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Sabrina Carpenter dazzled Saturday Night Live viewers with a “hilarious” lyric change to one of her most popular songs. The “Espresso” singer featured as the musical guest on the series 49 finale of the sketch show on Saturday (18 May), while Jake Gyllenhaal was the lead guest host. As well as appearing in a sketch as Scooby-Doo character Daphne, Carpenter, 25, performed twice – her current summery hit “Espresso”, and a mashup of her tracks “Feather” and “Nonsense”.

In the final moments of “Nonsense”, a song about intense infatuation at the beginning of a relationship, Carpenter added some extra spoken lines in honour of her SNL debut. Looking into the camera, Carpenter said: “He is 30 Rock hard ‘cause I said hi. My sense of humour is, but I am not dry.



SNL I just came for the first time.” Usually, she ends the song after singing: “This song catchier than chickenpox is / I bet your house is where my other sock is / Woke up this morning, thought I’d write a pop hit / How quickly can you take your clothes off, pop quiz?” Soon after the performance aired, fans and viewers turned to social media to discuss the singer’s double entendre in her word changes – for one, “30 Rock” refers to the address of SNL ’s studio. “She’s hilarious, she ate that,” wrote one fan on X, while another added: “She is hilarious!! I love her!!!” Not everyone was impressed with the singer’s creativity, however; one social media user remarked: “.

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