Benedict Cumberbatch gives 'dead grandma' a lap dance and licks whipped cream from her mouth as SNL host

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Benedict Cumberbatch lap danced a dead grandma as he hosted Saturday Night Live - and was joined in his raunchy routine by the World Series champion Chicago Cubs.

The outrageous comedy sketch saw Benedict - in tight denim shorts and a vest - grind up on an 83-year-old bride-to-be at her bachelorette party, who died of a heart attack.

After tonguing whipped cream from the mouth of the bride - played by Aidy Bryant - Benedict was helped out by baseball players Anthony Rizzo, David Ross and Deter Fowler - in Cubs strippers outfits.

Strange: Benedict Cumberbatch lap danced a dead grandma as he hosted Saturday Night Live

The skit started with Benedict, wearing a terrible blonde wig and construction worker’s outfit, arriving at the party and announcing he was ready to ‘deliver some heavy wood.’

With the music pumping Benedict pulled off his shirt before grinding up on Bryant’s character, who had died moments earlier from the shock of her surprise party.

An enthusiastic Benedict then ate whipped cream and a cherry from Bryant’s mouth - with lots of tongue.

‘My favourite flavour - her mouth,’ he shouted before hovering with his groin just over Bryant’s face.

Men at work: The outrageous sketch started with Benedict, wearing a terrible blonde wig and construction worker’s outfit, arriving at the party and announcing he was ready to ‘deliver some heavy wood.’

Shock: Unfortunately the 83-year-old bride-to-be Aidy Bryant died of a heart attack from the shock of her surprise bachelorette party moments earlier

Benedict then announced that as the grandma was his 1000th customer she got a free lap dance - from the Chicago Cubs baseball team.

Baseball stars Anthony Rizzo, David Ross and Dexter Fowler then walked in wearing open Cubs shirts and tight white shorts.

‘Don’t worry grandma, grandpa Rossy will take good care of you,’ said veteran catcher Ross who retired after winning the world series on Wednesday.

‘It’s your lucky night we are about to pull a triple header,’ laughed slugger Rizzo rubbing his uncover belly.

Work it: With the music pumping Benedict pulled off his shirt before grinding up on Bryant’s character

Taking it in: Nobody in the room seemed to notice how unresponsive the hen was

All three Cubs then gyrated on the prone grandma while Benedict danced alongside them.

After the election-season cold open Benedict kicked off the rest of the show with his opening monologue in which he teased his legions of fans, also known as Cumberbitches.

‘It is so great to be here hosting Saturday Night Live on the last week of America as we know it,’ said Benedict to kick off his monologue.

‘I know the political situation here in America is really tense right now so I tell you what we Brits do when the going gets tough and it feels like the whole world is crashing down around you - we drink, we drink so much.

Filling: She didn't even flinch when she was stripper sandwiched

An enthusiastic Benedict then ate whipped cream and a cherry from Bryant’s mouth - with lots of tongue.

‘On a brighter note this weekend is the opening of my movie Doctor Strange, it is especially exciting as I get to play a lead in a Hollywood film and now maybe more people know my name, but they don’t really know me.

‘So I thought I would try this American past time, it is called bragging, is that right? So indulge me for a moment and allow me to introduce myself.’

Benedict was then joined on stage by Leslie Jones, Cecily Strong, Sasheer Zamata as his backing singers.

Benedict then did his best Barry White impression as he joked that he was the ‘King of the Screen’ but that his highest honor was his CBE from the queen.

Yum: ‘My favorite flavor - her mouth,’ he shouted before hovering with his groin just over Bryant’s face

Another surprise: Benedict then announced that as the grandma was his 1000th customer she got a free lap dance - from the Chicago Cubs baseball team

‘It’s sort of like being a knight but a little lower - I got a certificate in the mail,’ he said.

Leslie Jones got a huge laugh as she danced up on Benedict and told him that she was ‘one of your Cumberbitches.’

‘Errrr, to be clear I did not pick that name for my fans, I would prefer Cumberpeople or Cumbersomes, but they are wonderful and devoted people and they write a whole load of fan fiction about me on the Internet, and let me tell you it is genuinely…unsettling.’

In demand: Baseball stars Anthony Rizzo, David Ross and Dexter Fowler then walked in wearing open Cubs shirts and tight white shorts

Old timers: ‘Don’t worry grandma, grandpa Rossy will take good care of you,’ said veteran catcher Ross who retired after winning the world series on Wednesday

‘It’s weird,’ his backing singers agreed.

