Actor Josh O'Connor hosts 'SNL' tonight with musical guest Lily Allen, followed by Ariana Grande and Cher on December 20.

The final new “SNL” episode of 2025 will air on Dec. 20. “Wicked: For Good” star Ariana Grande will close the season when she hosts the show for the third time. Her return to “SNL” for the 2025 Christmas episode comes just over a year after she stopped by Studio 8H for Season 50.

Josh O’Connor hosted this week’s episode, which satirized an airborne news conference and also featured a pair of very sensitive male strippers.

I'm cringing for her.

"Is Donald Trump a gay man from 1978?" Michael Che wonders

Michael Che is glad that Saturday Night Live didn’t let him do the more brutal version of his April Fool’s Day joke on Colin Jost. “That was a tough one for him to recover from,” Che told Mike Birbiglia on his Working It Out podcast about his 2023 April Fool’s Day joke on his Weekend Update co-host.

O'Connor was joined by musical guest Lily Allen, while next week's final show of 2025 will be headlined by Ariana Grande and Cher.

This weekend's edition of "Saturday Night Live" skewered U.S. President Trump's habit of holding impromptu press conferences on Air Force One.

James Austin Johnson returned as Trump, with cast member Ashley Padilla returning as Leavitt. In reference to the real-life Trump’s public thirsting over Leavitt, Johnson’s Trump told reporters, “Oh, how great is Karoline Leavitt? We love her.”

In the cut-for-time "New Studio," Grande, Vanessa Bayer, and Kenan Thompson play coworkers visiting their former colleague (Season 41 cast member and Stumble actor Taran Killam ) who quit to chase his dream of being a singer.