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Both are married with children and live with their families in Wellington; Clement has a nine-year-old son and McKenzie has three children, ranging in age from three to eight. McKenzie rolls his eyes so hard he nearly falls out of his chair. When McKenzie and Clement ended their TV show — set and filmed in New York — after two critically acclaimed series and moved back to New Zealand, it looked as if Flight of the Conchords may have been a mere flash in the hipster pan.

They both shrug when I ask if they think others have ripped off their vibe. And yet when Flight of the Conchords debuted on HBO in , it looked like nothing else anyone had ever seen. They played a pair of New Zealand musicians called Bret and Jemaine whose banal lives contrasted with the ridiculous grandiosity of their music videos, which would suddenly interrupt a scene as the characters broke the fourth wall and sang to the viewers.

It was like an MGM musical for Gen X and millennials, but with more Prince references and songs about failed sexual encounters. At the time, the show was seen as part of the new wave of comedy of embarrassment, along with Curb Your Enthusiasm and The Office. But Flight of the Conchords always had more optimism and innocence than those shows; it certainly had none of the cynicism that was then so popular in comedy. The combination of their New Zealand cheerfulness with the sharpness of the songs created one of the most original and unlikeliest breakthrough TV hits around.

But given how much they sang about sex on the show and how quickly social mores in comedy have changed, I wonder if they have had to change any of the songs for the tour.

The Conchords are so averse to trumpeting their successes that their answer takes some decoding. Translation: they were nominated for the Perrier award at the Edinburgh fringe in and, on the back of that, were signed to write a series for BBC Radio 2, where they started sketching out the show.

Do people at HBO listen to the radio? Like in the s? What in fact happened was they performed at a comedy festival in the US and from there were signed to HBO. A dream come true for most comedians, but a nightmare for them. I'm a person. Bret's a person. You're a person. That person over there is a person. And each person deserves to be treated like a person.

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Photos Top cast Edit. Jemaine Clement Jemaine as Jemaine …. Bret McKenzie Bret as Bret. By they had written a dozen songs and decided to escape the New Zealand winter and perform at the Canadian Fringe Festival. The Calgary show was a success, mostly based on the fact that the Friday and Saturday night crowds sold out because the audience thought they were going to a different show.

The theatre was an abandoned basement hidden away on an alley off a back street, off of another back street. The obscurity of the venue and the general disinterest in musical comedy meant the Conchords had trouble getting an audience and had to cancel many shows.

Their smallest audience was just one woman. She had accidentally passed by the venue on her way home and had agreed to watch the show when Bret and Jemaine offered her a free ticket. In they decided to again escape the New Zealand winter. This time traveling to Scotland to perform in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Their venue was an underground tunnel called The Cave. When it rained, which was most days in Edinburgh, the ceiling dripped onto the audience and a dank slime crept down the stone walls.

Apparently in the 17th century the room had been used to quarantine plague victims. By the time the left they had dozens of fans, and severe chest infections. They continued to perform at the Wellington Thursday night comedy club, and also did a small number of corporate functions.

One such gig was for a Wellington cricket club christmas function.