Fred Armisen and Bill Hader Tell the Very True History of Simon and Garfunkel | GQ

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  • ‘Documentary Now’ duo Fred Armisen and Bill Hader recounts the hits of singer-songwriters Simon and Garfunkel.
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Komentáře • 253

  • @Bbelblelo
    @Bbelblelo Před 7 lety +628

    i could have watched 18 more hours of this i think. thats why documentary now is so delightful.

  • @annerako
    @annerako Před 7 lety +611

    You don't like "Bridge Over Troubled Water"? YOU'RE gonna be in troubled water!

    • @NellieKAdaba
      @NellieKAdaba Před 6 lety +3

      Anne Rakowiecki lol

    • @wylierichardson-tu6zs
      @wylierichardson-tu6zs Před 4 měsíci +1

      It's well-known that S&G had big-time 'mob' connections. Frank Sinatra looked like a choirboy, compared to what those two were up to! :-P

  • @graziaszczerbanov6925
    @graziaszczerbanov6925 Před 7 lety +201

    I love Simon & Garfunkel and I love Bill Hader & Fred Armisen. So this was an absolute treat!

    • @mickyw377
      @mickyw377 Před 6 lety

      Grace Zerba Paul Simon was better by himself.

    • @waynej2608
      @waynej2608 Před 4 lety

      You've great taste.

    • @jodiedsa
      @jodiedsa Před 3 lety

      Same ❤️❤️❤️

    • @chasepatterson2036
      @chasepatterson2036 Před rokem +1

      Plot twist:
      Fred and Bill were projecting THEIR lifestyle on to Paul and Art.

    • @romancandle416
      @romancandle416 Před měsícem

      I love Simon & Garfunkel, too. That's why I was so shocked to learn that they were a couple and also evidently in the mafia.

  • @linnycrocus6023
    @linnycrocus6023 Před 4 lety +222

    Why do I find Bill Hader's NY accent lowkey terrifying

    • @therosaliereeves
      @therosaliereeves Před 3 lety +23

      I find it lowkey highly arousing lol

    • @cjhooversd
      @cjhooversd Před 3 lety +13

      @@therosaliereeves It can be both.

    • @spek-27
      @spek-27 Před rokem +2

      You should see his Desus & Mero interview. He does a whole bit on fans with heavy NY accents coming up to him on the street.

  • @chasbodaniels1744
    @chasbodaniels1744 Před 7 lety +624

    The B+W cut-ins of them as S+G are perfectly hilarious. They nail the vaguely afraid and deer-in-the-headlights facial expressions. Also the fey mannerisms.

    • @NORMITAMIL
      @NORMITAMIL Před 7 lety +2

      Elderly brothers unchained melody

    • @phoghat
      @phoghat Před 7 lety +9

      Paul and Arty were actually pretty nice guys. Met them through a mutual friénd1966

    • @ninaanderson2408
      @ninaanderson2408 Před 7 lety

      Thomas Sobieski to

    • @carthag
      @carthag Před 6 lety

      yes also please watch "documentary now"

    • @MsMaureena
      @MsMaureena Před 6 lety +4

      Thomas Sobieski say that with an Italian American Brooklyn accent :)

  • @jenns.5791
    @jenns.5791 Před 8 měsíci +16

    I love that Fred has the most innocent, childlike laugh at times. He puts his hands between his knees and turns his feet in. 1:44
    So cute! 😊

  • @aiai-j7i
    @aiai-j7i Před 7 lety +62

    "Can you make it Robinson, for the Midwest.." Hahaha! In stitches!

    • @matthewwelch4305
      @matthewwelch4305 Před 3 lety +1

      Too bad they always seemed to play to the Midwest, otherwise we could've seen the real S&G.
      It was all because of that show in Kalamazoo!

  • @runteldat2588
    @runteldat2588 Před 6 lety +45

    "Hold on- listen to what you just said you meatball"

  • @Bondoz007
    @Bondoz007 Před 7 lety +292

    Can we have the Drunk History version now?!

