Close this dialog window Streaming Options. Flight of The Conchords. Credit: Everett Collection. Since Conchords ended in , the pair have certainly been busy. Jemaine Clement breaks down the theatrics of the What We Do in the Shadows season 2 finale What We Do in the Shadows renewed for season 3 at FX 10 funny mockumentaries to remind us about the absurdity of life.
View All. All rights reserved. TV Show. The beloved show was a one-of-a-kind comedy about two guys trying to make it as a musical group in New York City, even though they only seem to have one fan albeit a very devoted one. On the tenth anniversary of its debut, we're taking a look behind the scenes of Flight of the Conchords. Comedian Jimmy Carr played the band's stalker. Some plot points made it to the TV series. In , Clement recalled that television producers in his home country weren't interested in a TV series with him and McKenzie.
Not being too clever is a concern in New Zealand TV. It does really annoy me. HBO sent Clement and McKenzie a tape of Schaal's standup and they decided , after "about 30 seconds," that she would be perfect for the role of the band's obsessive fan, Mel. Schaal later said the guys pitched the concept of her character as accurately as possible—though "They never pitched that she was a stalker, but she's Comedian Arj Barker admitted to The Guardian that when he met Clement and McKenzie at an Auckland comedy festival in the early s, it was during a period of his life when he was "partying a lot and drinking" and "chasing girls as much as I could.
The Flight of the Conchords star, who is guest curating the New Zealand festival, reflects on his career and the cost of compromise. And the comedy duo Flight of the Conchords — in which he performs with Jemaine Clement — so enraptured Hollywood that he could still be there if he wanted to, churning out season after season of the acclaimed TV show of the same name.
Yet McKenzie is happier away from Los Angeles and out of the spotlight. He prefers the quiet bustle of home to the bright lights of Hollywood. Next year he is bringing his surreal sensibilities to a local crowd, again from behind the scenes, as a guest curator of the biennial New Zealand festival.
His university friend Taika Waititi — now a film-maker of Jojo Rabbit and Thor: Ragnarok fame — went too, as a sort of bodyguard. When he and Clement travelled to the Edinburgh fringe festival to perform as Flight of the Conchords, they found that those Tolkien fans had flown in from around the world to attend the shows.
Such was his popularity that he was upgraded slightly in two later films in the Tolkein franchise.
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