--- description: The video was part of NBC's "Red Nose Day" title: Watch Kermit the Frog and Ed Sheeran Sing "Rainbow Connection" image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Watch Ed Sheeran and Kermit the Frog and Sing 'Rainbow Connection' by [Sarah Begley](/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close May 22, 2015 11:27 AM CUT by [Sarah Begley](/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close May 22, 2015 11:27 AM CUT Kermit the Frog met up with his pal “Ed the Sheeran” to sing “Rainbow Connection,” an appropriate song to unite amphibian and human. The performance was part of NBC’s “Red Nose Day,” a telethon fundraising tradition in the U.K. that has raised money there for children’s charities for three decades. NBC tried out its own version of the live variety show on Thursday, raising about $10 million according to [_Variety_](http://variety.com/2015/tv/news/red-nose-day-nbc-seth-meyers-saturday-night-live-u2-1201503154/ "undefined"). That, as Kermit might say, is a lot of green. ### A Photographic History of Ed Sheeran and Taylor Swift Being BFFs  Ed Sheeran poses with Taylor Swift backstage before his sold-out show at Madison Square Garden Arena on November 1, 2013 in New York City. Anna Webber—Getty Images  Taylor Swift was joined on stage by Ed Sheeran as she kicked off the European leg of her blockbuster The RED Tour with the first of five sold-out shows at London's O2 Arena, playing to a capacity crowd of more than 15,500 fans, on February 1, 2014 in London, England. Gareth Cattermole—TAS/Getty Images  Taylor Swift joins Ed Sheeran on stage at his sold-out show at Madison Square Garden Arena on November 1, 2013 in New York City. Anna Webber—Getty Images  Ed Sheeran and Taylor Swift attend the 56th GRAMMY Awards at Staples Center on January 26, 2014 in Los Angeles, Ca. Kevin Mazur—WireImage/Getty Images  Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran attend the 2014 Vanity Fair Oscar Party Hosted on March 2, 2014 in West Hollywood, Ca. Kevin Mazur—WireImage/Getty Images  Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran perform onstage at the first of 13 North American stadium dates on The RED Tour at Ford Field in front of a sold-out crowd of more than 48,000 fans on May 4, 2013 in Detroit, Michigan. Christopher Polk—TAS/Getty Images  Singers Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran perform together at Z100's Jingle Ball 2012 at Madison Square Garden on Friday Dec. 7, 2012 in New York City. Evan Agostini—Invision/AP  Ed Sheeran made a special surprise appearance onstage during the finale of the North American portion of Taylor Swift's RED tour. The show played to a crowd of more than 14,000 fans on the final night of three sold-out hometown shows at Nashville's Bridgestone Arena on September 21, 2013. Larry Busacca—TAS/Getty Images ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3893739/kermit-ed-sheeran/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3893739/kermit-ed-sheeran/"},"headline":"Watch Ed Sheeran and Kermit the Frog and Sing 'Rainbow Connection'","datePublished":"2015-05-22T11:27:57.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:47:32.685Z","description":"The video was part of NBC's \"Red Nose Day\"","url":"https://time.com/3893739/kermit-ed-sheeran/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Music","ed sheeran"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sarah Begley","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"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/3893739/kermit-ed-sheeran/","name":"Watch Ed Sheeran and Kermit the Frog and Sing 'Rainbow Connection'"}}]}] ```