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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