{"id":475905,"date":"2026-05-09T05:35:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T05:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/475905\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T05:35:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T05:35:21","slug":"snl-uks-navan-writer-grainne-maguire-to-be-in-a-writers-room-with-tina-fey-was-out-of-body-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/475905\/","title":{"rendered":"SNL UK\u2019s Navan writer Gr\u00e1inne Maguire: \u2018To be in a writers\u2019 room with Tina Fey was out-of-body stuff\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">The Meath stand-up has earned one of TV\u2019s most coveted comedy jobs on Saturday Night Live UK. Here, she talks about growing up idolising Brendan Grace, getting political on social media and ignoring the mansplainers\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Gr\u00e1inne Maguire. Photo: Idil Sukan\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IW Grainne maguire.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Gr\u00e1inne Maguire. Photo: Idil Sukan<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">I speak to Navan-born writer and comedian Gr\u00e1inne Maguire on a Thursday, which constitutes a rare moment of downtime in her working week. As a writer on Saturday Night Live UK (SNL UK), she has just come through the three-hour table read of sketches the day before \u2013 always a hairy moment in the show\u2019s production cycle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Friday is also a crunch day if you\u2019re in the business of topical joke writing. Maguire works on Weekend Update, an iconic and well-loved segment in the US version of the show that skewers whatever is going on in the news cycle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Meath stand-up has earned one of TV\u2019s most coveted comedy jobs on Saturday Night Live UK. Here,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475906,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[265],"tags":[18,117,19,17,4657,12612,128],"class_list":{"0":"post-475905","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-sky","13":"tag-tanya-sweeney","14":"tag-tv"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116542998291459370","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}