{"id":212345,"date":"2025-12-21T06:31:45","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T06:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/21\/bowen-yang-breaks-down-in-tears-in-final-snl-sketch-with-ariana-grande\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T06:31:45","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T06:31:45","slug":"bowen-yang-breaks-down-in-tears-in-final-snl-sketch-with-ariana-grande","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/21\/bowen-yang-breaks-down-in-tears-in-final-snl-sketch-with-ariana-grande\/","title":{"rendered":"Bowen Yang Breaks Down in Tears in Final SNL Sketch With Ariana Grande"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Bowen Yang<\/strong><\/a> couldn\u2019t quite hold it together for his final Saturday Night Live<\/em> sketch \u2014 but he still got some TLC from Ariana Grande<\/strong> and Cher<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Yang, 35, teared up during a holiday travel-themed sketch<\/a> on Saturday, December 20, as Grande, 32, and Cher, 79, serenaded him with the festive classic \u201cPlease Come Home for Christmas.\u201d The sketch referenced Yang\u2019s real-life departure from Saturday Night Live<\/em> as he played a Delta Sky Club employee joined by old friends on his last-ever shift.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t believe you\u2019re retiring,\u201d Grande told him, with Yang explaining: \u201cI just wanted to go out on top!\u201d<\/p>\n

Grande\u2019s character then quipped: \u201cEveryone knows you\u2019re a bottom, honey!\u201d<\/p>\n

As the trio continued to sing, both Yang and Grande got choked up and eventually started to cry. Yang\u2019s bittersweet final sketch closed with him pulling Grande and Cher into a hug as he bawled.<\/p>\n

Earlier in the night, Yang joined his Wicked: For Good<\/em> costar Grande for a sendup<\/a> of Mariah Carey<\/strong>\u2019s festive classic \u201cAll I Want for Christmas Is You,\u201d now retitled \u201cWhat Do I Get for Christmas for This Dude\u201d as an ode to the perils of holiday gift buying.<\/p>\n

News broke on Friday, December 19, that Yang planned to leave SNL<\/em><\/a> after its annual Christmas show, featuring Grande as host and Cher as musical guest.<\/p>\n

Yang opened up about his time on the show in a poignant goodbye note<\/a> before showtime on Saturday. He looked back on joining SNL<\/em> just as the COVID-19 pandemic started in late 2019 and credited the show with teaching him \u201cthe value in showing up anyway when people make it worthwhile.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019m grateful for every minute of my time there. I learned about myself (bad with wigs). I learned about others (generous, vulnerable, hot). I learned that human error can be nothing but correct,\u201d he recalled. \u201cI learned that comedy is mostly logistics and that it will usually fail until it doesn\u2019t, which is the besssst.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yang then thanked his many friends at SNL<\/em>, adding: \u201cThank you to every single person who showed up there: friends and coworkers and audiences and hosts \u2026 Thank you to every cast member for making me laugh and cry.\u201d<\/p>\n

There had been speculation that Yang would leave the NBC sketch show<\/a> in May when he was seen wistfully dancing with fellow cast member Sarah Sherman<\/strong> during the season 50 finale\u2019s goodnights segment.<\/p>\n

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\n Related: <\/span>Ariana Grande and ‘Wicked’ Costar Bowen Yang Sing, Fight and Kiss on ‘SNL’<\/span><\/a>
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\n\t\t\tWicked costars Ariana Grande and Bowen Yang proved besties do it better during the Saturday, October 12, episode of Saturday Night Live. Grande, 31, returned to host Saturday\u2019s episode \u2014 her second time emceeing the variety show after 2016 \u2014 where she showed off her enduring bond with Yang, 33. (Grande and Yang, of course, [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

However, Yang decided to come back for season 51, explaining that SNL<\/em> creator Lorne Michaels<\/strong> personally encouraged him to stick around.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve always gone by the instinct of, do I have more to do? And I feel like I do,\u201d Yang told People<\/em><\/a> in September. \u201cEven Lorne and I talked about it, and Lorne was like, \u2018You have more to do,\u2019 and that means a lot, because I even confessed to him. I was like, \u2018I feel the audience is maybe getting sick of me.\u2019 And he was like, \u2018That\u2019s not true. There\u2019s more for you to do. I need you.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

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