If you like Saturday Night Live, you will probably love seeing “Who’s In Charge,” a fluffy farce staged by Mt. Airy’s resident satirical comedy troupe, Mt. Airy Home Companion, at Allens Lane Art Center, Nov. 14, 7 p.m., and Nov. 15, 2 p.m., where the entire cast of the “radio show” is backbiting each other, trying to take over the show.

Like SNL, the satire always spoofs issues in the news, and we are told that one of the topics to be skewered is Artificial Intelligence.

The group of local satirists would not reveal any “zinger one-liners in the script” but did say “there are parody songs and enough homemade props and costumes to start a dollar store” and that “the humor comes more from the action and the goofy characters.”

The original musical comedy radio play is full of big personalities, small-town tensions and plenty of laughs. For example:

• Three very different personalities battle for control of Mt. Airy’s influential community radio station — and the audience.

• A soothe-singing charlatan promises spiritual enlightenment and financial success to anyone who donates money to her cause. Sound familiar?

• A clueless cowboy wannabe wants to give free fudge to everyone in Mt. Airy and make every day his own birthday.

• An evil tech genius, bitter because he flunked out of astronaut school, wants to put Mt. Airy completely under the control of his mega-computer, which of course goes seriously haywire.

• And a couple of sensible voices try to keep the chaos under control: a folk-singing hobo who lost his job to AI and the show’s rightful original host who regularly takes calls from listeners like the man with Pennsylvania’s biggest potato and the woman who thinks she saw a kangaroo in Carpenter Woods. In other words, it’s a lot of fun with all local references.

“We are not all professional actors, but all things considered, watching our show is like watching NASCAR races. There’s definitely some skill involved, but the real fun is in watching the crashes,” explained Jim Harris, founder of Mt. Airy Home Companion, a company of local comics, actors and musicians who have been performing satirical original shows about local issues since 2012.

“I was a big fan of ‘Prairie Home Companion,’” Harris said, “so I originally suggested to my band, Saint Mad, that we do a ‘fake’ radio play based loosely on that music and comedy format. They agreed, and we ran ads for actors. We got a good reaction from the audience, so we did it again and again, usually for about 100 people, but at the Conkey Center [at Springside Chestnut Hill Academy] we had more than 300. We have also performed at the Rotunda in University City and as part of the Philadelphia Fringe Festival.”

Inspired by Garrison Keillor’s Minnesota Public Radio show, “A Prairie Home Companion,” the Mt. Airy version presents original skits and musical parodies that mostly align with Mt. Airy’s liberal reputation. But if you expect to see the kind of biting satire about Donald Trump that appears on TV from satirists such as Stephen Colbert or Jimmy Kimmel, you may be disappointed.

“We do not name names,” Harris said in an earlier interview. “It’s highly unlikely we’ll have any ‘conservative activists’ in our audience, but if we do, we want them to have a good time, too. Anyway, we’ve been in the red from day one, so we’re not worried about being defunded.”

Some of the alleged local businesses that might advertise on the show are Earl’s House of Beauty for Men, the Lazy Boy ejector chair and No Nuts, the store that sells everything but nuts. All are currently failing to turn a profit in “the hippie heartland on the edge of the beautiful Wissahickon Valley.”

One of their funniest bits I have seen in their past performances was Greg Williams, former owner of a bookstore in the Mt. Airy Train Station, portraying Saint Nicholas singing Madonna’s “Material World” while dancing with a bunch of grade schoolers from Germantown Friends School.

For ticket information, visit allenslane.org. Len Lear can be reached at lenlear@chestnuthilllocal.com. Allens Lane Art Center is at 601 W. Allens Lane.