Sabrina Carpenter, host and musical guest on this week’s “Saturday Night Live,” poked fun at her racy image in a monologue, hinting that she wants to be known for more than just being sexually provocative, and joking that, of course, she’s truly one-sided.
“Now that I’m here, I want to clear up some misconceptions that people have about me,” Carpenter said. “People think of me as some kind of horndog pop star, but I’m actually so much more than that. I’m not just horny. I’m horny and sexually aroused. I also love reading. My favorite book is an encyclopedia. It’s so big and so hard…”
The pop star showed off the cover photo of her recent controversial album ‘Man’s Best Friend’. “Some people were a little surprised when they saw the cover. I don’t know why,” she says. “It was just me on all fours and someone invisible pulling my hair. But what people don’t realize is that that’s just them cutting it off. When you zoom out, it’s clearly a photo from the 50th anniversary special of Bowen (Yang) grabbing me by the hair and helping me out…” The image zoomed out further: “…after Martin Short pushed me out of the buffet line.”
In any case, Carpenter asserted, “Underneath all the glitter, wigs, and corsets, there’s a real human being. And another thing you might not know about me is that I love interacting with the audience during the show.” She blended into the crowd and interacted with a young man who introduced himself as Will from Maryland. Naturally, both of them fell in love with her. “Oh, what a sexy and unusual place. You know, I love talking to normal people. It’s so fascinating when they’re as real as you.”
But when she asks an audience member what he does for a living and he replies, “Venture capital,” she quickly moves on.
“The last thing I want to do at a concert is arrest someone just because they’re good-looking. So who can we arrest here tonight?” Kenan Thompson came out with pink handcuffs and said he wasn’t arresting her for the heat, but “for impersonating a police officer 200 times at the concert.”
Ms. Thompson said she had actually come to get her daughter a cameo role, but that Ms. Carpenter “just told me it would cost $200,000.” While Thompson moved on, she told him, “If you want anyone else, find me on Venmo.”
The monologue followed an opening sketch of Domingo in which Carpenter described a bachelorette-style trip to Nashville as one of several women at a birthday party, singing parody versions of Taylor Swift’s “Ophelia’s Destiny” and Lady Gaga’s “Abracadabra.”
