BURSTJohn Oliver doesn't appear to be a fan of making a British version of "Saturday Night Live," calling the forthcoming edition of the show a "terrible idea."
"It just feels like this 'Saturday Night Live' is such a unique group," Oliver said during a Monday interview on "Late Night with Seth Meyers," referring to the cast of the long-running NBC sketch comedy show.
"It's a cult," Oliver, who was born in England, quipped with a laugh.
"And so I don't know how you can impose that cult onto the U.K.," Oliver, the host of HBO's "Last Week Tonight," said.
"It sounds like a terrible idea."
European entertainment company Sky announced last month that it would launch a U.K. version of "Saturday Night Live" featuring a "core cast of the funniest British comedians around." The program, executive produced by "SNL" creator Lorne Michaels, is poised to air in the U.K. and Ireland starting next year.
In his "Late Night" appearance, Oliver playfully dinged the "Saturday Night Live" cast and crew for traditionally pulling an all-nighter every Tuesday in order to prepare for that week's show.
"That's ridiculous," Oliver told Meyers, a former "SNL" writer and cast member.
"That's the kind of thing a cult leader would make you do: 'We stay up all night on Tuesdays, by the way,'" Oliver added.
"I think it's been proven that 'SNL' is the outlier. It doesn't have to be dictated to the day that you must not sleep on that day or the great leader will be irritated," he said.