What Will Happen When Kristen Wiig Hosts?
Lawrence Welk (Fred Armisen) welcomes the Maharelle family singers (Aidy Bryant, Vanessa Bayer, Cecily Strong, and Kristen Wiig) to his variety show.
Host Wiig lists all the things she misses about working at SNL, but her supposedly happy memories sound increasingly unpleasant and terrifying.
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.
Nancy Grace (Bryant) promotes the (absurd) extents to which she'll go to cover the cases of Jody Arias and the abductees in Cleveland.
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).
Vampire Weekend performs.
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.
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.
Gilly (Wiig) causes mayhem in her middle-school classroom, particularly targeted toward a pair of sickly twins (Jason Sudeikis and Hader).
Vampire Weekend performs.
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.
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.
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.
People wave goodbye, hug.