Ariana Grande hosted "Saturday Night Live" this past weekend in one of the best episodes from season 41. On Wednesday, "SNL" released a previously unseen sketch that was cut for time from the show Saturday night and featured Grande trying to explain what March Madness is to a couple of her co-workers.
In the cut-for-time sketch, the singer approached two of her co-workers at lunch, played by Beck Bennett and Kyle Mooney, to invite them to her March Madness party over the weekend. The two have absolutely no clue what March Madness is and assumed Grande had invited them to a literal march party. Every time Beck and Monney ask a question of Grande, they dig themselves further and further into confusion.
"You guys know it's a basketball tournament, don't you?" Grande asked.
"Exactly," said Mooney. "So we'll just be forming our own basketball teams by scouting talent at the park and turning them into superstars?"
"We're not in charge of them team, we're just watching," Grande replied.
In addition to Grande acting as the host for the show, she was also the musical guest and performed her new song "Dangerous Woman" as well as "Be Alright." Fans of "SNL" were particularly impressed with Grande's hosting abilities, especially her impressions of some of her fellow stars like Jennifer Lawrence, Britney Spears and Celine Dion in two separate sketches.
In the first sketch, Grande impersonated Lawrence in a "Celebrity Family Feud" sketch that also featured most of the cast who are good at doing impressions including: Tilda Swinton (Kate McKinnon), Javier Bardem (Beck Bennett), Idris Elba (Jay Pharoah), Quentin Tarantino (Taran Killam), Kevin Smith (Bobby Moynihan), Woody Allen (Kyle Mooney) and Martin Scorsese (Jon Rudnitsky).
For the second sketch, Grande showed off her musical impression in a sketch where she had to save the music streaming site TIDAL. In the TIDAL sketch, Grande impersonated the voices of Britney Spears, Whitney Houston, Shakira, Rihanna and Celine Dion. As it turns out, Dion is a huge fan of Grande's impersonation of her and apparently almost had an accident the first time she saw it.
"No, no, no!" Ariana shared when asked if anyone is insulted by the impressions. "When I met Celine she told me, she was like, 'When I saw you, I peed!'" Amazing!
Check out the March Madness sketch below to find out if Mooney and Bennett ever find out what the tournament really is.
