{"id":863416,"date":"2026-03-31T21:39:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T21:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/863416\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T21:39:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T21:39:24","slug":"jack-whitehall-to-host-with-jorja-smith-as-musical-guest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/863416\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Whitehall to Host With Jorja Smith as Musical Guest"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\u201cSaturday Night Live<\/a> U.K.\u201d has revealed that British comedian Jack Whitehall will host the April 11 episode with R&B artist Jorja Smith as the musical guest.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhitehall is best known for his time as a panelist on the comedy game show \u201cA League of Their Own\u201d and his Netflix docuseries \u201cTravels With My Father.\u201d Smith released her second album, \u201cFalling or Flying,\u201d in 2023 and is gearing up to headline London\u2019s All Points East Festival alongside Tems in August.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe series, which is set to run for eight episodes, will then take a weeklong hiatus and return for its next batch of shows starting April 25.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe first-ever season of the British twist on the U.S. comedy staple kicked off on March 21 with host Tina Fey and musical guest Wet Leg. Last weekend\u2019s show featured Jamie Dornan with Wolf Alice, and Riz Ahmed is up next on April 4 with Kasabian. Just before its premiere, Sky revealed that the first season of \u201cSNL<\/a> U.K.\u201d had been extended from six episodes to eight.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cSNL U.K.<\/a>\u2018s\u201d first episode delivered solid ratings for Sky and mostly positive reviews, while the Dornan-hosted second episode experienced a slight dip<\/a> in viewership. In his review for Variety<\/a>, Scott Bryan wrote that the show is strongest when leaning into what makes British comedy great.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThankfully, \u2018Saturday Night Live U.K.\u2019 largely took the basics of what makes the U.S. version successful \u2014 sketch comedy, rotating guest hosts and the unpredictability of live television \u2014 and left the Brits to it. That\u2019s where it works,\u201d Bryan wrote. \u201cThe sketches are darker and more surreal than its U.S. counterpart, the comedy much more deadpan. Even if all the sketch itself doesn\u2019t work (hey, they kept that feature too) there\u2019s enough one-liners to keep you going and try out the next.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cSaturday Night Live U.K.\u201d has revealed that British comedian Jack Whitehall will host the April 11 episode with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":863417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[9],"tags":[77,7167,7168,240803,16,15],"class_list":["post-863416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-saturday-night-live","tag-snl","tag-snl-u-k","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116325958781862356","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=863416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/863417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=863416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=863416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=863416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}