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It was an odd sketch, tucked near the end of Saturday Night Live‘s season premiere, long after Alec Baldwin’s crowd-pleasing Trump imitation and two performances by Jay-Z. Actor Ryan Gosling played a soft-spoken rock flutist performing with a motley trio in a run-down bar. He gets a call from the police during the show, and has to tell his bandmate/roommate that his good jeans have been stolen.