Ariana Grande, Saturday Night Live and Bowen Yang
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Ariana Grande hosted SNL for a third time, starring in seven sketches that made it to air, plus two bonus sketches cut for time — but fortunately uploaded to YouTube — Saturday night (Dec. 20). The 2025 Christmas episode of Saturday Night Live featured Cher as musical guest,
Ariana Grande showed why she's a reliable 'SNL' host, and that's not even mentioning her joint effort ensuring Bowen Yang got a proper send-off.
"Wicked" star Ariana Grande guest hosted the last 2025 episode of "SNL" this weekend. The show also ended Bowen Yang's seven-season stint.
The sketch, entitled "Dancing 101," also starred SNL star Marcello Hernandez, where he and Grande portrayed quirky dance instructors. The sketch also starred Bowen Yang who was marking the end of this SNL career with this most recent episode.