EXCLUSIVE: As the UK version of Saturday Night Live comes together, Jimmy Fallon has given the British show’s would-be stars some sage advice.

“If you get lucky and get cast, I would just focus on the show,” he told Deadline when asked what he would tell UK comics who are in line for an SNL gig. “Don’t think about the next move, or if you are going to be a movie star from this. Don’t treat it as a launching pad, treat it as the end game. This is the prize: Saturday Night Live UK . If you concentrate and make that show the best, and be the best performer on that show, other things will come, but that’s a different conversation. Treat it like the destination that it is.”

Sky in the U.K., which as part of Comcast is a corporate sibling to NBC, is working on its version of the

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