Overview
- Saturday Night Live’s Season 51 Christmas episode aired Dec. 21 with Grande as host and Cher as the musical guest.
- Grande’s monologue rewrote Mariah Carey’s holiday standard with a gag about struggling to buy a gift for her cousin’s boyfriend.
- Bowen Yang joined the onstage spoof during a show widely described as his last as a cast member.
- She folded in self-referential jokes about her Wicked: For Good press schedule, including a quip about director Jon M. Chu.
- SNL posted the monologue video on its official social accounts shortly after the broadcast.