will have Lorne Michaels as an executive producer, who has been with the original SNL since the beginning and still plays a large part in it.

SNL (original) often falls flat for UK audiences as the humour tends to be not as edgy as most Brits like and tends to only be appealing to younger audiences who are in the US and would get the ‘niche’ references they make.

However that doesn’t mean that no one in the UK is interested in it;

James Watford, 23, said: “I like the original, I think it’s really funny but I don’t know, British humour is peak, so ours will probably be way funnier”

Emma-Lea James, 18, said: “I’ve never watched the original, but I don’t know, I think a UK one is definitely going to be funnier, so I’ll probably watch at least the premier of it”

Even people who hadn’t really heard of either the American one or the upcoming British one expressed interest in it, solely because it is UK based and features comedians they know.

Yousef, 20, said: “I haven’t watched the American one but the UK one does sound decent, I like Larry Dean so that immediately makes me want to watch it more than the other one”

Yousef wasn’t alone in his opinion on this, the draw of comedians from the UK has many Brits actually interested in it as they feel they will relate to the humour better.

Ellie Donnelly, 17, said: “The US one never actually interested me cause I don’t know any of the comedians really and they make jokes that’ve got nothing at all to do with what I know and what I find funny, so British comedians, especially Scottish ones, is a major reason for me to want to watch it”

The gathering support suggests the show is going to do much better over here than its US version does and could potentially see it reaching new heights of popularity here and maybe it’ll encourage more views to its original from the UK.

Saturday Night Live Goes British