Live From Beijing, It’s Saturday Night: China Will Be the 10th Country to Produce International Version of ‘SNL’
Live from Beijing, it’s Saturday Night! China’s streaming service Youku will produce a Chinese version of Saturday Night Live after making a deal with NBCUniversal. This will be the tenth international iteration of SNL, with local versions produced in Italy, Korea and Germany; there’s also a Le Saturday Night Live in France.
Laughter is contagious in every language — unless your giggles and guffaws are at the expense of the Chinese government. In that case, you can check your tee-hees at the door, good sir. Most television producers in China choose to self-censor any references to current affairs so as not to offend those in power — which probably means that Alec Baldwin won’t be rolling out his President Xi impression any time soon.
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