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Biography

While drumming with Nirvana, Dave Grohl was recording original songs at home that never received public release. Those tapes would become the foundation of…more

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Role
- Saturday Night Live
  Themselves
  - S 36: Ep 19 Dame Helen Mirren/Foo Fighters
    4/9/11
  - S 33: Ep 3 Jon Bon Jovi/Foo Fighters
    10/13/07
- Late Show with David Letterman
  Guests
  - S 15: Ep 70 Show #2877
    2/20/08
- Late Show with David Letterman
  Guest
  - S 12: Ep 160 Show #2379
    6/13/05
  - S 10: Ep 96 Show #1959
    2/24/03
  - S 10: Ep 33 Show #1896
    10/31/02
  - S 9: Ep 82 Show #1737
    1/10/02
  - S 8: Ep 33 Show #1491
    10/11/00
  - + 6 More Credits
Guest Star (25)

Role
- Conan
  Guest Star
  - S 1: Ep 141 And The Wind Cried, "Harriet."
    9/15/11
  - S 1: Ep 137 Eat, Love, Lather, Rinse, Repeat
    9/8/11
- A Different Spin with Mark Hoppus
  Themselves
  - S 2: Ep 6 Episode 22
    4/15/11
- The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
  Selves
  - S 16: Ep 49 Foo Fighters
    4/11/11
- VH1's Top 20 Countdown
  Themselves
  - S 10: Ep 12 March 25, 2011
    3/25/11
  - S 8: Ep 51 Top 40 Videos of 2009
    12/18/09
  - S 6: Ep 50 Top 40 Videos of 2007
    12/11/07
- Later... with Jools Holland
  Themselves
  - S 35: Ep 8 Series 35, Show 8
    11/6/09
- Top Chef
  Guest Clients
  - S 5: Ep 3 Foo Fighters Thanksgiving
    11/26/08
- Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
  Themselves
  - S 13: Ep 10 Sir Anthony Hopkins, Jimmy Carr, Katy Brand, Foo Fighters.
    11/9/07
- Making the Video
  Themselves
  - S 13: Ep 17 The Pretender
    9/16/07
  - S 12: Ep 9 Best Of You
    5/18/05
  - S 8: Ep 3 The One
    12/17/01
- The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
  Guest
  - S 15: Ep 50 Brooke Shields; Jerome Bettis; Foo Fighters
    9/1/06
  - S 11: Ep 190 Show #2464
    4/9/03
- MTV Australia Awards
  Themselves
  - S 1: Ep 2 The 2nd MTV Australia Video Music Awards
    4/12/06
- The West Wing
  Themselves
  - S 7: Ep 17 Election Day (Part 2)
    4/9/06
  - S 7: Ep 16 Election Day (Part 1)
    4/2/06
- Saturday Night Live
  Themselves
  - S 31: Ep 5 Jason Lee/Foo Fighters
    11/12/05
  - S 28: Ep 15 Christopher Walken/Foo Fighters
    2/22/03
  - S 25: Ep 5 Dylan McDermott/Foo Fighters
    11/6/99
  - S 21: Ep 7 Anthony Edwards/Foo Fighters
    12/2/95
- Top of the Pops (UK)
  Performance
  - S 42: Ep 37 11th September 2005
    9/11/05
  - S 40: Ep 2 17th January 2003
    1/17/03
  - S 39: Ep 41 18th October 2002
    10/18/02
- The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
  Guests
  - S 14: Ep 4 Heather Locklear; John Leguizamo; Foo Fighters
    6/9/05
- MTV Movie Awards
  Themselves - Performers
  - S 14: Ep 1 2005 MTV Movie Awards
    6/4/05
- TRL (UK)
  Themselves
  - S 1: Ep 1 Tuesday 19th August 2003
    8/19/03
- The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn
  Musical Guest
  - S 6: Ep 6 Stephen Collins, Brooke Burnes, and Foo Fighters
    7/21/03
  - S 5: Ep 182 Cybill Shepherd, Dave Grohl, and Foo Fighters
    5/16/03
- $2 Bill
  Themselves
  - S 1: Ep 10 Foo Fighters
    11/2/02
- MTV Cribs
  Themselves
  - S 2: Ep 1 Pamela Anderson, Poison, Foo Fighters
    2/6/01
- The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn
  Themselves
  - S 3: Ep 103 Jewel, Richard Kind, and Foo Fighters
    11/24/00
  - S 3: Ep 39 Dave Grohl, Jason Mewes, and Foo Fighters
    8/25/00
  - S 2: Ep 241 Shane Mosley, John Singleton, and The Foo Fighters
    6/21/00
  - S 2: Ep 220 Dave Grohl, The Foo Fighters, and Jason Mewes
    5/23/00
- Making the Video
  themselves
  - S 2: Ep 16 Breakout
    5/1/00
- Glastonbury
  Themselves (Main Stage)
  - S 1: Ep 28 Glastonbury 1998
    1/1/98
- TFI Friday
  Themselves
  - S 3: Ep 14 Alan Hansen, Martine McCutcheon, Sheryl Crow, Foo Fighters, Fun Lovin' Criminals.
    12/12/97
  - S 2: Ep 31 Sean Bean, Tracy Shaw, The Seahorses, Foo Fighters, Hurricane #1.
    5/2/97
- Late Show with David Letterman
  Guests
  - S 4: Ep 153 Show #0802
    5/16/97
- Top of the Pops (UK)
  Promo Video
  - S 32: Ep 39 14th September 1995
    9/14/95

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- Dave Grohl's favorite album, New Day Rising by Hüsker Dü, is referenced in the lyrics to Foo Fighters' 2003 hit "Times Like These (One-Way Motorway)."
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- The Pretender is the new theme song for Friday Night Football in Australia.
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- Foo Fighters are #73 on VH1's 100 Greatest Artist of Hard Rock.
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- Dave: The first time I ever sat down with Michael Stipe was over breakfast at his vegetarian-friendly restaurant in Athens. He turned me on to 'facon' and 'soysage'.
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- Dave: Happiness is a good pint of Guinness.
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- Dave:(on his cameo on "The X-Files") I wanted to be the monster or the alien, something like that instead of like a dumb little cameo. I thought that'd be kinda fun.
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