Sabrina Carpenter Jokes About ‘Man’s Best Friend’ Cover in Raunchy ‘SNL’ Monologue: Watch

Sabrina Carpenter leaned into her provocative representation portion pulling treble work arsenic big and philharmonic impermanent connected Saturday Night Live.

During her opening monologue connected Saturday (Oct. 18), the 26-year-old popular prima addressed the buzz astir the cover of her latest album, Man’s Best Friend, which shows her connected each fours with an unseen idiosyncratic tugging her hair.

“Last clip I was here, for the 50th anniversary, I got to sing with Paul Simon, and since past my caller medium Man’s Best Friend came out,” Carpenter told the audience. “Some radical got a small freaked retired by the cover. I’m not definite why. It’s conscionable this.”

The “Manchild” vocalist past pulled up an representation of the arguable screen connected the screen, revealing a fewer added images to springiness it afloat context.

“But what radical don’t recognize it’s conscionable however they cropped it,” she joked.” If you zoom out, it’s intelligibly a representation of maine astatine the 50th day peculiar of Bowen [Yang] helping maine up by the hair. After Martin Short shoved maine retired of the buffet line, saying thing like, ‘Daddy request his mini-quiche.”

Carpenter went connected to “clear up immoderate misconceptions” astir her nationalist image.

“Everyone thinks of maine arsenic this, like, horndog popular star, but there’s truly truthful overmuch much to me,” she said. “I’m not conscionable horny. I’m besides turned connected and I’m sexually charged. And I emotion to read. My favourite publication is the encyclopedia. It’s truthful large and it’s hard…”

She past turned to the audience, attempting to amusement “there is simply a existent idiosyncratic underneath each the sparkles and the wigs and the corsets.” Staying on-brand, she followed with a tradition from her concerts, vowing to apprehension idiosyncratic “hot” from the audience.

Before she could, SNL seasoned Kenan Thompson rushed the signifier arsenic faux constabulary lights flashed, placing Carpenter nether apprehension with a brace of fuzzy pinkish handcuffs.

“For being hot?” Carpenter asked. “No,” Thompson replied. “For falsely impersonating an serviceman 200 times astatine your concerts. You’re arresting guiltless blistery people.”

He past joked helium was truly determination to get a cameo video for his niece, until Carpenter, without missing a beat, demanded $200,000 for it.

In summation to the monologue and a drawstring of sketches, Carpenter besides performed her songs “Manchild” and “Nobody’s Son” during the...