Yang Bowen Unable to be consistent in finals saturday night live Sketch – but he still got some TLC ariana grande and Cher.
Young, 35, cried during a holiday travel-themed skit on Saturday, Dec. 20, as Grande, 32, and Cher, 79, sang him the holiday classic “Please Come Home for Christmas.” The sketch references Young’s real-life departure from saturday night live He plays a Delta Sky Club employee who is joined by old friends on his final shift.
“I can’t believe you’re retiring,” Grande told him, to which Young explained: “I just want to keep working hard!”
Grande’s character quips, “Everyone knows you’re a bottom, honey!”
As the trio continued singing, both Young and Grande choked up and eventually cried. Young’s bittersweet final sketch ends with him pulling Grande and Cher into a hug as he cries.
That night, Mr. Yang joined his team. evil: doing good supporting role grande’s irony Mariah Carey‘s holiday classic “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” now renamed “What Did I Get This Guy for Christmas” to celebrate the perils of holiday gift shopping.
News broke on Friday, December 19, that Young was planning to leave saturday night live The annual Christmas show concluded with Grande serving as host and Cher as musical guest.
Before Saturday’s show, Young opened up about his time on the show in a poignant farewell letter. He reviewed joining saturday night live As the COVID-19 pandemic began in late 2019, the show taught him “the value of showing up no matter what when people think it’s worth it.”
Bowen Yang and Ariana Grande perform with the cast of “Saturday Night Live.”
Provided by NBC“I’m grateful for every minute I spent there. I learned about myself (bad wigs). I learned about other people (generosity, vulnerability, passion). I learned that human error can only be right,” he recalls. “I learned that comedy is mostly about logistics, and it usually fails until it doesn’t, which is the best.”
Yang later thanked his many friends saturday night liveAnd added: “Thank you to everyone who was there: friends, colleagues, viewers and hosts…Thank you to every actor for making me laugh and cry.”
There was speculation that Young would leave the NBC sketch show in May, when he was seen dancing eagerly with other cast members. Sarah Sherman Goodnight segment of the Season 50 finale.
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However, Young decided to return for Season 51, explaining saturday night live creator Lorne Michaels Personally encourage him to stay.
“I always instinctively think, do I have more to do? I feel like I do,” Young told people September. “Even Lorne and I talked about it, and Lorne said, ‘You’ve got more to do,’ which meant a lot because I even confessed to him. I was like, ‘I think the audience might be tired of me.'” He said, ‘That’s not true. There are many more things waiting for you to do. I need you. “
Young continued, “I have to respect that. That guy changed my life and I owe a lot of my life to that show. I loved working there and the people there were the best. I really, really love every single one of them.”
Before leaving, Yang missed one saturday night live Season 51 episodes accepted the Vantage Award at the Academy Museum of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Gala in October at the Academy Museum in Los Angeles.
saturday night live NBC will return on January 17, 2026 at 11:30 pm ET stranger things‘ Finn Wolfhard As host and ASAP Loki as musical guest.
