Country of origin Canada No. of seasons 1 Original network Télé-Québec Final episode date 21 March 2015 Number of seasons 1 Genre Sketch comedy | Original language(s) French No. of episodes 10 First episode date 8 February 2014 Network Télé-Québec Number of episodes 10 | |
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Starring Katherine Levac
Virginie Fortin
Léane Labrèche-Dor
Pier-Luc Funk
Mathieu Quesnel
Guillaume Girard
Mickaël Gouin
Phil Roy Similar Saturday Night Live from Mila, MacGruber, The X‑Presidents, Le nouveau show, Saturday Night Live Weekend | ||
SNL Québec is a Canadian television sketch comedy series, which aired on Télé-Québec in 2014 and 2015.
Contents
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 — and original material written for the Quebec series — 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.
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. Quesnel served as Les nouvelles SNL anchor for the first two episodes, with Girard and Gouin taking over thereafter.
Production
Initially announced as two standalone comedy specials, several further episodes were produced in 2014 and 2015 as a once-a-month series. 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.
Cancellation
Télé-Québec announced in early 2015 that due to cutbacks to its budget, the series would not be renewed for another season.
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.