December 11, 2009

Sadly, it’s official.

They had a great run while it lasted; sadly, it’s over. Flight of the Conchords will not be returning to TV. From what I hear, they found that it was a lot of work to write songs, act, and write the show. I heard the news just before the second season ended, and I was hoping that they were all just rumors. However, the bad announced officially yesterday that the rumors are true.

Let's watch one small clip of the show to remind us of the good times we had together.




In case you don't know who Flight of the Conchords are, here is a brief introduction.

Flight of the Conchords is a New Zealand comedy duo composed of Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement. Billing themselves as "Formerly New Zealand's fourth most popular guitar-based digi-bongo acapella-rap-funk-comedy folk duo",the group uses a combination of witty observation, characterisation and acoustic guitar music. The duo's comedy and music became the basis of a BBC radio series and then an American television series, which premiered in 2007, also called Flight of the Conchords.
They were named Best Alternative Comedy Act at the 2005 US Comedy Arts Festival and Best Newcomer at the Melbourne Comedy Festival, and they received a nomination for the Perrier Comedy Award at the 2003 Edinburgh Festival Fringe after performing at a venue called The Caves. The duo's live performances have gained them a worldwide cult following. -Wikipedia

"We've noticed the less we say about the future of the show, the more people want to talk about it, so in an effort to reverse this trend we are today announcing that we won't be returning for a 3rd season," said the group on their official website.

The show ran for a total of 11 hours but managed to gather quite the following. What made the show was their dry humor, the witty songs, and the charismatic characters --Bret and Jemaine who both played themselves.

If you happen to like the show you can watch some of the movies that Jemaine and Bret are in: Eagle Vs. Shark is one of them -I'm sure that there are more.

We will miss you!

3 comments:

Danielle Conolly said...

Farewell, Rhymenocerous and Hip-hop-a-potomous. I will miss your TV show.

Sandy Klowak said...

Ah, how sad. This show was brilliant...

Miguel said...

Yes very sad :(