Comedy fans are pointing out striking similarities in recent sketches from “Saturday Night Live” and BYUtv’s “Studio C.”

As first reported on news outlet LateNighter, a sketch that aired on the show on Nov. 8 resembled one that aired on “Studio C” just days earlier on Nov. 3. Both sketches were based on the Disney film “Beauty and the Beast,” replacing the titular Beast with popular YouTuber MrBeast, also known as Jimmy Donaldson.

The “SNL” parody featured host Nikki Glaser as Belle and cast member Ben Marshall as a hybrid of Disney’s Beast and the YouTuber known for hosting elaborate challenges with huge cash prizes for contestants.

“I’ll keep your dad trapped in a dungeon for 30 days for a chance to win over $300,000,” Marshall says in the sketch. “For every pound I lose, I’ll give a Tesla to a random stranger.” Cast members Kenan Thompson and Bowen Yang appear as versions of Cogsworth and Lumière.

Studio C’s sketch also showed MrBeast in an old French castle hosting an elaborate game show for an unwitting Belle. In the sketch, MrBeast says that he has trapped 100 servants in the castle.

“The only way to get their human bodies back is to make this lady fall in love with me,” he says. Progress in the game is tracked by the number of petals that fall from a rose.

While the “SNL” sketch featured Beast in full costume, Studio C opted to have MrBeast wear a blue hoodie emblazoned with “Beast.” Instead of having Bella in her signature yellow dress like on “SNL,” the Studio C version portrayed Bella in her blue dress.

Ben Marshall, host Nikki Glaser and Andrew Dismukes during the
Ben Marshall, host Nikki Glaser and Andrew Dismukes during the “Mr. Beast” sketch on “Saturday Night Live” on Nov. 8.

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Some commenters pointed out the similarities online.

“Now everyone needs to go watch the Studio C version of this sketch… which aired 5 days before this version of SNL,” one YouTube user wrote about the “SNL” video, while another wrote on the Studio C video, “I think this version works better than the SNL version because it’s a parody of the entire Mr. Beast video style, whereas the SNL sketch was just a parody of a movie trailer with Mr. Beast as a character.”

“Did #snl notice that @BYUtv sketch show Studio C did Beauty and Mr. Beast last week?” wrote a user

Neither “SNL” nor BYUtv immediately responded to requests for comment.

This is not the first time “SNL” has been accused of copying the work of others. In 2015, for example, two people accused the show of copying their idea of ​​a dating app in which people would conform to each other.

And in 2023, comedian Yannis Pappas said it was “hard to believe” that his fellow comedian Marcello Hernandez I didn’t notice the similarities between one of his “SNL” characters and a person Pappas has portrayed for years.

“I’ve been doing stand-up comedy for two decades, so I’m not an up-and-coming comedian,” Pappas told Page Si.x at that time. “I’m surprised no one in the writers’ room talked about this. I find it hard to believe that Marcello wasn’t aware of me and the character.”