Bleeding Cool's Ray Flook reports that SNL UK's latest cold open moved past two weeks of royal-family material to spotlight George Fouracres' Prime Minister Andy Burnham, back home in Manchester for a victory lap over his UN speech against Putin and Russia. Celeste Dring's Angela Rayner praises him — 'They hate us because we have freedom and Greggs' — before Jack Shep's Liam and Freddie Meredith's Noel Gallagher walk in asking Burnham to guest with Oasis, then springing the trap: 'Oasis has always been Russian psyops,' per Bleeding Cool, with 'Wonderwall' reframed as 'Wonderful Wall' about the Berlin Wall.

The bit lands as the kind of inside-joke escalation comedy readers relish: a sitting fictional PM lured by a band reunion, then flip-flopping on a general election in a single run-on line. Bleeding Cool quotes Burnham's辩 defense — 'Just because you have the power to do something, doesn't mean you should… And that is true leadership' — as the sketch's centerpiece. Flook notes the sketch ends by folding a key 'Wonderwall' lyric into the resolution without spoiling how, making it the standout the outlet chose to revisit a week later.

Bleeding Cool's preview rounds up the week's evidence: a midweek sketch in which host Danny Dyer welcomed Larry Dean and Jack Shep, cast table-read photos on SNL UK's Instagram, and TikTok promos with Hammed Animashaun and Sasha Keable. CultureCues reports Dyer spent the week preparing with the cast and airs live at 10pm Saturday 10 October on Sky One, with the Series 2 ensemble — Animashaun, Bamgboye, Dean, Dring, Fouracres, Magliano, Marlow, Nash, Shep, Sidi, Young and Meredith — returning for topical sketches and the UK Weekend Update.

Both outlets agree on the runway ahead: James Norton hosts next Saturday, 17 October, with The Streets as musical guest, before Cynthia Erivo takes over on 24 October alongside indie rock band Blossoms. CultureCues says its editors expect Dyer — 'naturally funny,' in the outlet's words — to be brilliant hosting live sketch comedy, and Bleeding Cool suggests the Burnham-Oasis bit shows the writers are willing to keep escalating political satire as the second series rolls on.