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What Will Happen When Kevin Hart Hosts Saturday Night Live?
Will he host like a lady but Think Like A Man?
President Obama (Jay Pharoah), pondering the official U.S. response to the terrorist attacks in Paris, weighs the pros and cons of sending a subdued John Kerry (Beck Bennett) or an "unpredictable" Joe Biden (Taran Killam).
Host Kevin Hart uses the setting as a jumping-off point for doing several minutes' worth of his standup act.
On a rough Bronx street corner, three loitering young men (Hart, Bobby Moynihan, and Kenan Thompson) compare incongruously nuanced opinions about this year's slate of Oscar nominees.
A motorist (Hart) congratulates himself on finding the gas station with the cheapest price, only to drive home past lower and lower pump prices and see other drivers filling up outlandishly inappropriate containers with it.
Lawyers on both sides of the aisle are mystified when the presiding judge in their arson case (Hart) keeps dropping his catchphrase and mugging to cameras and an audience that aren't there, apparently in an unofficial audition to host his own small-claims court daytime TV show.
In post-WWII New York, secret agent Peggy Carter (Cecily Strong) meets some allies in her fight against a sexist law enforcement system in bold and boisterous NYPD officers Dyke (Kate McKinnon) and Fats (Aidy Bryant).
Sia performs.
Justin Bieber (McKinnon) stops by to tell his side of the controversial report about his allegedly Photoshopped Calvin Klein underwear ad; Jebidiah Atkinson (Killam) offers his caustic reviews of the newly minted Best Picture Oscar nominees.
The hosts of Mornin' Miami (Moynihan, McKinnon, Hart, and Vanessa Bayer) try to keep a lid on their smoldering animosity for one another while taping a week's worth of promos.
Sia performs.
Kanye West (Pharoah) meets Paul McCartney (Kyle Mooney) for an air-clearing brunch to work out their beef, only to get hung up on which sides to order for the table.
Lonely singleton Sheila Sovage (McKinnon) makes a love connection with the only other patron (Hart) left at the bar at last call.
People wave goodbye, hug.