Jonathan Braylock

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Actor, comedian, writer and producer whose writing credits include Ted (Peacock), Golden Axe (Paramount+), Grown-ish (Freeform), The G Word with Adam Conover (Netflix) and Astronomy Club: The Sketch Show (Netflix), which he also co-created and co-starred in. Performs regularly at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in Los Angeles. Co-hosts The Great British Baking Pod, a weekly recap of The Great British Baking Show with Tessa Hersh, Greg Nussen and Nicholas Scheppard. Co-hosts the podcast Black Men Can't Jump [In Hollywood] and appeared as a guest on Unusual Things: A Guide to Sketch Comedy to discuss the Dakota Johnson SNL episode.

Where to Find Them

Jonathan Braylock hosts The Great British Baking Pod and writes Unusual Things: A Guide to Sketch Comedy .

Recently: “S17ep04 - Bread Week” on The Great British Baking Pod (November 2026); “S17ep03 - Audience Choice” on The Great British Baking Pod (October 2026); “S17ep02 - Biscuit Week” on The Great British Baking Pod (October 2026); “S17ep01 - Cake Week” on The Great British Baking Pod (October 2026); “Discussing the Dakota Johnson SNL episode with Jonathan Braylock!” on Unusual Things: A Guide to Sketch Comedy (October 2026); “Discussing the Dakota Johnson SNL episode with Jonathan Braylock!” on Unusual Things: A Guide to Sketch Comedy (October 2026).

What They Said

The hosts were complaining that the Bread Week technical challenge gave bakers almost no detail, such as how flat or how big the flatbreads should be. When nearly every baker fails, the argument goes, the fault lies with the brief.

The Great British Baking Pod · 2026-11-01 Permalink → Listen →
The Great British Baking Pod Around 30:36 into the episode
Jonathan Braylock

…And, you know, there is a part of me that's like, it is kind of weird that these contestants weren't looking at their bakes and going like, this doesn't feel very flat to me. That being said, flatbread, I feel like flatbread means a lot of different things to a lot of different people. Flatbread

Greg Nussen

doesn't always mean get it as flat as you possibly can.

Jonathan Braylock

Yeah. And also, like, sometimes flatbread is pizza. Like, you go to certain restaurants and they call their pizzas flatbread. Right. So this is

Greg Nussen

in support of Gary. You're making sense. Correct.

Jonathan Braylock

This is in support of Gary. And the other thing is, like, how often do you have a flatbread with stuff like baked, like grapes baked into it? Like, it feels like very, that feels like very strange. So it, and, you know, they had three weeks in a row where they got to see like the thing that they…

Greg Nussen

say this almost every season.

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