So, I’ve at all times identified that Sabrina Carpenter is hilarious. Nevertheless, now, due to her A Nonsense Christmas particular being a part of Netflix’s 2024 releases, a good bigger viewers is about to study this truth. It’s because the undertaking isn’t simply stuffed along with her angelically singing vacation tunes, oh no, it’s chock stuffed with hilarious sketches too. Truthfully, if I realized something watching this 50-minute present it’s that this pop star must host Saturday Evening Dwell as quickly as doable.
After I used my handy-dandy Netflix subscription to tune in for Carpenter’s A Nonsense Christmas, I anticipated it to be humorous. Nevertheless, I didn’t assume it’d be downright hilarious and have so many SNL-like sketches. Even her opening monologue (which got here after a beautiful opening music) was formatted just like the sketch comedy present. Truthfully, it jogged my memory plenty of monologues that performers like Harry Kinds, Ariana Grande, Justin Timberlake and extra have performed throughout one among their internet hosting gigs. Have a look:
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The cheeky lyrics, spot-on comedic timing and, you understand, the wonderful singing made this the proper opening monologue that highlighted Carpenter’s strengths as a performer. It additionally proved in dividends that she’d completely slay as a number on SNL.
Notably, two out of the three credited writers on A Nonsense Christmas – Jimmy Fowlie and Fran Gillespie – have been or are writers on Saturday Evening Dwell. Fowlie is at the moment employed by SNL, and has been there since Season 48. In the meantime, Gillespie was a author on the present for seven seasons (Seasons 41 by way of 47, to be actual). So, it isn’t shocking that this particular had the identical aptitude because the NBC sketch present. Nevertheless, what’s actually spectacular about that is how effortlessly the “Style” singer dedicated to and killed each single sketch.
Plus, SNL alum Kyle Mooney was featured within the particular too, making the connections again to the NBC mainstay even stronger. They performed reverse one another in a hilarious musical sketch the place the pop star sang about how arduous it was to purchase a present for her brother-in-law, and the comic performed stated brother-in-law.
It had me actually laughing out loud, and it jogged my memory of varied musical sketches from SNL, just like the Emma Stone sketch “The Christmas Candle” and “Christmas Morning,” which Mooney was in.
That combined with different comedic bits — just like the girlfriends of Christmas previous, current and future (which starred Nico Hiraga, Quinta Brunson and Cara Delevingne alongside the pop star) and the Santa boyfriend bit with Sean Astin and Shania Twain — actually made the complete particular so genuinely humorous. Total, all of this was executed on the highest high quality, and on the middle of each single second, was Sabrina Carpenter.
Altogether, A Nonsense Christmas featured immaculate musical numbers and sketches, similar to SNL does each week. So, I believe it’s a no brainer that the “Espresso” singer must be introduced on to host and be a musical visitor when Season 50 airs on the 2025 TV schedule (seeing as the ultimate 2024 slots are stuffed).
Between this particular, her look as a musical visitor on Jake Gyllenhaal’s SNL episode throughout Season 49, and her incorporation of the viral Domingo sketch at one among her concert events, she has greater than what it takes to drag double obligation on among the finest sketch comedy reveals of all time.
So, Lorne Michaels, get Sabrina on the telephone, as a result of it’s time for her to host. Within the meantime, I’ll be rewatching A Nonsense Christmas on Netflix and tuning in for the ultimate SNL episodes of 2024 with my Peacock subscription (they’re additionally on NBC) as they air stay from New York each Saturday at 11:30 p.m. ET.