Flight of the Conchords


Had the TAB offered odds on Flight of the Conchords winning the 50th Grammy for Best Comedy Album in 2008, New Zealand punters here may have been surprised to see them at very short odds, even though their nominated EP is less than 23 minutes long.

Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement were mates from Victoria University in Wellington, first meeting in a 1996 theatrical production. Two years later they formed a four-piece band called Moustache. (For trivia buffs, the other two members were Toby Laing and Tim Jaray.) Like all great comedy duos, they brought different skills to their stage partnership. Clement, with a natural gift for comic timing and inflection, appeared in the Gibson Group’s mid-90s television comedy Skitz and went to the Edinburgh Festival in 1998 with Taika Waititi in a show called Humourbeasts.

Flight Of The Conchords - Foux Du Fafa
Flight Of The Conchords - Cheer Up Murray
Bret McKenzie on his way to the 84th Academy Awards in Hollywood, the evening his song 'Man or Muppet' won an Oscar for best original song in a film, 26 February 2012. Photo: Matt Petit/AMPAS
Photo credit: Matt Petit/AMPAS
Flight of the Conchords (2008)
Bret McKenzie and Kermit the Frog sing 'Life's a Happy Song'
Flight Of The Conchords - If You're Into It
Flight Of The Conchords - Part-Time Model (2008)
Flight of the Conchords - Living Room series one, 2002 (NZ On Screen)
What challenges remain for the Flight of the Conchords? Cartoon by Grant Buist for The Capital Times, 13 February 2008. Ref: DCDL-0008387. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington
Photo credit: Grant Buist
Zowie with Flight Of The Conchords
Flight of the Conchords - Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement
Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement: the Flight of the Conchords, by Murray Webb, 4 May 2008. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, DCDL-0006403
Photo credit: Murray Webb
Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie: the Flight of the Conchords as drawn by Anna Crichton, 2009. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, Ref: DCDL-0016014
Photo credit: Anna Crichton
Flight of the Conchords - Folk the World
Flight Of The Conchords - Doggy Bounce
Pulp Comedy - Series Seven, Episode Four, 2003 (clip 3) (NZ On Screen)
Flight Of The Conchords - A Kiss Is Not A Contract
Bret McKenzie with Oscars, backstage at the 84th Annual Academy Awards, Hollywood, 26 February 2012. Photo: Rick Salyer/AMPAS
Photo credit: Rick Salyer/AMPAS
Flight of the Conchords as The Captain and Tennille, on the cover of US music magazine Under The Radar, April 2008
The Flight of the Conchords take NZ Music Month offshore: cartoon by Trace Hodgson, 2 May 2008 (the second panel refers to a giant squid caught in the Antarctic in 2007). Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington. Ref: DCDL-0006406
The Flight of the Conchords are to appear on The Simpsons - cartoon by Michael Mulheron for the Dominion-Post, 30 April 2010. Ref: DCDL-0014248. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington
Photo credit: Michael Mulheron
Flight Of The Conchords - Hiphopopotamus vs. Rhymenoceros
Flight Of The Conchords - Business Time
Flight Of The Conchords - Bowie
Flight of the Conchords - Distant Future
Flight of the Conchords - 'Feel Inside (and stuff like that)' (NZ On Screen)
Flight of the Conchords - I Told You I Was Freaky
Bret McKenzie on the cover of APRAP, May 2012
Bret McKenzie with wife Hannah Clarke at the Governors Ball, Hollywood, following the 84th Annual Academy Awards at which he won an Oscar for the best original song in a film, 'Man or Muppet', 26 February 2012. Photo: Darren Decker, AMPAS


Photo credit: Darren Decker, AMPAS
Flight Of The Conchords - Ladies of the World
Keeping up with the Wellington music scene is difficult: cartoon by Grant Buist for The Capital Times, 21 January, 2004. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, Ref: DCDL-0008192
Photo credit: Grant Buist
Flight of the Conchords - One Night Stand
Flight Of The Conchords - Frodo (Don't Wear The Ring)
Members:

Jemaine Clement - vocals

Bret McKenzie - vocals

Labels:

Sub Pop


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