What Will Happen When Kristen Wiig Hosts?

11:29 PM Cold Open

Lawrence Welk (Fred Armisen) welcomes the Maharelle family singers (Aidy Bryant, Vanessa Bayer, Cecily Strong, and Kristen Wiig) to his variety show.

11:35 PM Monologue

Host Wiig lists all the things she misses about working at SNL, but her supposedly happy memories sound increasingly unpleasant and terrifying.

11:44 PM

At the Met Ball, unprepared reporter Herb Welch (Bill Hader) interviews celebrities -- including Madonna (Wiig), Kim Kardashian (Nasim Pedrad), and Kristen Stewart (Strong) -- on the red carpet.

11:50 PM Commercial Parody

Nancy Grace (Bryant) promotes the (absurd) extents to which she'll go to cover the cases of Jody Arias and the abductees in Cleveland.

11:55 PM

Broadway actress Mindy Grayson (Wiig) has a hard time sticking to the rules on the game show Secret Word, as does her celebrity opponent, gossip columnist Huntley von Strunk (Taran Killam).

12:04 AM

Vampire Weekend performs.

12:12 AM Weekend Update

New Jersey governor Chris Christie (Bobby Moynihan) talks about his recent lap band surgery; singing duo Garth and Kat (Armisen and Wiig) are unprepared to sing a selection of songs about summer.

12:28 AM

At Target, an ebullient cashier (Wiig) keeps wandering away from her post to pursue the store's latest bargains; her snack bar colleague (Kate McKinnon) is equally unprofessional.

12:36 AM

Gilly (Wiig) causes mayhem in her middle-school classroom, particularly targeted toward a pair of sickly twins (Jason Sudeikis and Hader).

12:43 AM

Vampire Weekend performs.

12:48 AM

When they think they're about to get fired from Aeropostale, Niff and Dana (Moynihan and Strong) have a few parting words for their co-workers.

12:53 AM

A couple's elegant dinner party keeps getting interrupted by the stoners across the hall (Sudeikis and Kenan Thompson) trying to "borrow" various esoteric foodstuffs.

12:57 AM

In Brooklyn, a group of hipster cicadas (Killam, Tim Robinson, Wiig) get anxious as they start to appreciate all the pop cultural developments they've missed over the past several years.

1:00 AM

People wave goodbye, hug.