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One of the questions on the season finale was "Who was not a cast member on In Living Color"?

Chris Rock was one of the options and was deemed as the "wrong" answer....which is not true! It is a little known fact that Chris Rock actually joined the cast of ILC in its final season. Nobody at The Quiz With Balls fact-checked this?

Native Torontonian here and I couldn't believe that this show was shot here. How is it that a show with a parade of C and D-list celebrities was able to fly under the radar here without anyone noticing? People like Andrew Yang, Jojo Siwa, Ice-T and Hilaria Baldwin were all living in Toronto filming this show? How long were they here for? I'm surprised none of the Toronto news blogs like BlogTo or Mr. Will Wong which mainly focuses on celebrities never spotted them. Now I'm curious when they were here, how long they were here for and where did they stay. How is it that no one spotted these 13 celebrities in Toronto (incl. Jack Whitehall)???

Surprising they lifted it right from the movie. I guess they assumed no one would notice. But surely there must be a decent amount of people that remember the Simon Says games from the movie.

I hate to be that person to throw cold water on everyone's enjoyment over SNL UK and I too have nothing but praise for the performers but since David Attenborough's Last Supper sketch aired, I couldn't help but notice its similarities to a sketch from about 17 years ago that aired on Demetri Martin's sketch show Important Things that aired on Comedy Central.

Here's the premise:
A high school boy accidentally stumbles upon time travel and finds himself magically transported to a TGI Friday's-esque restaurant seated at a table with Galileo, Shakespeare and Isaac Newton. John Oliver and Jon Benjamin are in this sketch.

Every time the boy tries to delve into meaningful questions about all these men's vast knowledge and accomplishments, his efforts get derailed by their obnoxious behavior and mulling what to order at the restaurant. They hit on the waitress and act inappropriately until the manager kicks them out and they never get to have a meaningful discussion about anything.

Sound familiar?
I mean, that's oddly similar to this SNL UK sketch with David Attenborough no?
Isaac Newton is depicted in both sketches.

Just opining on the similarities here.

I've often wondered what the deal is with sketches where someone falls onto a table and smashes it or falls backwards through a wall. This obviously happens a lot. We've seen Chris Farley do it, Molly Shannon, Kristen Wiig, etc..

My question is, during dress rehearsal, do they destroy the set during the dress rehearsal as well? If it's a table, do they bring in a 2nd table for the live show? do they need to construct the set twice?/

This past week, the final jeopardy question was French film from 1993 whose title translates to "The Day With No End". What is Groundhog Day?

Wasn't it 6 or 7 years ago that the final jeopardy question was "a character in this movie says 'I have been stabbed, shot, poisoned, frozen, hung, electrocuted, and burned'

What is...Groundhog Day?
So now they're reusing answers for FJ?
There's literally infinite pieces of trivia that exist in the world and they go back to the same well twice?? Have they ever done that? Were they not aware that Groundhog Day had already been used?

Also,reusing Groundhog Day for Final Jeopardy is ironically something that is very Groundhog Day itself.

Having seen every episode of SNL UK, I can give my assessment on who I think has really made their mark on this show and who is lagging behind. Those weekly graphs that get posted on Reddit after every episode don't really paint a full picture of who's really dominating because a cast member can rack up large chunks of screen time by simply appearing as a supporting player in someone else's sketch.

1. George Fouracres - Without a doubt, the breakout of the show. Has dominated the show from day one and has been tasked with carrying more sketches than any other cast member. Really gifted performer. Almost like Will Ferrell-esque dominance right out of the gate.
2. Emma Sidi and Celeste Dring - These two women are almost performing like a tag-team, with one or the other almost always playing the female lead and have had sketches centered around both of them frequently. I would call it a tie in terms which female has the strongest presence on the show
3. Hammed Animashaun - has certainly been used frequently over the course of the season , always popping up a lot in sketches. Definitely talented. I think the consensus is that people find Fouracres, Dring, Sidi and maybe Jack Shep to be funnier and he's rarely anyone's #1 on the show. Has done well being seen in lots of sketches though.
4. Jack Shep & Al Nash - these guys seem to only be appearing in modest amounts in sketches - not too much, not too little. Everyone loved Shep from the get-go because of his Diana impression but his screen time tended to diminish a bit after that.
5. Ayoade Bamgboye and Annabel Marlowe - these women appear to have received smaller screen time than everyone else (not including Larry Dean or the Weekend Update pair). Perhaps they are just being crowded out by Sidi and Dring? They tend to appear more in supporting roles rather than have sketches center around them. The only sketch that I can recall where Bamgboye was the sole center of the sketch was that filmed soccer star mockumentary sketch where everyone in her past suddenly emerged.
6. Larry Dean - Only in the last couple weeks has he started to get more screen time with the Daniel Day Lewis sketch and Weekend Update segment. Other than that, he really is getting the short shrift here among all the cast members. Even when you thought he would get the spotlight playing Charles, that sketch became more about Keir Starmer, Angela Rayner and whoever Jack Shep was playing.