SNL Québec
- Katherine Levac
- Virginie Fortin
- Léane Labrèche-Dor
- Pier-Luc Funk
- Mathieu Quesnel
- Guillaume Girard
- Mickaël Gouin
- Phil Roy
March 21, 2015 (2015-03-21)
SNL Québec is a Canadian television sketch comedy series, which aired on Télé-Québec in 2014 and 2015.[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 and original material written for the Quebec series: the show's first episode included a translation of the iconic Schweddy Balls sketch,[2] and a sketch in the second episode 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]
Cast
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.[4] Quesnel served as Les nouvelles SNL anchor for the first two episodes,[2] with Girard and Gouin taking over thereafter.
Production
Initially announced as two standalone comedy specials,[5] several further episodes were produced in 2014 and 2015 as a once-a-month series.[6] Ten episodes, nine originals and a "best-of" compilation of sketches from the earlier episodes, were broadcast overall. As advance publicity for the first two specials, hosts Louis-José Houde and Stéphane Rousseau each recorded segments in which they visited the New York City set of the original Saturday Night Live, including brief interviews with some of SNL's cast.
Episodes
No. | Hosted by | Musical guest(s) | Original air date |
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1 | Louis-José Houde | Radio Radio | February 8, 2014 (2014-02-08) |
2 | Stéphane Rousseau | Les Trois Accords | March 22, 2014 (2014-03-22) |
3 | Normand Brathwaite | Lisa LeBlanc | September 20, 2014 (2014-09-20) |
4 | Antoine Bertrand | Random Recipe | October 18, 2014 (2014-10-18) |
5 | Patrick Huard | Damien Robitaille | November 22, 2014 (2014-11-22) |
6 | Guy A. Lepage | DJ Champion | December 13, 2014 (2014-12-13) |
7 | Véronic Dicaire | Véronic Dicaire | January 31, 2015 (2015-01-31) |
8 | Charles Lafortune | Alex Nevsky | February 21, 2015 (2015-02-21) |
9 | Guylaine Tremblay | Dumas | March 21, 2015 (2015-03-21) |
10 | Magalie Lépine-Blondeau | Daniel Bélanger | January 6, 2018 (2018-01-06) |
Cancellation
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]
The show was revived for a one-time special hosted by Magalie Lépine-Blondeau, aired on January 6, 2018.[8]
References
- ^ a b "SNL Québec victime des compressions à Télé-Québec". Radio-Canada, March 3, 2015.
- ^ a b "Here's what we thought of SNL Québec". Cult MTL, February 10, 2014.
- ^ "SNL Québec was an honourable experiment". Cult MTL, March 24, 2014.
- ^ "SNL Québec: opération sauvetage réussie". La Presse, April 10, 2015.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Radio-Canada repêche les comédiens de SNL Québec". La Presse, April 9, 2015.
- ^ Mathieu Valiquette, "Magalie Lépine-Blondeau et Daniel Bélanger pour le retour de SNL Québec". Ici Radio-Canada, January 3, 2018.
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- 3-Way (The Golden Rule)
- Boombox
- The Creep
- Dick in a Box
- Hugs
- I Just Had Sex
- I'm on a Boat
- Jack Sparrow
- Jizz in My Pants
- Lazy Sunday
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- Motherlover
- YOLO
on sketches
- Mr. Mike's Mondo Video (1979)
- The Blues Brothers (1980)
- Mr. Bill's Real Life Adventures (1986)
- Bob Roberts (1992)
- Wayne's World (1992)
- Wayne's World 2 (1993)
- Coneheads (1993)
- It's Pat (1994)
- Stuart Saves His Family (1995)
- A Night at the Roxbury (1998)
- Blues Brothers 2000 (1998)
- The Waterboy (1998)
- Superstar (1999)
- The Ladies Man (2000)
- A Mighty Wind (2003)
- Harold (2008)
- MacGruber (2010)
- 15th Anniversary (1989)
- 25th Anniversary (1999)
- 40th Anniversary (2015)
- Broadway Video
- "Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead"
- "A Limo for a Lame-O"
- "Live from New York, it's Saturday Night!"
- The Lonely Island discography
- Saturday Night (2010 film)
- Saturday Night Live Band
- Saturday Night Live in the 2000s: Time and Again
- Saturday Night Live Weekend Update Thursday
- SNL Studios
- Sinéad O'Connor on Saturday Night Live
- Strategery
- Studio 8H
- MacGruber (TV series)
- Saturday Night (2024 film)
versions
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- Saturday Night Live Japan
- Saturday Night Live Korea
- Saturday Night Live (Spain)
- Saturday Live (United Kingdom)
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