Saturday Night Live: Sabrina Carpenter aces a silly episode that mostly avoids politics

The star pulls double duty for a week that, sans one Trump appearance, sticks to lighter material from office fart jokes to singing washing machinesIt’s been 50 years, to the day, when Paul Simon hosted and was musical guest of the sophomore episode of then NBC’s fledgling new series, then called NBC’s Saturday Night. So it’s a cosmic twist of televised fate that Simon’s opening duet partner from the much-balleyhooed 50th anniversary special is hosting tonight, the third episode of the 51st season.Aside from her status as a pop hitmaker, Sabrina Carpenter has an acting pedigree. Girl Meets World, anybody? She’s clearly a favorite at 8H: aside from her memorable appearance on the 50th, she served as musical guest for May’s season finale and her song Espresso was the basis for the popular Domingo sketch, also relaunched for the 50th. This time she’s serving double-duty. Let’s see how Ms. Please Please Please meshes with a recently-refreshed cast as the show grappled with a 12-minute late start-time thanks to an overrun football game. Continue reading...

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