-Welcome back to "Late Night." My thanks to Will Forte,

Michael Symon, Vanessa Bayer, Jason Sudeikis, and as always,

Fred Armisen and the 8G Band.

[ Cheers and applause ]

Carson Daly is up next.

But first, to conclude tonight's episode,

an in-depth discussion of this evening's sketch,

which we are calling "After Jennjamin."

[ Laughter ] For those of you at home,

feel free to go online to see the rest of this segment.

We expect it won't last longer than eight hours.

Vanessa Bayer had to leave because

a Hollywood producer saw her in tonight's sketch

and offered her a 100-picture movie deal.

So, Will, let's start. Do you feel satisfied,

having finally performed "Jennjamin Franklin"

for an audience?

[ Laughter ]

Did Herman Melville feel satisfied when he finally --

did "Moby Dick" for the first time?

They staged it many times. -[ Laughs ]

-Did Ernest Hemingway...

[ Light laughter ]

...get the same satisfaction...

from staging "The Sun Also Rises"?

Did Tom Clancy love "Hunt for Red October"?

I mean, it's a -- the question --

it's more a question in a question, you know?

-Yes.

-It's more about a life philosophy.

I mean, yeah, it was all right. It was good.

It was great. It was fine. -Right.

-It's more like,

how can how can we make ourselves better as people?

How can we learn from this situation tonight?

-Gotcha. -And, uh,

that's what I'm happy about.

I felt like we were teaching people.

-Gotcha.

-We weren't, like, showing a sketch.

We were teaching people. We were growing.

And, you know, this is a template for...

-What's next for any -- yeah.

-Thank you.

-Jason, you inhabited a role...

-That's -- yeah. -Yeah, let's give it up.

[ Cheers and applause ]

-...that so many -- -Thank you.

-...so many so many had grappled with

and had not quite wrestled to the ground.

Jonah Hill, Ashton Kutcher, Brian Williams.

What was your approach to this character?

-You know, I just sort of -- Will wrote a beautiful letter.

And we usually text.

But when when someone writes a letter now...

[ Laughter ] ...I don't know about --

I don't know about you. I don't want to speak for you.

But I freak out. I get scared first

and I assume the worst.

-Yeah, anthrax. -Anthrax. Exactly.

[ Laughter ]

-And -- but I read it.

It was very well written. It was incredibly concise.

It's like, "I'll see you here,

or I'll cut off your dick."

[ Laughter ]

-And... -That's great.

-And I...

And I didn't want to, you know,

say goodbye to my dick yet, so it was like...

[ Laughter ]

So here I was.

And I tried to not watch the other versions of it.

You know, I know -- and it was easy

because we don't -- we don't videotape table reads.

-Right.

-So there was nothing to watch anyway.

-Never been on film before, yeah.

-Never been filmed.

And it was just a matter of just diving in

and just saying the words written on the cue cards

and, you know, not fake laughing

in order to bring it home. -Yeah.

-Fred, you and Vanessa probably had

the hardest part in this sketch

because you played a couple who took quite a journey.

You had met Jennjamin. You seem pretty into her.

You were going to have a three-way with her,

but then you decided you wanted to meet your friend.

And then in the course of really only a few minutes,

you became repulsed by Jennjamin.

It was a roller coaster, really.

How do you approach that sort of scene?

-We saw ourselves as little tiny soldiers.

You know what I mean? Like, this is for Jennjamin.

So it was our duty, therefore, to leave.

We exited at the end. That was our job.

And we are just wheels for his truck.

-Now, Will, I can't help but notice that you still have

both lipstick and eye shadow on.

When -- what point of tonight will that come off?

-I don't think it comes off tonight.

[ Laughter ]

-I wait until time and the elements

strip it away gradually from me.

-That's great. -As a showering man,

it probably will be tomorrow at some point.

[ Laughter ] Uh...

-Um...

-That is -- A character doesn't disappear.

It erodes.

-Yeah, that's great.

Now, Jason, we -- you've been on the show.

We've talked about your own participation

in "Second Chance Theatre." -Yeah.

-"Juggling Lessons." Can we --

Can we get this? Can we do this?

-I mean, I think so. I think so.

Yeah. It's just a matter of getting all the props.

-Yeah. [ Laughter ]

-Which is pretty -- most of the stuff, you know,

Amazon Prime is really helpful. -Yeah.

We'll know where to find it, yeah, yeah.

-We'll find stuff. I mean, that'll be about it.

Yeah, but I would -- I think if the --

It's like, when you see this take off the way --

it's like the first hot air balloon ride.

Everybody is like, "Oh, this is gonna be a disaster."

-Right. -It's going to light on fire.

Everybody's going to die.

That basket is gonna go up like tissue paper.

-Mm-hmm. -And then it doesn't.

-Yeah, I think it did. I think the first one did.

-That first one did. The first one did.

The first one did, but the second one,

once they were kind of like,

"Hey, let's not make this basket out of tissue paper..."

[ Laughter ]

It's like that. I'm like, okay,

I want to be the second.

Technically the "third" one. -Right. Yeah.

I would be flattered. -And, Fred, do you have

any "Second Chancers" in your...

-Yeah. I think "Rooftop."

-Oh, yeah, "Rooftop." -Oh, wow, yeah.

-With -- Joe Kelly wrote...

-And with Jason. -Jason, yeah.

-"Rooftop." I had forgotten about "Rooftop,"

an all-time great. -Yeah.

-So we'll slot that as well.

We're going to open it up to our audience now,

if any of you have questions for "Jennjamin Franklin."

There's a woman on the aisle here.

We're going to bring you a microphone,

and if you could just stand for us.

-You do not get to keep the microphone.

-You do not. Thank you very much.

-I'm curious, Will, what was the inspiration

behind "Jennjamin Franklin"?

-What was the inspiration, Will?

[ Laughter ]

-I wanted to find a character

that looked like Benjamin Franklin...

[ Laughter ]

...but was a woman.

[ Laughter ] Uh...

And it went from there. I spent --

It's just like -- -Yeah, yeah...

-That's great. Anyone else?

-I honestly don't remember. I don't --

-Yes, second row over here.

Oh, sorry. First row, two seats in. Yes. Coming.

-Hi. I was just curious.

What is it specifically about the sketch

that made you want to keep bringing it back?

And like what -- what was your favorite part?

What? Like, yeah. -You saw the sketch.

[ Laughter ]

-But what was your favorite part?

What is the one specific thing?

-You know what? It's crazy.

There are some -- you'll --

you're working your butt off every week, and...

It's tough. You go through a table read,

something gets just no applause.

Something -- and you just move right on from it.

But every once in awhile, you'll just have something

you just get stuck on. It's really weird.

And it's -- there are probably things that were way better

than this that I just never thought twice about.

But for some reason, this little piece of crap stuck with me.

And I was like, just --

-You just couldn't flush it.

[ Laughter ]

It just kept finding its way back to the...

[ Applause ]

-Yes. This gentleman in the second row.

-Here we go. -All right.

When you found out it was actually going to happen

on live TV,

did you think it was a practical joke,

or did you just think, "Okay,

I actually have to make this good now?"

-It's...

[ Laughter and applause ]

Uh...

The joke is on everyone else pretty much.

The joke -- No, it was -- it was --

I was very excited because we've talked about it

so many times.

And I just thought, if it goes up and is a lot of fun

and works really well, great.

If it is horrible, great also.

It's like, just to get to --

It's so fun to even talk about it 'cause we're --

we're very close friends

and we just have the best time even talking about it.

Now we got to find something else to talk about.

-Yes.

-I don't know what we're going to do.

-I will say there's been multiple times

where, like, we were like, we'd do like a "MacGruber" panel.

We've talked about it in front of audiences before

about our disagreement.

And audiences at the end always just want to see it.

-Yeah. -Like there's --

So I'm so glad that we finally pulled it off.

And this was an idea -- "Second Chance Theatre"

was like one of the first ideas

I had when I knew I was doing this show.

I was like, oh, I want to do this right away.

And "Jennjamin" was sort of top on the list.

Let's see. Fifth row. This woman right in the center there.

Yes. There you are.

-Have you written a second segment?

And if you did, and it's a wedding,

have you chosen a wedding gown, and what style is it?

[ Laughter ]

-[ Speaks indistinctly ]

-That's a question I've answered before.

Uh...

I have not --

-Methinks she's a wedding designer.

Wedding dress designer. [ Laughter ]

-You know, something -- something frock-y, for sure.

-What color? -Uh, brown.

[ Laughter ] For sure.

-We do have to give it up

for the incredible wardrobe department.

-Oh, yeah.

-This is the "SNL" wardrobe department.

-Amazing. [ Applause ]

-And...

the great thing about any time you write a sketch like this

is they actually, of course,

look at, like, Benjamin Franklin photos.

They want to make it look as much like Benjamin --

-They're amazing. -Yeah.

-Just every department

is the top of their field.

It's -- you know, working at "Saturday Night Live"