Bowen Yang Apologizes To Ariana Grande For Going Too Far During Their ‘SNL’ Kiss: “I Opened My Mouth Up Too Much”

Published Nov. 7, 2024, 12:28 p.m. ET

Bowen Yang isn’t conscionable kissing and telling, he’s kissing and apologizing.

The Saturday Night Live prima and his Las Culturistas podcast co-host Matt Rogers welcomed Ariana Grande connected Wednesday’s (Nov. 6) episode, and took a infinitesimal to rumor an apology successful personification for really he smooched her during her Oct. 12 hosting appearance, per Deadline.

The sketch, titled “Charades pinch Mom,” followed nan visiting his boyfriend’s (Michael Longfellow) home, wherever he was successful for an aggravated crippled nighttime pinch his boyfriend’s highly competitory mother (Grande). The spot ended pinch Grande and nan locking lips.

“I opened my rima up excessively overmuch erstwhile we kissed connected SNL,” nan told nan “7 Rings” songstress.

Grande teased that he “absolutely did” and “was shaking pinch laughter.”

“No, no, no, not successful a bad way!” she insisted. “Not successful a bad measurement — conscionable successful a disarming way.”

Yang confessed, “I kissed you excessively much.”

Nonetheless, Grande assured Yang, “that’s okay.”

“No, we were really dropped in,” she continued. “We were dropped successful and it felt for illustration what these group needed astatine that time. It felt for illustration what these characters required. And I’m each for it.”

The 2 revealed that “there was not a buss originally” successful nan sketch, and that it was nan consequence of a thought Grande had during rehearsal. However, she claimed that she “didn’t opportunity anything” because she was worried group would deliberation she’s “absolutely insane and excessively comfortable.”

“But I was like, ‘Oh, really funny would it beryllium if we kissed astatine nan end?'” she added.

It turns retired nan 2 Wicked actors were connected nan aforesaid page, arsenic nan texted her “a fewer hours later” pinch nan thought to wrap nan sketch pinch a kiss. They shared that they did successful truth buss during nan dress rehearsal. While Grande quipped that Yang’s rima was “absolutely excessively open,” she clarified that she was “kidding.”

She yet admitted that she was “shaking giggling” and that she “broke” during nan sketch. nan praised her hosting gig arsenic a “top-tier, A+, all-time cleanable episode.”