Julian Casablancas Covers "I Wish It Was Christmas Today"

A big part of what made Saturday Night Live's recurring yuletide classic "I Wish It Was Christmas Today" so perfect were the sight gags: Tracy Morgan's dead-eyed dance, Chris Kattan's head shake, even Jimmy Fallon's inability to keep a straight face through triggering the Casio presets. Horatio Sanz's blissfully silly vocal was just the tree topping. This version doesn't have any of that -- in fact the vocal is played as straight as "Boombox" -- but it's hard to fuck up a classic. As reported...

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