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The accolades keep rolling in

Salon.com named Flight of the Conchords one of their “Sexiest Man Living 2007!”

Who: Flight of the Conchords (Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement)
Age: McKenzie: 31; Clement: 33
Know them as: Stars of an eponymous HBO show

A guy with a guitar is hot. A guy with an accent is hot. And a guy who can make us laugh is really, really hot. What, then, could be better than a man who embodies all of the above? Two men who do.

From the moment “New Zealand’s fourth most popular guitar-based digi-bongo acapella-rap-funk-comedy folk duo” arrived on HBO this summer with their bone-dry brand of humor, Bret McKenzie (the bearded one) and Jemaine Clement (the one with the sideburns) crooned their way into our nerd-chasing hearts. How can you not fall a little in love with men who offer a dirty little toy-piano ditty about getting lewd with food called “If You’re Into It,” or an exuberantly nonsensical Gallic pastiche titled “Foux Da Fa Fa”?

Separately, they’re adorable, but together, they enter a pantheon of witty troubadours that includes Jonathan Richman, They Might Be Giants and Jonathan Coulton — men who are a little bit Bruce, a little bit Groucho, and more than a little appealing. And though we may love Bret for his reedy shyness and Jemaine for his inexplicable overconfidence, what we love best about them is how appealing they are together. Because that’s what we’re into.

– Mary Elizabeth Williams