He looked — and there is no other way to put this — bored. Boredom was replaced with vague terror when I ran up to him and gushed about what a fan I am. Today, I belatedly apologise for my unseemliness. Whereas in New Zealand, at least when we were growing up there, money was not part of the equation, not in the same way. As for fame, there is a culture in New Zealand of not wanting to stand out — and no one in New Zealand ever really believed they were internationally famous anyway, says Clement.
Finally, in , they were booked to appear on Letterman. At last, people back home would know how well they were doing. For a while, they lived in the US, but quickly realised it was better to be in Wellington. So you can just do what interests you. I think they wore T-shirts on the plane. Once they wrapped up the TV show and decided to moved back home, they briefly had a plan to roll off the plane wearing huge fur coats and giant gold chains, strolling through Wellington airport like Hollywood cliches on their way to shoot MTV Cribs.
Singing songs about sexual failure for 20 years: fine. Since then, they have enjoyed individual successes, in proportions they like: Clement has appeared in Men in Black 3, written a sitcom for a New Zealand TV station and co-directed the vampire mockumentary What We Do in the Shadows.
As well as winning an Oscar and playing an elf, McKenzie has been working on screenplays and doing some more work with the Muppets. This is the other problem for Conchords fans: as much as they love the band and show, for McKenzie and Clement, it was always a hobby, one they would only do as long as it was fun.
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In , Clement recalled that television producers in his home country weren't interested in a TV series with him and McKenzie. Not being too clever is a concern in New Zealand TV. It does really annoy me.
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 Comedian Arj Barker admitted to The Guardian that when he met Clement and McKenzie at an Auckland comedy festival in the early s, it was during a period of his life when he was "partying a lot and drinking" and "chasing girls as much as I could.
David Costabile Doug described the first season budget as "insane," "shoestring," and "so crappy. The breakfast catering was one box with 10 sandwiches. By season two, there was more food.
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