  • @peterszabo3306
    @peterszabo3306 Před 6 lety +113

    These guys have been and will remain to be hilarious.....

  • @violetmoon2283
    @violetmoon2283 Před 3 lety +113

    Bill looks stupid hot in this interview

  • @AlexLlorens-jk8sd
    @AlexLlorens-jk8sd Před 3 měsíci +5

    Armisen and Hader are absolute comedic geniuses! Also, Fred is so musically talented. I could watch these guys all day.

  • @AC-iz6fg
    @AC-iz6fg Před 7 lety +26

    The expressions Fred does are so hilarious. This is very funny.

  • @phaikia13
    @phaikia13 Před 7 lety +198

    Simon and Garfunkel, debt collection agency co.

  • @joyos71
    @joyos71 Před 4 lety +30

    I freakin love Fred Armison...I miss Portlandia😭

    • @wvu05
      @wvu05 Před 2 měsíci

      The dream of the 90s is still alive in Portland.

  • @davehoward22
    @davehoward22 Před 10 měsíci +6

    "You don't like that song bridge over troubled water,your gonna be in troubled water"😊

  • @JasonWindsor88
    @JasonWindsor88 Před 8 měsíci +7

    Fred’s stupid looking facial expressions as Paul Simon interspersed in them riffing ridiculously is seriously comedic gold

  • @JerKur18
    @JerKur18 Před 6 lety +32

    Bill Hader puts that stank on the f word.

  • @kennethmartin8715
    @kennethmartin8715 Před 7 lety +233

    no one will believe this, but I went to high school with Bill hader. graduated a year ahead of me

    • @janesconsulting
      @janesconsulting Před 7 lety +13

      I bet your school was hilarious.

    • @kennethmartin8715
      @kennethmartin8715 Před 7 lety +76

      we were in the same speech class... he used to kill... that's were he freaked his German persona, making fun of the German teacher...Herr Weaver

    • @janesconsulting
      @janesconsulting Před 7 lety +10

      I'd not be able to give a speech in front of him. You guys learned a lot more than was taught!

    • @Cherry-zt8cj
      @Cherry-zt8cj Před 7 lety +14

      do you have any stories to share?? what was he like!

    • @MrRp25
      @MrRp25 Před 7 lety +1

      Unbelievable eh

  • @dwinasharitaadinda
    @dwinasharitaadinda Před 6 lety +14

    Mrs Rosalanaaa...that cracks me up sooo badd🤣🤣🤣

  • @StylistFia127
    @StylistFia127 Před 3 lety +11

    As an Italian American, who loves these guys so much...especially Bill😍💋 ...this is very accurate. WE ARE NOT THE WORSE THOUGH!!!!!!😂😂😂

  • @PogieJoe
    @PogieJoe Před 7 lety +49

    What a hilarious duo.

  • @jasonbarton9352
    @jasonbarton9352 Před 6 lety +16

    1:00 sounds like everyone i knew growing up. Laughing so hard I had tears. OMG so funny!

  • @ljp9402
    @ljp9402 Před 7 lety +26

    i love bill hader so much

  • @Wild.Wild.Web.
    @Wild.Wild.Web. Před 5 lety +8

    I’ve rewatched this so many times in the last 2 weeks.

  • @nefwaenre
    @nefwaenre Před 6 lety +14

    These two are Best Friend goals and also, Bill as Garfunkel is absolutely awesome!!

  • @MrsGreenCrocs
    @MrsGreenCrocs Před 7 lety +29

    I need friends with this kind of humour 😂💜

    • @leloodallasmultipass
      @leloodallasmultipass Před 7 lety +2

      it's an American style of humor so you'll also need to accept your new friends' love of Trump.

    • @laurelhanke4801
      @laurelhanke4801 Před 7 lety +4

      Uhh, actually even most Americans are self-aware enough to realize he's a joke. I mean, he had 3 million fewer votes.

