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Jeff Goldblum's dating advice goes astray on SNL UK

Freddie Meredith and Annabel Marlow join Goldblum for a restaurant sketch where an earpiece makes a nervous date considerably harder.

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The Ultimate First Date Wingman | SNL UK

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0:03Uncle Jeff gives Todd an earpiece and tells him to repeat everything he says.
1:00Todd's date arrives, and Jeff begins supplying lines from a nearby table.
1:31An instruction to move a chair gets repeated rather than carried out.
2:11A stolen phone sends Jeff's remote coaching in a very different direction.
3:16The earpiece arrangement unravels, with the final encounter following shortly afterwards.

Todd has outsourced his charm to Uncle Jeff. Sitting nearby with a phone, Jeff Goldblum supplies the words; his nephew just has to repeat them. Even moving a chair proves harder than that arrangement suggests.

"The Ultimate First Date Wingman | SNL UK" was Saturday Night Live UK's most-watched new upload of the week. Featuring Freddie Meredith and Annabel Marlow alongside Goldblum, the sketch turns a familiar romantic-comedy device into a transmission problem: when someone snatches Jeff's phone, Todd keeps repeating words that have stopped being remotely suitable for a date.

Viewers are picking out the police-siren impression and the restaurant's gloriously confused name, Italiano's French Bistro. Others have spotted the Cyrano de Bergerac connection, with Goldblum taking on the job of supplying another man's romantic eloquence.

The week's four uploads also included "Cynthia Erivo Monologue | SNL UK" and two posts titled "The Perfect Proposal | SNL UK". The proposal premise gives Spencer another kind of romantic supervision: his girlfriend's dad, Kev, wants the occasion handled exactly right. Danny Dyer, Meredith, Emma Sidi and Celeste Dring feature in the November 6 upload.

Beyond the new material, "Nigerian Wicked | SNL UK" remains the channel's strongest source of daily views, having passed nine million views. "The Cher Witch Project - Halloween Trailer | SNL UK" is also drawing more daily viewing than the new dating sketch.

The channel added about 8,000 subscribers over the week, although daily viewing is currently below its usual level. Among nearby talk-show channels, Have I Got News For You US is enjoying an unusually busy spell. Saturday Night Live UK's own week, meanwhile, found plenty of comedy in people who simply cannot leave someone else's romance alone.

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What viewers say

He was so preoccupied with whether or not he could help him, he didn't stop to think if he should.
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Him making the police siren noise was what made me lose it
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Cyrano de Goldblum 😂😂
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“Italiano’s French Bistro” 👏🤣
@PoshBertieSee it on YouTube
"Uncle Jeff" lol
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One of my favourite sketches from Series 2, so glad it’s finally getting uploaded!
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Freddie and Annabel you nailed it! Brilliant sketch. Jeff, obviously chef's kiss!
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