1 of 2 | Ariana Grande guest hosted this weekend’s edition of “SNL.” File Photo by John Angelillo/UPI | License Photo
Wicked star Ariana Grande guest hosted the last 2025 episode of Saturday Night Live this weekend.
In her opening monologue, she sang a parody of the classic holiday song, “All I Want for Christmas,” in which she laments being too busy to figure out what to get her cousin’s boyfriend Steve as a gift.
In a pre-recorded video, she played young Kevin, Macaulay Culkin’s character, in a send-up of Home Alone with a horror twist.
Kevin’s family returns unexpectedly after leaving the boy behind for a European vacation without him.
They immediately fall into all of the traps Kevin set for the two burglars that kept trying to break into his home, suffering terrible and bloody deaths.
Two of Grande’s best sketches ended up being cut for time, but they were released on YouTube and the NBC website.
The entertainer cracked up laughing in a skit in which she and Sarah Sherman played two middle-aged, mustached men trying to sell pathetic-looking Christmas trees to people who waited until the last minute.
She also appeared with outgoing SNL cast member Bowen Yang in a sketch warning of the dangers of women drinking espresso martinis in public and touted a new “safe room” where the intoxicated can misbehave with no real-world ramifications.
