Chris Rock Cracks Bad Jokes On Saturday Night Live

Chris Rock returned to host "Saturday Night Live" and left no comedic stone unturned.

Ahead of Sunday's New York City Marathon, the 49-year-old comedy took a risk joking about the Boston Marathon bombing during his opening monologue.

"Tomorrow is the New York City Marathon," he began Saturday night. "Scary. What can go wrong there?"

He reassured the audience that the Big Apple would be "just fine" like Boston was.

"I love Boston. I love the people there," Rock said, adding how the 2013 marathon bombing "was probably the most frightening, sadistic terrorist attack ever."

The comedian went into how marathon participants are faced with running 26-miles.

"26-miles is a long drive," he said, putting the distance into perspective.

"Their knees are hurting. Their feet are killing them. If you're a woman there's blood coming out your ti---es," he continued. "You've been training for a year. You finally get to the finish line and somebody screams, 'Run!'"

The risqué topic still garnered lots of laughs from the audience as Rock terrorist jokes were done tastefully and never touched on the victims of the tragedy.

But he didn't stop there. Rock moved on to the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the Freedom Tower.

"Have you seen the Freedom Tower?" he asked the audience. "If you can't see if from here than you're in Connecticut."

Rock suggested that the building be renamed the "Never Going In There Tower."

"There is no circumstance that will ever get me in that building," he quipped. "Does this building duck? What are they thinking? Who's the corporate sponsor, Target?"

He equated building a new tower in the same spot the Twin Towers used to stand as "an arrogant Floyd Mayweather" move.

Rock suggested the businesses situated inside the Tower should be things people can't get out of like the IRS, Family Court, and DMV.

He explained his feelings about the Tower by comparing it to a situation he was once in.

"I got robbed on 48th and 8th about 20 years ago," he said. "I have not been back to 48th and 8th."

To make his point clear about how adamant he is about never setting foot inside the Freedom Tower, Rock said, "I don't care if Scarlett Johannson on the 89th floor in a plate of ribs. I'm not going in there."

He cleared the air with anyone who may have felt his jokes were inappropriate.

"I'm not joking about 9/11," he said, explaining how in America everything eventually becomes commercialized.

"We're only five years away from 9/11 sales," Rock added.

The funnyman kept the laughs coming through various skits including "How's He Doing" about President Obama's current rating ahead of Tuesday's midterm elections.

Rock sat on a panel as Kevin Michael Jinks, the host of "Shaking My Head" on SiriusXM.

The panel's moderator, played by Kenan Thomas, pointed out America's disappointment with Obama's handling of immigration, Ebola, and ISIS.

"How are people getting into the White House so easy?" Rock's character asked. "Run into R.Kelly's yard and see what happens."

In another skit, the "Top Five" star posed as an ISIS militant named Abdul Rakim, trying to sell his ideas on "Shark Tank."

"Who's ready to invest in crushing the West?" he asked the panel of investors.

Crushing the "SNL" stage was the musical performance by the legendary Prince.

Wearing shades that included an additional lens to cover his third eye, the eclectic singer sang his new single "Clouds" featuring Lianne La Havas.

The rock star continued his electric performance with "Marz" and "Another Love" in what could arguably be one of the funniest "SNL" episodes in recent months.

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