so good.
― chaki, Monday, 2 July 2007 22:03 (seventeen years ago) link
love it!
― dean ge, Monday, 2 July 2007 22:06 (seventeen years ago) link
how many episodes have there been so far?
― gr8080, Monday, 2 July 2007 22:08 (seventeen years ago) link
3
― dean ge, Monday, 2 July 2007 22:09 (seventeen years ago) link
Anyone see the movie the one guy is in? Eagle vs. Shark or whatever? (I admit I'd written it off mentally as this year's cutesy indie movie.)
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 2 July 2007 22:10 (seventeen years ago) link
The show bit is great -- the strange thing is that some of the songs seem to work way LESS well than they do in their stage act. The "West End Girls" bit was terrific, but then the "Think, Think about It" song somehow missed, underplayed, or just skipped most of the punchlines from the way they perform it.
― nabisco, Monday, 2 July 2007 22:10 (seventeen years ago) link
what was the second song last night? it was amazing.
― chaki, Monday, 2 July 2007 22:12 (seventeen years ago) link
(10,000 bonus points, though, for how well Jemaine's jacket matched the song.)
― nabisco, Monday, 2 July 2007 22:12 (seventeen years ago) link
I was thinking that they would make a decent real band, actually.
― dean ge, Monday, 2 July 2007 22:12 (seventeen years ago) link
Chaki, that was the "Think, Think about It" one -- compare versus
http://youtube.com/watch?v=u5tmnBeNv18
― nabisco, Monday, 2 July 2007 22:13 (seventeen years ago) link
no youtube at work :(
dean, if you have hbo on demand there is a concert from 2 years ago. its great. they are v v good guitar players.
― chaki, Monday, 2 July 2007 22:14 (seventeen years ago) link
Yeah, I saw that. It's funny because when I initially saw the ads for the new show, I thought it was weird that they were advertising a comedy special. Then, last week tooling on-demand I discovered the series! I think the show is brilliant and different and I find it surprising that they were able to turn the stage show into such a perfect little sitcom concept. Muggers was best one so far!
― dean ge, Monday, 2 July 2007 22:17 (seventeen years ago) link
Being New Zealanders makes it easier to do all the soul/rap homages (that second song taking from Marvin Gate) without any icky racial stuff.
Watching last night's episode, with the classic New York guys, I realized how much this show can work internationally as a foreigner's idea of what it'd be like to live in NYC.
― Eazy, Monday, 2 July 2007 22:18 (seventeen years ago) link
Marvin Gate? That's in East London, right?
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Monday, 2 July 2007 22:21 (seventeen years ago) link
i don't know if i can watch this show after seeing that eagle vs shark movie, which is the worst shit i have ever seen in my entire life.
― s1ocki, Monday, 2 July 2007 22:24 (seventeen years ago) link
LOVED the PSB homage.
― Spencer Chow, Monday, 2 July 2007 22:24 (seventeen years ago) link
that plus cutesy comedy collage marketing is really doing its best to turn me away from this show. which i'll probably like when i actually get around to checking it out.
i thought jermaine's rapping was amazing
― cutty, Monday, 2 July 2007 22:25 (seventeen years ago) link
s1ocks, that the demographic though--who else would they market to?
oh i misread collage for COLLEGE
― cutty, Monday, 2 July 2007 22:26 (seventeen years ago) link
I asked the wife last night, because I really can't tell, "if these guys were for real, would they be cute or retarded?" Now, that I think about it, she did not answer.
― dean ge, Monday, 2 July 2007 22:28 (seventeen years ago) link
jermaine has an awesome voice
― chaki, Monday, 2 July 2007 22:28 (seventeen years ago) link
The Pet Shop Boys bit was what made me love this show.
― admrl, Monday, 2 July 2007 22:31 (seventeen years ago) link
dude the first episode had a godley and creme bit.
― chaki, Monday, 2 July 2007 22:34 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RC0DdrHbGg
― dean ge, Monday, 2 July 2007 22:35 (seventeen years ago) link
this show it is funny to me
(can't find ep 3 t0rrent yet tho? :/ )
― rrrobyn, Monday, 2 July 2007 22:35 (seventeen years ago) link
My boss made me watch like 900 clips of this show today and I really wasn't impressed. Better if watched as a whole episode?
