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"UPDATE: Prince will perform one uninterrupted &amp;quot;eight-minute long jam session&amp;quot;&amp;#xA0;on&amp;#xA0;Saturday Night Live, according to a statement. It remains unknown which song he&amp;apos;ll be performing.\r\nWhat better way to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Purple Rain than this:&amp;#xA0;Saturday Night Live&amp;#xA0;announced Tuesday that Prince&amp;#xA0;will fill the role of&amp;#xA0;musical guest on the show&amp;apos;s November 1st episode. The rocker will be joined by his backing band 3rdEyeGirl, with whom Prince recorded his two new albums Art Official Age and PlectrumElectrum.&amp;#xA0;Chris Rock will host the episode, which marks the comedian&amp;apos;s first SNL visit in 18 years.\r\n\r\nThe SNL gig is Prince&amp;apos;s third time performing on the long-running sketch series: He last played 3121&amp;apos;s &amp;quot;Fury&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Beautiful, Loved and Blessed&amp;quot; in 2006. That performance came 25 years after Prince made his&amp;#xA0;Saturday Night Live&amp;#xA0;debut, when he busted out Dirty Mind&amp;apos;s &amp;quot;Party Up&amp;quot; back in 1981 on an episode featuring guest host Charlene Tilton of Dallas fame.\r\nRock served as an Saturday Night Live cast member from 1990 to 1993. Unlike other SNL ex-pats like Tina Fey, Jimmy Fallon and,&amp;#xA0;most recently, Bill Hader,&amp;#xA0;who routinely return&amp;#xA0;to guest host the show, Rock didn&amp;apos;t stop by Studio 8H regularly after his SNL tenure ended. He did guest host an episode back in 1996 with musical guest the Wallflowers &amp;#x2013; but that was the last chapter in his SNL history until his upcoming appearance. Rock&amp;apos;s return after 18 years means that the comedian can finally resurrect one of his best SNL sketches, &amp;quot;The Dark Side with Nat X.&amp;quot;\r\nWhile most people probably associate Prince more with Eddie Murphy and Dave Chappelle thanks to this skit, Rock also&amp;#xA0;has some history with Prince: The comedian interviewed Prince back in 1997 during &amp;quot;The Artist&amp;quot; phase, with the two discussing rap lyrics, artistic freedom and Prince&amp;apos;s rivalry with Michael Jackson.\r\n\r\nSaturday Night Live previously announced that Jim Carrey and Iggy Azalea would appear on its October 25th episode."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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