flight of the conchords
New Flight Of The Conchords!
10:20AM Jess McGuire | Were you one of the many Flight Of The Conchord fans from the Antipodes who felt incredibly surly when you discovered that unlike folk from North America, you weren’t actually allowed to watch the new series online?
Clip website Funny Or Die explained the situation by saying:
We all want the WHOLE world to be able to watch Flight of the Conchords, but to be honest, legally we only have rights to stream the video in the US.
But whatever. I don’t want excuses – I want to see footage! Sexy photos of the lads can only sate me for so long…
Well, after the jump we can all happily check out the first episode of Series Two thanks to someone on YouTube. Quick! Before the Americans wake up and get cranky about breaches of copyright*! More » 
‘Conchords’-Starved Fans Binge on Internet Kiwi Porn
5:00AM Seth | The Flight of the Conchords Season 2 premiere has logged 250,000 hits since premiering ten day ago on FunnyOrDie.com, 247,000 of which all came from the disconcertingly named domain, “JemaineBretSoccerMomSandwich.” [THR] More »
‘Flight of the Conchords’ Season 2: Right Here! Right Now!
2:45AM Seth | With seemingly so little left to live for (or is that just us?), the second season of Flight of the Conchords, and all the “Foux de Fafa” frivolity that implies, seems like it can’t arrive quickly enough. But wait! Put down that kebab skewer pressed to your temple! You needn’t wait until the January 18th premiere to catch your Brett and Jemaine fix, nor do you even need to hold out until this Monday, when the first episode streams on HBO.com. That’s because it’s already streaming, at this very moment, courtesy of FunnyorDie.com. We’ll see you in half an hour. More »
The Hearts Of Comedy Loving Women Are Probably Breaking Around The World As We Speak
2:56PM Jess McGuire | If you’ve fallen for the Kiwi charms of comedy duo Flight Of the Conchords and spent hours wondering which of the two you’d prefer to marry/just what you’ll name your future children/where will you live, Melbourne or NYC/would both of the lads be up for a three-way, you’ll be gutted to know that Jemaine Clement, the handsome bespectacled member of the pair, has just gotten hitched.
Clement, 34, took a short break from writing the second series of the Conchords’ television show and wed his long-time girlfriend, Wellington actress and theatre director Miranda Manasiadis, in a Los Angeles registry office.
Sure, we were never really in with a chance – he’s been with Miranda for a billion years (likewise, Bret McKenzie also has a long term missus). But this makes things so… so final, you know?
A link to a photo of the happy couple (taken at last year’s Global Day Of Action For Burma in Wellington) after the jump. More » 
Emmy Nomination Hell! 10 Plots and Subplots to Watch After Today’s Big Announcements
1:10AM Defamer Hollywood | The world awoke this morning to the chirping of little birds resembling Kristin Chenoweth and Neil Patrick Harris, perched at a podium in the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, announcing nominations for the 60th Emmy Awards. While most rolled over and tried to get back to sleep, we sat bolt upright as usual and sprinted to the window, our furious note-taking chronicling a few snubs, surprises and plenty of the conventional wisdom we’ve come to expect from the annual ritual. More »
YouTube Clip Of The Day
8:28AM Jess McGuire | So, we’re all loving Channel Ten’s Sunday night of fun, Big Brother, Rove, Flight Of The Conchords, right? Of course we are!
Therefore, let’s see Jemaine and Bret bang out a brilliant ditty about (and sounding freakishly like) David Bowie to celebrate.
Also, Mel from A Wild Young Under-Whimsy has just posted a very nice “piece” discussing the new Conchords single, the video clip for said single, the original footage from the television show where the single originally appeared, and an eight year old video of the pair performing a very early version of it on a New Zealand public access television show. Go and check it out, please. More »
Nz’s Flight Of The Conchords Go From Strength To Strength; Countdown To Local Media Claiming Them As ‘Ours’ Starts… Now
2:15PM Clem Bastow | New Zealand’s ex-struggling musical comics Flight Of The Conchords keep kicking goals since breaking the US market; first they were picked up by HBO, signed to SubPop, then they won a Grammy for Best Comedy Release, and now they’re even charting in the states.
Naturally this means our local press, tired of Australians’ not succeeding overseas (see: Oscars “disappointment” etc), will soon do a number on Flight Of The Conchords and claim them in much the same way we did Russell Crowe, Crowded House and Whale Rider.
The self-titled album from Flight of the Conchords, who have their own show on cable channel HBO, sold 52,000 copies in the week ended April 27, according to tracking firm Nielsen SoundScan.
In the process, they outsold pop idol Ashlee Simpson, whose new album opened at No.4 with 47,000 copies. Bittersweet World marks her first release that did not go to No.1.
Top work, eh bros! Stick that in yer chilly bin and, er, smoke it.
Although beating Ashlee Simpson to chart supremacy doesn’t really wash with the whole ’struggling musos’ aesthetic of their show, who cares? Coldplay have been singing songs about failing and being unlucky in love for years now! More »
Cheery News For A Monday!
9:48AM Jess McGuire | We are most chuffed to discover that Channel Ten have bought the rights to the TV show Flight Of The Conchords and it will (at last, perhaps, just maybe – MAYBE!!!!!) end up being shown in Australia before the year is through!
After becoming an internet and TV sensation, and picking up a Grammy Award along the way, one can only wonder what the three more popular acts have achieved compared to Flight of the Conchords.
The comedy team/folk music duo of Bret McKenzie, 31, and Jemaine Clement, 34 are two Kiwis who worked clubs for years building up a cult following before getting their big break.
Their eponymous TV show portrays the pair trying to make it big in New York City after leaving New Zealand.
Each episode is punctuated with outbreaks of their quirky songs.
Network Ten has bought the rights to the TV series and may screen the show in Australia later this year.
If you need a reason to feel excited about being able to dive into the beautiful comic minds of Bret McKenzie and our future husband Jermaine Clement, we urge you to watch the following clip.
We hadn’t watched this in over a year (thanks to Ms Fits who originally gave us the gift of FOTC, incidentally), and now we’re swept up in sickly, sticky, stalky adoration of the lads again. More » 
EW’s Most ‘Dateable’ Small-Screen Players Make Us Swoon And Squirm
3:48AM Molly Friedman | Every TV nut (well, isn’t that all of us here?) has, at one point or another, spent a little time fantasizing about certain fictional characters on their favorite shows. These fantasies tend to be either soft-focus daydreams (say, dreaming up elaborate schemes in which they “bump” into you at a party) or something a bit more hard-core (picturing them while giving your significant other the old in-out). On that note, the clever list-makers over at EW decided to compile a Top 30 reader’s choice collection of the small-screen boys and girls who most frequently make cameos in those illicit fantasies. But, with no offense to the site’s readers, we have some serious vetoes to charge. After the jump, our picks for who falls under Strongly Agree (the predictable Jim Halpert) and those we brand as a Vehemently Disagree (four words: Bree. Van. De. Camp), as well as the most erroneous, mind-boggling oversight missing from the group: More »
