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Sabrina Carpenter sparked a stir on SNL’s Oct. 18 episode, singing “Nobody’s Song” without bleeping the line “He sure fucked me up” twice. The expletives aired uncensored on NBC’s East Coast and Peacock after an apparent miscommunication with censors; some West Coast viewers heard silence on delay. Carpenter, serving as both host and musical guest, also performed “Manchild” amid a martial-arts staging. Her on-air swearing follows a VMAs acceptance speech with similar language and joins a long SNL history of live profanity. Separately in the last week, President Donald J. Trump used the F-word during a news conference.

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