“Flight of the Conchords” Might Have Been Science Fiction

Most people first listen ofJemaine Clementand Bret McKenzie after their robot - overlord song " The Humans Are Dead " became an cyberspace sensation . And their HBO show " flight of stairs of the Conchords " was almost a scifi heroic – with dinosaur and astronauts !

Fresh off his uproarious role as the cheesy epic fancy writer Ronald Chevalier in Gentlemen Broncos , Clement talked to Sarah Kuhn about what his idiot box series might have been in an alternate universe .

After being approached by HBO to evolve a serial , Clement said he and McKenzie were “ sick of ” singing . He continued :

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We ’d been playing our live show for a month , like , 30 dark in a rowing , and we ’d been writing the calendar month before that . So we were crazy of that , and we were like , “ It ’s sound to be science fiction ; there ’s no songs . It ’s jell in 1970 . ” They were like , “ Where did the songs go ? ” [ Laughs . ] Different people had unlike idea - we talked to lots of writers . . . Some ideas other writer pitch to us were , like , “ You ’re a circle and you play from town to town and you dally those tangible - life gig and then you go and save masses in the townsfolk . ” Or , one of my favorites was , “ Every sequence ’s different . In one episode , you ’re racecar drivers and it ’s a musical about racecar drivers . And then the next prison term , you ’re astronauts . And the next sentence , you ’re dinosaur hunter . ” I really liked that one .

We really like that one too ! Please countenance the next Clement / McKenzie joint be a swashbuckling musical serial publication set in quad with dinosaur who race car .

viaBackstage

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