The Blue Jean Committee - SNL
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- Northampton's own favorite local band The Blue Jean Committee (Armisen, Segel, Thompson, Sudeikis) plays their song "Massachusetts Afternoon," which is filled with incredibly specific local references, for an enthusiastic crowd of locals. [Season 37, 2011]
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For me the best part of the video is the cut away to Bobby Moynihan acting like they were singing straight to his soul.
It is definitely Fred's idea. Check out his "Documentary Now" series with Bill Hader. The episode "Gentle and Soft: The Story of the Blue Jean Committee" expands on this sketch. It's brilliant. Also, the "Kunuk of the North" episode is one of the best/funniest things you'll ever watch :)
This is for sure a Fred Armisen sketch. It's the perfect blend of weird, very specific and incredibly well executed.
@@philllobato5938 oh yea its great. Ripping on the History of the Eagles. They talked about that one a lot during one of the 92SY panels.
If you’ve watched ‘Documentary Now’ Hader/Armisen did a whole fake doc on the Blur Jean Committee.
It also gives him a chance to make music.
@@treypyle4565 This is the SNL sketch that inspired “Gentle & Soft: The Story of the Blue Jean Committee.” It’s brilliant on IFC.
This was a sketch?
The wig department at SNL deserves a lifetime achievement Emmy. They really should make a greatest hits box set too.
I'd buy that
amen
Omfg I was thinking the same thing! Flawless!
I remember watching this sketch with my parents back when this sketch came out when I was 13, and I looked up to my mom partway through and said, "Mom, this sounds like the music YOU listen to!" completely unironically. My Dad choked on his drink in his chair.
Just imagine the years of nausea we endured in the 70’s when this insipid nonsense was on the radio every day. Still have a callous on my radio push button finger from changing the station when America, Seals and Crofts or Christopher Cross came on.
@@chasbodaniels1744 It's called Yacht Rock. And it's glorious.
@@jasonsugar4297 Aaaa hahaha, you’re funny! This is a parody of cotton candy music … all sugary fluff and zero substance.
Yacht Rock. Oh yeah!
Sorry to hear about your dad
Great, now I'm singing Massachusets afternoons all day at work. Lol
Massachusetts afternoon is a jam, I knew it even before the sketch
The thing about Armisen’s musical sketches is that the songs are always legit bangers.
SO true. His music sketches are always great, and he can write in so many different genres. I still rewatch the punk band at the wedding skit just to hear Fist Fight!
Suddenly wild Paul Rudd and Florence appear.
Rolf & Gonzo in a sketch about a local band at a townie bar was just the random touch I needed tonight.
damn, no love for Bobby Moynihan? his expression at 01:47 is everything!
Yeah that made me laugh so hard. 😂😂
He's really feeling it
Most underrated cast member
Hands down the best part.
@@DT-lq1ds 100% agree.
This sketch is absolutely perfect. It's not even really making fun of anything. It's just people vibing to a pretty decent song and yet it hits a certain comedic snare, I can't really explain it.
If anything it's just making fun of the people of Massachusetts. They're often quite into Massachusetts.
I live in western mass and every time i leave to go anywhere, the second i get back to Franklin county I breathe a huge sigh of relief over how much easier it is to have a high quality of life with everything you need close by, no traffic, no hoards of people acting like the seagulls in finding nemo, affordable housing and a wide variety of locally produced food from small ethical farms. They're making fun of me and i like it.
Sheer genius.
Andy Samberg at the very end breaking the 4th wall to the home audience with the glass of milk....professors 100 years from now will be holding debates as to the significance of what it means
its very clearly making fun of this kind of band and this kind of crowd.
This is basically Lou Reed's "Coney Island Baby"
i was gonna comment that there is a strong lou reed element at moments and figured people would think I'm nuts. I guess some of us know whats going on after all!
@@TheSickNeeds Thought the same thing right off the bat
Its definitely a mix of that and jonathan richman/modern lovers - who was obsessed with lou reed and wrote almost all his songs about massachusetts.
@@kirbybukowski547 closer to about ten percent of their songs were about mass.
