Jim Breuer Really Nailed This Brian Johnson Impression with Billy Joel at Madison Square Garden

March 29, 2018

Billy Joel continued his (probably indefinite) residency at New York’s Madison Square Garden last night, playing the 50th show of the run and getting a banner in the MSG rafters to commemorate the effort, but the highlight of the show (which also included an appearance from hockey legend and former NY Rangers captain Mark Messier) might have been the sit in from comedian and Joel’s fellow Long Islander Jim Breuer, who absolutely nailed Brian Johnson’s vocal part on a cover of AC/DC’s “You Shook Me All Night Long.” 

This isn’t the first attempt by Breuer, of course. The comedian, maybe most well-known (as Joel pointed out last night) as Goat Boy from Saturday Night Live (though he also played great SNL characters ranging from Joe Pesci to Glen Henderson, older brother to Chris Kattan’s Todd Henderson a.k.a. Azrael Abyss of Goth Talk, plus the lovable Brian in the 1998 movie Half Baked), has long been a proponent of ’80s hard rock and included a fantastic impression of AC/DC singing “The Hokey Pokey” as part of his 2002 stand-up special Hardcore.

Breuer even counts AC/DC frontman Johnson as his friend and stirred up some controversy in 2016 when he spoke out about the band trying—in Breuer’s opinion—to kick Johnson out when the singer was dealing with hearing problems that took him out of the lineup. Adding another layer to last night’s sit in: Johnson himself also sat in with Joel at MSG on “You Shook Me All Night Long” back in 2014. 

Watch the collaboration below (plus a clip of Breuer’s AC/DC “Hokey Pokey” rendition for good measure).

(h/t: JamBase)