When Ariana Grande appeared as a musical guest on a March episode of “Saturday Night Live” It wasn't hard to predict (and we did) that he would return in the fall to promote the November release of his film “Wicked.” But rather than pulling double duty as host and musical act like Bad Bunny did last season, Grande insisted in her opening monologue (in song) that she plans to keep it low-key.
Thank God I was joking.
After accurately imitating the singing voices of Britney Spears, Miley Cryus and Gwen Stefani in the monologue, Grande told Yang, dressed in a pink “Wicked”-inspired dress, that her sketch about the film was cut. He then joined the dancers and promised not to do a duet with Nicks (“It's worth a try!”).
big, who could be up for some Grammy nominations soonShe may not have been the musical guest, but she had plenty of songs to show off her powerful voice on the show. Additionally, his sketches played to his strengths as a performer with excellent comedic timing, who turns out to be as talented an impersonator as the show's cast members themselves.
Guest host cleverly parodied Celine Dion's recent NFL appearance with a UFC-themed version of “It's All Coming Back to Me Now,” and in a sketch that required Grande to do a Jennifer Coolidge impression in a Maybelline commercial alongside current “SNL” impressionist Chloe Fineman and “SNL” legend Dana Carvey doing their own shots of Coolidge, the star's pop sounded more like “The White Lotus.” Emmy winner.
Grande also sang, in a very, very loud voice, like a castrated child in the Italian Renaissance whose parents (Maya Rudolph and Andy Samberg) explain the concept of “Castrato.” In a prerecorded video, she she performed a song about the smells of her best friend's house (takes a dark turn). And in a sketch about a competitive mom. meeting her son's boyfriend for the first timefought and kissed his “Wicked” co-star Bowen Yang. She also played a treacherous hotel detective inspector and a member of a wedding party singing deliberately off-key lyrics, inspired by “Espresso,” to expose bad behavior at the bachelorette party.
The guest host broke character several times, but always recovered quickly and had a stellar performance in one episode. that started five minutes late because of college football. Musical guest Stevie Nicks performed her new abortion rights anthem “The lighthouse” and “edge of seventeen.” For the third week in a row, there is no Please Don't Destroy video, but you can see the boys in a recent Instagram video filmed at the “SNL” offices and they are apparently working on an ad for Allstate.
“SNL” knows when it has struck gold, like it did with the Season Premiere Stacked Cold Opening with Rudolph as Vice President Kamala Harris and Dana Carvey as President Biden, followed by bringing in the same guest stars for the vice presidential debate. This week, the show returned to being a fantasy episode of “Family Feud” airing on CNN with Democrats taking on Republicans and Steve Harvey (Kenan Thompson) hosting the “Feud.”
Kamala referenced her busy week of media appearances: she says she went on Howard Stern's show to attract horny taxi drivers; Former President Trump (James Austin Johnson) insisted that immigrants are eating. Moo Deng and JD Vance (Yang) accused Democrats of turning the joker “On a gay guy obsessed with Lady Gaga.”
The format was fun, but the comedic beats were almost identical to the previous two cold starts, with a confused Biden, the grandiloquent paternal energy of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz (Jim Gaffigan) and second gentleman Doug Emhoff (Samberg). The only novelty was including Mikey Day as Donald Trump, Jr., who laments about Vance: “It's almost like my dad picked me to be vice president…. But he didn't do it.”
The prints were still solid, but the triple dipping erased much of the humor from the piece.
In Grande's monologue she noted that the She last hosted in 2016.the country was “just about to elect our first female president, so I guess… the second time is the charm.”
Best sketch of the night: Celine Dion makes broken bones sound beautiful
After Celine Dion's strange surprise appearance in an NFL promotionGrande imitated the singer delivering a similar message, this time for the even more brutal sport of UFC. With lyrics including: “There were broken bones / and knees in the balls,” this version of “It's All Coming Back to Me Now” celebrated UFC violence, from cauliflower ears to 300-pound Bosnian athletes throwing up their own . teeth. Grande's Celine Dion promised to see you at The Octagon.
Also good: Do you like Jennifer Coolidge? How about three of her?
As mentioned above, Grande aced her Jennifer Coolidge Academy of Jennifer Coolidge Impressions entrance exam in a mirror sketch with Fineman, who has she played the actress before on the show. The two freely associated with things to talk about on a date, like lemons, until Carvey joined them as his mirror moved to reveal a third Coolidge. The only surprise was that it was Carvey sitting there instead of the real Coolidge.
'Weekend Update' Winner: Amazon Employee Monica Is A Little Overworked
James Austin Johnson and Sarah Sherman The fighting brothers from Oasis played.Noel and Liam Gallagher, but Ego Nwodim hit harder as Monica, an overworked Amazon employee still reeling from the company's crisis. recent two-day sales event. Monica has worked eight days in a row, so long that she had to make up a new day of the week, “Fluesday.” Monica talked about connecting to a drone at work and at one point fell asleep with her eyes open. “Weekend Update” co-host Michael Che noted that the conditions appear inhumane. But when asked if he would stop ordering things from Amazon, he remained silent. Relatable!
