{"id":463166,"date":"2025-12-21T23:29:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T23:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/463166\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T23:29:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T23:29:11","slug":"watch-ariana-grande-host-cher-perform-christmas-songs-on-saturday-night-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/463166\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Ariana Grande Host, Cher Perform Christmas Songs on Saturday Night Live"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last night, December 20, Ariana Grande<\/a> returned to Studio 8H to host Saturday Night Live for the second time<\/a> in as many years. During her monologue, Grande parodied Mariah Carey<\/a>\u2019s recently record-breaking<\/a> \u201cAll I Want for Christmas Is You\u201d and was joined by Bowen Yang, who is leaving the SNL cast midway through his eighth season. She also appeared in sketches throughout the evening as an Elf on the Shelf, a dance instructor, and Macaulay Culkin\u2019s Kevin McCallister from Home Alone.<\/p>\n

In the \u201cRandom Duet Christmas Spectacular\u201d sketch, inspired by David Bowie and Bing Crosby\u2019s 1977 televised performance of \u201cPeace on Earth \/ Little Drummer Boy<\/a>,\u201d Grande played Katy Perry and Celine Dion. The show\u2019s cast members also impersonated Bob Dylan, Kate Bush, Yoko Ono, Bj\u00f6rk, and Geese frontman Cameron Winter.<\/p>\n

Making her first appearance as Saturday Night Live\u2019s musical guest since 2011, Cher<\/a> performed two songs from her 2023 Christmas album titled, simply, Christmas. She was flanked by backup dancers for \u201cDJ Play a Christmas Song\u201d and covered Chuck Berry\u2019s \u201cRun Rudolph Run.\u201d<\/p>\n

Saturday Night Live\u2019s 51st season has featured performances from Doja Cat<\/a>, Sabrina Carpenter<\/a>, Brandi Carlile<\/a>, Olivia Dean<\/a>, Dijon<\/a>, and Lily Allen<\/a>, among others. Bad Bunny<\/a> hosted the season premiere. Stranger Things<\/a> star Finn Wolfhard will host SNL\u2019s first episode of the new year alongside musical guest A$AP Rocky<\/a> on January 17, coinciding with the latest planned release date<\/a> for Rocky\u2019s new album, Don\u2019t Be Dumb.<\/p>\n

This year, Grande shared the deluxe version<\/a> of her 2024 album, Eternal Sunshine<\/a>, and joined the cast<\/a> of Ben Stiller and Robert De Niro\u2019s new Meet the Parents movie. She performed alongside her Wicked co-star Cynthia Erivo at the 2025 Oscars<\/a>, where she was also nominated<\/a> for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Glinda. Grande will kick off her first tour<\/a> in over six years in June 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last night, December 20, Ariana Grande returned to Studio 8H to host Saturday Night Live for the second…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":463167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[171,975,173,67,132,68,989],"class_list":{"0":"post-463166","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-tv","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us","14":"tag-video"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115760160185575096","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}