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"&amp;quot;Funny&amp;quot; is not the first adjective most people would use to describe Beck, especially around the release of his achingly earnest new album Morning Phase. But the singer-songwriter cracked a joke on a promo for his appearance this weekend on&amp;#xA0;Saturday Night Live.\r\n50 Greatest &amp;apos;Saturday Night Live&amp;apos; Sketches of All Time\r\nIn the clip, Big Bang Theory&amp;apos;s Jim Parsons, this week&amp;apos;s host, notes his ubiquitous catchphrase &amp;quot;Bazinga!&amp;quot; before asking&amp;#xA0;SNL cast member Cecily Strong and Beck their own phrases. After Strong exclaims, &amp;quot;This is gettin&amp;apos; ca-ray-zy,&amp;quot; Beck stoically replies, &amp;quot;Mine is, &amp;apos;I am Beck.&amp;apos;&amp;quot;\r\n&amp;quot;Okay, we might need to work on that one, Beck,&amp;quot; says Parsons.\r\nIn the second clip, the trio trade off on praising each other with one awkward, uncomfortable exception. The appearance will mark Beck&amp;apos;s seventh time on the show.\r\nBeck will presumably only perform music on Saturday&amp;apos;s show, but now that Bill Hader has left SNL,&amp;#xA0;there&amp;apos;s room for Beck to take over Stefon&amp;apos;s character. Fingers crossed.\r\nThe roots of&amp;#xA0;Morning Phase&amp;#xA0;go back almost a decade, Beck told Rolling Stone&amp;apos;s David Fricke last year. The singer had decamped to Nashville in 2005 to record an album, but failed to complete it.&amp;#xA0;&amp;quot;I recorded a bunch of things real quick. Then I thought, &amp;apos;I need to come back and try this again,&amp;quot; Beck said. Two years later, he returned to record a one-off single for Jack White&amp;apos;s Third Man Records and ended up recording Phase&amp;apos;s&amp;#xA0;&amp;quot;Waking Light,&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Blackbird Chain&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Country Down&amp;quot; for the album.\r\nOur four-and-a-half star review deemed&amp;#xA0;the album&amp;#xA0;a &amp;quot;folk-rock classic&amp;quot; from the &amp;quot;master of pastiche.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;At its core,&amp;#xA0;Morning Phase&amp;#xA0;is a record about what to do when the world seems totally fucked. Irony doesn&amp;apos;t cut it anymore; truth, beauty and resolve are the best weapons.&amp;#xA0;Coming in the wake of a back injury so severe Beck couldn&amp;apos;t pick up a guitar for a number of years,&amp;#xA0;Morning Phase&amp;apos;s struggle toward the light feels as personal as it does universal.&amp;quot;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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