{"id":974122,"date":"2019-12-19T07:05:21","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T14:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=929307"},"modified":"2019-12-19T07:05:21","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T14:05:21","slug":"mariah-carey-performs-christmas-time-is-in-the-air-again-on-late-late-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/mariah-carey-performs-christmas-time-is-in-the-air-again-on-late-late-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Mariah Carey Performs \u2018Christmas Time Is in the Air Again\u2019 on \u2018Late Late Show\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Screen-Shot-2019-12-19-at-8.54.44-AM.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>On Wednesday night\u2019s&nbsp;<em>The Late Late Show<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/melissa-mccarthy\/\">Melissa McCarthy<\/a> stepped in for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/james-corden\/\">James Corden<\/a> as host and had on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/mariah-carey\/\">Mariah Carey<\/a> to perform a Christmas tune \u2014 no, not that Christmas tune, but \u201cChristmas Time Is in the Air Again,\u201d from her 2010 album <em>Merry Christmas II You<\/em>. Carey delighted the Studio 56 audience with her performance of the holiday ballad while wearing a sparkling silver gown and lush furs.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/svkq-SlbvCk?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>McCarthy kicked off the show with a monologue about her \u201cinclusion robe,\u201d made to recognize all the different holidays and cultural traditions happening around this time of year, as well as some more random selections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s not forget the Queen of England,\u201d she said, gesturing toward a doll of the British royal on her robe. \u201cLotta Brits watching this show. I didn\u2019t wanna leave them out. Here\u2019s what\u2019s really cool: She\u2019s 93 now, so this is to scale. This is her actual size.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZD6rGc0bQ6g?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>McCarthy also continued a long-running gag of Corden\u2019s, \u201cCelebrity Noses.\u201d The bit is that the host of&nbsp;<em>The Late Late Show<\/em> attempts to do a segment called Celebrity Noses, but is interrupted constantly by outside forces until they run out of time. McCarthy was very confident she could pull off the sketch that Corden has failed so consistently, but suffice it to say\u2026well, watch the clip.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/flxzmREmk5M?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>For another sketch, McCarthy appeared with actress Allison Janney, going over all of the films this year they had apparently been cut from:&nbsp;<em>Cats<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Little Women<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Star Wars<\/em>. This led to Janney and McCarthy acting out parodies of each film, including a very Eighties-style rendition of&nbsp;<em>Cats<\/em> and a lightsaber battle with DIY sound effects.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/mariah-carey-christmas-time-is-in-the-air-again-late-late-show-929307\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday night\u2019s&nbsp;The Late Late Show, Melissa McCarthy stepped in for James Corden as host and had on Mariah Carey to perform a Christmas tune \u2014 no, not that Christmas tune, but \u201cChristmas Time Is in the Air Again,\u201d from her 2010 album Merry Christmas II You. Carey delighted the Studio 56 audience with her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-974122","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 00:00:55","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=974122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}