Ariana Grande took the New York 30 Rock stage “Saturday Night Live” for the third time as hostess and found herself in familiar circumstances.

“The last time I hosted was in 2016, and we were about to elect our first female president,” the 31-year-old singer and actress said in her monologue. “So I guess the second time’s the charm?”

Grande, who first hosted in 2014, did so for the first time without also appearing as a musical guest – a role that fell to him Stevie Nicks – and promised not to sing until he started a song.

The theme continued as she vowed during the song not to do her signature impressions of Britney Spears, Miley Cyrus and Gwen Stefani, before throwing out something from each. Later in the show, she would do a much longer version of Celine Dion in a sketch.

Grande hosted the promotion of her film musical “Evil,” The prequel “The Wizard of Oz” is due out next month.

She said playing the good witch Glinda in the film was the dream of every theater kid like her after she “lost her virginity.”

Grande's episode takes place in the middle of a Viewing ratings are rising for the sketch institution, probably caused by them 50th seasonand election season. Last month's season premiere drew the most viewers since 2020.

Just like in the first two episodes of the new season, Maya Rudolph played vice president Kamala Harris In the evening's cold opener, he leads a group of former cast members returning as guest stars, including Andy Samberg as Harris' husband Doug Emhoff and Dana Carvey as President Joe Biden.

They teamed up for an election edition of “The Family Feud” and took on Team Trump.

Kenan Thompson, the longest-serving cast member in the show's history, which began in 2003, took on his longtime role as “Feud” host Steve Harvey and interviewed Rudolph-as-Harris about it her latest media blitz.

“It’s been a hell of a week,” she said. “I went to Howard Stern for the horny taxi drivers, I went to The View for the horny moms and I also went to the podcast “Call her daddy” Because I have a message for young women: You have to go to the ballot box if you want the government out of your ballot box.”

Current cast member James Austin Johnson returned as Donald TrumpHe said his opponent “will do a terrible job in this game. She is a person with a very low IQ. The whole world is laughing at her because they have no respect for her.”

Nicks, 76, was a musical guest on “SNL” for the first time in more than 40 years. She opened with her brand new single “The Lighthouse,” but the look of the performance was classic Stevie, with an abundance of rings and scarves and the singer clad in black. For her second song, she went back to 1981's “Edge of Seventeen.”

Michael Keaton will host next week with musical guest Billie Eilish. John Mulaney and Chappell Roan are scheduled to perform the following Saturday.

The start of Season 50 has already brought reflection and nostalgia in many ways, among other things “Saturday Night,” a comedy film dramatizes the minutes before the first episode of the Lorne Michaels-led sketch institution on October 11, 1975.

A three-hour primetime special on February 16th will serve as an official celebration of the 50th season start.