{"id":1025,"date":"2007-07-30T11:27:48","date_gmt":"2007-07-30T15:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catchingfireflies.com\/blog\/?p=1025"},"modified":"2007-07-30T11:27:48","modified_gmt":"2007-07-30T15:27:48","slug":"oh-so-funny-fli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/oh-so-funny-fli\/","title":{"rendered":"oh-so-funny&#8230; flight of the conchords"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/catchingfireflies.typepad.com\/photos\/uncategorized\/2007\/07\/30\/flight_of_the_conchords.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-full\" title=\"Flight_of_the_conchords\" alt=\"Flight_of_the_conchords\" src=\"http:\/\/catchingfireflies.typepad.com\/photos\/uncategorized\/2007\/07\/30\/flight_of_the_conchords.jpg\" border=\"0\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px\" \/><\/a>I immediately fell in love with HBO&#8217;s new series &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hbo.com\/conchords\/?ntrack_para1=leftnav_category0_show4\">Flight of the Conchords<\/a>.&nbsp; It has a slight <em>Napoleon Dynamite <\/em>flavor mixed in with some seriously funny folk songs.<\/p>\n<p>One of my favorites is <strong>Beautiful Girl<\/strong>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/N7vgY0yEs9Y\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\"><\/embed><\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately they don&#8217;t have a current CD available yet, but you can find some of their other funny clips on their fan site <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whatthefolk.net\/vision.htm\">What the Folk!<\/a> (and loads of them on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/results?search_query=%22flight+of+the+conchords%22&amp;search=Search\">YouTube<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>A review from the New York Times reads, &quot;The heroes of <strong>Flight of the Conchords<\/strong> are as witless as they come. Jemaine and Bret are young New Zealanders adrift in New York who hope to break into the music industry with their \u201cdigi-folk\u201d two-man band, also named <strong>Flight of the Conchords<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Flight of the Conchords<\/strong> is funny in such an understated way that it is almost dangerous to make too much of it \u2014 it could collapse like a souffl\u00e9 when the door slams. It\u2019s also a little sweeter, less a satire of show business than wry self-parody. <\/p>\n<p>What distinguishes <strong>The Conchords<\/strong> from other, similarly dry, sardonic comedies is that at certain junctures the two heroes freeze the action and burst into song in subtle parodies of pop music videos that are almost plausible and deliciously absurd. The range is impressive, everything from <span style=\"color: #000000;\">David Bowie-<\/span>style \u201980s pop to rap and reggae.<\/p>\n<p>Jemaine is played by Jemaine Clement, the taller, bespectacled half of a real-life music and comedy duo from New Zealand with a cult following in the United States. Bret is Bret McKenzie, the duo\u2019s shorter half. In interviews they have said their series was partly inspired by \u201cCop Rock,\u201d an ill-fated 1990 show by Steven Bochco that was part crime series, part musical, though even this could be a joke.&quot;<\/p>\n<div id=\"flaresmith\" class=\"feedflare\"><script src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~s\/http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/catchingfireflies\/TyNo?i=http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/oh-so-funny-fli\/\" type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div><div class=\"linkwithin_hook\" id=\"http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/oh-so-funny-fli\/\"><\/div><script>\n<!-- \/\/LinkWithinCodeStart\nvar linkwithin_site_id = 944859;\nvar linkwithin_div_class = \"linkwithin_hook\";\n\/\/LinkWithinCodeEnd -->\n<\/script>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/widget.js\"><\/script>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/pixel.png\" alt=\"Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...\" style=\"border: 0\" \/><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I immediately fell in love with HBO&#8217;s new series &#8211; Flight of the Conchords.&nbsp; It has a slight Napoleon Dynamite flavor mixed in with some seriously funny folk songs. One of my favorites is Beautiful Girl&#8230; Unfortunately they don&#8217;t have a current CD available yet, but you can find some of their other funny clips on their fan site What the Folk! (and loads of them on YouTube) A review from the New York Times reads, &quot;The heroes of Flight of the Conchords are as witless as they come. Jemaine and Bret are young New Zealanders adrift in New York who hope to break into the music industry with their \u201cdigi-folk\u201d two-man band, also named Flight of the Conchords. Flight of the Conchords is funny in such an understated way that it is almost dangerous to make too much of it \u2014 it could collapse like a souffl\u00e9 when the door slams. It\u2019s also a little sweeter, less a satire of show business than wry self-parody. What distinguishes The Conchords from other, similarly dry, sardonic comedies is that at certain junctures the two heroes freeze the action and burst into song in subtle parodies of pop music videos that are&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/oh-so-funny-fli\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<script>\n<!-- \/\/LinkWithinCodeStart\nvar linkwithin_site_id = 944859;\nvar linkwithin_div_class = \"linkwithin_hook\";\n\/\/LinkWithinCodeEnd -->\n<\/script>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/widget.js\"><\/script>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/pixel.png\" alt=\"Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...\" style=\"border: 0\" \/><\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2201,2200,1612,2203,2198,2199,2202],"class_list":["post-1025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-to-groove-to","tag-beautiful-girl","tag-bret-mckenzie","tag-flight-of-the-conchords","tag-funny-folk-music","tag-hbo","tag-jermaine-clement","tag-what-the-folk"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}