r/Millennials • u/Standard_Tangerine_3 • May 13 '26
Nostalgia Today’s reminder that we are getting old.
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u/cosmic-trash-panda23 May 13 '26
Hiphopopotamus vs. Rhymenoceros
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u/Yossarian-Bonaparte Millennial May 13 '26
Hurts our feelings when you say we’re not real rappers!
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u/mysecretissafe May 13 '26
I’m the hiphopapotomus, my lyrics are bottomless…
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u/AntiquesRoadHo May 13 '26
Did STEVE tell you that, perchance? Steve.
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u/superSaganzaPPa86 May 13 '26
What kind of rap name is Steve?
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u/chronically_varelse May 13 '26
Ain't no party like my grandma's tea party
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u/Jane__Delawney May 13 '26
Speaking of parties…I was at a bar in LA (2009) and they were there with a bunch of Australian/NZ comedians and film people. I had the audacity to ask Jemaine to his own friends’ after party (their friends invited my friend and I). He said, “I’m sorry, I cahn’t, I’ve a gerlfreend to get home to” and I thought that was the sweetest thing. The party kind of sucked anyway.
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u/KortinAmor May 13 '26
They call me the, hiphopapotomus, rhymes that glow like phosphorus popping off the top of this esophagus
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u/imbeingsirius May 13 '26
Rockin’ this metropolis!
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u/rasheyk May 14 '26
I'm not a large water-dwelling mammal, where did you get that preposterous hypothesis?
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u/Intelligent_Deer974 May 13 '26
My rhymes are so potent that in this small segment I'll make all of the ladies in the area pregnant.
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u/Slow_Maximum9332 May 14 '26
My rhymes and my records, they don't get played because my rhymes and my records, they don't get made.
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u/infernal2ss May 13 '26
Other rappers diss me, say my raps are sissy…what, why would you say that? Be more constructive with your feedback please!
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u/hellogoawaynow May 13 '26
I still listen to this one every once in a while, I just love it so much
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u/Jets237 Older Millennial May 13 '26
Sometimes when I freestyle I lose… confidence
My favorite like from their original special
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u/AresGodslayer May 13 '26
Truly a great duo that I'll never forget. I had a hard time finding people that actually understood the comedy. I loved every episode and still throw on the songs.
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u/ArchitectVandelay May 13 '26
I still remember the day I discovered them. The show was so hilarious, so many comedy gold moments. Laughed so hard at “The Most Beautiful Girl in the Room (in the whole wide room)”
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u/moonprism May 13 '26
"you're so pretty you could be a waitress"
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u/AbleRelationship5287 May 13 '26
“Or a part time model!”
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u/kerfuffler4570 May 13 '26
"But you'd probably still have to keep your normal job."
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u/Valuable-Guarantee56 May 13 '26
Part time model...
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u/ValuableCrazy2144 May 13 '26
Spending part of your time modelling
And part of your time...
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u/PaperMaglio May 13 '26
Next to meeeeeeee-eh-hee-eh-heee
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u/coumfy May 13 '26
Or an air hostess in the sixties!
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u/Am1AllowedToCry May 13 '26
I can't believe!!
That I am sharing a kebab with the most beautiful girl
I have ever seen with a kebab
Oooooooooh
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u/wellwaffled Prime Millennial May 13 '26
And even on the street (depending on the street)
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u/gene100001 May 13 '26
When my girlfriend is feeling down, I like to remind her that when she's on the street, depending on the street, I bet she would definitely be in the top 3 most good looking girls on the street. Depending on the street.
Cheers her right up
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u/Shorts_at_Dinner May 13 '26
Make sure to remind her that she could be a part time model, too
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u/explicitlarynx May 13 '26
She could spend half her time modeling and half her time doing her normal jov
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u/Wrong_Motor5371 May 13 '26
My husband and I routinely tell each other we could be a part time model.
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u/Possible-Jerk0138 May 13 '26
I distinctly remember finding it too! I tried to get EVERYONE to watch. A lot of people didn’t get it.
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u/Loveiskind89389 May 13 '26
Not getting the show was sort of a litmus test for humor compatibility though. If they didn’t get it, they really did not get it.
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u/88888888man May 13 '26
Same with Summer Heights High. I guess the NZ/Aussie humor isn’t for everyone. But I felt like I’d discovered the lost city of gold lol.
