Throughout the continuation of its historic fiftieth season Saturday, NBC sketch comedy present “Saturday Night time Reside” took intention on the UFC.
Harnessing the absurd vocal expertise of visitor host Ariana Grande, a grasp impressionist, a pre-taped business spoof had the singer taking part in one other legendary musician, Canadian singer Celine Dion – of whom Grande does a spot-on impression.
Within the bit, Grande performs Dion doing a promo for UFC 308, which takes place Oct. 26 in Abu Dhabi. She sings components from Dion’s 1996 cowl of “It’s All Coming Again to Me Now,” however modifications the phrases to make them applicable for the octagon.
Whereas swapping out unique verse for issues like “There was breaking of bones, and there have been knees to the balls,” Grande sings over classic UFC highlights. “A lady with the tightest French braids – and the flattest face” is former ladies’s strawweight champion Joanna Jedrzejczyk within the highlights. “An indignant man with a cauliflower ear and a sideways nostril” is Mike Perry. The hush of the group as a 300-pound Bosnian vomits up his personal tooth. That is the UFC.”
The spoof even provides a playful nudge on the UFC’s revoloving-door broadcast sales space and its “dozens of commentators, all bald and within the shiniest of shirts.”
Take a look at the video from Season 50 of “Saturday Night time Reside” above with host Grande. The episode additionally featured musical visitor Stevie Nicks.
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