12 Days of Breakout Comedians: #8 Flight of the Conchords
(Ed.: So, like, when we feel like it, we're doing little features on 12 comedians or comedy teams who broke out in 2007, which was last year.)
Who could've predicted one of the funniest emerging comedy duos of '07 would also be the best music act to come out of New Zealand since… um… Crowded House? Sure, why not?
Anyway, at first glance, you probably thought, "Hey, I've long been sick of Tenacious D, why would I care about these weird-talkin' wannabes?" But then you caught like five seconds of Flight of the Conchords' HBO series, and you saw that it was nothing like that, it was different, it was fresh and hilarious, and suddenly you were hooked. And then the show only seemed to get funnier as the season went on. And then they released an awesome album to boot. With a second season due this year, one can only assume The Conchords will continue to dominate in '08.
If you're somehow uninitiated, check out the selection of videos on the HBO site.
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