Chris Rock returned to his “Saturday Night Live” stomping grounds. While his performance in the sketches got mixed reviews, it’s his stand-up routine during the monologue that had people talking.

Chris Rock as host and Gracie Abrams as musical guest. Rock is one of the more gifted standup comics of his era, and was tasked with turning a very weird news week into digestible jokes. Rock didn’t really seem comfortable with a lot of his own words this time around,