![]() ![]() ![]() “That was the tricky part: we worked seven days, every week. “We would use the weekends to record the songs,” Clement recalls, noting that it was a key factor in the decision not to move ahead with a Season 3. While it all looked effortless and charmingly ramshackle on screen, making each series was a massive creative undertaking – working on minuscule budgets, and with multiple new laugh-out-loud musical numbers required for every single episode. “I worked with and he said, ‘You guys changed comedy in America’,” recalls Clement, who’s currently working on James Cameron’s Avatar sequels. If the Conchords series turned Clement and McKenzie into household names, it also brought a breakthrough for director and co-creator James Bobin (who went on to direct The Muppets and sequel Muppets Most Wanted, and is currently working on Percy Jackson And The Olympians for Disney+), and featured episodes written and directed by Taika Waititi. To mark 15 years of the show, the Hiphopopotamus and Rhymenoceros reunited for a brand new major Empire interview – and dazzling photo shoot – looking back on the series’ hardscrabble production, creative challenges, and huge success. It all came to an end two years later with the show’s second and final season – and though they’ve played live occasionally in the years since, it’s been a while since the Conchords flew as one. Swiftly, they became Hollywood stars, attracted famous fans ranging from Peter Jackson to Snoop Dogg, and made ‘a capella-rap-funk-comedy’ into a legitimate musical genre. ![]() Back in 2007, Kiwi comedy duo – comprising Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie – took their songs-on-stage stand-up show and radio series, and turned it into a cult HBO sitcom. Fifteen years ago, it was business time for Flight Of The Conchords. ![]()
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