Pulling double duty as host and musical guest on this week’s Saturday Night Live, Sabrina Carpenter staged a pair of instantly iconic performances in support of her latest album, Man’s Best Friend.
Carpenter first performed “Manchild” on a bedroom-themed set, dressed in SNL-branded pajamas, and singing into a hairbrush like a microphone. Leaning into the song’s tongue-in-cheek spirit — a playful takedown of a man who looks grown but still acts like a boy — she fully embraced the camp, turning the stage into a sleepover fantasy complete with exaggerated choreography, dramatic camera winks, and tongue-in-cheek theatrics that brought the track’s biting humor and empowering message to life. There was even an homage to the Cameron Diaz’s mirror dance scene in Charlie’s Angels.
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Later in the episode, she delivered the live debut of “Nobody’s Son,” complete with choreography inspired by a karate dojo.
Elsewhere during her hosted episode of SNL, she reprised her role in Kelsey’s crew for a new Domino sketch, starred in a horror-themed movie trailer about a couple who suddenly found themselves with plans, interviewed Donald Trump as a host of the Snack Homies podcast, hocked a provocativew neck pillow on QVC, and was Bowen Yang’s date for a school dance. Check out the highlights below.
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Read Kiana Fitzgerald’s review of Man’s Best Friend, which praises Carpenter for continuing “her aversion to one sound, skillfully collecting the gems of different eras and genres and shining them up for 2025.”
Carpenter is set to head out on the latest fall leg of her “Short n’ Sweet Tour” later this month. Tickets can be purchased here.
Manchild sexyyy Sabrina#SabrinaOnSNL #sabrinacarptener pic.twitter.com/SdNJu4udl5
— ❤❤Alicia❤❤ (@alicia201164) October 19, 2025
🚨MEU DEUS! Sabrina Carpenter performando “Nobody’s Son” pela primeira vez no Saturday Night Live. pic.twitter.com/chYxNIdLiC
— Portal Sabrina Brasil (@portalsabrinabr) October 19, 2025
