“Saturday Night Live” with Gad Elmaleh on M6 – Caroline Lessire/Bestimage/Shutterstock/Jacob Kalinin

This Thursday evening, M6 proposeLe Saturday Night Live with Gad Elmaleh, a show with skits live around the comedian, but especially the adaptation of the SNL. The what ? Institution of american tv, Saturday Night Live is a sketch show created in 1975 by Lorne Michaels on NBC where each week, a guest speaker, often in the promotion, plays the master of ceremonies and participates in a series of skits, written by twenty authors, and played by a dozen actors.

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A machine-oiled machine and a laboratory comic, whose influence on pop culture in the US has never dried up in the last four decades and that has helped discover talents such as Bill Murray, John Belushi, Eddie Murphy, Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, Mike Meyers, Robert Downey Jr., or, more recently, Will Ferrell, Tina Fey, Jimmy Fallon and Andy Samberg. But the brand and the legacy of SNL remain poorly known in our country, and this in spite of several attempts of the French versions more or less official.

Dummies, the show on Saturday night live

The first, and most successful, is none other than The Void, the show, which from 1990 to 1992 took over the format almost to the letter, with a guest, an actor, an accomplice of the skits, a group of live music, and The Edit, the false news of Maurice Chevalier and Penelope Solète (Alain Chabat and Chantal Lauby), copy/paste the Weekend Update of SNL. But without any mention anywhere, how the viewer could learn. Presented as another attempt to adapt the SNL, to the result of the judgment of Spoiled, tonight with the new was also freely inspired by the canadian tv show The Kids in The Hall.

In 2003, Canal + assumes finally the descent and launches Saturday night live, headed by the duo Kad & O and with a guest comedian, a certain Gad Elmaleh for the first. Acquired parodies, broadcasts, tv series, and commercials, the show will only last four numbers, but will be the joy of YouTube. He, like the cult of Who wants to earn money in mass ?

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The spirit of SNL to the rescue of the spirit Channel ?

Ten years later, it is The Landing, a title not trivial, since it is the echo of the landing of the Americans during the Second world war. The SNL save-t he humour the French, and by the same occasion the spirit Channel ? That is, after his Oscar for The Artist and its participation in the Saturday Night Live that Jean Dujardin has the idea and embarked his mates Gilles Lellouche, Guillaume Canet, Nicolas Bedos. A cast of guests with four stars (Marion Cotillard, Bradley Cooper, Ben Stiller) for the most expensive production of the history Channel and two hours more often annoying than funny.

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” With a look ” suspicious “

These are the same producers who are on the attack today in this Saturday Night Live on M6, the first official adaptation, with purchase rights and use of the name. “The followers of the SNL will still not taste the SNL and this is normal because it is necessary to franciser, says on TV Mag the director of the unit fiction and humor to M6, Yann Goazempis. Fans of the original version may even look at the result with a wary eye because you attack something regarded as sacred to many. “It must be said that on paper, this SNL is more like a Thursday night live with Gad and his friends : Kev Adams, Jamel Debbouze, Malik Bentalha, Arié Elmaleh, Ahmed Sylla, Philippe Lacheau…

Little news, a lot of parodies tv

” There will be less irrelevant, given the fact that it is not broadcast weekly as in the United States, but event, sheds light on Yann Goazempis. We will therefore be necessarily less connected to news than them, because not in the same reactivity. However, we are in an election year, so obviously, it’s going to be fun, especially with a pastiche of debate with primary Gad and Jamel. “No impertinence, no news, no reactivity, but parodies, tv, d‘An Ambition intimate in Best pastry chef. Emissions M6.

After Gad Elmaleh, are already evoked the names of Jamel Florence Foresti Omar Sy, or Jean Dujardin as well as prospective ” hosts “. That of the comic. However, the originality of the SNL is to get as much of the actors, singers, comedians as political figures, with which they serve the sketches, and not that they are the stars. “Live from Paris… it’s Gad night” ?

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