― jessie monster, Monday, 2 July 2007 22:35 (seventeen years ago) link
yeah i think so - it's not really meant for clips even though so many clips are pulled from it?
― rrrobyn, Monday, 2 July 2007 22:37 (seventeen years ago) link
e.g. the whole sign board job thing is funny as it stretches over the course of one show
― rrrobyn, Monday, 2 July 2007 22:38 (seventeen years ago) link
they were just songs. I didn't think the songs were funny.
― jessie monster, Monday, 2 July 2007 22:38 (seventeen years ago) link
we have already established that apparently I have serious funny bone issues, though.
uh.. yah.
― chaki, Monday, 2 July 2007 22:39 (seventeen years ago) link
the songs need the show
― rrrobyn, Monday, 2 July 2007 22:39 (seventeen years ago) link
I got a career now.
I also love the ridiculous back-and-forth about the band's gigs. They're always having hypothetical arguments about the gigs, but they don't have any gigs.
― dean ge, Monday, 2 July 2007 22:40 (seventeen years ago) link
murry is so great. also props for having eugene mirmen as a regular character.
― chaki, Monday, 2 July 2007 22:41 (seventeen years ago) link
and the fan is a uniquely odd thing. not to mention her husband, which is odder.
― dean ge, Monday, 2 July 2007 22:41 (seventeen years ago) link
It's quite funny.
― Michael White, Monday, 2 July 2007 22:41 (seventeen years ago) link
eugene mirmen?! I love that guy and didn't even notice him. Is he the landlord?
yah
― chaki, Monday, 2 July 2007 22:42 (seventeen years ago) link
hopefully he'll get more parts later on... hopefully the show lasts more than a dozen episodes!
― dean ge, Monday, 2 July 2007 22:43 (seventeen years ago) link
Clips here.
The fan is very credible!
― Eazy, Monday, 2 July 2007 22:45 (seventeen years ago) link
Ha, I was actually thinking about how ILX would respond to this show and who would bring up "icky racial stuff" along those lines. The thing is, though, when they sing r&b it doesn't seem to be at all about black r&b -- if those songs belonged to anyone today, it seems like it'd be like John Mayer or James Blunt or something. Always feels like they're just going for "sensitive" pop music, and it's a whole other issue that super-popular music just happens to consist of white people already working in a black idiom.
That said, I do find them significantly less funny when they do rap or dancehall, though I think that's just a structural thing.
My favorite joke in all of these so far, apart from the ending shot joke of the mugging one, is the bit in the "I'm Not Crying" song where he's making a lasagna ... for one.
(Also Mel = fantastic)
― nabisco, Monday, 2 July 2007 22:45 (seventeen years ago) link
It's going to get cancelled, isn't it? You can just tell. =(
It reminds me of Peep Show, actually.
― admrl, Monday, 2 July 2007 22:46 (seventeen years ago) link
I read somewhere that it was conceived as a 12-part thing?
― jessie monster, Monday, 2 July 2007 22:48 (seventeen years ago) link
xpost hooray
It seems like the kind of thing where they should just do like 10 great episodes and then close up, BBC style -- it's kind of a slight, charming thing, just not built for going on and on.
― nabisco, Monday, 2 July 2007 22:48 (seventeen years ago) link
David Bowie Song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iR2L98gobTQ&mode=related&search=
― dean ge, Monday, 2 July 2007 22:52 (seventeen years ago) link
xpost I'm your typical American that wants as much as he can enjoy, the more episodes the better. If I get bored of it, no problem. At least I'm not left wanting more. I hate that.
― dean ge, Monday, 2 July 2007 22:54 (seventeen years ago) link
yeah 12 eps sounds good for this show! like a book of short stories
― rrrobyn, Monday, 2 July 2007 22:56 (seventeen years ago) link
i have dealt with dismay re: battlestar ending with next season so now i feel i can deal with all tv shows having an end is what i'm probably really saying
― rrrobyn, Monday, 2 July 2007 22:57 (seventeen years ago) link
zen tv
"I'm trying to relive every mistake I made IN A COLD SWEAT!!!"
