\u2018After every tour, I hate the sound of my voice,\u2019 the actor and comedian says. Yet here he is, working on a new standup act and about to host Saturday Night Live. What does he have to talk about this time, apart from his stag do, fatherhood, the remake of The \u2019Burbs \u2026 ?<\/p>\n
The day I meet Jack Whitehall in central London, it has just been announced that he will be hosting Saturday Night Live (SNL) this Saturday. He is also about to get married and his stag do, which was two days before our interview, has been meticulously documented by the tabloids. It feels like a lot, so his immaculate appearance \u2013 even his beard looks polished; you wouldn\u2019t believe this man had ever been fall-over drunk \u2013 is baffling. He is 37, but doesn\u2019t look markedly different from the baby-faced man of 23 who appeared on our screens in Jesse Armstrong\u2019s and Sam Bain\u2019s stinging student satire Fresh Meat. That series sealed his place as the country\u2019s posh mascot on panel shows including Would I Lie to You?, Mock the Week, Never Mind the Buzzcocks and 8 Out of 10 Cats.<\/p>\n
His last comedy tour ended in 2024 and the wait for his next, at the start of 2027, is his longest hiatus yet. \u201cAfter every tour, I hate the sound of my own voice,\u201d he says. From 2017 to 2024, \u201cI did tours back to back. I\u2019d run out of life experience. I\u2019d talked about every fucking thing that had ever happened to me, I\u2019d done every possible iteration of joke about my dad. In the interim three or four years, I\u2019ve got engaged, I\u2019m planning a wedding, I\u2019ll have had some time in married life, I\u2019ve had a daughter, I\u2019m now the father of a toddler. It felt as if I had stuff to talk about again.\u201d<\/p>\n
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