FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS | New Zealand's Fourth Most Popular Folk Parody Act
"When they let their music do the talking, they are untouchable and it's for this that the fans come...they deserve every ounce of their cult success" CHORTLE
Comedy Folk duo Flight Of The Conchords have taken the world by storm, seemingly one person at a time. First heading to the U. K. in 2002 for the Edinburgh Festival, The Conchords (aka Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement) won a cult following. From their success in Edinburgh the BBC Light Entertainment Department commissioned the band to make a six part radio series. Bret and Jemaine moved to London in 2005 and spent five months writing and recording a mockumentary about the lives of a fictional version of themselves. The show was the first time they collaborated with NZ comedian Rhys Darby who played the character Brian Nesbitt, the fictional band’s manager. It was in 2005 that we saw the Conchords at Comedy Carnival.
"Masterpieces of bathos that unite earnest musicianship with pedantic and gloriously banal sentiment." THE GUARDIAN
After the success of the radio show they broke America with a self-entitled HBO sitcom, which again proved to be a hit earning them a second season. Now Bret and Jemaine face a unique problem, how to cope with success, but it is a challenge they are surely up to.
