Top 10 Worst SNL Musical Performances

Live from New York, it’s the worst SNL musical performance! We're looking at the worst musical performances to ever take place on Saturday Night Live. To be clear, we're not talking about controversial performances – hi Sinéad! – and we're not talking about dull performances, or artists who, years on, are forgotten and obscure. What we're talking about are performances that were monumentally disastrous, even in the moment, and that generated a lot of negative chatter afterwards. WatchMojo ranks the worst SNL musical performances. Which SNL musical performance do you think was the worst? Let us know in the comments!

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[WatchMojo]

In this video, we've mistakenly shown a clip of Richard Belzer, while talking about Christopher Lee. We regret the error.

[jennifer]

Meatloaf had throat cancer. Poor guy shouldn’t have been on this list.

[Chase-kdsq]

Wasn’t Meatloaf diagnosed with some type of throat cancer shortly after that performance? I don’t think he should have been on this list.

[flyphoenix]

Why do people let DJ Khaled perform he's not an artist. Looking at you Blizzard.

[woodleywilliams]

Fear on SNL was one of the greatest musical moments in history. You take a beloved dead comedian getting an actual real punk band who refused to play unless there were actual punk kids next to the stage, played a horribly offensive song about how terrible New York is, and then did $20K damage to the set (it's been reported to be closer to $100K)...that is epic, not terrible. That will never be able to happen again, it's a once in a lifetime moment and you call it one of the worst. That's as sad as roasting poor meatloaf. Didn't he have cancer?

DJ Khalid and his talentless "another one, DJ Khalid" shtick was literally the worst performance I've ever seen on SNL

[cordelia]

I didn’t even have to watch this to know that Ashlee Simpson was going to be number one

[susanmurphy]

DJ Khalid is nothing. When you are on stage and do nothing but constantly shout out your name, that takes no talent whatsoever.

[knowbrainer]

Yeah, Ashlee Simpson's performance was infamous... But DJ Khaled? Man, that was horrible. Shouting into a mic and getting other people to come in an sing/rap, and then shouting over them while they do... That should have been #1.

[kalibhakta]

Fear's performance is by far one of the greatest things that ever happened on SNL.

[Nick-gigk]

"Introduced by veteran actor Christopher Lee, with a groan-worthy joke—"
*shows clip of Richard Belzer doing a stand-up routine from that episode*

[rachelrandom]

Miss mojo calling Meat Loaf “Meat” and “Mr. Loaf” is the best thing ever

[Phoenix]

I clicked this fully assuming Ashley Simpson is number one lol

[dirtyrat]

i’m not a troye stan or anything but i’m confused why he’s here

[ailicecg]

Troye Sivan did not fail, he just did his thing and not everyone likes it

[hepatitis]

"We aren't including artists that have since dropped into obscurity."

"Here's Ashlee Simpson!"

[fallofegg]

Fear shouldn’t be on here, that’s one of the most legendary tv performances of all time.

[quibron]

FEAR is quite possibly one of the best performances on SNL ever. The riot continued out onto rockefeller plaza.

[ellawadbrook]

dj khaled doesn’t really deserve any of his fame

[NavajoNinja]

*ASHLEE SIMPSON* is the only person i thought of when i saw the thumbnail. Lol

[scaryterry]

Greta Van Fleet killed it, one of my favorite musical guests in years