Friday, June 12, 2026
Donate
Television

SNL: Cher Lip Syncs First Song But Makes a Great Recovery with Second, Bowen Yang Says Goodbye, Ariana Grande Is Amazing (Clips)

By Roger Friedman

Share

★ Make Showbiz411 your Preferred Source on Google

Tonight’s “SNL”:

Cher, hotly anticipated, looked fantastic but lip sync’ed her first song tonight. It was the dreadful Christmas song she put out last year called “DJ: Play a Christmas Song.’ The lip sync’ing was very obvious and embarrassing.

And yet, she returned with a hot take on Chuck Berry’s “Run Rudolph Run.” The band was sizzling, and you could tell Cher was live and having fun.

Bowen Yang signed off after 8 seasons with a couple of poignant moments. His exit was planned, and announced last summer. This was not a surprise.

Still painfully thin, Ariana Grande proved to be a good sport of a host. She sang live, a lot, through many sketches. If her next album could have real music and no rap, hip hop, or yodeling, she’ll finally get her Grammy award.

James Austin Johnson’s parody of Trump’s psychotic speech this week was note perfect. Michael Che making Colin Jost tell jokes he hadn’t seen before was hilarious.

The Elf sketch was destroyed by the weird vocal thing. Couldn’t bear listening to it.

Donate to Showbiz411.com

Showbiz411 is now in its 13th year of providing breaking and exclusive entertainment news. This is an independent site, unlike the many Hollywood trades that are owned by one company. To continue providing news that takes a fresh look at what's going on in movies, music, theater, etc, advertising is our basis. Reader donations would be greatly appreciated, too. They are just another facet of keeping fact based journalism alive.
Thank you


Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009, where he covered Michael Jackson, and previously wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine in the mid-1990s, where he covered the O.J. Simpson trial. He also edited Fame magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

Read more

In Other News

Hollywood to the Hudson

Company

Trending

Categories

© Showbiz411.com