Bowen Yang Present on ‘SNL’ Hosted by Sabrina Carpenter Despite Missing Live Taping

Bowen Yang was still featured on Saturday evening live on several occasions despite not having the live taping of the late-night sketch show.

Earlier today, Deadline reported that Yang would miss SNL this evening when he was to receive the Vantage Award at the Academy Museum gala in Los Angeles.

The first mention of Yang on the Lorne Michaels-produced show came during Sabrina Carpenter’s monologue.

The “Please Please Please” singer addressed the controversy surrounding her album cover, which features her kneeling in front of a man holding her by the hair. Carpenter joked that the man standing in front of her was actually Yang, showing him in a blown-up version of the album cover of Man’s Best Friend.

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Yang’s biggest role on this week’s show SNL was during a pre-recorded sketch for the “Middle School Lovin'” music video. In the pop video, Yang and Carpenter play middle schoolers going to a school-sponsored dance where they “break the rules” and “clash with each other.”

“You know girl, it’s finally time. I see you looking at me at school. It’s on both of our minds, and I feel grown up, twelve sprays of my dad’s cologne,” Yang sings in the pop video.

As the duo arrive at school, they sing: “We’re breaking the rules and I know it’s wrong, but it’s so right. We’re thirteen, but tonight’s the night – we’re going to work.”

Watch the full clip above.