Flight of the Conchords Tour

Flight of the Conchords is a New Zealand comedy duo composed of Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement. The duo's comedy and music became the basis of a BBC radio series and then an American television series, which premiered in 2007, also called Flight of the Conchords.

The duo starred in a television series for HBO, titled Flight of the Conchords, which premiered in the United States in June 2007. The series simultaneously premiered in Canada on The Movie Network and Movie Central, and was also shown on The Comedy Network.

The fictional series revolves around the pair as they try to achieve success as a band in New York City and try to develop an American fan base. The regular cast includes fellow comedians Rhys Darby as Murray, Arj Barker as Dave, Kristen Schaal as their obsessed fan Mel, David Costabile as Mel's tolerant husband Doug, and Eugene Mirman as Eugene, their landlord. This show also features many other comedians in guest starring roles. Their songs are woven into the plot of each episode. The first season consisted of 12 episodes.

The second season of Flight of the Conchords started on HBO on 18 January 2009. The first episode of the second season premiered online on Funny or Die a few weeks early on 17 December 2008. On 21 December, the first episode of Flight of the Conchords, season two, became available for online viewing.

Flight Of Conchords were named Best Alternative Comedy Act at the 2005 US Comedy Arts Festival and Best Newcomer at the Melbourne Comedy Festival, and Flight Of Conchords received a nomination for the Perrier Comedy Award at the 2003 Edinburgh Festival Fringe after performing at a venue called The Caves. Flight Of Conchords will be live from Sat, May 08, 2010 to Tue, May 25, 2010.

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Flight Of Conchords Awards and Achievements

Award	Awarded for	Awarded at
Bronze (Comedy)	BBC Radio Series	Sony Radio Academy Awards 2006
Grammy for Best Comedy Album	The Distant Future	50th Annual GRAMMY Awards 2007
Album of the Year	Flight of the Conchords	New Zealand Music Awards 08
Best Group	Flight of the Conchords	New Zealand Music Awards 08
Breakthrough Artist of the Year	Flight of the Conchords	New Zealand Music Awards 08
International Achievement	Flight of the Conchords	New Zealand Music Awards 08

Other achievements

* On 15 November 2007, The Dominion Post awarded Clement and McKenzie with the 2007 Arts Wellys,

and named them the 2007 Wellingtonians of the Year.
* Time magazine's James Poniewozik named it one of the Top 5 New TV Series of 2007, ranking it at#2.

* Entertainment Weekly named Flight of the Conchords the seventh best show of 2007.
* Flight of the Conchords were nominated for two Emmys in 2008, for Best Writing (Comedy Series)

and Best Directing (Comedy Series).
* Flight of the Conchords placed three songs in the Triple J Hottest 100, 2008. Business Time #19,

The Most Beautiful Girl (In the Room) #60, and Hiphopopotamus Vs Rhymenocerous #67.
* Flight of the Conchords had 3 more songs placed the following year, (Triple J Hottest 100, 2009)

with Too Many Dicks (On The Dance Floor) at #86, Hurt Feelings at #30, and Carol Brown at #24

* Clement was nominated for the 2009 Emmy for Best Actor (Comedy Series).


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Flight of the Conchords Appearances

The band performed its first televised performances over four nights (May 3–6 2000) on Newtown Salad, a show on Wellington's short-lived local TV station "Channel 7" (later renamed "WTV"). The songs, in order, were "Bowie", "Ladies of the World", "Petrov, Yelyena and Me", and "Hotties".

They performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2002 and 2003, when they were nominated for the Perrier Award. They also performed at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival where they won the Best Newcomer Award. They were later featured in a 2004 campaign for British mobile phone retailer Phones 4U. They were also featured on Australia's ABC TV in the show Stand Up!

HBO gave the group a special on their Friday night half-hour stand-up comedy series One Night Stand. They then headlined at the opening weekend at Comix comedy club where they recorded two tracks included on 2007's "The Distant Future". They also performed at the South by Southwest Music Festival in Austin, Texas. During their visit to Texas, they recorded a documentary titled Flight of the Conchords: A Texan Odyssey, which aired on New Zealand's TV3 in late 2006.

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Flight of the Conchords Introduction

Flight of the Conchords is a New Zealand comedy duo composed of Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement. Billing themselves as "Formerly New Zealand's fourth most popular guitar-based digi-bongo acapella-rap-funk-comedy folk duo", the group uses a combination of witty observation,characterisation and acoustic guitar music. The duo's comedy and music became the basis of a BBC radio series and then an American television series, which premiered in 2007 on HBO, also called Flight of the Conchords.

They were named Best Alternative Comedy Act at the 2005 US Comedy Arts Festival and Best Newcomer at the Melbourne Comedy Festival, and they received a nomination for the Perrier Comedy Award at the 2003 Edinburgh Festival Fringe after performing at a venue called The Caves. The duo's live performances have gained them a worldwide cult following.

Bret and Jemaine were flatmates at Victoria University of Wellington, where they were studying film and theatre before forming Flight of the Conchords in 1998. They first performed as part of a five-man group called So You're a Man, which included Taika Waititi, and had a small but loyal following in New Zealand and Australia.

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