Leslie Jones then got in on the teasing.

‘Did you read my story, Sherlock Holmes and the case of the missing underwear?’ she asked.

‘No I didn’t,’ Benedict said bluntly.

Benedict then joked that he always got to play geniuses in his movies. 

Host: Benedict kicked off the show with his opening monologue in which he teased his legions of fans, also known as Cumberbitches

Ancient One: Kate McKinnon then took to the stage as a bald Tilda Swinton who had got there by ‘opening a portal', before admitting she actually Uber pooled

Genius: Benedict was joined on stage by Leslie Jones, Cecily Strong, Sasheer Zamata as his backing singers while he sang a boastful tune

Jones continued her flirting with Benedict telling him that as he was Doctor Strange she had a lump that needed looking at.

‘Leslie, look once again I am not a real medical doctor and that is not a lump, that is your full breast,’ he told her.

‘Can I get a second opinion?’

‘Maybe later,’ Benedict told her.

Or- smellian: Benedict then starred in a Matrix-style fake TV advert, reminiscent of the famous 1984 Apple advert, with cast members being told how to use the toilet

New way: He arrived to revolutionize how people go to the toilet, by using it while looking cool

Benedict then joked that his co-stars ‘from Knightly to McAdams to a bald Tilda Swinton’ were all ‘smitten’ with him.

Kate McKinnon then took to the stage as a bald Tilda Swinton who had got there by ‘opening a portal', before admitting she actually Uber Pooled.

Benedict then got the girls to sing his name in dirty voices before saying it as the Queen.

Benedict then starred in a fake TV advert, reminiscent of the famous 1984 Apple advert, with cast members being told how to use the toilet.

Good question: Benedict then took part in the game show ‘Why Is Benedict Cumberbatch Hot?’ alongside SNL cast members Aidy Bryant and Vanessa Bayer

Round one: ‘That’s right. Every girl in the cast has been so horny for this dude all week so as a guy I am just trying to figure that out,’ said host Beck who asked Vanessa to go first

Benedict then arrived to revolutionize how people go to the toilet, by using it while looking cool.

The British actor dropped his trousers and climbed onto a toilet the wrong way for the Kohler ‘Koohl’ toilet advert, before lighting a match and being teleported out of the commercial.

Benedict then took part in the game show ‘Why Is Benedict Cumberbatch Hot?’ alongside SNL cast members Aidy Bryant and Vanessa Bayer.

‘Ohhhhhhh Beck,’ an unimpressed Benedict told ‘host’ Beck Bennett as the game was announced.

Stumped: ‘Are we looking at the same dude, what the frack?’ said Beck, who then asked Benedict to explain his own hotness

Opinion: ‘Honestly I don’t know either. I mean, some people have said that I look like a hammerhead shark, or a lizard man, and I sort of think that I look like Sid the Sloth from Ice age,’ he said.

‘That’s right. Every girl in the cast has been so horny for this dude all week so as a guy I am just trying to figure that out,’ said Beck who asked Vanessa to go first.

‘Like right now? In front of him? Ok, well it is not like his face per se, well it is, it is more like the way his body, well when I just see him I want to go just uuuuuuuuuh, like just go crazy,’ she said.

Beck then asked Aidy to explain Benedict’s hotness.

‘Okay, does my answer have to be in English?’ she asked.

‘My feelings would be best described using a series of noises,’ she explained before making a string of cartoon-like animal noises.

‘Are we looking at the same dude, what the frack?’ said Beck, who then asked Benedict to explain his own hotness.

Maybe it's...: Beck then clicked and said he needed to ask Benedict a personal question and whispered it into his ear. 

Not that: 'No Beck it is average sized... Yeah, the balls too!’ Benedict quipped about his manhood

‘Honestly I don’t know either. I mean, some people have said that I look like a hammerhead shark, or a lizard man, and I sort of think that I look like Sid the Sloth from Ice age,’ he said.

‘But I guess that doesn’t matter because Glamour Magazine named me one of their sexiest men alive.’

Beck then clicked and said he needed to ask Benedict a personal question and whispered it into his ear.

‘No Beck it is average sized... Yeah, the balls too!’ Benedict quipped about his manhood.

dramatic: In the sketch ‘Office Hours’ Benedict played an awkward and ‘inappropriate’ university professor who misread signs with a goofy male student, played by Pete Davidson, and tried to kiss him.

