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.
[1] It is the Arab world's edition of the long-running American TV show Saturday Night Live on NBC.
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.
[2] The weekly program premiered on February 16, 2016, on OSN and aired on 11:30 pm EET.
[4] The show was suspended by the Supreme Media Council in February 2018 for containing "sexual implications".