@@TheSickNeeds Yeah, I was thinking the Velvet Underground.
The Documentary Now! episode with the Blue Jean Committee is by far my favorite one. It's funny, I never realized Fred must have come up with the idea as an SNL skit. Anyone who hasn't seen the show should check it out
There is an interview somewhere with Bill Hader when he tools on the Eagles and Don Henley. Tough guys who sing wimpy songs. "If you don't hit the high notes on Take it to the Limit I am gonna break your effing face"!!
Yesss!!! I just made a similar comment for "Documentary Now".
"Kunuk of the North," my favorite :)
this is why i love SNL. you wouldn't get this anywhere else. it's barely even coherently a sketch, and yet it's perfect
Really, it’s Fred Armisen. Guy’s a genius
@@PoopVintner no fred armisen sucks. He's a terrible actor and a terrible comedian. The only time he was funny was when he played liberachi.
@@alexlambson8273 it's not a joke. He sucks. Lol
It is a skit. you know exactly what hes talking about if you are from Massachusetts, and it is hilarious
@@lucyfuir6386 i don,t get any of it. To me it's just random gibberish for no reason.
The song was actually pretty good.
stfu idiot
No it wasn't but it WAS funny
This is just a plain old good song!
The melody is from a Michael Kiwanuka song I'll Get Along
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@@jeffcahill5722 the melody is from about 100 different songs.
how you know this isn't a real local gig is because you can actually hear the vocals. j/s
underrated comment
Man thats true as shit
Harsh.... But true.
It’s because of this reason that if a local band asks me at least a week ahead, and I’m free, I’ll run sound for the show for cheap. However, if expected to do work beyond mixing, I will charge accordingly.
I have no idea what the joke is supposed to be here, if anything... and yet, this is one of my favorite sketches. Love when Florence Welch and the Muppets show up and everyone's just grooving, such a chill, fun vibe to end the episode.
Somehow after 40 years of SNL I've never seen this sketch before, yet it's the most perfect sketch I've ever seen
Ok jokes aside, this is actually kinda jamming...
Right? I’m diggin it!
This sketch is no joke, this song is a BANGER.
what I like about this sketch is how feel good local gigs can be because you're all from the same town. Very communal. Also, even if a band wasn't that great but they still got signed or started touring they'd get behind them just because they're locals.
Lmao you just described my experience w highly suspect (from mass)
I grew up in Halifax nova Scotia Canada and for us it was The Joel Plaskett Emergency
I didn't expect The Muppets..😂
They’re contractually obligated to show up whenever Jason Segal makes an appearance.
He did a Muppets movie around the time of this sketch.
a really lovely song tbh
Yes, isn't it. Fred Armisen is really talented..
gentle and soft...smooth and easy
I’m so glad this concept was given two full Documentary Now episodes to be fully fleshed out. Honesty the BJC is pretty great, despite not being real.
hwhat documentary you talking about? Something's out?
@@nataliazkontekstu it’s a show called documentary now. It’s about fake documentaries and it’s on Netflix and theirs an episode about BJC
@@nataliazkontekstu its a great show. each episode parodies a different documentary or documentary style/theme, and its by armisen, hader, meyers, and mulaney (though not all of them are actually in episodes). you should definitely check it out!
@@lilianjohnson2532 It looks like it's unavailable in my country, story of my life
@@nataliazkontekstu ugh that sucks :/ ik hkw that feels
If having this song in my everyday Spotify playlist and unironcally listening to it because it makes me feel good is wrong, I don't ever want to be right!
Having been a nusician in the Western Massachusetts music scene, I am in awe of how perfectly they nailed reality. I swear Ive been on the bill with these guys 😂 The only thing they missed was Eric Suhr getting a piece of their merch sales after. Even the audience was spot on
Jesus, going for the Real estate deep cut on this one
@@timwhite5562 😂
It must have been intimidating for them to perform in front of the Muppets, Rowlf is - of course - a local music legend
I'm surprised the two gumpy old men weren't there too, stuffed in a booth at the back of the bar, bitchin about the band. Lol The Muppets rocked and I'm so glad they were in my era.
