But we have faith in any collaboration between Bret McKenzie, Jemaine Clement, and HBO. I am working on another idea with them though, hence the mix-up.ĭon't get too sad, though. Clement sent out a couple tweets to clarify the rumors.īefore this rumour gets out of hand - we are not working on a 4 ep Conchords show for hbo. McKenzie was musical supervisor on The Muppets, a role that involved overseeing the songs on the film and writing three himself. Update: It appears four episodes of Flight of the Conchords aren't happening after all. One half of comedy duo Flight Of The Conchords, Bret McKenzie has won an Oscar for his original song ‘Man Or Muppet’ from the recent reboot of The Muppets franchise. And as long as Super Fan Mel ( Kristen Schaal) is back, that’s good enough. Con: was anyone really clamoring for new Conchords episodes?), at the very least these guys have had plenty of time to come up with some new material. While the jury’s out on whether this is truly a good idea (Pro: new Conchords episodes. ‘It was supposed to be this year but then we decided to put What We Do in the Shadows out ourselves.’ It's been a motherflippin' 14 years since Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie took the U.S. Flight of the Conchords-return with their new HBO special.
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Ten years after their critically acclaimed HBO series debuted, New Zealand’s 4th most popular comedy-folk duo, Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement-a.k.a. HBO have commissioned a new, four-episode comedy show, he reveals. Jemaine Clement says Bret McKenzie is ghosting him over possible Flight of the Conchords reunion. Tomorrow, October 6th 10pm ET on HBO Flight of the Conchords: Live in London. It would be good to do something all together…I miss playing Flight of the Conchords gigs.’ But Bret, James and me, we all want to do a musical. The show was the first time they collaborated with NZ comedian Rhys Darby who played the character Brian Nesbitt, the fictional band’s manager. ‘Sometimes it feels like we lost a lot of impetus over the last couple of years. Bret and Jemaine moved to London in 2005 and spent five months writing and recording a mockumentary about the lives of a fictional version of themselves.
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That idea has apparently been on their radar as well, and Clement confirmed in an interview with The Guardian that they will be back together on HBO soon:Īre the Conchords, dormant at the moment, waiting to erupt again? ‘We talk about a movie every so often,’ says Clement. While both Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement have both gone on to quite successful non-Conchord careers, fans have long hoped that the duo might eventually reunite onscreen. It’s been five long years since Flight of the Conchords last aired on HBO, but the New Zealand folk duo are apparently not quite done singing to audiences about heavy topics such as robot Armageddons and racist dragons.