British people were enraged about a Saturday Night Live (SNL) sketch about Noel and Liam Gallagher. Here’s why.
Saturday Night Live (SNL) just irritated a lot of British people online. In the “Weekend Update” part of the show’s latest episode, James Austin Johnson and Sarah Sherman played the oft-feuding Oasis brothers, Noel and Liam Gallagher.
You can watch the sketch, which explores the siblings’ antagonist relationship, here:
It didn’t take long after SNL’s broadcast for British people to hop online and express their displeasure over the skit:
The most interesting part of this story isn’t the visceral reaction from Brits to the SNL Oasis sketch though, it’s what that anger represents. Specifically, the divide between online culture and national culture.
Before that though, let’s dive into the UK’s thoughts about this skit.How has Britain reacted to SNL’s Oasis sketch?
The complaints from people in the UK boiled down to two main points. The first of these is the accents in the Oasis sketch.
Britain has a diverse range of accents and dialects that reflect deep-seated cultural nuances, whether that’s about class, area, or prejudices.
As George Bernard Shaw said: “It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.”
In other words, accents are more important in the UK than most non-British people realize.
Oasis are well-known Mancunians, hailing from Manchester in North West England.
