The second series of award-winning musicomedy Flight Of The Conchords has just started over in the USA.
Here in Britain, however, we have to wait til April to witness the genius that’s three months, for crying out loud!!!
In the meantime, here are all the promo slots and trailers for the second series to tide us over.
Here is some good news: Flight Of The Conchords, the New Zealand comedic musical duo, who are not as bad as that description makes them sound, are releasing an album!
Featuring fifteen completely re-recorded songs from their HBO telvision series (literally the best thing on television all last year), it comes out on 22nd April.
You can pre-order on Amazon, and the tracklisting is as follows:
Foux du Fafa
Inner City Pressure
Hiphopopotamus vs. Rhymenoceros
Think About It
Ladies of the World
Mutha’uckas
The Prince of Parties
Leggy Blonde
Robots
Boom
A Kiss Is Not a Contract
The Most Beautiful Girl (in the Room)
Business Time
Bowie
Au Revoir
Bad news: It’s missing the sublime Jenny.
Good news: Jenny is all up on that youtube (youtube) thusly:
Flight Of The Conchords – Jenny (live)
PS Subpop records is giving away a free download of Ladies Of The World on their media pages. When will the governments realize it’s got to be funky sexy ladies?
Dearest reader,
I am going away for Christmas now. At least part of it will be spent in prison*.
Normal service will be resumed next weekend, when I’ll run-down the annual totally unbiased Discopop Directory Top 10 albums or singles of 2007 (I haven’t decided which to do first).
In the meantime, here’s a seasonally inappropriate clip from my favourite comedy discovery of the year, BBC Four’s musical spoof show Flight Of The Conchords. In this scene, guitarist Brett is angry at being replaced in his band by a flash-in-the-pan bongos player, and works out his anger in the style of a 1980s Jerry Bruckheimer movie.
Happy Christmas to you and yours!
Mrdiscopop
PS: If you liked that, there’s a DVD available here, and the band plan an album and tour in 2008. Yay!
*Not a joke: My mother-in-law is a prison chaplain, and we’ll be “on the inside” for the Christmas Day service
Dearest reader,
I am going away for Christmas now. At least part of it will be spent in prison*.
Normal service will be resumed next weekend, when I’ll run-down the annual totally unbiased Discopop Directory Top 10 albums or singles of 2007 (I haven’t decided which to do first).
In the meantime, here’s a seasonally inappropriate clip from my favourite comedy discovery of the year, BBC Four’s musical spoof show Flight Of The Conchords. In this scene, guitarist Brett is angry at being replaced in his band by a flash-in-the-pan bongos player, and works out his anger in the style of a 1980s Jerry Bruckheimer movie.
Happy Christmas to you and yours!
Mrdiscopop
PS: If you liked that, there’s a DVD available here, and the band plan an album and tour in 2008. Yay!
*Not a joke: My mother-in-law is a prison chaplain, and we’ll be “on the inside” for the Christmas Day service
Bloggers in the US are going crazy for a film called Superbad, which has sprung forth from the creative “well” that is Jude Apatow (producer of Talladega Nights, The 40 Year-Old Virgin and Knocked Up).
I can’t honestly say I’ve enjoyed any of his films so far – which all too often fall back on knob gags and swearing at the expense of genuine wit. But I’m willing to give him another try after he cast the supremely gifted imrpovisational comedian Michael Cera (George Michael in Arrested Development) in Superbad’s lead role.
As if to prove my point, however, the censored trailer is actually funnier than the 18-rated one. If you’re willing to risk it, the film’s out on 14 September in the UK.
Superbad – Censored trailer
Bloggers in the US are going crazy for a film called Superbad, which has sprung forth from the creative “well” that is Jude Apatow (producer of Talladega Nights, The 40 Year-Old Virgin and Knocked Up).
I can’t honestly say I’ve enjoyed any of his films so far – which all too often fall back on knob gags and swearing at the expense of genuine wit. But I’m willing to give him another try after he cast the supremely gifted imrpovisational comedian Michael Cera (George Michael in Arrested Development) in Superbad’s lead role.
As if to prove my point, however, the censored trailer is actually funnier than the 18-rated one. If you’re willing to risk it, the film’s out on 14 September in the UK.
Superbad – Censored trailer
Here’s something I didn’t know… Channel 4 didn’t commission a fourth series of Peep Show after the sitcom’s last run got poor ratings. Luckily, they noticed how well the show was selling on DVD and changed its mind. Which means lots more awkward pauses, interior monologues and jokes about poo for all of us. (This is a good thing, by the way).
Here’s one of the preview clips C4 have released from the new series, which starts on Friday the 13th (Woo-oooh spooky, etc).
Perhaps one of the only consolations to being confined to the sofa for the last five days is that I’ve been catching up on weeks and weeks of films and television.
The summary so far: The Life & Death of Peter Sellers – excellent; Jamon Jamon – just plain weird; Ghostbusters 2 – better than I remembered; Meet The Fockers – better than I expected; The Bodyguard – what was I thinking?; X-Men 3 – surprisingly entertaining.
But my favourite discovery of all has been repeated episodes of early-1990s comedy series Absolutely, which Virgin Media are offering on their on-demand TV service.
Absolutely was a sketch show in the style of Monty Python, starring future chat-show host Jack Doherty and Saturday Night Live’s shortest-lived cast member Morwenna Banks. It was less cerebral and more, well, Scottish than the Pythons. But it shared a playful sense of disregard for the niceties of logic, and a pleasingly high laugh ratio.
Several recurring characters included Callum Gilhooley – the most boring man in the world; Gwynnedd and Denzil – hopeless Welsh DIY enthusiasts; and MacGlashan – a rabid Scottish nationalist.
But, viewing the series 15 years on, it’s Morwenna Banks’s characters that stand the test of time. By far her best creation is the “Little Girl”, who explains the modern world from the point-of-view of a seven-year-old. There aren’t many clips on the net (because the series has never been released on DVD) but here’s one example…
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