Saturday Night Live Arabic (Arabic: 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.[1] It is the Arab world's edition of the long-running American TV show Saturday Night Live on NBC. Each episode is hosted by a celebrity guest, who usually delivers an opening monologue and performs in sketches with the cast, with featured performances by a musical guest. An episode normally begins with a cold open sketch that ends with someone breaking character and proclaiming, "from Cairo, it's Saturday Night Live in Arabic" (Arabic: من القاهرة، ساترداي نايت لايف بالعربي), properly beginning the show.[2]
| Saturday Night Live bil Arabi | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Also known as | Saturday Night Live Arabic |
| Arabic | ساترداي نايت لايف بالعربي |
| Genre | |
| Directed by | Amr Salama |
| Opening theme | by Eftekasat |
| Country of origin | Egypt |
| Original language | Arabic |
| No. of seasons | 4 |
| No. of episodes | 53 |
| Production | |
| Producer | Tarek el-Ganainy |
| Editor | Ali Murad |
| Production company | TVision Broadway Video |
| Original release | |
| Network | OSN (2016–2018) ONtv (2017–2018) |
| Release | February 16, 2016 – January 6, 2018 (suspended) |
The weekly program premiered on February 16, 2016, on OSN and aired on 11:30 pm EET.[3] On October 7, 2017, at the beginning of season 4 the show started airing on ONtv.[4] The show was suspended by the Supreme Media Council in February 2018 for containing "sexual implications".[5]
Cast
edit- 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
edit| Season | Episodes | Originally aired | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| First aired | Last aired | |||
| 1 | 13 | February 16, 2016 | 2016 | |
| 2 | 13 | September 17, 2016 | December 11, 2016 | |
| 3 | 13 | February 18, 2017 | June 13, 2017 | |
| 4 | 14 | October 7, 2017 | January 6, 2018 | |
Episodes
editSeason 1 (2016)
edit| No. overall | No. in season | Host | Musical guest(s) | Original air date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Donia Samir Ghanem | Boy Band | February 16, 2016 |
| 2 | 2 | Mona Zaki | Bosy | 2016 |
| 3 | 3 | Hend Sabry | Ahmed Saad | 2016 |
| 4 | 4 | Ahmed Fahmi | Dina al-Wadidy | 2016 |
| 5 | 5 | Ruby | Mahmoud el-Esseily | 2016 |
| 6 | 6 | Hassan El Raddad | Mai Selim | 2016 |
| 7 | 7 | Dorra Zarrouk | Mustafa Hajaj | 2016 |
| 8 | 8 | Amr Youssef | Ahmed Adaweyah | 2016 |
| 9 | 9 | Emy Samir Ghanem | Yuri Mraqqadi | 2016 |
| 10 | 10 | Kinda Alloush | Muhammad Rashad | 2016 |
| 11 | 11 | Mohamed Barakat | Carmen Soliman | 2016 |
| 12 | 12 | Ayten Amer | Ahmad Gamal | 2016 |
| 13 | 13 | Amr Saad | Salalem Band | 2016 |
Season 2 (2016)
edit| No. overall | No. in season | Host | Musical guest(s) | Original air date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 1 | Asser Yassin | Nesma Mahgoub | September 17, 2016 |
| 15 | 2 | Dina El Sherbiny | Nasser Abu Lafy | September 24, 2016 |
| 16 | 3 | Nelly Karim | Massar Egbari | October 1, 2016 |
| 17 | 4 | Haya al-Shuaibi | Black Theama | October 8, 2016 |
| 18 | 5 | Dhafer L'Abidine | Wust El-Balad | October 15, 2016 |
