Comedian Makes Cameo as Nigel Farage as 'Prime Minister' in TV Skit
Peter Serafinowicz plays Nigel Farage as a future prime minister in a time-travel sketch that mocks Reform UK’s local election gains and SNL UK’s renewal.
- On Saturday, SNL UK aired a sketch featuring British comic Peter Serafinowicz as Nigel Farage, depicting a dystopian 2046 where Farage serves as Prime Minister under 'King Trump.'
- The political satire followed the Reform party's significant gains in recent local elections, depicting a merged administration with Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch that joked they were 'unstoppable.'
- Farage and Badenoch recorded a 120th birthday message for Sir David Attenborough, while joking about mass deportations in London and their plans to attend a 'straight pride parade.'
- Current Prime Minister Keir Starmer and former deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner appeared via a time machine, warning that unless Starmer resigns following disastrous election results, this future awaits.
- The sketch concluded with Starmer seeing a newspaper headline confirming SNL UK's renewal for a third season, providing meta-commentary on the show's recent 12-episode order.
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Nigel Farage finally gets the SNL UK treatment with ‘jaw-dropping’ cameo
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