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• A review of sally returns (i disagree on some points (about the second song) of the author but such is life.. -nicole) - Grid Effect

• Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie (“Flight of the Conchords,” HBO): If the stars of this dry slacker comedy were any more deadpan, they would be sharing a “CSI” slab. But in their roles as clueless New Zealand musicians adrift in New York, Clement and McKenzie spring to daffy life during the show’s musical numbers, which are defiantly lo-tech and definitely hysterical. Anyone who can rhyme “abuse me” with “muesli” deserves your TV love all year-round.

  - Sign on San Diego

• Taika Waititi in conversation with filmhead Ant Timpson - Scoop.co.nz

• Jemaine Clement films Outback commercials playing Australian
  Flight of the Conchords’s Jemaine Clement, a native New Zealander, says stories about the tension between Kiwis and their rivals to the west in Australia are entirely true.
  “Australians make a lot of fun of us,” the folk-comedy singer said. “They’re horrible, horrible people.”
  Clement and his Conchords partner Bret McKenzie taped a series of Outback commercials playing Australians.
  “They say the voice I’m putting on there isn’t an Australian accent. It’s how New Zealanders make fun of an Australian accent. ‘I’m Australian.’”
  Flight of the Conchords has yet to air in New Zealand but when it does, Clement said he’s sure some people will be angry.
  Aren’t New Zealanders, like Canadians, universally happy and mild and well-liked, though?
  “That is a racist stereotype,” Clement said.

  - Canada.com

• Is ‘Flight of the Conchords’ Better Than the Show About Crab Fishermen? - NY Mag