Arj is so awesome <3
― Spy in the Cab Sav (Trayce), Thursday, 27 August 2009 02:31 (fifteen years ago) link
Re-watching this on dvd, I have been reminded of two things:
1. Todd Barry is very small.2. Eugene Mirman, on the other hand, is quite large.
― More Butty In Your Pants (Telephone thing), Thursday, 27 August 2009 22:33 (fifteen years ago) link
Rhys Darby's stand-up is a bit weird. He's a funny noises comedian, with a slightly frat-boyish persona.
Yeah, but still a kind of endearing dork.
Arj Barker is a kind of angry stoner stand-up.
Kristen Schaal's stand-up persona of a demented slut was a little disturbing, which is what I gather she was aiming at.
― repeating cycles of smoking and cruelty (Michael White), Thursday, 27 August 2009 22:51 (fifteen years ago) link
En Español
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkcYjSBr3nM
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 18 September 2009 20:35 (fifteen years ago) link
Been watching this on DVD. Kind of underwhelmed, although I did like "Carol Brown," Brian the Prime Minister and Patton Oswalt as Elton John imitator. Need to click on that Elvis Telecom link.
― Alan Lo (max) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 31 October 2009 16:03 (fourteen years ago) link
imo the second series, while enjoyable in parts, was pretty pathetic compared to the first, which i loved
― quaq quao, sweetie (electricsound), Saturday, 31 October 2009 16:07 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah I preferred s1 to s2 overall, esp how insane Mel gets towards the end (poor Doug).
― i obtain much semillon (Trayce), Sunday, 1 November 2009 00:20 (fourteen years ago) link
Fin:
Bret, Jemaine and James (co-creator/director) said “we’ve noticed the less we say about the future of the show, the more people want to talk about it, so in an effort to reverse this trend we are today announcing that we won’t be returning for a 3rd season. We’re very proud of the two seasons we made and we like the way the show ended. We’d like to thank everyone who helped make the show and also everyone who watched it. While the characters Bret and Jemaine will no longer be around, the real Bret and Jemaine will continue to exist."
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 11 December 2009 02:06 (fourteen years ago) link
Good. I don't think I could stomach another drop in quality like the one from the first to the second.
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 11 December 2009 02:22 (fourteen years ago) link
i liked some of the writing in the second series, but the songs were almost entirely crap
― matt preston school of industry (electricsound), Friday, 11 December 2009 02:24 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah I wasnt as fond of the second batch. And the ending was neatly tied up so any more would be superflous.
― millivanillimillenary (Trayce), Friday, 11 December 2009 03:12 (fourteen years ago) link
Eagle vs Shark is a pretty horrible film. Nothing sweet or charming about barely-functional, self-obsessed morons.
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 14:44 (fourteen years ago) link
I realise the irony of writing that as a FoTC fan, but somehow the show pulls it off.
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 14:45 (fourteen years ago) link
thought it was ok. there's plenty sweet and charming about the lead female role, lead male is a bit of a stretch in terms of 'looking for sympathy'. good performances from both though.
― k¸ (darraghmac), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 14:49 (fourteen years ago) link
I found it to be a really queasy mix of misanthropic and sentimental, which is not to say there weren't one or two chuckles.
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 14:52 (fourteen years ago) link
But you're right, I objected to him way more than here. His character was just a straight-up dickhead.
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 14:54 (fourteen years ago) link
'way more than her'
xxp ^ lyfe, mayne, lyfe
― k¸ (darraghmac), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 14:54 (fourteen years ago) link
Jarrod has a little girl who is nine that he sees only occasionally from a previous random sexual encounter at a party
<3 u wikipedia never change
― ledge, Tuesday, 7 September 2010 14:54 (fourteen years ago) link
hell, ilx board description xps
― k¸ (darraghmac), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 14:56 (fourteen years ago) link
From Conchords to Muppets
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 17 November 2011 23:01 (twelve years ago) link
Do hip-hop parodies ever age well? (Watched "Hiphoppopottamus" video last week, and, alas, it did not. Kind of like the Revenge of the Nerds breakdance.)
