Ariana Grande took the New York 30 Rock stage at “Saturday Night time Dwell” for the third time as host and located herself in acquainted circumstances.
“The final time I hosted was in 2016, and we had been proper on the verge of electing our first feminine president,” the 31-year-old singer and actor stated in her monologue. “So, I assume, second time’s the appeal?”
Grande, who first hosted in 2014, was doing it for the primary time with out additionally serving as musical visitor — a job that fell to Stevie Nicks — and promised to not sing, earlier than breaking right into a tune.
The theme continued as she vowed in the course of the tune to not do her signature impressions of Britney Spears, Miley Cyrus and Gwen Stefani, earlier than throwing out a bit of every. She would do a for much longer model of Celine Dion in a sketch later within the present.
Grande hosted in promotion of her film musical “Depraved,” the “Wizard of Oz” prequel set to be launched subsequent month.
She stated taking part in the nice witch Glinda as she does within the movie is the dream of each theater child like her, after “dropping their virginity.”
Grande’s episode comes amid a scores spike for the sketch establishment, possible introduced on by its fiftieth season, and election season. Final month’s season premiere introduced in probably the most viewers since 2020.
Simply as within the first two episodes of the brand new season, Maya Rudolph performed Vice President Kamala Harris within the evening’s chilly open, main a bunch of former forged members returning as visitor stars, together with Andy Samberg as Harris’ husband Doug Emhoff and Dana Carvey as President Joe Biden.
They teamed up for an election version of “The Household Feud,” taking up group Trump.
Kenan Thompson, the longest-tenured forged member within the present’s historical past who started in 2003, reprised his long-running position as “Feud” host Steve Harvey and requested Rudolph-as-Harris about her latest media blitz.
“It’s been a hell of every week,” she stated. “I went on Howard Stern to achieve the sexy cab drivers, I went on ‘The View’ for the sexy mothers, and I additionally went on the podcast ‘Name Her Daddy’ as a result of I’ve a message for younger ladies: It’s worthwhile to go to the poll field if you would like the federal government out of your poll field.”
Present forged member James Austin Johnson returned as Donald Trump, saying his opponent is “going to be horrible at this sport. She’s a really low IQ particular person. The entire world is laughing at her as a result of they don’t respect her.”
The 76-year-old Nicks was the “SNL” musical visitor for the primary time in additional than 40 years. She opened along with her model new single, “The Lighthouse,” however the look of the efficiency was basic Stevie, with an abundance of rings and scarves and the singer draped in black. For her second tune, she reached again with “Fringe of Seventeen” from 1981.
Michael Keaton is about to host subsequent week with musical visitor Billie Eilish. John Mulaney and Chappell Roan are set for the next Saturday.
The onset of season 50 already has introduced reflection and nostalgia in lots of varieties, together with “Saturday Night time,” a film comedy dramatizing the minutes earlier than the primary episode of the Lorne Michaels-helmed sketch establishment on Oct. 11, 1975.
A 3-hour primetime particular on Feb. 16 is about to function the official fiftieth season celebration.
