Jimmy Fallon tried to get his fans into the holiday special with a new NBC special, but it left many bashing his singing and comedy stylings. The 50-year-old Tonight Show host debuted his new special Jimmy Fallon's Holiday Seasoning Spectacular, featuring songs from his Holiday Seasoning album that debuted in November.
The special featured Fallon searching for his "Christmas Ding Dong" throughout New York City, meeting many friends along the way such as J.B. Smoove, Dolly Parton, Meghan Trainor, Justin Timberlake, Cara Delevingne, "Weird" Al Yankovic, LL Cool J, Mariah Carey and his Tonight Show house band The Roots.
Fans were quick to bash the special on social media, which comes just days after many called him out for appearing to be drunk during the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. The one-hour special followed Jimmy's holiday quest with numerous songs peppered in, with many making it clear they're not a fan of his singing or his songwriting.
The holiday special begins with Fallon finding the special Holiday Seasoning House, where he tells J.B. Smoove he's on a quest to find the Christmas Ding-Dong. Smoove insists there is "Christmas magic behind every door", and he chooses one door and finds Questlove and Tariq from The Roots in Questlove's "childhood home".
They watch a show with Dolly Parton as it cuts into a claymation music video sequence with their song Almost too Early For Christmas. Then Questlove and Tariq show Jimmy more "Christmas magic", showing them all as kids singing Hey Rudy. He then finds a room with chipmunks and chestnuts, leading into his song Chipmunks and Chestnuts.
Jimmy then gets a text from Justin Timberlake, saying he can't go to the lodge this year even though it's a Christmas tradition, which leads into Jimmy and Justin's song You'll Be There.
Jimmy then goes into another door where he parodies a specific brand of Christmas movies with Cara Delevingne with their song Hallmark Movie. They have a "meet-cute" at a hardware store before leading into their song skewering the slew of similar Hallmark movies, even name-dropping Candace Cameron Bure.
Jimmy then meets LL Cool J at the hardware store, where they both find The Jonas Brothers in a snow globe. That leads into their song Holiday featuring both LL Cool J and The Jonas Brothers. Jimmy then teams up with Meghan Trainor for their duet Wrap Me Up, before Jimmy realizes that he himself is the Christmas Ding-Dong.
He then gets invited to an early New Year's Eve Party by "Weird" Al Yankovic, where they come up with a "fun" New Year's Eve song called New Year's Eve Polka. After inexplicably skiing through the sky, Jimmy gets a call from Mariah Carey, and she sings her classic All I Want For Christmas Is You, accompanied by classroom instruments.
The special ends with Fallon on the roof of 30 Rockefeller Center with the world-famous Rockettes. He belts out Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) as the Rockettes dance away on the roof.
The actual Holiday Seasoning album includes other songs like It Was a... (Masked Christmas) with Ariana Grande and Megan Thee Stallion. There is also One Glove with Will Ferrell, Merry Happy Christmas with Chelsea Handler and others like Coquito, Weird Cousin and Thanksgiving Eve.
(Daily Mail)
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