Talking Bowen Yang, Ariana Grande and Ashley Padilla with the ‘Not Ready for Primetime SNL Podcast’

I joined Mike Ryan and Ryan McGee to break down the final episode for Yang and 2025.

Bill Kuchman Dec 21, 2025

Talking Bowen Yang, Ariana Grande and Ashley Padilla with the ‘Not Ready for Primetime SNL Podcast’ — **Kenan Thompson** and **Bowen Yang** on *SNL*. / NBC

Mike Ryan and Ryan McGee were kind enough to invite onto today’s episode of their Not Ready for Primetime SNL Podcast to discuss Ariana Grande hosting what turns out was Bowen Yang’s final episode. No surprise that we also talked about Ashley Padilla.

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