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What Will Happen When Michael Keaton Hosts Saturday Night Live (this time)?
And will it all be one unbroken take?
The hosts of Fox & Friends -- Steve Doocy (Taran Killam), Elisabeth Hasselbeck (Vanessa Bayer), and Brian Kilmeade (Bobby Moynihan) -- give a platform to various figures making news for their relation to Indiana's controversial new religious-freedom law, including Gov. Mike Pence (Beck Bennett); Crystal O'Connor (Cecily Strong), the owner of an Indiana pizzeria who claims she's had to close due to her refusal to cater gay weddings; and conservative radio host Bryan Fischer (Kyle Mooney), who has tried to foment a backlash against what he termed "Big Gay."
Host Michael Keaton talks about his thrilling comeback late last year in Birdman and how it's brought him back to host SNL for the first time in more than twenty years, only to be interrupted by his Birdman co-star and seasoned host Emma Stone (cameo as herself), who walks him through what he'll need to know tonight in a Birdman-esque unbroken-take tour of the goings-on backstage.
Taco Bell volleys a mild attack at McDonald's Egg McMuffins to promote their own new, and different, breakfast offerings.
At the White House Easter Egg Roll, Michelle Obama (Sasheer Zamata) tries to keep her cool in the face of a guest (Keaton) who seems far too aggressive and competitive in his search for Easter eggs.
McDonald's responds to Taco Bell's breakfast spot with a graphic description of the gastric upset Mexican food has been known to cause.
Two Scientology auditors (Keaton and Bayer) offering "free personality tests" in a suburban mall discover that passersby are a lot more skeptical -- and hostile -- in a post-Going Clear environment.
Niff and Dana (Moynihan and Strong), waiters at Applebees, think their boss (Keaton) is about to fire them, so they disrupt his staff meeting by telling all their co-workers exactly what they think of them.
Taco Bell escalates its war on McDonald's with a spot in which the members of a mariachi band viciously assault Ronald McDonald and eat A.M. Crunchwraps on what appears to be his lifeless corpse.
Carly Rae Jepsen performs.
A jubilant Amanda Knox (Kate McKinnon) describes her plans for celebrating her exoneration on Italian murder charges; Leslie Jones comments on the recent flap between Isaiah Washington and Chris Rock over the best way for African-Americans to handle chronic police harassment.
The protective dad (Keaton) of a dorky teenager (Mooney) gives his son very explicit sex advice, in advance of his son's first date, that it seems clear said son will not need.
A short documentary finds New Yorkers coming out of a famous juice-and-hot dog spot what brought them there, and after a chipper start, their tales grow more and more oppressively grim.
Carly Rae Jepsen performs.
Beetlejuice (Keaton) trades tall tales with Child's Play's Chucky (Moynihan) and Stripe the Gremlin (Killam) in the common room at the Comedy Horror Villains' Retirement Home.
People wave goodbye, hug.