    • @leloodallasmultipass
      @leloodallasmultipass Před 7 lety

      3 million difference is just barely less than half of those who voted.

    • @DdDd-gd1rr
      @DdDd-gd1rr Před 6 lety

      Inbal Ida Well, you'll need to find male friends cause women aren't this funny.

  • @mileenabelle
    @mileenabelle Před 4 lety +12

    These two would be great on drunk history

  • @blondiez1981
    @blondiez1981 Před 7 lety +31

    Yes please. More.

  • @TimSticle
    @TimSticle Před 7 lety +27

    this is like a low budget drunk history

  • @kombinatsiya6000
    @kombinatsiya6000 Před 4 lety +8

    Bill would be amazing as a wise-cracking wiseguy in a Scorsese movie. Fred could play the mouthy waiter who gets shot.

  • @zeroThreeSixHD
    @zeroThreeSixHD Před rokem +1

    I could watch these two riff off of random prompts for the rest of my life. Fred is the best

  • @crazysingingchick
    @crazysingingchick Před 7 lety +100

    Look at that Soc!!! 😂😂😂😂

  • @ericquitugua5546
    @ericquitugua5546 Před 6 lety +6

    Jesus, they are the perfect comedy duo haha

  • @johantrenier1685
    @johantrenier1685 Před 6 lety +5

    I was waiting for Paul Simon to walk in at the end. He had some funny SNL moments. Funny though. 👍

    • @waynej2608
      @waynej2608 Před 4 lety +2

      That would be cool, if Simon walked in with two big goons, called Tony and Guido. And then said, 'so you punks got the 50 clams, you owe me?!'
      And Hader, without missing a beat, explains, 'But Paulie, we lost it on Da Mets!'

  • @CaptCanuck4444
    @CaptCanuck4444 Před 2 měsíci +2

    Confirmed, I was their loan shark.

  • @wildoceanappaloosawomangay2535
    @wildoceanappaloosawomangay2535 Před 2 měsíci +1

    Fred is a totally odd genius
    💚

  • @Toxodos
    @Toxodos Před 7 lety +6

    1:51 look he's trying not to laugh, that never happened before!

  • @YouOpaOpa
    @YouOpaOpa Před 4 lety +2

    I never knew all that stuff about Simon & Garfunkle. So cool

  • @cjaronsson963
    @cjaronsson963 Před 7 lety +4

    why haven't these two gotten a movie deal yet?????? MR. HOLYYWODD MAKE IT HAPPEN. lol idk peas out love you… ?

  • @StuUngar
    @StuUngar Před 3 lety +2

    I literally cracked up laughing when I saw the thumbnail

  • @BerdiinH
    @BerdiinH Před 7 lety +21

    This is perfect comedy

  • @MsMaureena
    @MsMaureena Před 6 lety +2

    Can't imagine this world without 'dees two guys here' :)

  • @salvatornado
    @salvatornado Před 6 lety +10

    "Hey look at the Soc"

  • @cheetolics
    @cheetolics Před 7 lety +2

    Man this movie would kill if they did it

  • @illbeburningstar1
    @illbeburningstar1 Před 6 lety +4

    This shits great they riff so so well

  • @oogabooga9296
    @oogabooga9296 Před 7 lety +3

    What a great duo

  • @shakespearefreak-upon-Avon

    2:12 I nearly choked on my sandwich when Bill said that 🤣

  • @isabellafernandes8825
    @isabellafernandes8825 Před 4 lety +3

    bill looks SO GOOD in this interview! i wanna cry and screen

  • @DunmoresMovieMania
    @DunmoresMovieMania Před 3 měsíci

    Bill Hader as Garfunkel??? - Clicked on it IMMEDIATELY!!!!

