Move over, Beavis and Butt-Head, Domingo is coming for your crown.
Saturday Night Live’s “Bridesmaid Speech” sketch has been viewed over 150 million times across NBC’s social platforms since it first aired on October 12.
The sketch, which starred host Ariana Grande alongside SNL cast members Heidi Gardner, Ego Nwodim, and Sarah Sherman as a group of bridesmaids who sing a (very off-key) song parody of Sabrina Carpenter’s “Espresso” about a wild night out has been a surprise hit for the show and even its bit players.
As we recently reported, Marcello Hernandez, who only appears in the last thirty seconds of the sketch as Domingo–the subject of the bridesmaids’ song–has been forced to deliver his lines from the sketch as part of his stand-up act.
“Let’s make a deal,” Hernandez told an audience at the University of Minnesota last Friday. “We do it one time and then we put our phones down and you let me tell you the jokes that I wrote for you.”
Appearing on The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon Thursday, Sarah Sherman credited Grande with the sketch’s success. “It was so funny,” she told Fallon. “The writers–Jimmy Fowlie, Ceara O’Sullivan, Sudi Green and Allie Levitan–they wrote the sketch, everyone’s laughing, we’re loving it, whatever. Then when Ariana Grande did bad singing at [the] blocking rehearsal, everyone was like, ‘Ohhhhh this is FUNNY.”
Grande would appear to have the magic touch when it comes to Saturday Night Live. Her October 12th episode drew the show’s largest live-plus-same-day audience overall since May 8, 2021 (when Elon Musk hosted with musical guest Miley Cyrus).
SNL returns this weekend with host John Mulaney and musical guest Chappell Roan.
