Watch Foo Fighters Rock ‘SNL’ With a Very Metal Medley of Holiday Music
Crank it up for the Christmas sweaters.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIZcaYfrIms
The Kevin Hart-hosted Saturday Night Live Christmas episode wasn’t well-liked on social media. Many viewers had issues with Hart’s opening monologue about the perils of being a dad, and most sketches were unmemorable.
The highlight of the night was Foo Fighters, by a long shot. Of course Dave Grohl and his band killed it in their first set of the night with a recording studio-perfect performance of “The Sky Is a Neighborhood.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4pZikrkkdY
But they probably created a classic SNL musical moment with their second set (first video above.) Grohl delivered a quiet, meditative performance of “Everlong” that segued into a medley of “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)” and—hilariously—”Linus and Lucy.”
If Twitter hated Kevin Hart’s bit at the beginning, viewers were there for Foo Fighters, 100%.
The Foo Fighters incorporated acoustic Everlong, Christmas (Baby Please Come Home), & the Peanuts theme into one performance. Give them all the holiday awards. 🎄🎸 pic.twitter.com/KszRLAbnFp
— BOOnana SAM 🎃🍌 (@the_endverse) December 17, 2017
The Foo Fighters are so great – no other band would go on SNL, take one of their biggest hits, and extent it into a Christmas medley while wearing Christmas gear. A+
— Josh Jordan (@NumbersMuncher) December 17, 2017
OKAY THE FOO FIGHTERS JUST GAVE ONE OF IF NOT THE BEST PERFORMANCES IVE EVER SEEN ON SNL
— mac (@kenziewadsworth) December 17, 2017
I think a much better Saturday Night Live would have the Foo Fighters playing music for 6 segments and then have 2 segments of SNL skits in the usual musical guest spots.
— Josh Jordan (@NumbersMuncher) December 17, 2017
Damn. @FooFighters came for blood man
— B.R.O.theR. ?uestion (@questlove) December 17, 2017
And they couldn’t have done it at all without those ugly Christmas sweaters.
Saturday Night Live returns with host Sam Rockwell and musical guest Halsey on January 13, 2018.