During the continuation of its historic 50th season Saturday, NBC sketch comedy show “Saturday Night Live” took aim at the UFC.
Harnessing the absurd vocal talent of guest host Ariana Grande, a master impressionist, a pre-taped commercial spoof had the singer playing another legendary musician, Canadian singer Celine Dion – of whom Grande does a spot-on impression.
In the bit, Grande plays Dion doing a promo for UFC 308, which takes place Oct. 26 in Abu Dhabi. She sings parts from Dion’s 1996 cover of “It’s All Coming Back to Me Now,” but changes the words to make them appropriate for the octagon.
While swapping out original verse for things like “There was breaking of bones, and there were knees to the balls,” Grande sings over vintage UFC highlights. “A woman with the tightest French braids – and the flattest face” is former women’s strawweight champion Joanna Jedrzejczyk in the highlights. “An angry man with a cauliflower ear and a sideways nose” is Mike Perry. The hush of the crowd as a 300-pound Bosnian vomits up his own teeth. This is the UFC.”
The spoof even gives a playful nudge at the UFC’s revoloving-door broadcast booth and its “dozens of commentators, all bald and in the shiniest of shirts.”
Keith hackney scrambling Joe Sons eggs at the end was the icing on the cake
lol @ the commentary team “all bald”
and in the shiniest of shirts. lol.
That was really well done.
War Perry!
I never realized Celine Dion had a French Canadian accent.
Mike perry got to be on SNL.
I love this sport
Joe Son was sitting on the plane seat in front of me on the way back from UFC 4. He said the nut shots didn’t hurt at all.
lol yeah it was really good, even had some old school UFC fights in there
Because he has a tiny dick, none of the shots actually hit it
That was a great promo
lol that’s the first thing I thought of when he said it. But IIRC, he said he had a steel cup. Maybe that was enough to blunt punches to the nuts but not a kick.
Damn steel cups!