All 13,000 tickets had sold out for the first night of the band’s rescheduled tour, which was postponed after McKenzie broke two bones in his hand earlier this year. Many others, however, do watch it – so many that I couldn’t get into their show in Dublin the night before. “I love watching bands play and I love watching comedians perform, but I don’t go out of my way to watch musical comedians,” says McKenzie, the smaller and more serious of the two, with implied heavy understatement.Ĭlement, the brawnier and gigglier one, agrees: “Yeah, we love doing it, but we wouldn’t watch it.” He makes a delighted honk of a giggle. The tour sold out arenas countrywide and ended with a four-night run at London’s Eventim Apollo in Hammersmith, one of which was filmed and released as special on HBO, entitled Flight Of The Conchords: Live In London.I t’s an overcast Saturday morning in Dublin and Flight of the Conchords – AKA Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement – and I are in a coffee bar discussing how the pair ended up being in one of the most successful musical comedy bands on the planet when they are not actually fans of the genre. The tour came to the UK and Ireland in 2018, their first UK shows in seven years.
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Also that year, the duo headlined Tenacious D’s Festival Supreme in Los Angeles. The duo premiered new material alongside fan favorites, and quickly sold out amphitheatres and concert halls across the U.S. In 2016, Jemaine and Bret announced the wildly successful The Flight of the Conchords sing Flight of the Conchords Tour.
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He is currently writing the screenplay and songs for a film adaption of Neil Gaiman’s book Fortunately the Milk as well as penning tunes for the upcoming Disney film Bob the Musical.Īnd somehow, between all of the film and TV work, the Conchords managed to co-headline the “Oddball Comedy & Curiosity Festival” alongside Dave Chappelle in 2013. In 2012 he starred in the New Zealand black comedy Two Little Boys and then in 2013 he was cast in Jerusha Hess’s romantic comedy Austenland. Most notably The Muppets (2011) and Muppets Most Wanted (2014), the former of which won him an Academy Award for “Best Original Song” for the power ballad “Man or Muppet”. More recently, he joined the cast of The BFG, the Steven Spielberg adaptation of the Roald Dahl book, as the giant named Fleshlumpeater.īret has also been hard at work writing and acting for various television and film projects. Jemaine also wrote, produced and starred in a variety of projects including the acclaimed Vampire comedy film, What We Do In the Shadows, and People Places Things. He was cast as “Boris The Animal” in Men in Black 3 (2012). Jemaine lent his voice to the character Nigel the cockatoo in the Rio films (20). The Conchords would also see major success individually.
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This, along with the praise for the subsequent album releases (on Sub Pop Records) and the duo’s live show, was the comedic hat trick that catapulted Flight of the Conchords to international sensations.
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Over the next four years they made a TV pilot, a sitcom, released an EP ( The Distant Future) and a full length album (self-titled LP), toured North America, made a sandwich, filmed a second season of the sitcom, toured North America again, released a second album ( I Told You I Was Freaky), and went back to New Zealand. The HBO executives liked their act and asked them to film a half hour performance for a stand-up comedy show called One Night Stand. Against tradition they left New Zealand’s summer to go to the northern hemisphere’s winter and were shocked by the snow when they stepped off the plane in t-shirts and jandles. In 2005, Bret and Jemaine received an invitation to perform at the Aspen Comedy Festival, in Colorado, USA. Flight of the Conchords is a Grammy-winning musical comedy duo composed of Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement.