Ariana Grande brought a bundle of stellar impersonations last night as the host of "Saturday Night Live." The singer played double duty as both host and musical guest of the show on Saturday where Grande impersonated several stars including Jennifer Lawrence, Britney Spears, Whitney Houston and more.
The singer first showed off her skills in a hilarious skit where she played actress Jennifer Lawrence in a director versus actor edition of "Celebrity Family Feud," where she presented Lawrence as everyone's best friend. Grande was joined by a panel of actors including Tilda Swinton (Kate McKinnon), Javier Bardem (Beck Bennett) and Idris Elba (Jay Pharoah) while the directors side included played Quentin Tarantino (Taran Killam ), Kevin Smith (Bobby Moynihan), Woody Allen (Kyle Mooney) and Martin Scorsese (Jon Rudnitsky).
"They told me not to do a game show, but I was like, screw it, I'm a regular person," Grande as Lawrence said in her introduction.
Grande's Lawrence and Killam as Tarantino were up first to battle and got the question: "Name a bad habit that you just can't quit."
"I'm just like a snackoholic. I love Pringles. If no one is looking, I'll eat like a whole can. Like, every day is my cheat day," Grande, as Lawrence, said.
"How annoyingly relatable," said Kenan Thompson, who was impersonating host Steve Harvey.
Later in the show, Grande broke out some of her musical impressions in a skit where she starred as a Tidal intern named Chloe who saves the day when the power goes off at the music service's headquarters and some of the artist pages go down. Grande proved that she could impersonate some of the biggest pop stars in the world as she did musical impressions of Spears' "Baby One More Time," Shakira's "Whenever, Wherever," Rihanna's "Work," Celine Dion's "It's All Coming Back to Me Now" and Houston's version of "I Will Always Love You."
This was not the first time Grande channeled some of the pop divas. She previously did a spot on impression of Celine Dion on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" and impressed during a game of Wheel of Musical Impressions. During the game with Fallon, Grande did impressions of Spears, Christina Aguilera and Dion again.
