Dlight of the conchords7/25/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() That was the part that was tiring for us, and ultimately led to us deciding not to do it anymore. “That was the tricky part: we worked seven days, every week. “We would use the weekends to record the songs,” Clement recalls, noting that it was a key factor in the decision not to move ahead with a Season 3. While it all looked effortless and charmingly ramshackle on screen, making each series was a massive creative undertaking – working on minuscule budgets, and with multiple new laugh-out-loud musical numbers required for every single episode. “I worked with and he said, ‘You guys changed comedy in America’,” recalls Clement, who’s currently working on James Cameron’s Avatar sequels. ![]() If the Conchords series turned Clement and McKenzie into household names, it also brought a breakthrough for director and co-creator James Bobin (who went on to direct The Muppets and sequel Muppets Most Wanted, and is currently working on Percy Jackson And The Olympians for Disney+), and featured episodes written and directed by Taika Waititi. To mark 15 years of the show, the Hiphopopotamus and Rhymenoceros reunited for a brand new major Empire interview – and dazzling photo shoot – looking back on the series’ hardscrabble production, creative challenges, and huge success. It all came to an end two years later with the show’s second and final season – and though they’ve played live occasionally in the years since, it’s been a while since the Conchords flew as one. Swiftly, they became Hollywood stars, attracted famous fans ranging from Peter Jackson to Snoop Dogg, and made ‘a capella-rap-funk-comedy’ into a legitimate musical genre. Back in 2007, Kiwi comedy duo – comprising Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie – took their songs-on-stage stand-up show and radio series, and turned it into a cult HBO sitcom. Fifteen years ago, it was business time for Flight Of The Conchords. ![]()
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