--- title: The Killers Play 'Joel the Lump of Coal' on Jimmy Kimmel description: On Jimmy Kimmel Live, The Killers performed their new Christmas single "Dirt Sledding" as well as last year's "Joel the Lump of Coal." canonical: https://time.com/4134438/jimmy-kimmel-the-killers-christmas-songs/ author: Tessa Berenson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-12-03T13:16:06.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T13:04:54.167Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Watch The Killers Perform 'Joel the Lump of Coal' on Jimmy Kimmel Live og:description: On Jimmy Kimmel Live, The Killers performed their new Christmas single "Dirt Sledding" as well as last year's "Joel the Lump of Coal." og:url: https://time.com/4134438/jimmy-kimmel-the-killers-christmas-songs/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt47cabf3b8da46ea7/698873a3196cf42cca039480/kilers-jimmy0-kimmel.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Kilers-jimmy0-kimmel og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch The Killers Perform 'Joel the Lump of Coal' on Jimmy Kimmel Live twitter:description: On Jimmy Kimmel Live, The Killers performed their new Christmas single "Dirt Sledding" as well as last year's "Joel the Lump of Coal." twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt47cabf3b8da46ea7/698873a3196cf42cca039480/kilers-jimmy0-kimmel.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch The Killers Perform 'Joel the Lump of Coal' on Jimmy Kimmel Live  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Dec 3, 2015 1:16 PM UTC  ABC  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Dec 3, 2015 1:16 PM UTC Now that it’s officially December, Jimmy Kimmel is getting in the holiday spirit with a little help from The Killers and their original Christmas songs. On Jimmy Kimmel Live Wednesday night, The Killers performed their new Christmas single “Dirt Sledding” as well as last year’s song, “Joel the Lump of Coal,” which you can watch above. The Killers have released a new Christmas song each year for the past decade, [NME reports](http://www.nme.com/news/the-killers/90105). All proceeds from the band’s Christmas singles go to RED, a global AIDs charity. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4134438/jimmy-kimmel-the-killers-christmas-songs/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4134438/jimmy-kimmel-the-killers-christmas-songs/"},"headline":"Watch The Killers Perform 'Joel the Lump of Coal' on Jimmy Kimmel Live","datePublished":"2015-12-03T13:16:06.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T13:04:54.167Z","description":"It's Christmas single time again","url":"https://time.com/4134438/jimmy-kimmel-the-killers-christmas-songs/","keywords":["Television","Music","Jimmy Kimmel"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt47cabf3b8da46ea7/698873a3196cf42cca039480/kilers-jimmy0-kimmel.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Tessa Berenson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt47cabf3b8da46ea7/698873a3196cf42cca039480/kilers-jimmy0-kimmel.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Kilers-jimmy0-kimmel","caption":"","creditText":"ABC","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4134438/jimmy-kimmel-the-killers-christmas-songs/","name":"Watch The Killers Perform 'Joel the Lump of Coal' on Jimmy Kimmel Live"}}]}] ```