Bruce Springsteen Enlists Paul McCartney, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler for ‘Saturday Night Live’ Christmas Finale

Rob Slater on December 20, 2015


Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band helped round out one of the better episodes of a particularly abysmal season of Saturday Night Live last night as the show closed out its 2015 schedule. Along with hosts Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, The Boss and the E Street Band offered up two tunes associated with the new, massive box set that details The River sessions. First up was “Meet Me in the City,” the very New York City-centric tune that falls in the unreleased column and appears on the box set. They returned

For the finale, Fey, Poehler and the band welcomed out Paul McCartney (as well as the whole SNL cast) for a rendition of “Santa Claus is Coming to Town.” Bruce called on the hosts and Sir Paul to help him out with the vocals as everyone donned Santa hats and danced their little hearts out into what surely was a bomb afterparty.

Watch all three performances below.

“Meet Me in the City”

“The Ties That Bind”

“Santa Claus is Coming to Town”