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Chance the Rapper Hosted <em>SNL </em>Again. Chaos Ensued.

The musician was an endearingly goofy performer who shone in a fever dream of an episode filled with gallows humor and character breaking.
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Was there something in the air this week in the halls of Studio 8H? Did the whole cast need to get something out of their system? Almost every sketch in last night’s episode felt like an exercise in controlled chaos. Most involved at least one performer , and a wild even appeared. The result was a fever dream of an installment that seemed to have been made up entirely of —the kinds of odd or unusual bits that tend to be slotted in near the end

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