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What Will Happen When Chris Rock Hosts Saturday Night Live (this time)?

And given his New Girl guest shot, why isn't Prince doing double duty?!

11:30 PM Cold Open

On her talk show, Ellen DeGeneres (Kate McKinnon) welcomes guest Taylor Swift (Vanessa Bayer), who strains for authenticity in describing her new life as a New Yorker.

11:37 PM Monologue

Host Chris Rock tries to tout how much he's grown as a performer since his time as an SNL cast member and offers to take questions from the audience, all of which come from his Grown Ups co-stars/fellow SNL alumni.

11:42 PM Commercial Parody

Wal-Mart appeals to sad, single loners by promoting its deep discounts on Halloween candy.

11:46 PM

On The Dark Side With Nat X, the very angry eponymous host (Rock) addresses some recent high-profile racial incidents.

11:52 PM Commercial Parody

Marvel attempts to increase its reach even further by announcing a slate of feature film co-productions with Tyler Perry.

11:58 PM

At a polling place, election supervisors are taken aback by the outsize enthusiasm of a couple of midseason-election junkies.

12:03 AM

Prince performs.

12:11 AM Weekend Update

On Weekend Update, Chris Christie (Bobby Moynihan) attempts to clarify the scrap he got into with a protester at a public event this week, failing to be especially contrite; a very harried Laura (Cecily Strong) has a hard time describing her elation that her show, The Mysteries Of Laura, has been picked up for a full season, due to the myriad interruptions and demands of her job and home life.

12:26 AM

A turnip farmer (Rock) browbeats farmer's market patrons into buying his undesirable wares by accusing them of racial animus.

12:32 AM Short Film

A pair of attractive strangers (Sasheer Zamata and Taran Killam) go through an accelerated relationship, from meet-cute to breakup, in the time it takes for them to wait for their opposite subway trains to arrive.

12:38 AM

Three old friends (Rock, Prince, and Kenan Thompson) trade Tales From The Barbecue.

12:46 AM

The very earnest hosts of a Canadian news show (Killam and Aidy Bryant) struggle to find euphemisms to report the very upsetting details of a fellow broadcaster's sex scandal.

12:52 AM

Prince performs.

12:57 AM

Sheila Sovage (McKinnon) attempts to make a love connection with the only remaining bar patron (Rock) at a bar's last call.

1:01 AM

People wave goodbye, hug.