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| From | waldrop.kirk@comcast.net |
| Subject | Re: Flight Of The Conchords |
| Date | Mon, 11 Feb 2008 23:47:56 +0000 |
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Those guys are great, but Lisa Lampanelli (sp?) and others on the Stern show were tearing those guys a new one today. I think Lisa's funny, but sometimes there's more to comedy than just racist d*ck jokes. FOTC are clever, to boot.
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From: Jennifer Leduc <jenleduc@hotmail.com>
>
> The category doesn't get much attention but I'm pretty pleased that Flight Of
> The Conchords won this year's Grammy for Best Comedy Album .
>
> http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1501119/story.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=104919
> 43
>
> New Zealand comedy duo Flight of the Conchords have continued their remarkable
> run of international success, scooping a Grammy award for Best Comedy Album. And
> the award - the first time a non-American has won the category - puts the
> Wellington pair of Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement in auspicious company. In
> the past the award has largely gone to stand-up comedy stars including Robin
> Williams, Richard Pryor, Bob Newhart, Steve Martin, Bill Cosby, Eddie Murphy and
> Chris Rock. McKenzie and Clement - who were the Kiwi showbiz success story of
> 2007 with their breakthrough sitcom for American cable network HBO- joined that
> honours list at the 50th Grammy Awards yesterday. And while the duo are now up
> there with Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, jazz pianist-arranger Alan Broadbent, Lord of
> the Rings scriptwriter and theme song lyricist Fran Walsh and Taupo musicians
> Jon Mark and Thelma Burchell as New Zealand Grammy winners, they are the first
> Kiwi artists to do it while performing their own songs - although not many of
> them. Their winning "album" was the 23-minute six-track Distant Future EP
> released by US indie label Sub Pop. It contains just three studio tracks - which
> will be familiar to fans of the TV series - and three live cuts from a New York
> gig, one of which, Banter, is Clement and McKenzie chatting to their audience
> with deadpan references to NZ and sheep. But genre-spoofing songs like Business
> Time and The Most Beautiful Girl in the Room were enough to convince Grammy
> voters to pick it ahead of the other four nominees. The comedy Grammy came after
> the pair's show went away empty-handed at the Writers Guild Awards at the
> weekend. There it was nominated for best comedy series, best new series and best
> episodic comedy. While waiting for production on their second series to begin in
> the States, McKenzie and Jemaine Clement have recorded an album due for release
> in April. Given their Grammy success with five songs and a spot of chat, a whole
> full-length album risks sweeping all before it.
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