Toronto rapper Drake leaves a Queen St. West pop-up shop where he was handing out T-shirts to promote his upcoming album in Toronto on Sunday, April 24, 2016.COLE BURSTON/The Canadian Press
Drake is now an honoured member of the Saturday Night Live two timers club.
The Toronto-bred rapper made his return to the show last night, again pulling double duty as both host and musical guest, as he did in his first SNL gig in January, 2014.
It was a Drake-filled 90 minutes with the traditional double dose of music, along with sketches where he showed off his considerable comedy chops.
There were, of course, references to Canada, including a joke from his opening monologue about Americans fleeing north, frightened by the prospect of a Donald Trump presidency.
In a "Black Jeopardy" sketch, Drake played a Canadian contestant who baffles the show's quiz master with answers referencing such Cancon as the Junos, rapper Kardinal Offishal, hockey player Jaromir Jagr and his hometown Toronto Transit Commission.
He also performed in a pair of hip-hop spoofs, including one where he raps plaintively about being the punchline of social media gags.
And while Drake's unorthodox dancing in his Hotline Bling video was ruthlessly parodied by SNL last fall, the ribbing didn't stop him from busting some moves last night while performing his song One Dance.
The song is from Drake's latest album Views, which is on track to debut at No. 1 on the May 21-dated Billboard 200 chart.