Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorLive, from your smartphone! It’s you and your friends in a personalized sketch-comedy show, brought to you by Snapchat.The new 10-episode Snap original series “The Me and You Show” taps into Snapchat’s Cameos — a feature that uses a kind of deepfake technology to insert someone’s face into a scene.
Using Cameos, the show makes you the lead actor in comedy skits alongside one of your best friends by uploading a couple of selfies.The first episode is set to premiere Oct.
1, with subsequent episodes released weekly. Written by Zack Bornstein, a former “Saturday Night Live” scribe, the sketch comedy episodes were conceived, written, filmed and post-produced “under strict technical guidelines” to be compatible.
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