Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith stepped out instead of the “Saturday Night Live” alum.

Host Will Ferrell and rocker Chad Smith on ‘Saturday Night Live’.Credit: NBC

Saturday Night Live alum Will Ferrell hosted the season 51 finale.
When it was time to step out for his opening monologue, Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith came out instead.
The celebrity doppelgängers were also joined by the night’s musical guest, Paul McCartney.

Saturday Night Live had fans seeing double during the season 51 finale.

When six-time host Will Ferrell stepped out to deliver his monologue, which came shortly after appearing in the show’s cold open as Jeffrey Epstein, something seemed just a bit off about him. The reason for that? It was actually his longtime look-alike, Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith.

“I’m thrilled to be back here hosting Saturday Night Live,” Smith as Ferrell said, to loud cheers and applause from the live studio audience. “I was a cast member here for seven years, and now I’m hosting for a sixth time. It really feels like coming home,” he continued, this time with some knowing laughs sprinkled in with what seemed to be genuine cheers.

That’s when the real deal, clad in the exact same blue suit, popped out from behind the stage door, asking, “What the hell do you think you’re doing?”

After the real Ferrell exposed Smith to the audience, he claimed his doppelgänger had “pushed me down backstage, and I fell hard.”

After kicking Smith off the stage, the Anchorman actor tried to get things back on track.

“I’m sorry, that was weird, right? That was really weird,” he told the crowd. “You know what, let’s just do a hard reset.”

“Still weird, right? Yeah, I feel off,” he said, stopping himself just a moment later. “Chad Smith, he took the wind out of my sails. This sucks. I don’t even know if we should do the show. That’s where I’m at,” he bemoaned.

The funnyman soon found his groove thanks to an audience question from the show’s actual musical guest, Paul McCartney. Smith joined the duo again at the tail end of the monologue to help kick the show to commercial.

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This is far from the first time the comedian and rocker have played up their similar appearances. In 2014, they dressed identically on The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon and competed in a drum-off — complete with some cowbell, of course.

Smith also appeared in last year’s SNL doc Beyond Saturday Night in an episode dedicated to the fan-favorite “More Cowbell” sketch, pretending to play the real-life inspiration for Ferrell’s character.

Ferrell’s son, Magnus, has even gotten in on the joke. After he posted a shot of himself with his dad on TikTok and a commenter expressed surprise that the Step Brothers star had children, Magnus responded, “He doesn’t, that’s Chad Smith.”

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