Smith also served as musical guest Paul McCartney’s drummer on Season 51 finale<\/p>\n
\n\tWill Ferrell<\/a> and his celebrity lookalike, Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith<\/a>, reunited during the actor\u2019s Saturday Night Live<\/a> opening monologue.<\/p>\n \n\tAfter Ferrell was introduced as host of the Season 51 finale, it was Smith who emerged from backstage to greet the audience. \u201cThank you very much, I\u2019m thrilled to be back here hosting Saturday Night Live,\u201d Smith-as-Ferrell said. \u201cI was a cast member here for seven years, and now I\u2019m hosting for the sixth time. Amazing! It really feels like coming home.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tThe real Ferrell in the exact same suit then emerged from backstage: \u201cWhat the hell do you think you\u2019re doing?\u201d the actor asked the drummer. \u201cI think I\u2019m hosting the show,\u201d Smith said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \n\tFerrell then joked that Smith assaulted him backstage and \u201cLorne had to give me mouth-to-mouth.\u201d \u201cSeriously, what are you even doing here?\u201d Ferrell asked, to which Smith replied, \u201cOkay, I\u2019m the musical guest tonight.\u201d Ferrell clarified that Paul McCartney was the musical guest<\/a>, and then shooed Smith off the stage.<\/p>\n \t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n \n\tFerrell and Smith were both right: McCartney was the musical guest, but with Smith as guest of the musical guest, serving as surprise drummer for both \u201cDays We Left Behind\u201d and \u201cBand on the Run.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \n\tSince discovering that they looked alike<\/a> over a dozen years ago, Ferrell and Smith have occasionally played into their doppelgangerness, challenging each other to drum-offs on late-night television<\/a> and at charity events,<\/a> and even covering the Rolling Stones together<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Smith also served as musical guest Paul McCartney’s drummer on Season 51 finale Will Ferrell and his celebrity…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":649055,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[163899,88,12015,92,14072],"class_list":["post-649054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-chad-smith","tag-entertainment","tag-saturday-night-live","tag-tv","tag-will-ferrell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/649055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}