Incredibly Funny Enough to Possibly Create World Peace (Distant Future E.P - Flight of the Conchords)

Member Name: i_heart_elo

Product:	Distant Future E.P - Flight of the Conchords
Date:	03/02/09 (39 review reads)
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Advantages: Silly yet witty humor , incredibly laughable, catchy songs you'll be humming in the bathtub

Disadvantages: There are none! These guys are brillant!

I was shocked to see only one person had written a review for this Masterpiece of Comedy. I found out about these guys named Bret McKenzie and Jermaine Clemant, a few years ago before they got they're own show on HBO. I was channel surfing and saw two grungy looking guys playing guitars on stage with an audience dying with laughter in the background. It's easy to understand why too, once you hear the lyrics. The song was called "Business Time" and it was played in a guitaresque Barry White kind of way.

Some of the lyrics in it are;

" Girl, tonight we`re gonna make love.
You know how I know, baby?
Cause it`s Wednesday.
And Wednesday night is the night that we make love.
Tuesday night`s the night that we go and visit your mother, but Wednesday night is the night that we make love"
Ooh, makin` love.
Makin` love for two.
Makin` love for two minutes.
When it`s with me you only need two minutes, `cause I`m so intense.
Two minutes in heaven is better than one minute in heaven.
You say something like, "Is that it?"
I know what you`re trying to say baby.
You`re trying to say, "Aww yeah, that`s it."
Then you tell me you want some more.
Well I`m not surprised.
But I`m quite sleepy."

And THAT isn't even their funniest song! While they are wittily hilarious, that's not the only thing to love. They're actually GOOD musicians. I keep thinking " umm why aren't these guys writing normal non-funny songs?" But, I guess if you can play good music AND make it funny, then why not?

The season of they're TV episodes on HBO, showcases they're music and they're natural dry humor, comedy styles. They start off as just these guys from New Zealand that move to New York, and think they might hit it big as a band. They end up with an equally funny Band manager named Murray they met at the New Zealand Consulate. Some of Murray's best lines are;

" Murray Hewitt: You can't just neglect your old fans like that. What happens when your new fans fly the coop? You'll end up like Zed-Zed Top.

Bret: What are you talking about?

Murray Hewitt: You know, Zed-Zed Top?

Bret: Yeah.

Murray Hewitt: They sang the song about the woman with the legs. Anyway, they grew big beards, their old fans didn't like it, their new fans didn't like them without the beards, and then they had a "Do we have a beard or not?" situation. "

They also have ONE single fan that is always stalking them, and a local pawn store guy they befriend, that always thinks they're from England not New Zealand. They people who play these character actors are really perfectly cast as well.
So Jermaine and Bret usually have one song in each episode so it's really not all about the funny music, it's about they're lives as these struggling musicians that no one likes.

I have introduced every single person I know to these guys and some of my friends are now more obsessed with them than even I am. My one friend has a Tee-Shirt of they'res now he wears constantly, and a bumper sticker on his car that says " It's Business Time". (Plus he just starts singing they're songs randomly , which is almost as funny as the songs themselves) Before I end this I have a couple more lines from the show to share with you, that might make you so overly curious you would truly check them out. After you start putting these songs on your IPOD to show you friends, you can thank me....

Jemaine: I was hoping to dress something like Prince.
Dave: Kind of erogenous, huh?
Jemaine: Yeah, but toned down a bit, like Prince if he was just going to the zoo, or the supermarket.

Bret: They want me in the threesome.
Jemaine: What? That's not a threesome, that's a foursome.
Bret: I don't know. I've never had a threesome.
Jemaine: I don't want you in my threesome. You don't know anything about threesomes.
Bret: Have you ever had a threesome.
Jemaine: Nearly.
Bret: What do you mean "nearly"?
Jemaine: I've had a twosome.

Summary: Two hilarious Kiwi's making fun of themselves and they're band and singing about it