In season two, they worked the opposite way. The show's first season consisted of tunes Clement and McKenzie had written and developed from stage shows, in some cases for almost a decade. IN SEASON TWO, THEY WROTE THE SCRIPTS FIRST. He ran into Schaal, who not only did not recognize her co-star, she looked frightened. On the last day of shooting the Bowie scenes, Clement was given permission by the makeup and costume departments to walk the Lower East Side in his costume. I was David Bowie and this was art," Clement recalled. "My silver jumpsuit was so tight-my legs swelling from the accumulated blood no longer allowed to circulate-I had to be cut out of it. CLEMENT HAD TO BE CUT OUT OF ONE OF THE BOWIE COSTUMES. Technical difficulties caused Antopolski's performance from London to be dropped entirely, so director Troy Miller suggested Clement himself to play the famous musician. DAVID BOWIE DECLINED PLAYING HIMSELF, BECAUSE HE HAD JUST DONE SO ON RICKY GERVAIS' EXTRAS.Īfter considering Noel Fielding and John Cameron Mitchell, they opted to cast British comedian Dan Antopolski to play Bowie. "We looked like skeletons," McKenzie said. BOTH JEMAINE AND BRET WERE PHYSICALLY SICK OVER THE NEW YORK WEATHER AND THE SUDDEN WORKLOAD.Ĭlement got pneumonia during the first season, and due to the overwhelming workload they both lost a lot of weight. In the show's first episode, "Sally," Mel shows Bret the picture of Jemaine's lips she keeps in her wallet. In the doc, a big fan of theirs revealed that she kept a picture of Jemaine's lips in her wallet (the other two pictures were normal ones of her kids). The 2006 documentary Flight of the Conchords: A Texan Odyssey documented Clement and McKenzie's time at the SXSW festival, pre-HBO fame. MEL'S PICTURE OF JEMAINE'S LIPS DIDN'T COME FROM THE WRITERS' IMAGINATION. The breakfast catering was one box with 10 sandwiches. THE FIRST SEASON BUDGET WAS MINUSCULE.ĭavid Costabile (Doug) described the first season budget as "insane," "shoestring," and "so crappy." On his first day, they shot in an abandoned Lower East Side apartment with no running water or electricity. DAVE WAS A CARICATURE OF ARJ BARKER'S ACTUAL PERSONALITY.Ĭomedian Arj Barker admitted to The Guardian that when he met Clement and McKenzie at an Auckland comedy festival in the early 2000s, it was during a period of his life when he was "partying a lot and drinking" and "chasing girls as much as I could." Clement and McKenzie's first impression of Barker led directly to the creation of Barker's character Dave, the aspiring ladies man. HBO sent Clement and McKenzie a tape of Schaal's standup and they decided, after "about 30 seconds," that she would be perfect for the role of the band's obsessive fan, Mel. Schaal later said the guys pitched the concept of her character as accurately as possible-though "They never pitched that she was a stalker, but she's. KRISTEN SCHAAL WAS CAST AS MEL BASED ON HER STANDUP. It does really annoy me.” Fortunately, an HBO talent scout discovered their live show in Montreal in 2004. Not being too clever is a concern in New Zealand TV. “They’d say, ‘Middle New Zealand won’t get it.’ Idiots! I’d go, ‘What are you talking about? I’m from middle New Zealand, and you’re not.’ I always have a working-class chip on my shoulder about those people.
FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS DAVID BOWIE SERIES
In 2014, Clement recalled that television producers in his home country weren't interested in a TV series with him and McKenzie. Some plot points made it to the TV series. Comedian Jimmy Carr played the band's stalker. Rhys Darby played Brian Nesbitt, Jemaine and Bret's manager, in the BBC Radio 2 six-part series, like he would later do on HBO (but this time with the name Murray Hewitt). IT WAS A RADIO SERIES BEFORE IT WAS A TV SERIES. On the tenth anniversary of its debut, we're taking a look behind the scenes of Flight of the Conchords. The beloved show was a one-of-a-kind comedy about two guys trying to make it as a musical group in New York City, even though they only seem to have one fan (albeit a very devoted one). Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie make up the Flight of the Conchords, New Zealand's self-proclaimed "fourth most popular guitar-based digi-bongo acapella-rap-funk-comedy folk duo," who starred in their own HBO series for two critically-acclaimed seasons.
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