Jay Pharoah loves hosting Fox ’s The Quiz with Balls even if he wasn’t originally sold on the title.

Pharoah, best known for being a cast member of Saturday Night Live between 2010 and 2016, had been talking to Fox for a while about hosting a show.

“I’ve been talking with Fox for years, trying to figure out something to do with them,” he told Deadline’s Reality TV Summit . “When this idea came up, it just made sense. There were so many other ones before that I could have done, but this one just seemed right. I didn’t pick the name, okay? I didn’t pick the name. It’s called The Quiz With Balls, but I had nothing to do with that.”

He joked that he thought of his grandmother’s reaction to the title. “She’s in her 80s. She likes talking about me at church. I mean, that’s kind of weird,” he said.

The Quiz with Balls made its splashy debut in May 2024, featuring two families standing on a high platform over a pool.…