Saturday Night Live · season 51, episode 997 · Saturday, December 20, 2025 Host: Ariana Grande (3rd time). Musical guest: Cher. • Cher performs "DJ Play a Christmas Song" and "Run Rudolph Run" with Captain Kirk Douglas and the Saturday Night Live Band and appears in the "Delta Lounge" sketch. • Grande appears in-character as "Antonio", a role she played in a season 50 sketch, in introducing Cher's second performance, "Run Rudolph Run". • Aidy Bryant appears alongside Bowen Yang as the Trend Forecasters on Weekend Update, characters the two performed during Bryant's own final episode as an SNL cast member in 2022. • Bowen Yang's final episode as a cast member. To mark his departure, Grande and Cher join him in singing "Please Come Home for Christmas" during his farewell sketch, "Delta Lounge". • Before the goodnights, a photo of Rob Reiner, who hosted the third episode of SNL and who along with his wife was murdered earlier in the week, is shown in silence. Wiki link