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What Will Happen When Blake Shelton Hosts Saturday Night Live?
Will someone successfully talk him out of a pro-American Sniper monologue/tirade?
Before delivering his State Of The Union address, President Obama (Jay Pharoah) tells Joe Biden (Taran Killam) the "I won two of them" zinger he plans to add to his speech, whereupon Biden starts pitching alt lines Obama could use instead, which grow increasingly inappropriate and inflammatory.
Host Blake Shelton expresses nervousness that he's exposing himself to judgment in an area -- comedy -- where he may not excel, while the camera cuts between him and, seated in enormous red chairs turned away from him in the front row of the audience, cast members Leslie Jones, Vanessa Bayer, and Bobby Moynihan listen and ponder turning around to give him a positive critique.
Bill Gates (Kyle Mooney) tries to sell his human-waste-into-potable-water machine with the fervor of shills touting the Vitamix.
A business executive (Beck Bennett) with the body of a baby poses an extraordinary challenge to a salesman (Shelton) at a high-end men's clothing store.
A rancher (Shelton) proudly describes his operation -- which, as slowly becomes clear, is a free-range squirrel ranch better known as Central Park.
On her talk show, Ellen DeGeneres (Kate McKinnon) speaks to the artificial baby from American Sniper (voice of Pete Davidson) about its upcoming projects.
A friendly and optimistic southerner (Shelton) tries to get a foothold in trendy Brooklyn with his cheese grits food truck.
Three tween girls (Cecily Strong, Bayer, and Sasheer Zamata) at CVS dare each other to shoplift ever-larger items, culminating in a challenge to walk out with a humidifier.
Blake Shelton performs (with his band).
Joni Ernst (McKinnon) stops by to talk up all the other uses her mother had for bread bags during Joni's hardscrabble Iowa childhood; Jay Z (Pharoah) delivers a stinging rap in response to Mike Huckabee's recent criticism of Jay's wife, Beyoncé (Zamata), who crashes the performance with a couple of choice verses of her own.
At Downton Abbey, Lord Grantham (Moynihan) is appalled by the gauche manners of a boisterous American cousin (Shelton) of his wife Cora (Strong).
Three techs at an animal hospital (McKinnon, Strong, and Shelton) insensitively deliver invariably bad news to pet owners.
Blake Shelton performs (with his band).
Cyclists keep smiles pasted on while they wobble along on Bill Belichick's Signature (half-inflated) mountain bike tires.
People wave goodbye, hug.