Eh-hum # 198

And so it has come to pass.

Last Sunday (September 2) was the season finale of the comedy/musical series Flight of the Conchords. Getting my weekly fix of Bret and Jemaine's misadventures in New York city was a bit of a struggle since I don't have access to cable and the show is available to a limited number of countries (excluding Japan and the Philippines). Ergo, I had to rely entirely on YouTube for the episodes (read: copyright infringement) .

Now that the show has wrapped up, am sure the Kiwis will be taking a long deserved break. Nonetheless, will miss these guys and their equally weird and funny "mates" on the show. More importantly, I will miss their offbeat repartee and ingenious songs. But I guess, we will always have YouTube.

However, all is not lost.

I am happy to share that HBO has renewed FOTC for a second season. They will start shooting in 2008. And that's not all: season 1's DVD will be released on November 6 while the band's full-length album will be available January of next year. Good, if I am limited just to viral videos of them, I would definitely go mad (well, sort of).

They may not be the highest reated show on HBO, but they surely gained a cult following in the US (the birth of more "Mels"). So, in celebration of the Conchords' first flight into the competitive world that is American television, I give you the guys doing some serious "Angry Dancing". Enjoy!

Now you know why my I chose this template for my blog. Hehehe.

Eh-hum # 191

The Conchords are at it again. This song, entitled "Mother Uckers", really cracked me up (from episode 7). I like the part when they cut their own cuss words. Enjoy!

Eh-hum # 180

Just finished watching episode 4 of Flight of the Conchords (its currently available online, visit the FOTC's HBO site)! Happy happy, joy joy!

This is my favorite scene in the said episode; Bret asking Jemaine to comment on the song he wrote for his girlfriend, Coco. It killed me. Enjoy!

Eh-hum # 171

A continuation of my previous post. Eh-hum

Obviously, this blog is also about stuff that makes me laugh (so hard that there are tears in my eyes and I don't make any sound; you can just see my shoulders heaving).

The kind of humor I enjoy the most is deadpan...or when the comic(s) deliver their lines without a change in emotion or facial expression. And New Zealand's folk/pop/comedy duo Flight of the Conchords specializes in this kind of humor. They are musicians as well, putting their witty repartee into songs with serious guitar works. Hence, they are both a comedy duo and a band.

The duo, I mean band, is composed of Bret Mckenzie and Jemaine Clement. They have toured as FOTC outside New Zealand and have released a CD, entitled Folk the World Tour. Aside from doing comedy and music, both guys have had acting stints. Mckenzie was an extra on the first and third installment of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy. His brief appearance on the first film (during the Council of Elrond), made such an impact that fans named his character, an elf, as Figwit, which stands for "Frodo is grea...who is THAT?!" (they were said to be distracted by Figwit's demeanour...and his "pout"). In the LOTR: ROTK, he was credited as "Elf Escort" and has two lines. On the other hand, Clement has appeared in a few independent films. Now, he is one of the major characters in the movie Eagle vs Shark, a NZ romantic comedy directed by Academy Award-nominee Taika Waititi. Clement was also featured in Outback Steakhouse commercials for the US.

The guys are now working on their 12-part series on HBO, hence the teaser. It was said that their well-received performance on HBO's 30-minute stand-up comedy series One Night Stand paved the way for the production of the said series. This would definitely give them even more exposure in the US. And why not? The pilot was smart and hysterical. The guys' cool brand of comedy deserves significant airtime in US television, and the rest of the world. Besides Peter Jackson, Americans will be familiar with other talented New Zealanders. Since I have no access to cable right now, hopefully will have access to the rest of the episodes online. Nonetheless, there will always be DVD...sigh.

Like many of my posts, I end this with a video from YouTube. This is one of the FOTC's songs in their One Night Stand performance. No matter how many times I watch it, it doesn't fail to make me laugh (by the way, Clement is the one wearing the glasses). Enjoy!

Eh-hum # 170

This is a teaser of a new comedy series on HBO:

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Just finished watching its pilot episode online (which premiered last June 17 on tv); it killed me, big time. More on this later on. ;)