As promised, Stephen Colbert appeared on Friday night’s episode of “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” to perform Rebecca Black’s atrocious yet catchy viral hit “Friday.” Not merely content to let America’s best satirist sing with arguably the best live band in the country, Fallon loaded the performance with surprise guest appearances and a spectacle of excess that calls to mind SNL’s “What Up With That” sketch, and in the process created a marvel of television: five minutes of pure FUN FUN FUN FUN that warmed even my tiny black heart.
Watch the video below, and keep in mind that this only happened because people donated tens of thousands of dollars to an education charity. What’s this strange, positive feeling inside of me? Is there a word for “not cynicism”?
https://www.hulu.com/embed/zg3t9oWyfsj8-ZSvacfPlA
For non-American viewers, here’s the YouTube version. Enjoy it now before NBC goes all copyright infringement on it.