Being from Northampton, Massachusetts, can confirm the accuracy of this song.
Bill Hader is fab in this
Muppets? 😂
*Everything
Hes fab in everything tbh
As someone who grew up in western Massachusetts, I can confirm that this is exactly what life there is like!
Up top for Great Barrington. Yeah! More mellow, please.
im literally from easthampton ma which is RIGHT NEXT TO northampton so it was so wild to hear them say that
You can always tell when Fred was involved in a sketch because he never minds cutting out the jokes if it means he can show off his song writing skills.
I keep coming back for this song! Ugh! Why do I enjoy this so much?
I have many questions, chief among them: Why is Clark tending bar instead of singing the high notes on stage?
This is the actual performance where he met Gene. And then well......the rest is history I guess.
@@linnycrocus6023 I thought they met in sausage school
This was more wholesome than anything, the humor was there but it had that genuine goodness to it if that makes any sense
They are actually playing the music live by themselves, great!
I clicked as soon as I read The Blue Jean Committee because I thought the one from Doc Now! performed on SNL
You can see the audience actually enjoying the jam on the drum's reflection
Not gonna lie, if I heard this at a local pub I’d certainly be vibing along with a cinnamon beer in hand 😂
This sketch perfectly defines a popular local band at a townie bar. #localmusic
Fred Armisen just gets it
Except with The Muppets.
I know people in them bands ... shhh.....
I’ve played in those bands. It’s hilarious and fun as hell. Some nights are 🔥, others an absolute disaster. Good times.
Fred said on a podcast recently that the "joke" here is when lyrics are way too detailed and specific. What a wonderfully odd theme for a skit. Really catchy tune also. My kids and I will occasionally sing the chorus in front of my wife just to plant that ear worm and drive her crazy.
lol Bill Hader cracked me up hard
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I'm not entirely sure what I just watched... But i sure as hell enjoyed that
I went to school in Noho. That's supposed to be Pearl Street Night Club. It's closed now, but the last shot of the outside of the building is what it looked like. I remember waiting in line at night to go see Built to Spill. Amazed that SNL peeps captured so accurately the vibe of a small quirky town.
haha I love jonathan richman and the modern lovers
radio on…
One of the few SNL sketches where Kristen Wiig just looks like herself.
I remember every morning when I was a child in the late 70s period my parents would play The Blue Jean committee every single morning!
Wait? What? There's a REAL band with that name? Is this a parody of them?
@@toriwisdom8385 th-cam.com/video/PfrHCNo2I3M/w-d-xo.html
They didn't exist until snl
It was an episode from Documentary Now! - which started in 2015.
@@scbelle104 They didn't exist until Documentary Now!, a series which was available on IFC beginning in 2015. :)
Fun fact: The barman later joined the band and ripped everyone off.
The weird thing is, he was the only one who _didn't_ have CIA and mob connections.
with the appearance of the muppets at the end, this feels like a band that they meet while travelling across the country that they bring with them to perform on the muppet show
i went to northampton high school - SNL nailed it - absolutely nailed it.
All the Western Massachusetts people in the comments be like 'why is my Sunday afternoon on SNL?'
The spoken part of the song kinda had a Velvet Underground thing going on.
I was trying to figure out why this sounded vaguely familiar and you nailed it
The local band version of "Rock and Roll"
this was.... beautiful...?!
The second time the chorus hit I was singing along 😂😂😂😂
Paul Rudd sleazing in is hilarious! Perfect dufus!
Documentary Now! really took this sketch to new heights!
The muppets got me! 😆
This song pops up in my head once every few months. Hopefully will continue to do that for the rest of my life.
i love how paul rudd is just in this
Lou Reed could never! 😂
i have absolutely no idea what this sketch is about
A very local band in flyover country, singing an absurdly detailed song about very local happenings, and the audience that grooves along to it exponentially. I'd say contextual comedy, mainly. And of course the band really pulls it off.
it's because only people in his neighborhood can relate
It delights me how people who live in the actual Northampton must react to the verisimilitude of Locust Street's mention.
about a ridicules band that got this fans, who think they are epic.
