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The 10 Best Musical ‘Saturday Night Live’ Opening Monologues
In 'Saturday Night Live' history, these have been the best musical monologues from Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande and more.
Lin-Manuel Miranda gives his Hamilton banger “My Shot” a Saturday Night Live remix in his opening monologue, starting out solo on stage before leading a parade of backup dancers into the audience and backstage as he raps about the 2016 presidential election — which at that point was exactly one month away. “A lot of kid stars end up doing drugs or in jail or pregnant, or get caught licking a donut they didn’t pay for … I’ve learned that it’s really time to grow up,” she tells the crowd before fantasizing about her desired “real adult scandal” in a jazzy musical number complete with backup dancers and hilarious interjections from Heidi Gardner and Pete Davidson. Taking the stage armed with her guitar, the singer expertly makes fun of her own breakup from Joe Jonas, her passion for “writing songs about douchebags who cheat” on her and Kanye West crashing her VMAs acceptance speech two months prior.
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