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Ariana Grande Schools Fallon on Oz Lore With ‘Wicked Witch of the East, Bro’ Meme Lip-Sync

Ariana Grande and Jimmy Fallon did a hilarious lip-sync recreation of the 'Wicked Witch of the East, Bro' viral video before 'The Tonight Show.'

Ariana Grande ‘s appearance on The Tonight Show got off to a rocky start backstage, when she and host Jimmy Fallon found themselves in a heated argument about… the taxonomy of witches in the extended Oz universe. Grande took the lead in the recreation, capturing the exasperation and hitting all the right gestures as she got up in Fallon’s face and spat back, “She wore a crown and she came down in a bubble, Doug. Grande spoke about learning she’d been cast in the film, playing Dorothy in a local theater production of Wizard of Oz as a kid, and how she cold-called SNL ’s Lorne Michaels as part of her effort to get Bowen Yang involved as Pfannee (this prompted Grande to indulge the time-honored comedy tradition of impersonating Lorne Michaels).

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