Ariana Grande reacts to Bowen Yang’s tearful “SNL” exit: ‘I really like you greater than phrases can say’

Ariana Grande is unhappy to see Bowen Yang leaving Saturday Night Live like the remainder of us.

The pop mainstay has these days struck up a detailed friendship along with her Depraved costar, who confirmed earlier than Saturday's new episode of the long-running sketch comedy sequence that after six and a half seasons, he's departing for greener pastures.

Grande fittingly hosted the episode in a diva-off with musical visitor Cher, each of whom shared the stage with Yang in his final on-air sketch in the primary forged. However it wasn't sufficient: on Sunday morning, she posted a heartfelt tribute to the comic on her Instagram Tales, writing, "I really like you greater than phrases can say and i’m simply so very happy with you and the entire eggnog you've made over time."

Grande authored her tribute over a clip of that last sketch, by which Yang, Grande, and Cher referred to as upon the powers of comedy and track to shut out his memorable tenure.

"It meant greater than phrases can say to have been there in your ship off final evening," Grande continued in her tribute. "Comfortable trails my good and delightful good friend."

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"Delta Lounge" forged Yang in the kind of function acquainted to followers of his work on SNL — a sardonic, barely jaded man slinging eggnog (and zippy one-liners) in a Delta Airways airport lounge. Grande performed his sweet-as-apple-pie spouse, and Cher his boss, who unite on the lounge on Yang's character's tearful final day, after he's already issued some meta goodbyes to passengers performed by Kenan Thompson and Jane Wickline.

"It's unhappy. I'm gonna miss every little thing about this place. The best way it smells, the celebrities who would come by way of," Yang somberly famous between snippets of a duet with Grande.

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Grande is quick turning into an SNL favourite, having appeared twice on the present final 12 months (as soon as as a musical visitor, as soon as because the host), with a further internet hosting look in 2014 and a musical guesting spot in 2016.

Yang, in the meantime, leaves SNL amid a wave of beloved forged member exits. First got here Heidi Gardner, who introduced her departure in August after eight seasons, after which got here Ego Nwodim, who broke the information she's leaving the next month after a seven-season tenure.

"I'm grateful for each minute of my time there," Yang mentioned of his resolution to depart on Saturday. "I discovered about myself (dangerous with wigs). I discovered about others (beneficiant, weak, scorching). I discovered that human error could be nothing however appropriate. I discovered that comedy is usually logistics and that it’ll normally fail till it doesn't, which is the besssst."

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