Ariana Grande Hosts ‘SNL’ for the Third Time: All 9 Sketches Ranked

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, and it also wound up being Bowen Yang’s last day as a cast member at Studio 8H. Grande’s latest appearance on the late-night comedy series had her supporting her friend Yang through an emotional exit from the show. Throughout a total of nine sketches, she also played an abused elf on the shelf, Kevin McCallister in an R-rated Home Alone , an eccentric dance teacher, Katy Perry and Celine Dion, a judge who believes her case’s defendant is actually Santa, and a contestant in a Love Is Blind reunion special. She was the star of both a PSA on the dangers of espresso martinis and a commercial hawking the saddest last-minute Christmas trees that you ever did see. Live from New York, Grande kicked her night off with a musical monologue set to the familiar melody of Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You.” Her version of the holiday classic had her singing her way through shopping stress as Christmas Day with distant companions of distance relatives nears: “I don’t know what to get for Christmas/ For my cousin’s boyfriend Steve/ I don’t know a thing about him/ Only see him on Christmas Eve/ My cousin says that he’s her rock/ But I’ve never heard him talk/ Is a gift card rude?/ What do I get for Christmas for this dude?” Besides being a three-time SNL host - on the episodes airing March 12, 2016; Oct. 12, 2024, and now Dec. 20, 2025 - Grande’s twice been booked as musical guest only; though not all musical guests are written into sketches, she rightly was both of those times (Sept. 27, 2014; March 9, 2024). Here’s a ranking of every scene Grande was in on Saturday night, when she hosted SNL ‘s Dec. 20 episode. Watch all nine sketches below. “Espresso Martini” Grande leads a PSA warning of the perils espresso martini-fueled ladies face, and what one can do to protect their caffeinated/drunken loved ones when they’re consuming “girly meth.” From the inventors of the Sangria Straight Jacket comes the Espresso Martini Safe Room, “a completely padded room filled with exactly what they need to ride out their mania until they can reintegrate with society.” Fully pink and fully decked out with stereotypically feminine comforts like fluffy pillows, unicorns, rosy tumblers and a Lover -era listening station - plus a fake phone to avoid any real social media moves one might regret in the morning - the Espresso Martini Safe Room is a place it turns out Grande herself might need to book a night in. “Thank goodness they’re safe,” she deadpans, making it mostly through the bit without breaking. “Love Is Blind Reunion” Saturday night’s Love Is Blind spoof has...

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