  • @karenscigliano9787
    @karenscigliano9787 Před 3 měsíci

    One of my all time fav snl skits was when Paul Simon played "Billy Paul" in the ice cream parlor...such a great memory of my mom and me laughing at this ridiculous parody of the righteous Billy Jack character😂

  • @raylang4608
    @raylang4608 Před rokem +2

    The best male SNL cast members ever!!

  • @raveballs
    @raveballs Před rokem +1

    Love them both (including S&G), but in the intro they're making 50s references. At the latest 1962. Still funny though.

  • @mcsuibhne005
    @mcsuibhne005 Před 4 lety +3

    Paul Simon would love this

  • @leemurdock5222
    @leemurdock5222 Před 7 lety +3

    Two of the funniest cast members

  • @robstimson4234
    @robstimson4234 Před 3 měsíci

    This clears up so many unanswered, oregano questions about S & G.

  • @joe44850
    @joe44850 Před 3 měsíci

    This answers so many questions i have had about Simon and Garfunkel.

  • @BPB9973952
    @BPB9973952 Před 6 lety +7

    I think they are referring to the 50"s more than the 60"s

    • @mary-annannan5216
      @mary-annannan5216 Před 4 lety +1

      THANK YOU. I was just about to say that, the stuff they said about greasers, milkshakes and all the bubblegum pop stuff is typical 50s

  • @HanzieTay
    @HanzieTay Před 7 lety +63

    All true.

  • @bobtownsend6122
    @bobtownsend6122 Před 7 lety +4

    Way more about Fred and Bill's improv skills that S&G.

  • @321andme
    @321andme Před 6 lety +3

    When is season 3 of Documentary Now coming out!?!?
    We need this!

    • @jaywilliams7774
      @jaywilliams7774 Před 6 lety

      Captain Long Wool Silver 2019!!! That’s all I got

  • @anthonyparvino4393
    @anthonyparvino4393 Před měsícem

    Simon and Garfunkel were enforcers for the Gambinos.

  • @jesseward3438
    @jesseward3438 Před 7 lety +42

    so funny. im dying. this so soooooo funny omgggg

  • @floatingsara
    @floatingsara Před 3 lety +1

    Am I the only one who doesn't get the reference to Italian Americans? Weren't S & G of East-European descent ?

  • @351cleavland
    @351cleavland Před 6 lety +2

    I read that Simon lived together while Garfunkle did not.

  • @williamcausey9966
    @williamcausey9966 Před 7 lety +27

    bill hader is great in Hot Rod!

  • @JimSteinbrecher
    @JimSteinbrecher Před 6 lety +2

    nice how they got paul simon to play fred armisen playing paul simon.

  • @khadishab2745
    @khadishab2745 Před rokem

    Fred's expression is giving me life lmaoo

  • @johnclifford544
    @johnclifford544 Před 3 měsíci

    I never knew about Simon and Garfunkel's serious debt problems. They hid it so well.

  • @cloudyskyeez
    @cloudyskyeez Před 6 lety +2

    They described the 50s, not the 60s.

  • @NellieKAdaba
    @NellieKAdaba Před 6 lety +1

    I love Art and Garfunkel. Great parody of the album cover.

  • @sexobscura
    @sexobscura Před 6 lety +1

    LIKE A BRIDGE OVER THE HUDSON RIVER

  • @yesyes9859
    @yesyes9859 Před 6 lety

    I'm obsessed with the black and white clips inbetween

  • @its_thyy
    @its_thyy Před 4 lety +2

    Bill Hader would be a good actor for a documentary of Neil Diamond

  • @prufrockj.a8532
    @prufrockj.a8532 Před 4 lety +1

    Just give them a book deal where all they do is write historical fanfiction. You know we'll read it.

  • @Paul-jv5kw
    @Paul-jv5kw Před 7 lety +2

    I sincerely hope he doesn't think last names like Simon and Garfunkel are actually Italian 😂

  • @danbunge9787
    @danbunge9787 Před měsícem

    I was a Manny's Shlepper many years ago!

