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McKenzie: It's between 17 and 18 percent improvised.Ĭlement: But this interview is a hundred percent.ĬNN: A lot of the musical numbers from the first season you had in stock before you even made the TV show. Often they go way off script.Ĭlement: Yeah, we try and write the script with parts that we know we can improvise off. Especially with Rhys, because Rhys is such a brilliant improviser and these guys and Rhys do so well together in those scenes in the band meetings.
And from that position we just play with it a little bit and see where we go.
But they're both very hardworking so it makes it easy.ĬNN: What's it like on set? I imagine when the cameras start rolling that a lot of what happens is improvised.īobin: To a certain degree, yeah. The show's incredibly hard work because obviously we do music and comedy at the same time and that's quite a challenge. Ĭlement: We're giving it back to the Australians who made fun of us.ĬNN: James, what is it like to work with these two? So we stored up all that resentment and we waited years. it always struck me when we went out to lunch with people how many times we would be made fun of because of our accents. I think they're famous for being friendly.ĬNN: As an Australian, I would like to know why you make fun of Australians so much.Ĭlement: We've toured in Australia and. You don't know of that?īret McKenzie: Friendly. New Zealand has a reputation as being one of the most boring peoples of the world. Jemaine Clement: I think in some ways our characters are typical of New Zealanders. Do you consider yourselves worthy cultural ambassadors for New Zealand? The following is an edited version of the interview.ĬNN: The show is a big hit around the world. "But it seems the world has caught up with us."Īnd CNN caught up with Clement and McKenzie (Bobin, too) to talk about writing silly songs, the sweet tooth of success and to find out why Aussies - such as CNN's interviewer - are always in the cross hairs. "We basically never set out to have the show be a credit crunch show," says co-executive producer and co-creator James Bobin. With the economy taking a turn for the worst in recent months, "Flight of the Conchords" now seems more relevant. "Sometimes in our flat we would have so little money that we were trying to think of schemes, like how can we make some money today so that we can have some dinner." Could a similar scenario have played out when the pair lived together as university students in their homeland more than 10 years ago? "We take one element, and then we kind of exaggerate it or twist it."Ĭonsider the series' second episode of the new season (which started earlier this month), where Bret and Jemaine squabbled over Bret's "extravagant" purchase of a new coffee mug (it cost $2.79). "Most of the stories are based on things that happened to us," says McKenzie. But the resemblance is as clear as the giant, idolizing blue eyes of their lone fan, Mel (Kristen Schaal). Of course the native New Zealanders possess more smarts than their on-screen personas, two scrappy, clueless musicians trying - and failing miserably - to break into the music business in New York City. Watch the group talk about the price of fame » Five minutes in an elevator, a hallway, or an interview room with Clement and McKenzie, and a scene worthy of inclusion on the show effortlessly unfolds.
Absurd comedy comes as easily to the duo as useless advice flows from Murray, their always-dressed-in-brown band manager (played by Rhys Darby) on their hit HBO program. "What's your favorite color?" went an innocuous query.
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