It's 3 p.m., let's watch Stephen Colbert and Paul Dinello play "The Devil Went Down To Georgia" on bassoon

It’s 3 p.m.! Let The A.V. Club briefly make use of the waning hours of your productivity with some pop culture ephemera pulled from the depths of YouTube.

Everyone knows Stephen Colbert is a funny guy from The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, and his current run on The Late Show, but only a handful of people were able to experience one of the best gags he’s ever been involved with. It happened in 2005 at a live show in New York hosted by comedy trio Stella (Michael Showalter, Michael Ian Black, and David Wain), and thanks to the magic of YouTube, we can all now experience the brilliance of Colbert and comedian Paul Dinello playing a fiery rendition of “The Devil Went Down To Georgia” on bassoons:

It’s a simple gag, but that just underlines how great it is. Colbert and Dinello replaced the fiddle part from Charlie Daniels’ original with bassoons, which is already funny because bassoons are inherently funny, but they threw in another twist: Neither of the comedians had ever held a bassoon before, and playing the bassoon is much harder than it looks. The two of them spend over a minute in the clip pretending to tune the instruments, making sure they’re properly aligned, and stomping along to the beat, but nothing comes out when Colbert finally brings the bassoon to his mouth. The rest of the video involves Colbert and Dinello reciting the lyrics and showing off like they’re god’s gift to bassonery, all while they struggle to get a sound—any sound—out of the enormous woodwinds.

In an alternate universe where Stephen Colbert never became a successful talk show host, he and Dinello could’ve built an entire stand-up routine around poorly performing songs that are all about playing an instrument really well. Thankfully, our universe at least has this one incredible clip.