SNL reprises Ariana Grande’s viral Domingo sketch with Charli XCX and Chappell Roan cover

Saturday Evening Dwell has introduced again a fan-favorite sketch throughout its newest episode.

Charli XCX, 32, served as each SNL’s host and musical visitor on November 16. One month after host Ariana Grande broke the web with the viral “Domingo” sketch on October 12, the British pop star shared her personal rendition of the skit with a hilarious model of Chappell Roan’s “Sizzling to Go.”

In Grande’s sketch, she carried out an off-key rendition of Sabrina Carpenter’s “Espresso” at a marriage with solid members Heidi Gardner, Ego Nwodim, and Sarah Sherman. Chloe Fineman performed the bride, as her bridal celebration sang in regards to the group’s bachelorette celebration – the place they met the mysterious Domingo (Marcello Hernandez).

This time, Charli changed Grande’s character at a child bathe for her cousin Kelsey (Fineman). The singers had been again once more, performing the Chappell Roan hit track, although that they had modified the phrases to replicate their latest “babymoon” journey to Miami, Florida.

“We get facials on the spa, however Kelsey doesn’t discuss in any respect,” Charli sang, additionally off-key. Nwodim then chimed in: “We are saying, ‘Kelsey get off your cellphone,’ trigger we all know who she’s texting! We all know who she’s texting!”

The solid then spelled out “D-O-M-I-N-G-O” to the tune of “Sizzling To Go,” because the lyrics hinted that Hernandez’s Domingo may very well be the daddy of Kelsey’s child.

Followers had been elated in regards to the return of Domingo, as one person wrote on X/Twitter: “No this implies every thing to me.”

Nonetheless, some individuals believed that nothing might high the unique starring Grande, like one one that mentioned: “I’m sorry however there can by no means be one other espresso domingo.”

Charli appeared in a number of sketches in the course of the present, together with a skit about Shrek The Musical and performing a track with Brooklyn 99 star Andy Samberg. In one other sketch mocking America’s Subsequent High Mannequin on Thanksgiving, the singer performed Victoria Beckham.

Whereas on stage, she was launched by Julia Fox earlier than performing the observe “360” off her critically acclaimed album, Brat. For her second efficiency, Charli sang “Sympathy is a Knife,” additionally from the 2024 album.

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In the meantime, the SNL solid mocked President-elect Donald Trump’s controversial cupboard picks within the chilly open sketch on Saturday evening. The skit, which started by poking enjoyable at Trump and President Joe Biden’s transition assembly, took jabs on the many individuals who might be part of the president-elect’s cupboard come January.

“It’s all about surrounding your self with the perfect individuals,” comic James Austin Johnson mentioned, enjoying Trump within the sketch. “And I’m very vastly selecting essentially the most epic cupboard of all time. They’re a number of the most dynamic, free-thinking, animal-killing, sexually-criminal, medically-crazy individuals within the nation.”

Sherman performed Matt Gaetz, Trump’s choose for lawyer normal, who’s dealing with allegations of sexual misconduct in a “damaging report” set to be launched by the Home Ethics Committee. Alec Baldwin additionally returned to SNL as Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a recognized vaccine-skeptic, who Trump has chosen to steer Well being and Human Companies.