After a defeated Mitt Romney (Sudeikis) goes on a lactose binge, Anne Hathaway hosts: the SNL cast joins her in a faux song from "Les Mis," and she plays a new best friend on a teen talk show, a woman transfixed by a dancing Japanese zombie, a McDonald's manager about to announce layoffs, an addled Carrie Mathison in a spoof of "Homeland," Katie Holmes guesting on "Ellen," and the woman posing for Grant Woods's "American Gothic." President Obama (Pharoah), two gay lobstermen from Maine, and Drunk Uncle appear on "Weekend Update." Rihanna sings "Diamonds" and "Stay." ...
After Paula Broadwell (Strong) reads salacious pages from her biography of David Petraeus, Jeremy Renner hosts, playing rejected movie theme songs on a piano, an attorney on "The Californians," a gunman in an intimate Mexican standoff, an arrowless Hawkeye in "The Avengers," a A-list actor in a scene with an over-amped extra, the putative mayor of Tampa commenting about Jill Kelley to CNN, a clueless guy asked to identify his brother's body at a morgue. There's a cartoon about drones, an appearance by Chris Christie on "Weekend Update," a commercial for the Hometown ...
After a children's choir sings "Silent Night," Martin Short hosts, singing as the walks through the set (cameos abound), then playing Tony Bennett's brother on a Christmas show, Buckingham Palace's protocol chief coaching Kate Middleton's OB/GYN, Larry David in a star-studded revival of "You're a Rat Bastard, Charlie Brown," running into a high school friend at a hardware store, and a tightly-wound amateur singer auditioning with a put-upon triangle player. Paul McCartney performs "Cut Me Some Slack" with Nirvana and "Wonderful Christmas Tree" with the children's ...
After Obama receives a midnight visit on Inauguration Day from the all-too-human ghost of Dr. King, Adam Levine hosts - getting advice from Andy Samberg, Cameron Diaz, and Jerry Seinfeld. He co-hosts a show on the Gay Network, plays a future Mafioso with Tony Soprano in high school, chats with a firefighter's ex-girlfriend at a party, hosts a spoof of MTV's "Catfish," gets into a bar face-off with three other rock-band leaders, backs Samberg in a digital short ("You Only Live Once"), and goes to an unlikely groupie's apartment after a concert. Rosetta Stone sponsors ...
After President Obama (Pharoah) explains sequestration, Kevin Hart hosts: he plays Quvenzhane Wallis as the new Pope, a bitten interloper on "The Walking Dead," a horse-phobic guest on Steve Harvey's show, an over-amped pitchman for Z-shirts, Seth Meyer's partner in a "Really?!" sketch, the neck-braced host of "360 News," an actor reading for a Dove Chocolate commercial, a guy pitching a product on "Shark Tank," a bookstore manager who has to fire someone, and a gadfly at a funeral. Macklemore and Ryan Lewis (with Wanz) perform "Thrift Shop" and "Can't Hold Us"; a ...