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The Hotness that is Flight of the Conchords

Finally! Something new!! The Guardian’s Polly Vernon talks to the Conchords about their celebrity, their “Penis-Ripping Show”, their “Young Ones” college experience and well..girls! A definite Must-Read!

Some highlights:

I am immediately struck by two things: Clement has grown a beard, and McKenzie is straightforward gobsmackingly beautiful, fine-featured and flawlessly skinned, a fact I’d somehow missed until this point, probably because I’d been distracted by how funny and geeky he is.

McKenzie: ‘But we just did this one comedy show. It was 25 people, all doing a self-devised show about body image. And we got randomly put into a group of five guys. And Jemaine and I happened to be in the same group.’

‘I could tell Bret was really funny instantly,’ says Clement.

‘It was all pretty funny,’ says McKenzie, ‘because the costume was bike shorts. Cotton sort of bike shorts, skin-coloured. And then we had this Velcro-y … you know those pencils, those sort of floppy hair pencils that you have? What do you call those?’

Er, like, Gonk hair pencils?

‘Gonk, is it? With hair, pink hair? We had those, with pink hair, and then Velcro penises, so you could rip your penis off! And then put on these fake triangle things …’

Clement: ‘So you’d have a triangle, a sort of mound of Venus, made of Velcro; and a fake penis …’

McKenzie: ‘So there were 25 people, all wearing these naked suits!’

Clement: ‘Yeah. And the women would wear fake breasts … except that once Bret wore fake breasts …’

McKenzie: ‘Yis … I actually wore fake breasts, when we needed a girl character.’

Clement: ‘And someone would go up to Bret and rip his penis off! And he would put his hands up and someone would attach fake breasts! It was pretty funny. Well. I found it pretty funny.’

‘I guess … I haven’t really been going out there much,’ says Clement. ‘But I went out the other night, and four girls came up to me, and they were giggling, and jumping up and down, and …’ he laughs, shyly ‘ … and it was quite weird. Especially because I’ve never really been that … confident in that … way. And to have girls treat me in that way … so it was really different. And … it’s kind of my dream come true.’

So - not the worst thing in the world?

‘No!’ says Clement. ‘No!”I guess … I haven’t really been going out there much,’ says Clement. ‘But I went out the other night, and four girls came up to me, and they were giggling, and jumping up and down, and …’ he laughs, shyly ‘ … and it was quite weird. Especially because I’ve never really been that … confident in that … way. And to have girls treat me in that way … so it was really different. And … it’s kind of my dream come true.’

So - not the worst thing in the world?

‘No!’ says Clement. ‘No!’

The whole article is great..go read it already!