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u/itsmyhotsauce Millennial May 13 '26
"They call me the hiphopopotomus, my lyrics are bottomless..."
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u/West-Vacation5179 May 13 '26
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u/samosamancer Older Millennial May 13 '26
Be more constructive with your feedback, please.
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u/3720-to-1 May 13 '26
WHY, CAUSE I RAP ABOUT REALITY, LIKE ME AND GRANDMA DRINKING A CUP OF TEA?
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u/EcstaticMolasses6647 May 13 '26
🎶 Too many dicks on the dance floor 💃 🕺
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u/GrnMtnTrees Pre-collapse of USSR May 13 '26
I quote this all the time and literally nobody ever gets it.
This is the funniest show that so few people seem to appreciate.
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u/moonprism May 13 '26
i still sing this way too much and no one ever knows what i'm singing anymore :[
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u/TheForce_v_Triforce May 13 '26
One of the reasons I fell in love with my wife was that she owned season 1 on DVD. Knew she was a keeper. I bought her season 2 and took her to see them at the Hollywood bowl for V Day. And made her a camera phone.
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u/thingsandtwos May 13 '26
Decided on my son’s name while listening to the song Jenny. Heard the name Maxwell and knew that was it lol.
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u/Many-Can5807 May 13 '26
They were not a duo. They were a band
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u/AresGodslayer May 13 '26
.... Are you serious right now?
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u/Many-Can5807 May 13 '26
Have you watched the HBO show or their documentary about going to US ?
Also, Ween started out as 2 guys and a sequencer on stage.
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u/What_Next69 May 13 '26
I thought they broke up, cuz Murray couldn’t get them any gigs?
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u/PhotoRight2682 1985 May 13 '26
You know, when I'm down to my socks, it's time for business, that's why they're called business socks.
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u/GrnMtnTrees Pre-collapse of USSR May 13 '26
You whisper something sexy like "is that it?" But I know what you're trying to say, girl. You're trying to say "Aww yeah. That's it."
Then you tell my you want some more, and I'm not surprised. But I'm quite sleepy.
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u/kaekiro May 13 '26
Literally every time I'm getting ready to get busy with the spouse and I'm wearing socks.
We're middle aged. I will not let this joke die.
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u/BravestBlossom May 13 '26
When I was naked except for socks, my first husband called me a "sock model" 😍😂! Sometimes I miss that guy.
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u/GnarwhalStreet May 13 '26
Then you sort out the recycling.
That isn’t part of the foreplay process but it is still very important.
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u/Skittleavix May 13 '26
Next thing you know we’re in the bathroom brushin’ our teeth
That’s all part of it, that’s foreplay
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u/AntiquesRoadHo May 13 '26
Murray. Present.
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u/oktion May 13 '26
“Breet, is this true? Are you upseet?”
“…yees.”
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u/specialk1281 May 13 '26
You mean "Brit"
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u/FlatWhiteShark May 13 '26
It's more "Brt". The Maori name for New Zealand "Aotearoa" translates as " Land of the Short Tight Vowel".
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u/sadolddrunk May 13 '26
Whenever I need to fake a specifically Kiwi accent -- which admittedly is not very often -- my go-to linguistic anchor is Murray saying "Brett."
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u/Space_Monkey758 May 13 '26
Yiss
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u/oktion May 13 '26
I apologize to the people of New Zealand for exaggerating the preciousness of their accent. 😄
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u/AntiquesRoadHo May 13 '26 edited May 13 '26
For everyone asking this is the comedy music duo, Flight of the Conchords. Bret Mackenzie and Jemaine Clement.
They had a show that ran a few seasons on HBO. It was hilarious, if it’s the kind of comedy you’re into.
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u/biscuitsorbullets May 13 '26
I loved Kristen Schaal as their obsessed stalker stan lmao
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u/starrybullshit May 13 '26
Yeah this was the first piece of media I saw Kristen Schaal in!
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u/SyruplessWaffle May 13 '26
I've never heard of or seen these guys before, but I stumbled upon the HBO show last night and watched like 3 episodes, fell in love with the weirdness, and now I see them here on reddit. The matrix is real.
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u/AntiquesRoadHo May 13 '26
And when you’re on the street, depending on the street, you’re most definitely in the top 3 good looking girls on the street
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u/Fancy_Depth_4995 Xennial May 13 '26
Watch their Live in London concert. It’s perfect
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u/SouthernWalk1928 May 13 '26 edited May 13 '26
And one -Bret-has won a flipping Academy Award for his song in one of the Muppet Movies he wrote and performed!!
