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Flight of the Conchords is a Grammy Award-winning New Zealand musical comedy duo composed of Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement. Billing themselves as "Formerly New Zealand's fourth most popular guitar-based digi-bongo a capella-rap-funk-comedy folk duo," the group uses a combination of witty observation, characterization and acoustic folk guitars.

The Flight of the Conchords is also a popular comedy series on HBO that chronicles the lives of Bret and Jemaine as they make their way through life in New York. The comedy duo are a favorite review topic in the blogosphere where you'll find many opinions and observations about them.

The duo's comedy and music became the basis of a BBC radio series and then the American HBO television series, which premiered in 2007. The second season aired in 2008.

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  • Flight Of The Conchords 2009 - I Told You I Was Freaky


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    2009 - I Told You I Was Freaky Flight Of The Conchords 13 tracks CD Album
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  • Flight of the Conchords Star Has Himself a Baby Chick!


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    Here is a much belated congratulations to Bret McKenzie, one of the stars of the show Flight of the Conchords. What are congratulations in order? Because three months ago the 33-year-old actor and singer had his very first baby. Bret and wife Vita welcomed their daughter Hannah three months ago. And how is it going ...
    7 hours ago
  • Fatherhood keeps Conchords stars busy


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    If they can find time, Flight of the Conchords hope to do a New Zealand tour. Photo / Supplied Celebrity Baby Blog found this 77 minutes ago on nzherald.co.nz Find more top entertainment news, videos, and blogs on ShowHype: Celebrities , Flight Of The Conchords , Fatherhood
    13 hours ago
  • Friday Night Infodump


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    Friday night infodump of all the links I want to keep out of the papers. * SciFiWire says the new Prisoner disappoints . * Salon says its time to bring back Marx . He went somewhere? * NASA says that explosion last month turned up quite a bit of water on the Moon . * Jermaine Clement says Flight of the ...
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  • NEW ZEALAND: Closed restaurant required to display low inspection grade for two months


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    Currently living in New Zealand, and having the opportunity to travel around it, I’ve seen my fair share of restaurant inspection grades. Like many other developed countries, letter grades displayed at a food business are popular here, and are meant to relay food safety information to consumers. In the Auckland ...
    3 days ago
  • We would totally be friends with Jemaine and Bret


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    Yesterday JQ and I finished disc one of the first season of Flight of the Conchords. I had seen a few clips online and thanks to Karl , I listen to Ladies all the time but had never actually seen an episode until a couple of days ago. So funny. Not a real laugh-out-loud funny for us—more of a laughing-on-the-inside ...
    4 days ago
  • TV News Roundup – November 2009 – Week 2


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    Murdoch launches attack on BBC News Corp. chief alleges copyright theft Interviewed on Sky News Australia he was asked how he would be able to make his plan work to charge for all News Corp.-owned news websites when pubcasters like the BBC and ABC provided free news content on their own sites. “But we are ...
    4 days ago
  • FOR JEMAINE CLEMENT TV IS A TOUGH ROW TO HOE


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    Now that FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS star JEMAINE CLEMENT has said good-bye to his cult hit series he’s looking forward to hitting the big screen more often. CLEMENT’s latest effort, GENTLEMEN BRONCOS, may be D.O.A. at the box office but the actor tells us that other projects are in the works. We sat down with CLEMENT ...
    5 days ago
  • I’ve Got Hurt Feelings


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    I haven’t kept up with this show, but this is hysterical — from HBO: Flight of the Conchords :
    6 days ago
  • Pirate Radio Salutes Rebel Rock Broadcasters


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    Filed under: News , Movies While the Beatles , the Rolling Stones , the Kinks and the Who may have all ruled US airwaves in the 60s, the UK played only an hour or two of rock n roll on the radio each day. Some radio DJs rebelled against the government and broadcasted from boats just off the UK territorial ...
    1 week ago
  • ‘Embracing the cheese’ of Gentlemen Broncos


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    By Summer Rogers Daily Titan Staff Writer The SLS Hotel in Beverly Hills was the hub for the Gentlemen Broncos interview, a strangely inappropriate yet appropriate place for the creators of such characters as the socially awkward Napoleon from Napoleon Dynamite . The thing is, the hotel has a pretentious feel to ...
    1 week ago
  • Review: Gentlemen Broncos


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    By Summer Rogers Daily Titan Staff Writer From the minds that brought us Nacho Libre and Napoleon Dynamite comes the newest addition to Jared and Jerusha Hess’s body of work; a tale of science fiction, plagiarism and outlandish characters in the new film Gentlemen Broncos . Set in a small town in Utah, the ...
    1 week ago
  • FotC Official Site


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    http://flightoftheconchords.co.nz/
    1 week ago
  • Flight Of the Conchords: "I Told You I Was Freaky" (album review)


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    Its difficult to evaluate a comedy album from a group based on a cable television show.  Thats the challenge we face with Flight of the Conchords sophomore album I Told You I Was Freaky.The New Zealand duos second album tends towards the hip hop/dance end of the musical spectrum.  At times, like the low self-esteem ...
    1 week ago
  • Link Time: Watch Kris Allens Video For "Live Like Were Dying"


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    Kris Allens music video for "Live Like Were Dying" is here - Music Mix Jemaine Clement says that he and Bret may not return for Flight of the Conchords because theyre dads now - Vulture New Moons Jamie Campbell Bower thinks Tim Burton should direct Breaking Dawn - MTV Movies Blog Watch Jay-Z and U2 perform ...
    1 week ago
  • Top 10 Funny Music Videos of the 2000s: The Song Parodies


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    Filed under: Video , The Hit List Ever since Weird Al Yankovic instructed the public to Eat It , music videos have been ripe for mockery. And rightly so: The line between hip and hilarious is a fine one, indeed. For comedians, the rabid pursuit of cool on constant display in music videos is easy ...
    1 week ago
  • Dagnammit! “Gentlemen Broncos” Director Jared Hess talks with Blast


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    Jared Hess, director of Napoleon Dynamite and the upcoming film “Gentlemen Broncos,” has made a career out of creating eccentric characters. First we had Napoleon, the nunchuck-wielding, moon-boot wearing dancing fiend. Then there was Nacho, the cook-turned-wrestler in “Nacho Libre.” In “Gentlemen ...
    1 week ago
  • ‘Flight of the Conchords’ might end soon


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    “Flight of the Conchords” star Jemaine Clement has said his offbeat HBO comedy series may not continue for a third season because it requires so much work, but a final decision will be made within a month.
    1 week ago
  • THINK ABOUT IT


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  • Before They Get Stale: Zach Galifianakis, Aziz Ansari and Kristen Wiig


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    Zach Galifianakis is attached to a  Shrek sequel in which hell play Humpty Dumpty. Its all part of Hollywoods plan to have Galifianakis appear in every movie ever. [ In The News ] Flight of the Conchords Bret McKenzie on their U.S. tour, "It was overwhelming. Really, really ecstatic audiences and some really ...
    1 week ago

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