--- title: Ariana Grande Explains March Madness in Cut SNL Sketch description: The scene features Grande as an office worker who invites her co-workers over to watch a few March Madness games. canonical: https://time.com/4262704/ariana-grande-march-madness-cut-saturday-night-live-sketch/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-03-17T15:32:35.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:30:58.730Z og:title: Watch Ariana Grande Try to Explain March Madness in a Cut SNL Sketch og:description: "You guys know it's a basketball tournament, don't you?" og:url: https://time.com/4262704/ariana-grande-march-madness-cut-saturday-night-live-sketch/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Ariana Grande Try to Explain March Madness in a Cut SNL Sketch twitter:description: "You guys know it's a basketball tournament, don't you?" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch Ariana Grande Try to Explain March Madness in a Cut _SNL_ Sketch  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Mar 17, 2016 3:32 PM UTC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Mar 17, 2016 3:32 PM UTC [Ariana Grande](http://time.com/4255476/ariana-grande-dangerous-woman/) received high praise for her March 12 appearance on [_Saturday Night Live_](http://time.com/4248789/snl-donald-trump-racists-nazi/)_._ The 22-year-old singer wowed audiences with [spot-on impersonations](http://time.com/4256810/ariana-grande-snl-britney-celine-whitney/) of several other celebrities, but one sketch had to be cut from the broadcast for time. **Read More:** [Ariana Grande’s _Saturday Night Live_Performance Was a Triumph](http://time.com/4257737/ariana-grande-saturday-night-live-review/) The scene features Grande as an office worker who invites her co-workers (Kyle Mooney and Beck Bennett) over to watch a few March Madness games, only to find out that they’re hopelessly clueless about the basketball tournament—and social etiquette in general. Watch the full clip above. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4262704/ariana-grande-march-madness-cut-saturday-night-live-sketch/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4262704/ariana-grande-march-madness-cut-saturday-night-live-sketch/"},"headline":"Watch Ariana Grande Try to Explain March Madness in a Cut SNL Sketch","datePublished":"2016-03-17T15:32:35.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:30:58.730Z","description":"\"You guys know it's a basketball tournament, don't you?\"","url":"https://time.com/4262704/ariana-grande-march-madness-cut-saturday-night-live-sketch/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","SNL","Saturday Night Live","TV","Ariana Grande"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4262704/ariana-grande-march-madness-cut-saturday-night-live-sketch/","name":"Watch Ariana Grande Try to Explain March Madness in a Cut SNL Sketch"}}]}] ```