There’s a reason Ariana Grande has hosted SNL three times (and appeared a few other times) ... Signing on to be the last SNL host of the year is not for the faint of heart ... New Studio (Ariana Grande) - SNL - YouTube.
“Well, it was kind of upsetting actually,” said Chase... No one asked me to ... When “SNL” debuted, Chase was the first host of the “news” segment ... “There were a couple versions of and we went back and forth on that,” said “SNL” creator Lorne Michaels ... ....
While Chase was in attendance at the SNL 50 ... He explains in his upcoming CNN Films documentary, I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not, via People that he “expected” to be on stage with the other SNL OGs like Laraine Newman and Garrett Morris.
The Christmas episode also featured musical guest Cher and a farewell to Bowen Yang after he joined the “SNL” cast in 2019 ... It’s also the most-watched Christmas episode of “SNL” in five years.
The moment was brief, playful, and musically sharp, yet it was enough to prompt speculation about whether harmless comedy had crossed into pop star shade.Why Perez Hilton thinks Ariana Grande’s SNL...
“Everyone tried to get Bowen to stay, from Lorne down,” an “SNL” source told Page Six ... “Everyone tried to get Bowen to stay, from Lorne down,” an “SNL” source told Page Six.
1 on CNN, Chase talks about his exclusion from the 50th anniversary special of “SNL,” a show he joined as one of its founding cast members ... when the former first hosted “SNL”).