Forget Tyler Perry, beer-and-trucks bro-country, and faith-based movies starring Jim Caviezel. The biggest disparity between American and British pop culture has revealed itself to be Saturday Night Live.
On one side of the Atlantic, it’s considered a TV institution that has launched the careers of every notable comedian of the last 50 years. On the other, it’s an irrelevant relic that’s only been legally available to watch for the past six.
So last year’s announcement that Lorne Michaels was adapting it for the U.K. was greeted as if he’d literally spat in the nation’s face. (Even John Oliver described it as a “terrible idea.”)
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