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Shows Like Saturday Night Live: Weekend Update Summer Edition

If you liked Saturday Night Live: Weekend Update Summer Edition (2017), a comedy and news series, here are 20 shows with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

  1. 1The Colbert Report

    The Colbert Report (2005)

    ★ 7/10Also news and comedy

    The Colbert Report is an American satirical late night television program. It stars political humorist Stephen Colbert, a former correspondent for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. The Colbert Report is a spin-off from…

  2. 2The Daily Show

    The Daily Show (1996)

    ★ 6.4/10Also news and comedy

    The World's Fakest News Team tackle the biggest stories in news, politics and pop culture.

  3. 3Have I Got News for You

    Have I Got News for You (1990)

    ★ 7.1/10Also comedy and news

    Hilarious, totally-irreverent, near-slanderous political quiz show, based mainly on news stories from the last week or so, that leaves no party, personality or action unscathed in pursuit of laughs.

  4. 4Russell Howard's Good News

    Russell Howard's Good News (2009)

    ★ 7/10Also comedy and news

    Russell Howard offers his unique perspective on the big stories dominating all of our news outlets, from online and print to broadcast, as well as picking up on those sometimes overlooked things. He uses clips…

  5. 5The Day Today

    The Day Today (1994)

    ★ 8.3/10Also comedy

    A spoof of the British news — including ridiculous stories, patronising vox pops, offensively hard-hitting research and a sports presenter clearly struggling for metaphors. Adapted from Radio 4 series 'On the Hour'.

  6. 6This Hour Has 22 Minutes

    This Hour Has 22 Minutes (1993)

    ★ 6.7/10Also news and comedy

    This Hour Has 22 Minutes is a weekly Canadian television comedy that airs on CBC Television. Launched in 1993 during Canada's 35th general election, the show focuses on Canadian politics, combining news parody, sketch…

  7. 7Mock the Week

    Mock the Week (2005)

    ★ 7.1/10Also comedy

    Mock the Week is a British topical celebrity panel game hosted by Dara Ó Briain. The game is influenced by improvised topical stand-up comedy, with several rounds requiring players to deliver answers on unexpected…

  8. 8VICE News Tonight

    VICE News Tonight (2016)

    ★ 6.7/10Also news

    VICE News' half-hour nightly newscast. We now interrupt your regularly scheduled worldview.

  9. 9Police Squad!

    Police Squad! (1982)

    ★ 7.9/10Also comedy

    In this cult parody of cop dramas, replete with farce and sight gags, Lieutenant Frank Drebin and his fellow officers from Police Squad bungle their way though crime investigations.

  10. 10NewsRadio

    NewsRadio (1995)

    ★ 7.4/10Also comedy

    The office politics and interpersonal relationships among the staff of WNYX NewsRadio, New York's #2 news radio station.

  11. 11Drop the Dead Donkey

    Drop the Dead Donkey (1990)

    ★ 7/10Also comedy

    A sitcom set in the offices of "GlobeLink News" after its acquisition by media mogul Sir Roysten Merchant. Led by editor George Dent, the staff of GlobeLink battle to maintain the company as a serious news organization…

  12. 12Portlandia

    Portlandia (2011)

    ★ 6.9/10Also comedy

    Satirical sketch comedy set and filmed in Portland, Oregon that explores the eccentric misfits who embody the foibles of modern culture.

  13. 1360 Minutes

    60 Minutes (1968)

    ★ 6.6/10Also news

    America's popular television News magazine in which an ever changing team of CBS News correspondents contribute segments ranging from hard news coverage to politics to lifestyle and pop culture.

  14. 14Decker

    Decker (2014)

    ★ 6.7/10Also comedy

    The free world is in danger, and only one man can help. Jack Decker has sworn to defend America from foreign terrorists regardless of which spineless president is in charge. This is Decker: The Series.

  15. 15Not the Nine O'Clock News

    Not the Nine O'Clock News (1979)

    ★ 7.3/10Also comedy

    Classic sketch comedy show satirising the news and culture of the late 70s and early 80s which introduced Rowan Atkinson, Mel Smith, Griff Rhys Jones and Pamela Stephenson.

  16. 16Murphy Brown

    Murphy Brown (1988)

    ★ 6.5/10Also comedy

    Murphy Brown is a recovering alcoholic who returns to the fictional newsmagazine FYI for the first time following a stay at the Betty Ford Clinic residential treatment center. Over 40 and single, she is sharp tongued…

  17. 17The Thick of It

    The Thick of It (2005)

    ★ 8.1/10Also comedy

    Set in the corridors of power and spin, the Minister for Social Affairs is continually harassed by Number 10's policy enforcer and dependent on his not-so-reliable team of civil servants.

  18. 18On Cinema

    On Cinema (2012)

    ★ 8.4/10Also comedy

    Tim Heidecker reviews the latest movies in theaters with a special guest.

  19. 19Benson

    Benson (1979)

    ★ 7/10Also comedy

    A butler deals with life at the governor's mansion.

  20. 20Documentary Now!

    Documentary Now! (2015)

    ★ 7.2/10Also comedy

    Loving parodies of some of the world's best-known documentaries. Each episode is shot in a different style of documentary filmmaking, and honors some of the most important stories that didn't actually happen.

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