Flight of the Conchords

Many months ago, I think last winter, I was sitting alone on a late Saturday night after watching a movie, and I turned on HBO. I started watching an episode of One Night Stand, a comedy series and within 2 minutes I was laughing so hysterically, Don came back downstairs from his busy work on the computer to see whatever was causing the hysteria.

"Flight of the Conchords" is their name: a comedy musical duo from New Zealand. We felt a small kinship with these two guys because we were in the process of moving to New Zealand at the time, but more than anything they were hysterical. Now they have signed a deal with HBO to produce their own show and we just finished watching a NZ documentary about their March (?) trip to Austin, TX to play in a big music festival earlier this year. Their success has started a good deal of talk here in the country, a couple of kiwi boys making it big in America.

They are too funny, you have to listen to their most famous song, a quicktime link is below (give it a second to open, don't just close the window). Their website is www.conchords.co.nz and their stalker-esque groupie fan site is www.whatthefolk.net. Soon these guys will be all over HBO and, even though we only discovered them this year, we knew them before they were huge. Take a listen: "Business Time" http://www.defectiveyeti.com/Business%20Time.mp3