I heart Canada

So many good interviews with the boys are coming out. This one is from Canada’s National Post.

Kebab doesn’t rhyme with cab

and that’s why these Kiwis are so brilliant
Rob McKenzie
National Post
Thursday, June 14, 2007
Although the citizens of Vancouver did everything to discourage them short of feeding their carcasses to orcas, Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie [...]

Entertainment Weekly article

Go, go, go!
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In the NYPost

The NYPost’s Sara Stewart talks to the guys about a resemblance to another HBO musical comedy duo and about going down in history as an “elf extra”. Read it after the jump or at the NYPost.

KIWI CON MEN
NEW ZEALAND COMEDY DUO MASTERS THE OFFBEAT
By SARA STEWART
June 10, 2007 — Two awkward, thirtysomething guys in a [...]

Humourbeasts article from 2004

TOLERANT BEASTS
By Julie JACOBSON.
Mar 1 2004
Dominion Post
(c) 2004 Independent Newspapers Ltd. All rights reserved.
Duo Humourbeasts take a slightly impolite poke at Maori myths. There might be a message, but mainly it’s `stupid comedy’.
JEMAINE CLEMENT’S Y chromosomes have gone walkabout. The 30-year-old actor, half of comedy duo the Humourbeasts, is full of the joys of [...]

Comedy Court Article from 2004

COMEDY COURT
Margaret AGNEW
Oct 20 2004
The Christchurch Press
(c) 2004 Independent Newspapers Ltd. All rights reserved.
MARGARET AGNEW talks to one of the men behind the Maui myth and comic madness going on at the Court Theatre.

Jemaine Clement seems strangely nervous. His eyes dart about as if looking for escape and he is easily distracted.
Is it the shy [...]

Article from INS News 10.18.06

FLIGHT of the Conchords: A Texan Odyssey is a rare chance for New Zealand viewers to see our most successful comedy duo do their thing on the world stage.
In March, Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement, aka Flight of the Conchords, embarked on a revealing odyssey into the political and musical heart of the United [...]

Conchords in Time Magazine

FoTC in Time
The Conchords are in the April 17th issue of Time Magazine as comic innovators. Finally, someone notices.

DON’T MIND THEM. THEY’RE MUSICAL: THE GENTLE COMICS

In the comedy jungle, where Robin Williams is a big silverback ape and Jon Stewart a sneaky hyena, Flight of the Conchords are tiny fawns. Their whimsical acoustic-guitar [...]