{"id":363262,"date":"2025-12-22T07:36:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T07:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/363262\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T07:36:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T07:36:11","slug":"watch-ariana-grande-host-cher-perform-christmas-songs-on-saturday-night-live-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/363262\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Ariana Grande Host, Cher Perform Christmas Songs on Saturday Night Live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, December 20, <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/31708-ariana-grande\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ariana Grande<\/a> returned to Studio 8H to host Saturday Night Live for the <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/watch-ariana-grande-host-stevie-nicks-perform-edge-of-seventeen-and-the-lighthouse-on-snl\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">second time<\/a> in as many years. During her monologue, Grande parodied <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/10697-mariah-carey\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mariah Carey<\/a>\u2019s recently <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/all-i-want-for-christmas-is-you-longest-running-no-1-in-history\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">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<p>In the \u201cRandom Duet Christmas Spectacular\u201d sketch, inspired by David Bowie and Bing Crosby\u2019s 1977 televised performance of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lCpXMy5GalI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Peace 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<p>Making her first appearance as Saturday Night Live\u2019s musical guest since 2011, <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/15996-cher\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">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<p>Saturday Night Live\u2019s 51st season has featured performances from <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/watch-bad-bunny-host-doja-cat-perform-aaahh-men-and-gorgeous-on-saturday-night-live\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Doja Cat<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/sabrina-carpenter-performs-manchild-and-nobodys-son-on-saturday-night-live-watch\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sabrina Carpenter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/brandi-carlile\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brandi Carlile<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/dijon-announced-as-saturday-night-live-musical-guest\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Olivia Dean<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/watch-dijon-perform-higher-and-baby-medley-on-saturday-night-live\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dijon<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/watch-lily-allen-perform-sleepwalking-bring-out-dakota-johnson-for-madeline-on-saturday-night-live\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lily Allen<\/a>, among others. <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/watch-bad-bunny-host-doja-cat-perform-aaahh-men-and-gorgeous-on-saturday-night-live\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bad Bunny<\/a> hosted the season premiere. <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/new-stranger-things-season-5-soundtrack-announced\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stranger Things<\/a> star Finn Wolfhard will host SNL\u2019s first episode of the new year alongside musical guest <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/30007-asap-rocky\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">A$AP Rocky<\/a> on January 17, coinciding with the latest planned <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/heres-the-album-cover-tim-burton-made-for-asap-rocky\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">release date<\/a> for Rocky\u2019s new album, Don\u2019t Be Dumb.<\/p>\n<p>This year, Grande shared the <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/ariana-grande-to-share-new-songs-on-eternal-sunshine-deluxe-album\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">deluxe version<\/a> of her 2024 album, <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/ariana-grande-eternal-sunshine\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eternal Sunshine<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/ariana-grande-joins-the-cast-of-new-meet-the-parents-movie\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/watch-ariana-grande-and-cynthia-erivo-perform-defying-gravity-and-more-at-2025-oscars\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2025 Oscars<\/a>, where she was also <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/ariana-grande-nominated-for-best-supporting-actress-at-2025-oscars\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">nominated<\/a> for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Glinda. Grande will kick off her <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/ariana-grande-announces-2026-tour\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">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&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[88,216,92,1977],"class_list":{"0":"post-363262","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-video"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}