Trisha Yearwood Helps Ring in the Holidays With ‘You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch’ During NBC Special

Trisha Yearwood will help usher in the holiday spirit Wednesday night (Dec. 3) by serving as host for NBC’s Christmas in Nashville. In this early look at the television special, Yearwood trades in stately holiday classics for one with a little more bite, performing “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch.” The song was originally composed for the 1966 film Dr. Seuss’ How The Grinch Stole Christmas and has since become a holiday standard.

The Christmas in Nashville special will air on NBC starting at 10 p.m. ET, following NBC’s Christmas in Rockefeller Center. The special will also stream the following day on Peacock.

Aimed at helping bring viewers some holiday cheer straight from Music City, Christmas in Nashville was filmed at Luke Combs’s Category 10 bar. The special will also feature performances from Bill Murray & His Blood Brothers, Lauren Alaina, Ne-Yo, The War and Treaty, and Trace Adkins. Christmas in Nashville was executive produced by Jesse Collins Entertainment.

Last month, Yearwood released her holiday album Christmastime, which includes her recorded version of “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch,” along with other her renditions of classic holiday tunes like “Candy Cane Lane” and Elvis Presley’s “Blue Christmas.” The album also includes an original holiday track, “Merry Christmas, Valentine,” which Yearwood wrote and recorded with her husband and fellow country star Garth Brooks.

Christmastime is Yearwood’s first holiday album since 2016’s Christmas Together, which she recorded with Brooks. She previously recorded a solo holiday album, The Sweetest Gift, which first released in 1994.

Watch three-time Grammy winner Yearwood sing this ode about the beloved “Mr. Grinch” being as “cuddly as a cactus” and as “charming as an eel” below: