Saturday Night Live · season 51, episode 991 · Saturday, October 18, 2025 Host: Sabrina Carpenter. Musical guest: Sabrina Carpenter. • Sabrina Carpenter performs "Manchild" and "Nobody's Son". • Kenan Thompson introduces Carpenter's first performance, with Chloe Fineman introducing the second. • During "Nobody's Son", Carpenter swore twice, which aired uncensored on the East Coast live broadcast. It was censored in the form of audio dropouts for the West Coast broadcast, post-broadcast distribution online, as well as in airings internationally. • Writers Martin Herlihy and Jo Sunday appear in the pre-recorded "Social Experiment" sketch. • Bowen Yang was absent from live sketches this episode due to accepting the Academy Museum's Vantage Award in Los Angeles; Yang helped write the episode, was credited in the opening montage, and appears in the pre-recorded "Grind Song" sketch and in a photograph during the opening monologue. • Due to the USC v. Notre Dame football game running overtime, this episode's start was delayed by 13 minutes. Wiki link