SNL UK turns the royal family’s worst scandals into comedy fodder for the cold open
The royal family once again found themselves at the center of a brutal joke delivered by the UK version of Saturday Night Live, which is being dubbed “brilliant” by fans.
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has been the cause of much of the palace’s tension since the past few years. The comedy sketch show suggested that the whole Andrew-Epstein debacle had been a “29-year plan” by MI5 to “increase the likability” of King Charles after the death of Princess Diana.
“No one knows better than us how charming, capable, fiercely intelligent and morally eminent you are,” an agent tells Andrew in the sketch. “You are an honor to princes everywhere.”
He continues: “Since Diana’s death, the public has turned against Prince Charles, but one day he will still be king. We have to make him look good.”
Furthermore, in order to increase the likability of the future monarch, they determined that the only way this could be achieved was to “decrease the likability of everyone around him”.
The sarcasm drips in every dialogue delivery that Jack Shep, who plays Andrew in the sketch, makes – from loving his brother and his country to a part where he admits he’s “sweating”.
It also draws Prince William’s ‘gorgeous’ looks to Harry, who is to marry a woman who “98% of the British public will find impossible to have a normal conversation about”.
Sarah Ferguson (played by Amma Sidi) and politician Peter Mandelson (played by Larry Dean) also reveal that they are part of the scheme.
Fans flooded the comments, suggesting how “disturbingly accurate” some of the things were in the skit, such as the characters’ mannerisms.
They noted that it was all hilariously done, and the infamous British sense of humor was reflected very well here.
