Flight of the Conchords

This New Zealand Band has a TV series that is the biggest New Zealand thing to hit the USA since Pavlova, well maybe just one pav with three strawberries on it.

Flight of the Conchords Poster

Flight of the Conchords is a 2007 Grammy-nominated. folk, pop, and comedy duo composed of Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement. Billing themselves as "Formerly New Zealand's fourth most popular guitar-based digi-bongo acapella-rap-funk-comedy folk duo",(having been bumped by a tribute band of themselves, Like of the Conchords) the group uses a combination of witty banter, characterisation and acoustic guitars to work the audience. The duo's comedy and music became first the basis of a BBC radio series and then an American television series, which premiered in 2007, also called Flight of the Conchords.

Named Best Alternative Comedy Act at the 2005 US Comedy Arts Festival, Best Newcomer at the Melbourne Comedy Festival, and receiving a nomination for the Perrier Comedy Award at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2003, the duo's live performances have gained them a worldwide cult following.

Flight of the Conchords won Field 20 - Category 80 (Best Comedy Album) at the 50th Grammy Awards, an annual entertainment awards ceremony held in the United States of America, for their The Distant Future EP.  

Flight of the Conchords’ 6 part BBC 2 radio series

Flight of the Conchords’ 6 part BBC 2 radio series “The Flight of The Conchords” will air on National Radio starting Sunday the 2nd of July. The band officially apologise to fellow New Zealanders for certain inaccuracies in the show with regards to New Zealand. In defence they claim that at the time of recording the were under the impression that the show would only play in Britain. During the recording period they were quoted as saying “no one in New Zealand will ever know ahahahahahaha!!”. The Conchords would like to apologise for the following: 
Flight of the Conchords are not from Taranaki, they are from Wellington. 
Neil Finn is not from Wellington, he is from Taranaki. 
It is stated that Taranaki’s main tourist attraction is the ‘Tunnel of Wasps’. In truth it is only third after ‘The Simulated Cow’ and ‘The Amazing Rock’. 
Some New Zealand accents attempted by British actors (episode 6) are inaccurate bordering on racist.

The Series stars Rhys Darby, Rob Brydon, Neil Finn, Andy Parsons, Mike Sengelow, Dan Antopolski, Emma Kennedy, Daniel Kitson, Jimmy Carr, Nina Conti, Greg Proops, Jarred Christmas and Justin Edwards.

Rhys Darby- Murray. Brett and Jermaine

On the series there are some great posters in Murrays office that mock the New Zeland tourism's 100% pure campaign. They say things like; New Zealand Rocks, "New Zealand: Why not?", New Zealand: Don't expect too much, You'll love it.

Fun Trivia; 
Dan Antopolski who plays Tim/Bernard in episode two can be seen in recent film ‘The Da Vinci Code’ in a small but significant role. He plays ‘Jesus Christ’.

This is one song from Episode 4 called, "If Your Into It".