Ariana Grande sang a Christmas carol with Ben Stiller and Robert De Niro during an appearance on The Tonight Show on Sunday night.
The trio interrupted Jimmy Fallon’s opening monologue to perform “O Christmas Tree”, after Fallon mentioned that the Rockefeller Centre tree had arrived and that the festive season was approaching. De Niro’s vocals at the end of the performance were dubbed.
Grande, Stiller and De Niro were appearing ahead of the release of their upcoming comedy, Focker-In-Law, in which they play members of a family facing an increasingly chaotic weekend.
Stiller returns as Greg Focker, who remains an anxious helicopter parent to his two adult children. His concerns grow when his son Henry, played by Skyler Gisondo, brings home his new girlfriend Olivia, portrayed by Grande, for the 80th birthday of Greg’s intimidating father-in-law Jack Byrnes, played by De Niro.
Greg becomes suspicious when Olivia is warmly welcomed by the family and Henry announces that he intends to propose. His attempts to uncover what he believes she is hiding fuel a rivalry between the two future in-laws.
During the programme, Grande, Stiller and De Niro also took part in a game of “True Confessions”, challenging one another to decide whether statements about their lives were true.
The cast recreated a scene from the film in which Grande’s character gives Stiller’s character the Heimlich manoeuvre. A piece of steak flies from his mouth and lands in De Niro’s, a moment featured in the film’s trailer.
The actors also appeared in a “Slow Clap Soap Opera” sketch based around a fictional programme called My Family’s Money.
Focker-In-Law, written and directed by John Hamburg, is due to arrive in cinemas on November 25. Teri Polo, Owen Wilson, Blythe Danner, Beanie Feldstein and Eduardo Franco also star.
