It was quite the week for musical performances on late-night TV, beginning with Lady Gaga’s peerless staging of “Killah” on Saturday Night Live, a stunning work of musicianship and choreography made all the more impressive by the fact that it was cooked up in a week that saw her perform double duty as both host and musical guest.
But the late night musical performance that brought us the most joy this week came at the end of Wednesday night’s premiere of Everybody’s Live with John Mulaney, when California hip hop legends Cypress Hill performed “Hits From the Bong,” off their platinum 1993 album Black Sunday.
In short, you haven’t lived until you’ve seen Cypress Hill accompanied by the 17-piece London Symphony Orchestra while Mulaney’s other guests bop along.
The image of Joan Baez, who earlier in the program delivered a deadly serious statement about American democracy “going up in flames,” letting loose with what might best be described as an interpretative dance is one we won’t soon forget.
I'll send you an ounce in the mail. #EverybodysLive pic.twitter.com/i0bW84lus2
— John Mulaney (@mulaney) March 14, 2025
Though guests on Everybody’s in L.A. (the predecessor to Mulaney’s new Netflix series) were also shown on camera appreciating the show’s musical guests—Richard Kind dancing along to Warren G performing “Regulate” comes to mind—Baez set a new bar that we can only hope the show’s future guests will seek to top.
Watch Cypress Hill’s full performance of “Hits From the Bong” from Everybody’s Live with John Mulaney on YouTube.
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