As protests raged across the nation and A.C.L.U. lawyers scrambled to challenge Donald Trump’s immigration Executive Order, Saturday Night Live was preparing to do what it does best: tackle horror with humor. The show put together a brilliant little pre-taped segment starring Cecily Strong and Beck Bennett as members of U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Homeland Security, respectively. Strong led visitors through the process of entering the United States, while Bennett humorously tampered with her video in order to reflect Trump’s less-friendly America. But in order to fit in Friday night’s late-breaking ban suspension, the clip had to endure a last-minute edit itself.

The live nature of S.N.L. usually means the show has its finger right on the pulse of what’s happening politically. The writers room has, in the past, hastily crashed together cold opens to keep up with whatever unpredictable move Trump has made. But pre-taped segments, by nature, are a little different.

So after Bennett’s agent laid a bunch of bummer new rules over Strong’s chipper welcome video, the show had to ad a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it tag. “A judge blocked the ban?” a Bennet voice-over asks over suspiciously out-of-sync footage of his character on the phone at the end of the sketch. “No, please, I just made the whole video!” Quick thinking.