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Around the World in 13 SNLs
A (cowbell-filled) tour through all of the international adaptations of the sketch show to date.
The country’s 2012 version of the sketch series, which on Sundays at 8:30 p.m on TV network RedeTV!, didn’t last long, but it featured some notable cast members, including popular social-media comedian Rudy Landucci and Brazilian stand-up pioneer Carol “Brocoli” Zoccoli. One critic wrote that it neutered the original SNL format so much that it became “early-night family entertainment,” felt like a retread of the country’s more successful sketch-comedy series Putous, and that the entire medium of live sketch comedy was outdated and superfluous. The viewership will come with time.” (The show copied several bits from the American version, including a “Drunk Uncle” desk piece and a “Star Wars Auditions” sketch, so it wasn’t exactly “fresh” or “new.”) Sojka decided to drop the first four episodes for free on YouTube to incentivize viewers to subscribe to Showmax to watch the remainder of the season, which was expensive to produce, behind its paywall.
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