From Hamlet at the Globe to Keir Starmer on SNL UK: the anarchic rise of George Fouracres

After years of skits and Shakespeare, the Black Country performer has found his biggest audience yet on Saturday Night Live UK. Phil Wang and others hail his ‘pure comedic instinct’ A cast of unknowns, they keep saying about Saturday Night Live UK, whose success we’ve all been toasting this last seven days. But many of its stars have been known to comedy- and theatre-watchers for years, none more so than breakout star George Fouracres, he of the viral “What kind of Irish is your grandad?” vid...

By Brian Logan