What Will Happen When Christina Applegate Hosts?

11:29 PM Cold Open

Joe Biden (Jason Sudeikis) and Paul Ryan (Bill Hader) meet backstage at the Vice-Presidential debate, and compare strategies.

11:39 PM Monologue

Guest host Christina Applegate talks about how happy she is to be back onstage in New York, and performs a number inspired by the last Broadway show she starred in, Sweet Charity.

11:46 PM

TLC's Stars Of Tomorrow covers a rivalry between young community-theater mainstays Shay Montgomery (Applegate) and Bristol Bartlett (Nasim Pedrad).

11:50 PM Commercial Parody

Brad Pitt (Taran Killam) smolders in a strange new ad for Chanel.

11:56 PM

Ann Romney (Kate McKinnon) has an eventful day guest-anchoring Good Morning America.

12:01 AM Commercial Parody

Liam Neeson (Killam) and Maggie Grace (Applegate) star in several more sequels to Taken.

12:03 AM

Barack Obama (Jay Pharoah) is challenged by the task of reining in a boisterous Joe Biden (Sudeikis) at a campaign stop at Oktoberfest.

12:12 AM

Passion Pit performs.

12:19 AM

Weekend Update features Sarah Palin (McKinnon) talking about her upcoming diet and fitness book; The Devil (Sudeikis) gloating about Jerry Sandusky's prison sentence; and CPA Oscar Rogers (Kenan Thompson) on what voters need to know about the Presidential candidates' tax plans.

12:34 AM

On his eponymous show, Manuel Ortiz (Fred Armisen) helps a woman (Applegate) to confront her sister (Aidy Bryant) for sleeping with her husband (Tim Robinson).

12:42 AM

A group of twentysomething women compare notes on their Hallowe'en costumes, which turn out to be increasingly absurd "sexy" versions of banal figures or items (sexy hamburger, sexy Bert and Ernie, etc.).

12:51 AM

Passion Pit performs.

12:56 AM Commercial Parody

The Obama campaign issues a scathing ad criticizing Mitt Romney (Sudeikis) for targeting Sesame Street for budget cuts and for declining to participate in a Nickelodeon forum in which kids can ask questions of the candidates.

1:00 AM

People wave goodbye, hug.