In the show's first episode, "Sally," Mel shows Bret the picture of Jemaine's lips she keeps in her wallet. In the doc, a big fan of theirs revealed that she kept a picture of Jemaine's lips in her wallet (the other two pictures were normal ones of her kids). The 2006 documentary Flight of the Conchords: A Texan Odyssey documented Clement and McKenzie's time at the SXSW festival, pre-HBO fame. MEL'S PICTURE OF JEMAINE'S LIPS DIDN'T COME FROM THE WRITERS' IMAGINATION. The breakfast catering was one box with 10 sandwiches. THE FIRST SEASON BUDGET WAS MINUSCULE.ĭavid Costabile (Doug) described the first season budget as "insane," "shoestring," and "so crappy." On his first day, they shot in an abandoned Lower East Side apartment with no running water or electricity. DAVE WAS A CARICATURE OF ARJ BARKER'S ACTUAL PERSONALITY.Ĭomedian Arj Barker admitted to The Guardian that when he met Clement and McKenzie at an Auckland comedy festival in the early 2000s, it was during a period of his life when he was "partying a lot and drinking" and "chasing girls as much as I could." Clement and McKenzie's first impression of Barker led directly to the creation of Barker's character Dave, the aspiring ladies man. 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. KRISTEN SCHAAL WAS CAST AS MEL BASED ON HER STANDUP.
It does really annoy me.” Fortunately, an HBO talent scout discovered their live show in Montreal in 2004. Not being too clever is a concern in New Zealand TV. “They’d say, ‘Middle New Zealand won’t get it.’ Idiots! I’d go, ‘What are you talking about? I’m from middle New Zealand, and you’re not.’ I always have a working-class chip on my shoulder about those people.
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In 2014, Clement recalled that television producers in his home country weren't interested in a TV series with him and McKenzie. Some plot points made it to the TV series. Comedian Jimmy Carr played the band's stalker. Rhys Darby played Brian Nesbitt, Jemaine and Bret's manager, in the BBC Radio 2 six-part series, like he would later do on HBO (but this time with the name Murray Hewitt). IT WAS A RADIO SERIES BEFORE IT WAS A TV SERIES. On the tenth anniversary of its debut, we're taking a look behind the scenes of Flight of the Conchords. 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).
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I don’t want to say ‘yes’ and then what if Bret’s not into it?” We re-phrased the question however, and finally had something of a breakthrough, with Clement admitting: “I’d like to make a musical perhaps… If we did make one, it probably wouldn’t be a continuation of the TV show, it would be a musical that we write and get some of the same people in it.” So would you like to see a musical movie featuring the Conchords ensemble? Let us know in the comments below, and check out What We Do in the Shadows at your earliest possible convenience as it may well be the funniest vampire movie ever made.Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie make up the Flight of the Conchords, New Zealand's self-proclaimed "fourth most popular guitar-based digi-bongo acapella-rap-funk-comedy folk duo," who starred in their own HBO series for two critically-acclaimed seasons. I’ll have to ask Bret really and see what he says. He then used the absence of fellow Conchord Bret McKenzie to give this even more non-committal answer: “We might maybe one day, perhaps.
“We could edit bits of the old show together for an hour and a half,” Clement said in the deadpan fashion of someone who has been asked that question one too many times. So when we recently caught up with star Jemaine Clement and sometime director Tiaka Waititi at the What We Do in the Shadows junket, we asked the boys whether we might ever see a celluloid sequel to their efforts. It’s been years since we last saw Flight of the Conchords onscreen.
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