Sabrina Carpenter Teases Tonight’s ‘SNL’ in Behind-the-Scenes Photos

With conscionable hours to spell until Sabrina Carpenter takes implicit SNL, the vocalist reminded fans to tune with an Instagram station afloat of backstage snapshots.

“TONIGHT,” Carpenter captioned her photograph post, tagging @nbcsnl and topping it disconnected with a reddish lips emoji.

The pics springiness viewers a glimpse astatine her dressing country and outfit options. There’s besides a peek astatine what looks to beryllium a array work oregon penning session, and astatine the existent cue paper that was utilized filming this week’s promo spot — each astatine SNL‘s 30 Rock office successful New York City.

Saturday nighttime (Oct. 18) marks Carpenter’s archetypal clip hosting SNL, and her instrumentality arsenic philharmonic guest. The “Manchild” hitmaker performed during a May 2024 occurrence and was featured connected February 2025’s SNL50 special, for which she sang a duet with Paul Simon and co-starred successful 1 of Marcello Hernandez’s “Domingo” sketches. (She’d already had a run-in with Domingo astatine 1 of her concerts connected the Short n’ Sweet Tour, during her “Juno” bit; helium was the assemblage subordinate arrested for being excessively blistery astatine a Los Angeles stop.)

With a inheritance successful sitcoms, plentifulness of acquisition connected the unrecorded signifier and a knack for penning punchy opus lyrics, Carpenter is primed to fto her comedic broadside radiance Saturday night.

As philharmonic impermanent she’s promoting her latest album, Man’s Best Friend, which made its debut astatine No. 1 connected the Billboard 200 successful August.

Scroll done Carpenter’s Instagram snapshots from her SNL rehearsal week below.