Domingo Returns to ‘SNL’ as Sabrina Carpenter Parodies Taylor Swift’s ‘The Fate of Ophelia’: Watch

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The vocalist besides performed her Man's Best Friend tracks "Manchild" and "Nobody's Son" during the Oct. 18 episode.

"Domingo Cold Open" connected  "SNL"

Sabrina Carpenter appears successful "Domingo Cold Open" sketch during "Saturday Night Live" connected October 18, 2025. Courtesy Photo

Domingo is back!

During the acold unfastened of Saturday Night Live‘s Oct. 18 episode, Marcello Hernandez reprised his recurring relation arsenic Domingo successful a philharmonic skit alongside big and philharmonic impermanent Sabrina Carpenter.

In the six-minute sketch, titled “Domingo Cold Open,” Chloe Fineman’s quality Kelsey throws a day enactment for her hubby Matthew (played by Andrew Dismukes). To celebrate, she enlists her miss squad to execute a astonishment philharmonic number, implicit with modern popular parodies, astir a caller Nashville travel to bargain his gift.

Things rapidly unravel erstwhile Kelsey’s friends — played by Carpenter, Sarah Sherman, Ashley Padilla and Veronika Slowikowska — motorboat into parodies of Taylor Swift’s “The Fate of Ophelia” and Lady Gaga’s “Abracadabra,” revealing that Kelsey spent a nighttime with Domingo during the trip.

Hernandez’s Domingo past makes a melodramatic entranceway to profess his emotion for Kelsey, acceptable to Alex Warren’s “Ordinary,” which topped the Billboard Hot 100 for 10 weeks earlier this summer.

Domingo debuted successful an October 2024 occurrence hosted by Ariana Grande, wherever Carpenter’s deed “Espresso” was featured successful a sketch revealing that Kelsey had cheated connected her fiancé with the character. He returned successful a sequel featuring Charli XCX parodying Chappell Roan’s “Hot to Go!” and again during SNL50, with Carpenter spoofing “Defying Gravity” from Wicked.

Carpenter appeared passim Saturday’s occurrence successful aggregate sketches and besides performed 2 songs from her Man’s Best Friend album: “Manchild” and “Nobody’s Son.”

SNL volition instrumentality a little hiatus and instrumentality Nov. 1 with big Miles Teller and philharmonic impermanent Brandi Carlile. Upcoming episodes see Nikki Glaser with Sombr connected Nov. 8, and Glen Powell hosting for the archetypal clip connected Nov. 15, joined by philharmonic impermanent Olivia Dean.

Watch SNL‘s “Domingo Cold Open” sketch below.