Clueless: Benedict then agonized about his feelings for the student, who is completely clueless and simply agrees with his tortured professor who is set to marry a rich socialite.

In the second round of the quiz they flashed up 'ugly' pictures of Benedict alongside pictures of a shirtless Beck and asked the girls who was hotter.

They both went for Benedict who then jumped in and told Beck that he looked better in his picture.

‘You are funny and charming and super nice - until this sketch,’ totally winning over Beck who told him that he now ‘felt truly seen.’

In the sketch ‘Office Hours’ Benedict played an awkward and ‘inappropriate’ university professor who misread signs with a goofy male student, played by Pete Davidson, and tried to kiss him.

Excellent! SNL veteran and Wayne’s World star Dana Carvey then made a cameo appearance in drag at the Weekend Update Desk as ‘Church Lady.’

Coin toss: ‘Well it is a tough choice we have on Tuesday. Do we vote for a bitter, female android forth 90s or a riverboat gambler with a big tummy and an orange head,’ she said.

Benedict then agonized about his feelings for the student, who is completely clueless and simply agrees with his tortured professor who is set to marry a rich socialite.

SNL veteran and Wayne’s World star Dana Carvey then made a cameo appearance in drag at the Weekend Update Desk as ‘Church Lady.’

Dana then told off Colin Jost for his rude Anthony Weiner jokes, before Jost asked Church Lady who she would be voting for.

‘Well it is a tough choice we have on Tuesday. Do we vote for a bitter, female android forth 90s or a riverboat gambler with a big tummy and an orange head,’ she said.

Back again: Cubs players Rizzo, Ross and Fowler were soon back as the winners of Weekend Update’s The Voice competition - and were joined by Cubs super-fan Bill Murray

Legend: Murray was asked if he used to work at SNL. ‘I did but that was lifetimes ago. Right now it is all about our music,’ he deadpanned

Church Lady then told Jost that she suspected Jesus was not in his life ‘because like everyone else in Hollywood you are a homosexual.’

She then told Jost that the only three celebrities that were not gay were Jim Parsons, Neil Patrick Harris and Nathan Lane.

‘All of them are gay,’ said Jost.

Church Lady then sang ’It’s a Wonderful World’ as pictures of the election, the candidates and Vladimir Putin played.

Angel style: Benedict then played leather-clad magician Ricky Diamond in an Atlantic City steakhouse, who bumped into Kenan Thompson after meeting him at a male body acceptance workshop

Pick a card: ‘I had a look at your husband’s junk and told him what I found beautiful about it,’ he said before inviting himself and his date to their table and performing a rather dangerous magic trick

Cubs players Rizzo, Ross and Fowler were soon back as the winners of Weekend Update’s The Voice competition - and were joined by Cubs super-fan Bill Murray.

All four were dressed as an a cappella group complete with straw boaters and Cubs sweaters.

Murray was asked if he used to work at SNL.

‘I did but that was lifetimes ago. Right now it is all about our music,’ he deadpanned.

Riddle me this: Benedict then played a rhyming TV villain who gave cryptic riddles to a group trying to defuse a bomb

Another: The baddie got annoyed when the heroes kept figuring out his puzzles

The group then performed the famous Cubs song ‘Go Cubs Go.’ before the show flew the ‘W’ winning flag.

Benedict then played leather-clad magician Ricky Diamond in an Atlantic City steakhouse, who bumped into Kenan Thompson after meeting him at a male body acceptance workshop.

‘I had a look at your husband’s junk and told him what I found beautiful about it,’ he said before inviting himself and his date to their table.

Benedict then revealed he was a Criss Angel-style magician who performed tricks to rock music and his girlfriend performed a song that aroused Thompson’s character to the delight of his wife.

Weird: For his final sketch Benedict played the aide to a philanthropist, who turned out to be an eagle statue in a suit

Wrong move: When Benedict joked the hospital might name a ‘wing’ after him he was fired on the spot

Benedict then played a rhyming TV villain who gave cryptic riddles to a group trying to defuse a bomb.

For his final sketch Benedict played the aide to a philanthropist, who turned out to be an eagle statue in a suit.

The two bemused men from the hospital soliciting a donation then had to hand over their shinty watches for Mr Shaw to look at, before they were shown the eagle with influential men such as Richard Branson and Salman Rushdie.

When Benedict joked the hospital might name a ‘wing’ after him he was fired on the spot. 

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