Saturday Night Live bil Arabi
| Saturday Night Live bil Arabi | |
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| Also known as | Saturday Night Live Arabic |
| Arabic | ساترداي نايت لايف بالعربي |
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| Genre | |
| Directed by | Amr Salama |
| Opening theme | by Eftekasat |
| Country of origin | Egypt |
| Original language | Arabic |
| No. of seasons | 4 |
| No. of episodes | 53 |
| Production | |
| Producer | Tarek el-Ganainy |
| Editor | Ali Murad |
| Production companies | TVision Broadway Video SNL Studios NBCUniversal International Studios |
| Original release | |
| Network | OSN (2016–2018) ONtv (2017–2018) |
| Release | February 16, 2016 – January 6, 2018 (suspended) |
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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, 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.
The weekly program premiered on February 16, 2016, on OSN and aired on 11:30 pm EET. On October 7, 2017, at the beginning of season 4 the show started airing on ONtv. The show was suspended by the Supreme Media Council in February 2018 for containing "sexual implications".