Though the Jimmy Fallon episode of S.N.L. kicked off with a rather pointedly political cold open, The Tonight Show host opted to skip making any kind of edgy statement with his monologue. Instead, Fallon did what he knows best: he threw a party.

Roping in the entire cast, musical guest Harry Styles, and frequent Bowie collaborator Nile Rodgers, Fallon danced down the halls of Studio 8H to a rendition of David Bowie’s “Let’s Dance.”

Saturday Night Live, of course, has reason to celebrate. This is the first episode in the show’s long history to air live coast-to-coast. That Fallon didn’t want to risk anything too controversial on such a momentous occasion is understandable—but it’s also par for the course for a comedian who has seen his contemporaries gradually out-strip him in a late-night landscape increasingly intent on asserting a strong point of view.