@@dgriite adding to this, those *local* boys just got signed and they're about to go on their first *national* tour.
Not sure if this could even be considered a sketch, but I'd sure as hell listen to it if they made an actual album, or at least a full-length song, lol
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enjoy
documentary now did a parody of the eagles doc about them so there's more songs from that
There’s a lot on Spotify
His name is still Marshall even on this sketch, love you Jason
Looking at their hands, I think they’re all really playing their instruments, that’s so awesome. Also unironically a good song. I could see myself jamming to this at a warm cozy bar like Bobby is doing
Fred and Keenan are for sure, and maybe Sudeikis- the snare hit was right, but I am not sure about Segal playing the keys for real.
@@zombi3907they all played their instruments in this. Segel wrote the music for forgetting Sara Marshall and the Muppets movie he was in. Dude is really talented.
@@zombi3907 The sounds match up, and he's looking at his fingers a lot... playing for real
So ten or more years later I find this and my son had a bad fall off a ladder..messed up his ankle real bad..I go to his house to help him with his life and I show him this on my phone..he laughed his ass off. Best day ever and we got thru such a horrible time and I only pray life gets back to better cuz the whole world went so nuts
Ok. two things:
1. What is the name of that hat Segel is wearing?
2. I'm from Holyoke, MA and I can confirm that this song can be pretty relevant.
it's a take on the newsboy style hat. sometimes it's also called a "poorboy hat" or "slouchy newsboy"
That's some flights of conchords moment
Thought I was the only one haha
Me too. Very Flight-esque.
paul rudd is forever cute
Turned out to be an Awesome Episode on Documentary Now.
Love Love That Show!! Fred Armisen is The BEST!!
Yes!
Unfortunately I watched this skit before going to bed last night. I couldn't stop singing, "Massachusetts afternoon".
i’m in love with this sketch this is so important this should win every award ever includong the nobel peace prize
i see you on all my favorite sketches u are so rigjt
This made me feel really good, he painted that picture darn well. Now I can sleep in a good mood
Every once in a while I will blurt out singing “Massachusetts afternoon”
This is the best Velvet Underground show I've ever seen
🎶Gentle...and soFT🎶
I've lived in Northampton all my life and have never been in the "Empty Glass" So when this song hit the Billboard charts I started spending my afternoons looking for this bar. Nothing yet. Good thing I'm retired.
Where is Clark Honus' high pitched sound? I am disappointed!
If we could just get that blend. One more time.
That was a very funny one ! I died when they are so much into the song ; it really felt like we were in the 70's or something
how come Bill Hader just shows up and without a single word he steals the whole sketch
This is the low key ABSOLUTE FIREEEEEEEE
I died when I saw the “crowd” reaction then the FREAKING muppets!!! And I’m 💀
What a great song!
I love how this was adapted for an episode of documentary now
The key ingredient is the local crowd acting like this is the most universal song ever written.
fred, jason, paul, kristen. there's no better cast than this
and bill
fantine descard and andy
I love this all of them just chillin having fun... 💙 especially bill and tarran lol
Hahahah I love the Paul Rudd cameo hahahah it was so unexpected ahahah
The supporting cast make this sketch how much they are jamming to this song.
Who knew the bartender would one day become the most prominent member of the band
I can't stop laughing but I don't even know why this is funny! Hahaha
The Doc now on them is amazing truly an iconic band
Everyone was phenomenal in this sketch. Fred and the band, Bobby, Bill, Abby, Andy, Vanessa, the girl swinging to the song. Lovely ❤️
First of all...what an amazing song, chill but relatable in a weird way. But the ending is so great...Bill Hader, Taran Killam and Andy Samberg just make great patrons and its just perfect
I've got it on repeat... Can't get enough 😁
why is this actually such a nice song
This is one of those videos which just wholesome. Doesn't give any punches but makes you smile the whole time.
Reporting from Northampton: still accurate
The cut to Bobby in the crowd is legend.
In parts, it's like a combination of Paul Simon and Lou Reed. Not bad at all.
There is definitely some Lou Reed in there
one of my all time fav sketch
Love this on so many levels.