Saturday Night Live bil Arabi explained

Alt Name:	Saturday Night Live Arabic
Native Name:
Genre:	Sketch comedy Comedy Variety
Director:	Amr Salama
Opentheme:	by Eftekasat
Country:	Egypt
Language:	Arabic
Num Seasons:	4
Num Episodes:	53
Producer:	Tarek el-Ganainy
Editor:	Ali Murad
Company:	TVision Broadway Video
Network:	OSN (2016–2018) ONtv (2017–2018)
Last Aired:	(suspended)

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. 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 as 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.^[1]

The weekly program premiered on February 16, 2016, on OSN and aired on 11:30 pm EET.^[2] On October 7, 2017, at the beginning of season 4 the show started airing on ONtv.^[3] The show was suspended by the Supreme Media Council in February 2018 for containing "sexual implications".^[4]

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

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Episodes	Originally aired
First aired	Last aired
	1	13		2016
	2	13
	3	13
	4	14

Episodes

Specials

Notes and References

1. News: Live, from Cairo – it's Saturday Night! . Ian Lee . . 2018-01-14.
2. News: Everything You Need To Know About SNL Arabia. The Glocal. 2018-01-14.
3. News: صفحة snl بالعربى تعلن عن موعد عرض البرنامج على on باسكتش كوميدى – اليوم السابع. 2017-11-08. اليوم السابع. 2018-01-14. ar-Ar.
4. News: Egypt's Media Council suspends SNL Arabia over 'sexual implications'. Arab News. 2018-02-12. 2018-02-12.