Sabrina Carpenter Parodies ‘Sex and the City’ in ‘SNL’ Promo

Big is moving to Paris, and Sabrina Carpenter is moving to 30 Rock. In the latest promo for her upcoming double duty appearance on Saturday Night Live on Oct. 18, the pop star steps into Carrie Bradshaw’s Manolo Blahniks to parody Sex and the City.

“Sabrina, what are you up to?” new cast member Tommy Brennan asks in greeting, to which Carpenter responds, “In these heels? Probably, like, five four.” She greets Marcello Hernandez as “Mr. Big” and silently hands him her Cosmopolitan when he tries to remind her of his actual name. Honestly, it would have benefited Big and Bradshaw both if she had taken every chance she got to humble him like that.

“The woman wondered what she’d gotten herself into,” Carpenter narrates as she types away at a laptop that isn’t actually turned on. “Having won over the cast and crew, the only thing left to do was—” We don’t get to hear the end of her inner monologue, but maybe we’ll get some answers in her actual opening monologue on Saturday night.

In February, Carpenter opened the SNL50 anniversary special with a duet of “Homeward Bound” with Paul Simon. That same night, she guest-starred in a sketch that brought back Marcello Hernandez’s viral character Domingo and introduced his two brothers: Pedro Pascal’s Ronaldo and Bad Bunny’s Santiago.

Carpenter made her SNL debut last year on an episode hosted by Jake Gyllenhaal. She performed her hit single “Espresso,” then mashed up “Nonsense” and “Feather” from her 2022 album Emails I Can’t Send. Since then, she’s released two more records, Short n’ Sweet and Man’s Best Friend.

“I’ve really just been making things, excited about them, and then continuing forth,” Carpenter told Rolling Stone earlier this year. “Not to be dramatic, but what can I do while my legs still work? I’m limber, let’s use it. My brain is sharp, let’s write. I try not to get sad about the fact that nothing lasts forever, but genuinely, it’s such a beautiful time right now. I want to soak it up and keep making things while I’m feeling this way.”