Last night, Dave Chappelle did his best Thom Yorke impression at a Taylor Hawkins tribute performance in Los Angeles. The comedian joined the Foo Fighters on stage late in the night to play Radiohead’s classic “Creep.”
During the rendition, Chappelle urged the crowd to join him, shouting, “Everyone needs to sing this shit.” After he left the stage, Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl added, “Didn’t see that one coming, did you?”
Those who have been following Chappelle may have seen it coming. In 2021, the comedian covered the song with the Foo Fighters. And he performed it at Erykah Badu’s 45th birthday party in 2016, and a year later, he and Ed Sheeran sang it at an afterparty in Washington, D.C. According to sources, Chappelle also performed the Pablo Honey cut in 2020 at his socially distant July 4th comedy show in Yellow Springs, Ohio.
Last night, the Foo Fighters paid homage to Hawkins, their late drummer, at the Kia Forum in Los Angeles. Hawkins’ musical buddies were among those who played at their homage to him earlier this month in London.
Before the festivities got underway, the band addressed the audience. “This is the hometown shit, so you gotta make it loud,” Grohl said, adding, “What we really wanted to do was to pay tribute to Taylor in a way that you could sort of spend some time in his musical mind, which could be a pretty terrifying place. But just as the show in London, we’ve all gathered here to celebrate this person that has touched our lives, whether from afar or for all of his friends and family and loved ones and musician buddies and heroes that are here tonight.”
Joan Jett opened the evening with a performance of some of her hits, including “Cherry Bomb” and “Bad Reputation,” backed by the surviving Foo Fighters and Travis Barker on drums. Miley Cyrus later joined the Foos and Def Leppard for a cover of Def Leppard’s 1983 classic “Photograph.”
Chappelle also performed at a memorial event in London earlier last month. Last summer, the comedian performed “Creep” with the Foo Fighters at Madison Square Garden.