Comedy Stars and Musicians Come Together for New Cameo-Packed Video for George Harrison’s “My Sweet Lord”

Mark Hamill tasks Fred Armisen and Vanessa Bayer to find the undiscoverable in a new video for George Harrison’s classic track “My Sweet Lord.”

The video was written and directed by Lance Bangs, who is known for his directorial work for Sonic Youth, Nirvana, Neutral Milk Hotel, Kanye West, Green Day, Arcade Fire and many more, and executive-produced by Harrison’s son, Dhani Harrison, along with David Zonshine, who oversees the Harrison estate. The clip follows Armisen and Bayer as secret agents with flashlights and “the bureau’s latest scanner” to find an invisible unnamable, something.

Their search leads the two agents to the sidewalk, a library and a movie theater; places where people appreciate privacy. But that doesn’t stop the two as they search and bump into an array of comedians, writers and musicians including; Patton Oswalt, “Weird Al” Yankovic, Natasha Leggero, Joe Walsh and Ringo Starr who throws popcorn at Armisen. As the search goes on Jon Hamm calls in more teams to help the two out – Tim Heidecker, Eric Wareheim, Garfunkel and Oates (Kate Micucci and Riki Lindhome), Angus Sampson, Taika Waititi, Anders Holm and more show up in suits with their eyes peeled.

The agents don’t seem to ever find the thing, at least, not while they’re looking. At the end of the video when they get into their car defeated, they finally stop searching and just tune into the opening chords of the very song that was playing as they searched, and realize together at the same moment it has been with them all along.

George Harrison’s album All Things Must Pass was recorded on Nov. 27, 1970, and on Aug. 6, 2021, the Harrison Estate released a 50th-anniversary edition for the LP with a deluxe boxset with unreleased material, demos, unheard jams, studio chatter and alternate takes.

Watch the new video for “My Sweet Lord” below:

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