| 19 | 6 | Rania Youssef | Abd el-Fattah el-Grini | October 22, 2016 |
| 20 | 7 | Maya Diab | Maya Diab | October 29, 2016 |
| 21 | 8 | Hana Shiha | Basata Band | November 5, 2016 |
| 22 | 9 | Hamada Helal | Hamada Helal | November 12, 2016 |
| 23 | 10 | Yasmin Raeis | Sharmoofers Band | November 19, 2016 |
| 24 | 11 | Wama | Wama | November 26, 2016 |
| 25 | 12 | Nicole Saba | Nicole Saba | December 3, 2016 |
| 26 | 13 | Hany Ramzy | Takh Band | December 11, 2016 |
Season 3 (2017)
edit| No. overall | No. in season | Host | Musical guest(s) | Original air date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 | 1 | Yousra | Ramy Ayach | February 18, 2017 |
| 28 | 2 | Fifi Abdou | Amina | February 25, 2017 |
| 29 | 3 | Zeina | Mahmoud Ellisy | March 4, 2017 |
| 30 | 4 | Samir Ghanem | JadaL | March 11, 2017 |
| 31 | 5 | Ahmed El-Fishawy | Qusay & Sphynx | March 18, 2017 |
| 32 | 6 | Akram Hosny | Hossam Habib | March 25, 2017 |
| 33 | 7 | Nahed El Sebai | Mohamed el-Rifi | April 1, 2017 |
| 34 | 8 | Amina Khalil | Hossam Hosny | April 8, 2017 |
| 35 | 9 | Hisham Abbas & Hamid Al-Shairi | Hisham Abbas & Hamid Al-Shairi | April 15, 2017 |
| 36 | 10 | Saba Mubarak | Medhat Saleh | April 22, 2017 |
| 37 | 11 | Hasan al-Ballam | Abdel Basset Hamouda | April 29, 2017 |
| 38 | 12 | Eyad Nassar | Tarabband | May 6, 2017 |
| 39 | 13 | Myriam Fares | Myriam Fares | June 13, 2017 |
Season 4 (2017–18)
edit| No. overall | No. in season | Host | Musical guest(s) | Original air date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 40 | 1 | Haifa Wehbe | Haifa Wehbe | October 7, 2017 |
| 41 | 2 | Ahmed Dawood | Tarek el-Sheikh | October 14, 2017 |
| 42 | 3 | Shereen Reda | Ahmed Sheba | October 21, 2017 |
| 43 | 4 | Bayoumi Fouad | Abo | October 28, 2017 |
| 44 | 5 | Somaya El Khashab | Ramy Sabry | November 4, 2017 |
| 45 | 6 | Khaled El Nabawy | Diab | November 11, 2017 |
| 46 | 7 | Menna Shalaby | Emad Kamal | November 18, 2017 |
| 47 | 8 | Ghada Abdel Razek | Tahra Hamimich | November 25, 2017 |
| 48 | 9 | Maged el-Masry | Jannat | December 2, 2017 |
| 49 | 10 | Mido | Hamdi Betchan | December 2, 2017 |
| 50 | 11 | Ahmed El Sakka | MTM | December 16, 2017 |
| 51 | 12 | Shams | Shams | December 23, 2017 |
| 52 | 13 | Arwa Gouda | Fabrika | December 30, 2017 |
| 53 | 14 | Mohamed Ramadan | Mohamed Ramadan | January 6, 2018 |
Specials
edit| Title | Original air date |
|---|---|
| "Best of Season 3" | June 20, 2017 |
References
edit- ^ Saturday Night Live Arabia, Hazem Ehab, Mahmoud Ellisy, Noor Kadri, retrieved 2018-01-14
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: others (link) - ^ Ian Lee. "Live, from Cairo – it's Saturday Night!". CNN. Retrieved 2018-01-14.
- ^ "Everything You Need To Know About SNL Arabia". The Glocal. Retrieved 2018-01-14.
- ^ "صفحة snl بالعربى تعلن عن موعد عرض البرنامج على on باسكتش كوميدى – اليوم السابع". اليوم السابع (in Arabic). 2017-11-08. Retrieved 2018-01-14.
- ^ "Egypt's Media Council suspends SNL Arabia over 'sexual implications'". Arab News. 2018-02-12. Retrieved 2018-02-12.