― Love stream of mic checking (Eazy), Thursday, 17 November 2011 23:03 (twelve years ago) link
the Gondry episode is still very very good, "Carol Brown" still gives me chills. but so does "Doggy Bounce"
― frogbs, Friday, 11 January 2013 17:32 (eleven years ago) link
anyone seen the Jemaine Clement vampire film?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv568AzZ-i8
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 26 February 2015 17:45 (nine years ago) link
Yes, it's a pleasing enough collection of sketches.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Thursday, 26 February 2015 18:48 (nine years ago) link
strangely is the cover story of current Film Comment
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 26 February 2015 19:48 (nine years ago) link
shooting a special this year!
https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/rock/8093114/flight-of-the-conchords-to-return-for-a-hour-long-special-in-2018
hopefully they play a couple of the new songs i saw them play at summerstage, which were funny but could use some editing for length
― porg and bess (voodoo chili), Monday, 8 January 2018 19:46 (six years ago) link
new live show now up on Spotify, plenty of laughs and the odd very nice bit amongst some schtick that's slightly worn out at this stage
― ~mine own~ bitcoin (darraghmac), Thursday, 14 March 2019 23:41 (five years ago) link
Oh good ! I hadn't thought about them in a while.Started listening to that and they still have it !So far the highlight is "Summer of 1353".
― AlXTC from Paris, Friday, 15 March 2019 08:35 (five years ago) link
Saw them do the new show at the o2 last summer, it's good.
― chap, Friday, 15 March 2019 09:38 (five years ago) link
yeah i was in dublin
they missed quite a few threads and noted so it didnt hang together at the end (i think it was their first night) but still a very fun night
― ~mine own~ bitcoin (darraghmac), Friday, 15 March 2019 09:45 (five years ago) link
Aw it’s an hbo show... but it’s not available on hbo !
― AlXTC from Paris, Sunday, 17 March 2019 18:03 (five years ago) link
?? It’s a BBC show... but it’s not available on BBC!
― steven, soda jerk (sic), Sunday, 17 March 2019 18:11 (five years ago) link
Ahah The videos Of that I saw were hbo though
― AlXTC from Paris, Sunday, 17 March 2019 19:29 (five years ago) link
spotify
― ~mine own~ bitcoin (darraghmac), Sunday, 17 March 2019 19:30 (five years ago) link
Their first show was on the BBC, but it didn't stop them taking the premise and some of the songs and scripts to HBO. HBO broadcast this last October and had it available to stream for months, but presumably they either own the entire thing or retained the audio rights, such that they can release it for sale or audio streaming now.
https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0105/4542/products/flightofconchords-livelondon-1_1200x.jpg
― steven, soda jerk (sic), Sunday, 17 March 2019 19:39 (five years ago) link
I just looked and it's back on HBO in fifteen days. So, out of seven months, there's, what, one (1) month's holdback where it came off HBO so they can try and sell it in a different format for a fortnight.
― steven, soda jerk (sic), Sunday, 17 March 2019 19:42 (five years ago) link
rewatching the original hbo series. 13 years old!
― treeship., Saturday, 7 November 2020 23:03 (three years ago) link
it's still good.
the BBC series was the original btw
― @oneposter (✔️) (sic), Saturday, 7 November 2020 23:15 (three years ago) link
a radio series, right?
― treeship., Saturday, 7 November 2020 23:23 (three years ago) link
yep. it's great!
― @oneposter (✔️) (sic), Saturday, 7 November 2020 23:24 (three years ago) link
i'll check it out!
― treeship., Saturday, 7 November 2020 23:26 (three years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6D23FC130AA6672B
― calstars, Sunday, 8 November 2020 00:33 (three years ago) link
also available legally here:https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00dn88m/episodes/player
(no geoblocking on BBC radio content)
was previously available on the Widow Howl App / Stitcher Preems in the US, but appears to have expired
― @oneposter (✔️) (sic), Sunday, 8 November 2020 00:47 (three years ago) link
that's so strange, I was just thinking about revisiting this myself today
― Specific Ocean Blue (dog latin), Sunday, 8 November 2020 01:15 (three years ago) link
I think about the Fleetwood Mac "love square" scene all the fucking time
― frogbs, Sunday, 8 November 2020 04:10 (three years ago) link
I just discovered this song they did for Red Nose Day in 2012 and it's incredible!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=py_30jZGUYk
― daavid, Sunday, 3 October 2021 17:43 (two years ago) link
brilliant even though all of the (nz?) artists are completely unknown to me.
― ledge, Monday, 4 October 2021 14:13 (two years ago) link
and lol at the muppets songs bit.
― ledge, Monday, 4 October 2021 14:15 (two years ago) link