Kiwi Go Again

Although it's already been screened in the U.S., we're not due to get season two of Flight of the Conchords here in the U.K. until May. I'm afraid I just couldn't wait that long, though, so ended up downloading the series over the internet, and by crikey it doesn't disappoint. Along with Peep Show, Summer Heights High, Extras and The IT Crowd this is one of the funniest TV comedies of the past few years, for me. We'll have to make the most of this second series of FotC, mind, as it looks like it's going to be the last. Ahh.

***************Mild Spoilers Ahoy!***************

Some of my favourite bits from season two: Brian the New Zealand Prime Minister, the Australian girlfriend/Australians in general as New Zealenders' nemeses, Mary Lynn Rajskub (Chloe from 24) and the Simon & Garfunkel episode, the epileptic dogs episode, Murray's friendship graph and his fort/den, and this - Jemaine and Bret's superstalker Mel's very own song!



Season 1 DVDs going cheap here and here

Three Of A Kind #44

To celebrate the release of Flight of the Conchords' debut LP this week, today's Three Of A Kind features tracks by a trio of modern-day comic icons.

First up, the Conchords themselves with the not-quite-Barry-White Business Time, being as it is an ode to perfunctory, once-weekly marital sex, rather than any of the more salacious fare that The Walrus Of Love might have come up with (so to speak) himself.

Flight of the Conchords - Business Time mp3 (right click)

Mildly Interesting Comedy Pop Fact: contributors on the 2006 Flight of the Conchords BBC Radio 2 series included: Greg Proops, Emma Kennedy, Jimmy Carr, Daniel Kitson and, appearing regularly in a reluctant phone mentor role to the band's hapless manager Murray (or Bryan, as Rhys Darby's character was known then), the one and only Neil Finn!

It was great to see footage of early-eighties funk-punks The Higsons on last night's Comedy Map Of Great Britain on BBC2. The band met at the University of East Anglia and were, of course, fronted by The Fast Show and Down The Line legend Charlie "Switch" Higson - hence their appearance on the Comedy Map. One of the songs we saw them performing was this, their debut single:

The Higsons - I Don't want To Live With Monkeys mp3 (left click/available for 7 days)

Mildly Interesting Comedy Pop Fact: The Higsons released a couple of singles on the legendary 2 Tone label.

Forget Ricky Gervais's (in)famous crab dance, the real highlight of The Office, for me, was Gervais/David Brent's stirring rendition of his self-penned M.O.R. classic Freelove Freeway. Mackenzie Crook and Martin Freeman's background contributions to this shouldn't be underestimated either. Completely bloody hilarious.

David Brent - Freelove Freeway mp3 (left click/available for 7 days)

Mildly Interesting Comedy Pop Fact: Ricky's synth pop duo, Seona Dancing, were one of the acts tipped for success in the Fifteen For Eighty-Four feature in the 1984 Smash Hits Yearbook.

Buy stuff by today's featured artists, including the Flight of the Conchords' eponymous album, here.