Ariana Grande is hosting “SNL” for the first time since the last female presidential candidate.

Ariana Grande took to the New York 30 Rock stage as host for the third time on Saturday Night Live and found herself in familiar circumstances.

“The last time I hosted was in 2016, and we were about to elect our first female president,” the 31-year-old singer and actress said in her monologue. “So I guess the second time’s the charm?”

Grande, who first hosted in 2014, did so for the first time without also appearing as a musical guest – a role that fell to Stevie Nicks – and promised not to sing before starting a song.

The theme continued as she vowed during the song not to do her signature impressions of Britney Spears, Miley Cyrus and Gwen Stefani, before throwing out something from each. Later in the show, she would do a much longer version of Celine Dion in a sketch.

Grande hosted promotions for her movie musical “Wicked,” the prequel to “The Wizard of Oz,” due out next month.

She said playing the good witch Glinda in the film was the dream of every theater kid like her after she “lost her virginity.”

Grande’s episode comes amid a ratings surge for the sketch institution, likely due to season 50 and election season. Last month’s season premiere drew the most viewers since 2020.

Just like in the first two episodes of the new season, Maya Rudolph played Vice President Kamala Harris in the evening’s cold open, leading a group of former cast members who returned as guest stars, including Andy Samberg as Harris’ husband Doug Emhoff and Dana Carvey as President Joe Biden.

They teamed up for an election edition of “The Family Feud” and took on Team Trump.

Kenan Thompson, the longest-serving cast member in the show’s history, which began in 2003, reprized his longtime role as “Feud” host Steve Harvey and asked Rudolph-as-Harris about her recent media attack.

“It’s been a hell of a week,” she said. “I went to Howard Stern for the horny cab drivers, I went to The View for the horny moms, and I also went to the Call Her Daddy podcast.” Because I have a message for young women: They have to go Go to the ballot box if you want the government out of your ballot box.”

Current cast member James Austin Johnson returned as Donald Trump and said his opponent “will be terrible in this game. She is a person with a very low IQ. The whole world laughs at her because they have no respect for her.”

Nicks, 76, was a musical guest on “SNL” for the first time in more than 40 years. She opened with her brand new single “The Lighthouse,” but the look of the performance was classic Stevie, with an abundance of rings and scarves and the singer clad in black. For her second song, she went back to 1981’s “Edge of Seventeen.”

Michael Keaton will host next week with musical guest Billie Eilish. John Mulaney and Chappell Roan are scheduled to perform the following Saturday.

The start of Season 50 has already provoked reflection and nostalgia in many ways, including “Saturday Night,” a comedy film that dramatizes the minutes before the Lorne Michaels-led sketch institution’s first episode on October 11, 1975.

A three-hour primetime special on February 16th will serve as an official celebration of the 50th season start.