But we have faith in any collaboration between Bret McKenzie, Jemaine Clement, and HBO. Flight of the Conchords is a Grammy award-winning folk/pop/comedy duo comprised of Bret McKenzie formerly of The Black Seeds, Video Kid, and The Wellington International Ukulele Orchestra fame and Jemaine Clement formerly of The Humourbeasts, who met in 1998 while studying film and theatre in Wellington, New Zealand. I am working on another idea with them though, hence the mix-up.ĭon't get too sad, though. Clement sent out a couple tweets to clarify the rumors.īefore this rumour gets out of hand - we are not working on a 4 ep Conchords show for hbo. Update: It appears four episodes of Flight of the Conchords aren't happening after all. And as long as Super Fan Mel ( Kristen Schaal) is back, that’s good enough. Con: was anyone really clamoring for new Conchords episodes?), at the very least these guys have had plenty of time to come up with some new material. While the jury’s out on whether this is truly a good idea (Pro: new Conchords episodes. ‘It was supposed to be this year but then we decided to put What We Do in the Shadows out ourselves.’ HBO have commissioned a new, four-episode comedy show, he reveals. It would be good to do something all together…I miss playing Flight of the Conchords gigs.’ But Bret, James and me, we all want to do a musical. ‘Sometimes it feels like we lost a lot of impetus over the last couple of years.
That idea has apparently been on their radar as well, and Clement confirmed in an interview with The Guardian that they will be back together on HBO soon:Īre the Conchords, dormant at the moment, waiting to erupt again? ‘We talk about a movie every so often,’ says Clement. While both Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement have both gone on to quite successful non-Conchord careers, fans have long hoped that the duo might eventually reunite onscreen. It’s been five long years since Flight of the Conchords last aired on HBO, but the New Zealand folk duo are apparently not quite done singing to audiences about heavy topics such as robot Armageddons and racist dragons.