oh-so-funny… flight of the conchords

I immediately fell in love with HBO’s new series – Flight of the Conchords.  It has a slight Napoleon Dynamite flavor mixed in with some seriously funny folk songs.

One of my favorites is Beautiful Girl…

Unfortunately they don’t have a current CD available yet, but you can find some of their other funny clips on their fan site What the Folk! (and loads of them on YouTube)

A review from the New York Times reads, "The heroes of Flight of the Conchords are as witless as they come. Jemaine and Bret are young New Zealanders adrift in New York who hope to break into the music industry with their “digi-folk” two-man band, also named Flight of the Conchords.

Flight of the Conchords is funny in such an understated way that it is almost dangerous to make too much of it — it could collapse like a soufflé when the door slams. It’s also a little sweeter, less a satire of show business than wry self-parody.

What distinguishes The Conchords from other, similarly dry, sardonic comedies is that at certain junctures the two heroes freeze the action and burst into song in subtle parodies of pop music videos that are almost plausible and deliciously absurd. The range is impressive, everything from David Bowie-style ’80s pop to rap and reggae.

Jemaine is played by Jemaine Clement, the taller, bespectacled half of a real-life music and comedy duo from New Zealand with a cult following in the United States. Bret is Bret McKenzie, the duo’s shorter half. In interviews they have said their series was partly inspired by “Cop Rock,” an ill-fated 1990 show by Steven Bochco that was part crime series, part musical, though even this could be a joke."