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

“The last time I hosted was in 2016, and we were right on the verge of electing our first female president,” the singer and actor said in her monologue. “So, I guess, second time’s the charm?”

Grande, who first hosted in 2014, was doing it for the first time without also serving as musical guest and promised not to sing, before breaking into a song. The theme continued as she vowed during the tune not to do her signature impressions of Britney Spears, Miley Cyrus and Gwen Stefani, before throwing out a bit of each. She would do a much longer version of Celine Dion in a later sketch.

Grande hosted in promotion of her movie musical “Wicked,” the “Wizard of Oz” prequel set to be released next month.

She said playing the good witch Glinda is the dream of every theater kid like her, after “losing their virginity.”

Stevie Nicks was the “SNL” musical guest for the first time in more than 40 years. She opened with her brand new single, “The Lighthouse,” and for her second song, she reached back with “Edge of Seventeen” from 1981.

Crystal, Lee honored as SuperFans: Honored for his devotion to a basketball team that doesn’t have a Hall of Fame history, Billy Crystal couldn’t help but note the irony.

“How strange to be getting a ring before any of the Clippers,” he said.

The actor is being added to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame’s James F. Goldstein SuperFan Gallery and took part in a ceremony Sunday along with filmmaker Spike Lee. Longtime Lakers fan Jack Nicholson is also being added but was not able to attend.

Their time as basketball fans goes back more than five decades. Lee was in the arena when the Knicks won their first championship in 1970, and Crystal started out as a Knicks fan but went to Lakers games when he moved across the country, before someone recommended he check out a Clippers game.

But he enjoyed it and has remained with them ever since. Lee has had Knicks season tickets since 1985, though it took a while to get to the prime real estate he occupies now.

“Every film I moved down,” Lee said.

‘Terrifier’ slashes box office: The choices on the movie marquee this weekend included Joaquin Phoenix as the Joker, a film about Donald Trump, a “Saturday Night Live” origin story and even Pharrell Williams as a Lego. In the end, all were trounced by an ax-wielding clown.

“Terrifier 3,” a gory, low-budget slasher about the murderous Art the Clown from Cineverse, topped the weekend box office with $18.3 million, according to estimates Sunday.

“Joker: Folie à Deux” brought in $7.1 million in its second week while “Saturday Night” earned $3.4 million in expanding nationwide. In their opening weekends, “Piece by Piece” earned $3.8 million, and “The Apprentice” managed $1.6 million.

Oct. 15 birthdays: Actor Linda Lavin is 87. Actor Victor Banerjee is 78. Musician Richard Carpenter is 78. Actor Larry Miller is 71. TV chef Emeril Lagasse is 65. Actor Vanessa Marcil is 56. Actor Dominic West is 55. Singer Ginuwine is 54. Singer Keyshia Cole is 43. Actor Vincent Martella is 32. Actor Bailee Madison is 25.