''Saturday Night Live Arabic'' ( ar, ساترداي نايت لايف بالعربي), commonly known as SNL Arabia, is an Egyptian late-night
sketch comedy and variety television program broadcast on
OSN Ya Hala HD. It is the
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's edition of the long-running American TV show
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on NBC. Each episode is hosted by a celebrity guest, who usually delivers an opening
monologue and performs in sketches with the cast as with featured performances by a musical guest. An episode normally begins with a
cold open
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sketch that ends with someone
breaking character
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and proclaiming, "''from Cairo, it's Saturday Night Live in Arabic''" ( ar, من القاهرة، ساترداي نايت لايف بالعربي), properly beginning the show.
The weekly program premiered on February 16, 2016, on
OSN and aired on 11:30 pm
EET
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. On October 7, 2017, at the beginning of season 4 the show started airing on ONtv. The show was suspended by the Supreme Media Council in February 2018 for containing "sexual implications".
Cast
* Khalid Mansour (Weekend Update anchor)
* Shadi Alfons (Weekend Update anchor)
* Nour Qadrooo
* Tony Maher
* Mahmoud Ellisy
* Islam Ibrahim
* Mirna Gamil
* Ahmed Sultan
* Allawi al-Husseini
* Nancy Salah
* Yara Fahmi
* Hazim Ehab
* Amro Wahba (Joined 2017)
Cast timeline
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Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (2016)
Season 2 (2016)
Season 3 (2017)
Season 4 (2017–18)
Specials
References
External links
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{{Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live
2016 Egyptian television series debuts
2010s Egyptian television series
Egyptian comedy television series
Egyptian satirical television shows
Non-American television series based on American television series
Arabic-language television shows
Live television series
Egyptian political satire
Political satirical television series