For the eagle-eyed Saturday Night Live observer, the news that Sabrina Carpenter would be pulling double duty as host and musical guest this season was unsurprising. Though last night’s episode was Carpenter’s first outing as host, the singer has been popping up with Jon Hamm-level frequency in one form or another throughout the SNL universe for the past year. Most notably, she appeared in the sequel to the insanely viral “Domingo” sketch (the original, starring fellow triple threat Ariana Grande , used Carpenter’s smash hit Espresso) alongside Pedro Pascal for SNL ’s 50th anniversary special. And okay, sure, there were a million and one cameos during SNL50 , and Carpenter was already there to sing a duet with Paul Simon , so we won’t count that one.

But then there she is

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