  • @k.asherman4754
    @k.asherman4754 Před 6 lety +4

    Look at that Soc!! 😏😂😂😂

  • @friendlier
    @friendlier Před 7 lety +1

    "Ehhh, look at that soc!" Hahahahaha

  • @PhillyFrank1
    @PhillyFrank1 Před 6 lety +7

    Hard not to think of S+G not being a couple in some kind of way.

  • @PapagenoMF
    @PapagenoMF Před 7 lety +16

    Why is Bill Hader holding a guitar as Garfunkel?

    • @leloodallasmultipass
      @leloodallasmultipass Před 7 lety +11

      garfunkel used to play guitar until the mob collected on one of his debts.

    • @nne3196
      @nne3196 Před 7 lety +6

      Hairy Mo I thought your profile pic was a hair.

    • @PapagenoMF
      @PapagenoMF Před 7 lety +1

      Yes, I want people to think it's a pube after they've been spooging on the screen.

    • @kevinkendall3122
      @kevinkendall3122 Před 6 lety +1

      Wondered the same thing

    • @floatingsara
      @floatingsara Před 3 lety

      @@PapagenoMF hilarious

  • @rheredia9931
    @rheredia9931 Před 6 lety

    I call this show, Documentary Now, "Pee In Your Pants Humor," because that's what happened to me watching the Sandy Passage Episode, not watching it, actually, as maybe my bladder was empty, but trying to describe it to my husband on the phone made me almost pee in my pants, and I laughed so hard I had to hang up, and calm myself down, with terrible sad thoughts. Then re-watching the part with the sweat pants hat scarf, I laughed so hard I actually had an 'accident,' that I could not control. So heads up, don't drink fluids for an hour before viewing.

  • @kathymyers7279
    @kathymyers7279 Před 4 lety +1

    Maybe I just missed the sarcasm but they were talking about the 50s weren’t they?

  • @flippidisc6433
    @flippidisc6433 Před 5 lety +2

    Paul Simon is an avid Yankees fan not Mets 👌

  • @ritankarsasmal380
    @ritankarsasmal380 Před 7 lety +1

    legends!

  • @RobGradyVO
    @RobGradyVO Před rokem

    This is EXACTLY how it happened

  • @shannonlucas2980
    @shannonlucas2980 Před 3 lety +1

    These guys got it all wrong. Paul and Art were in Lansky's crew

  • @timkdiamond
    @timkdiamond Před 3 měsíci

    The Caaaaaalifeeeorniaaaaaans...

  • @kathymyers7279
    @kathymyers7279 Před 6 lety +1

    I think they are referring to the 50's.

  • @melvinch
    @melvinch Před 6 lety

    When can we have a movie of Vinny Vedecci and Manuel Ortiz ?

  • @1234BLISTEX
    @1234BLISTEX Před 7 lety +2

    Very true very real not made up at all

  • @linnycrocus6023
    @linnycrocus6023 Před 5 lety

    I need sound on them dancing and singing as S & G

  • @johnnynbk
    @johnnynbk Před 7 lety +4

    one of those 30 dollar "old" t shirts.

  • @johngist3761
    @johngist3761 Před rokem

    They described the 1950's in the beginning lol

  • @ENigma-um8zw
    @ENigma-um8zw Před 2 lety

    Why can’t these be 45 more mins lol

  • @thecitizenjoan
    @thecitizenjoan Před 6 lety +1

    I really can’t handle both of them together 😂

  • @girlspooptoo8567
    @girlspooptoo8567 Před 7 lety +20

    A bunch of little butthurt Simon & Garfunkel fans in the comment section

  • @justusmack2474
    @justusmack2474 Před 2 lety

    For the Midwest you know?

  • @qbclay2
    @qbclay2 Před rokem

    neat Montana hat 👍

  • @ZacharyWeaver-rc8xc
    @ZacharyWeaver-rc8xc Před 3 měsíci

    Look at that soc lol