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Peter Dinklage got 'Naked & Afraid' for 'SNL'

Carly Mallenbaum
USA TODAY
Peter Dinklage had very few limits as the host of 'Saturday Night Live.'

As host of Saturday Night Live, Peter Dinklage didn't seem to have any boundaries: He went behind-the-scenes, got nearly naked, ate out of a glory hole, sang with Gwen Stefani and wore a bear costume.

The behind-the-scenes segment was obviously about Game of Thrones. In the sketch, he talked to viewers on the set of the show's sixth season, where an actor playing a dragon (Bobby Moynihan) didn't have time to get out of costume and use the restroom.

The almost-nudity happened when Dinklage, whose groin was blurred out, appeared on a parody of Naked and Afraid with Leslie Jones. Her survival item? Hot sauce.

As for the glory hole, that was part of the "Trendy Restaurant" sketch, in which Dinklage ate pumpernickel bread and corn dogs out of a hole at an eatery that was once an underground sex parlor.

Dinklage, with a short blonde wig and robotic dance moves, sang about his "space pants" in a restaurant. Gwen Stefani joined him, and, naturally, distracted the mafia.

The bear costume? That was a Winnie the Pooh ensemble, complete with a snout. Dinklage played the honey-loving bear opposite his cool cousin Denny the Real (Jay Pharoah) who tried to convince Pooh to stop eating only sweets, wear pants and leave the woods with him.

As for the other sketches, Dinklage played the man in charge: boss annoyed with the corporate magic show, host of Investigation Discovery show Vacation Nightmares and the manager at a deadly undersea hotel (which featured a hilarious Taran Killam as a floating body).

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