Prince and Chris Rock Triumph on SNL

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Saturday Night Live was poised to deliver a winning show last night, with Chris Rock returning as host and Prince appearing as the musical guest.

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And the stars delivered the goods. Prince performed four new songs during a sublime eight-minute jam. Rock joked about everything from ISIS, the Boston Marathon bombing and even the Freedom Tower and the 9/11 attacks, the Daily Mail reports.

Prince and his band 3rdEyeGirl began with a slow, soulful funk of upcoming single โ€œClouds.โ€ Prince, sporting a new Afro, was decked in eye-catching three-lens sunglasses. Most vocals were performed by British singer Lianna La Havas, the co-star on the single.

The performance ended with rousing applause from the audience and Prince bowing from โ€œbehind his symboled-microphone stand, raising his hands to his face in thanks,โ€ the report says.

He disappeared by the time Rock appeared onstage to thank everyone at the end of the show, the report says. Rockโ€™s sketches were relatively funny and low-key, but his opening monologue raised a lot of brows. He joked about the commercialization of Jesusโ€™ birthday and said he would never set foot in the Freedom Tower, which was built on the site of the destroyed World Trade Center.

โ€œYesterday was Halloween, tomorrowโ€™s the New York City Marathon โ€ฆ yeah, scaryโ€”what could go wrong there, right?โ€ he said. โ€œItโ€™ll be all rightโ€”New Yorkโ€™s gonna be fine, just like Bostonโ€™s fine after the marathon.โ€

Here is Rockโ€™s ISIS sketch:

Read more at the Daily Mail.

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