Jimmy Fallon took advantage of the 22-plus million viewers who typically tune into Sunday Night Football on NBC to host an all-new special Sunday edition of The Tonight Show. And he celebrated by bringing back a fan-favorite bit.
Jon Hamm, Lindsay Lohan, and musical guest Pharrell Williams joined Fallon for the special edition of The Tonight Show, but it was the Mad Men star who helped create what is sure to be one of the episode’s most viral moments. After chatting about Hamm’s starring role in the new Tyler Sheridan series Landman, Fallon asked his guest: “Do you remember when we used to be Creed?”
“Oh, of course I remember,” Hamm replied. “We were the lead singer of the band Creed.”
It was all a tee up to yet another of Fallon’s shot-for-shot remakes of a random old music video—in this case, for the 2000 power ballad “With Eyes Wide Open,” which memorably featured a bright yellow jacket and some mountaintop crooning.
Though it’s Creed lead singer (singular) Scott Stapp who stars in the early aughts music video, Fallon and Hamm share that role in their reimagining of the tune.
It’s not the first time Fallon has roped a guest into playing his musical sidekick. In 2015, Jack Black joined The Tonight Show host in remaking Extreme’s black-and-white video for the acoustic early ‘90s hit “More Than Words.”
In 2018, Fallon and Rudd memorably re-created the video for Go West’s 1990 hit “The King of Wishful Thinking.”
In 2019, the pair created mid-’80s musical magic when they attempted to remake Dead or Alive’s “You Spin Me Round (Like a Record).”
If you want to see how Hamm and Fallon’s rendering stacks up to the original, have at it:
