Lorne Michaels revealed that Ariana Grande cancelled as the musical guest due to personal reasons, which was a bit of a dick move on his part. Especially considering that one of the SNL cast members is Ariana Grande's girlfriend.
They're milking that relationship for all of the attention. It was mentioned in at least 3 bits. At this point, I'm surprised Jost isn't getting more mentions for attention.
(Haven’t posted over here for awhile; I’ll try to be back.) Decent show. Loved the Cajun liberal sketch. I think they could make something of that as a recurring sketch. When I saw Seth Meyers was hosting, I wondered if they’d work in “Really?!?” somehow during WU. I wasn’t disappointed. Meyers genuinely looked like he was enjoying himself the entire show.
In what is a shock to nobody, the references may be old by the time the episode is re-aired... next weekend.
The next new episode's host on January 19th will be Rachel Brosnahan with musical guest Greta Van Fleet. -G