SNL Québec
| SNL Québec | |
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| Genre | Sketch comedy |
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| Country of origin | Canada |
| Original language(s) | French |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 10 |
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| Original network | Télé-Québec |
| Original release | February 8, 2014 – March 21, 2015 |
SNL Québec is a Canadian television sketch comedy series, which premiered on Télé-Québec on February 8, 2014.[1] A French language adaptation of the influential American sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live, the series featured both translated recreations of sketches from the original series — the show's first episode included a translation of the iconic Schweddy Balls sketch[2] — and original material written for the Quebec series[2] — a sketch in the second episode, for example, recast the leaders' debate from the 2014 provincial election as an episode of Un dîner presque parfait, the French-language version of Come Dine with Me.[3]
Initially announced as two standalone comedy specials,[4] several further episodes were produced in 2014 and 2015 as a once-a-month series.[5] Ten episodes, nine originals and a "best-of" compilation of sketches from the earlier episodes, were broadcast overall.
The show's core cast members were Katherine Levac, Virginie Fortin, Léane Labrèche-Dor, Pier-Luc Funk, Mathieu Quesnel, Guillaume Girard, Mickaël Gouin and Phil Roy.[6] Quesnel served as Les nouvelles SNL anchor for the first two episodes,[2] with Girard and Gouin taking over thereafter.
Télé-Québec announced in early 2015 that due to cutbacks to its budget, the series would not be renewed for another season.[1] Ici Radio-Canada Télé subsequently announced that it had signed the show's production team and cast to produce a new series, Le nouveau show, for that network.[7]
Episodes
- February 8, 2014: Louis-José Houde/Radio Radio
- March 22, 2014: Stéphane Rousseau/Les Trois Accords
- September 20, 2014: Normand Brathwaite/Lisa LeBlanc
- October 18, 2014: Antoine Bertrand/Random Recipe
- November 22, 2014: Patrick Huard/Damien Robitaille
- December 13, 2014: Guy A. Lepage/DJ Champion
- January 31, 2015: Véronic Dicaire as both host and musical guest
- February 2015: Charles Lafortune/Alex Nevsky
- March 2015: Guylaine Tremblay/Dumas
References
- 1 2 "SNL Québec victime des compressions à Télé-Québec". Radio-Canada, March 3, 2015.
- 1 2 3 "Here's what we thought of SNL Québec". Cult MTL, February 10, 2014.
- ↑ "SNL Québec was an honourable experiment". Cult MTL, March 24, 2014.
- ↑ "Saturday Night Live comes to Canada (en Francais)". canada.com, May 8, 2013.
- ↑ Brendan Kelly (May 13, 2014). "SNL Quebec is returning for a second season". Montreal Gazette. Retrieved December 12, 2014.
- ↑ "SNL Québec: opération sauvetage réussie". La Presse, April 10, 2015.
- ↑ "Radio-Canada repêche les comédiens de SNL Québec". La Presse, April 9, 2015.