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Jemaine Clements Is A Dad!

8:04AM Jess McGuire | Good god. Week Old News Desk TM here with a hot off the presses report – Flight Of The Conchords heartthrob Jemaine Clements and his missus Miranda Manasiadis (remember when they got married in August?) have welcomed their first joint production, a wee baby boy, into the world! In New York! A month ago! Flight of the Conchords Kiwi comedy star Jemaine Clement and his new wife are celebrating the birth of their first child together. And you’ll never guess what they named their newborn son… no, really. You won’t. 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 »