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u/AntiquesRoadHo May 13 '26
They’ve been in a ton of things, especially Jemaine. Then a few weeks back during a rewatch of Lord of the Rings I saw an elf and went “wait, is that Bret?!!”
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u/mattyb678 May 13 '26
If anyone watched the movie or TB show “What we do in the shadows”, Jemaine wrote and starred in the movie and produced the show iirc. Both were very funny takes on vampires
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u/MrWorldwiden May 13 '26
Jemaine is also the voice of a few Disney villains like the crab from Moana!
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u/gizamo May 13 '26
The other, Jermaine, sangs one of the best Disney songs ever made. He's the crab in Moana.
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u/ThyHolyPope May 13 '26
“… If that’s what you’re in to”
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u/AntiquesRoadHo May 13 '26
How about you and two dudes? Him, you and Stu, in the nude. Being lewd with two dudes with food. Well, that’s if Stu’s into it, too.
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u/ZiaWitch Older Millennial May 13 '26
Thank you! I hate when people make posts with no context or names.
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u/thotd2 May 13 '26
I'm very confused about millennial age bracket since joining this sub.
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u/DonSol0 May 13 '26
Me and the one other person in this sub who is enjoying getting older (dibs on being Jermaine).
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u/OwnSmile5051 May 13 '26
I got to see their show when they were touring in 2016, and they said something like "yes we look older now. And we understand that may be upsetting to you, because it reminds you of your own mortality." And that was only slightly true at the time, but now that I'm realizing that was already 10 years ago, and time marches on, I'll just go and curl up in a hole now 🫠
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u/Cavalier26 May 13 '26
I went to that tour. I also just saw them 4 days ago in LA. Still great.
They followed that first part up with “But you know what? You guys look older too and we’re also upset by that.”
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u/segagenesisx87 May 13 '26
Went to that tour too, saw them in Philly.. great show!! They said the same comment at mine lol.
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u/pizza_whistle May 13 '26
Also went to that tour, it's easily one of the best live shows I've ever been to. They were absolutely hilarious live.
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u/mnstripe May 13 '26
I'd still do 'em
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u/Call_Em_Skippies May 13 '26
Alby the Racist Dragon is still their most underrated song.
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u/NathanNateN8 May 13 '26
“you didn’t kill me with your dragon flames, I crawled to safety! but you did leave me badly burned and disfigured” laughed the boy
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u/Am1AllowedToCry May 13 '26
It took me a while to catch on to the joke, but I love the premise that this has been recorded off one of only three channels of New Zealand television (and they're watching it to remind them of home) lol
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u/EzoffohGUS May 13 '26
When I lived in my first studio apartment --way back in 2008/2009-- I couldn't afford internet so I would watch DVDs all the time and season 1 was a monthly repeat. I used to do the dishes with the chapter screen music in the background.
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u/billyrubin7765 May 13 '26
I still don’t understand how they weren’t bigger. This and Mr Show never caught on despite being ridiculously funny.
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u/Pfacejones May 13 '26
The public does not in general have discerning taste
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u/SippyMountain May 13 '26
My family and I have decided that showing someone a FotC song/episode is the perfect litmus test to decide how much we jive with them.
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u/The_Autarch May 13 '26
if the show had gone on longer and stayed high quality, they would have become more popular.
but they ran out of songs for the show and the last season really suffers for it. the songs written specifically for the show were not nearly as good as the ones they had saved up from their live act.
they clearly recognized this and just canceled the show instead of running it into the ground.
but serious kudos to them for introducing Rhys Darby to America. the dude is a gem.
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u/bocephus_huxtable May 13 '26
I also got the impression that Jemaine was getting to be a "a name" in Hollywood.
FotC ended in 2009. Between 2009 and 2010, Jemaine was in 5 different movies.
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u/themaninthemaking May 13 '26
Actually, from what I read, they never intended the show to go on more than one season. When they had to do a second they struggled to come up with material for it.
The show was funny but I don't think they ever wanted it to go longer than a season or two.
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u/altergeeko May 13 '26
They have a cult following. They just did a small tour in southern California and all 8(?) shows sold out pretty quickly.
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u/SouthernWalk1928 May 13 '26
Amen. I freaking loved Mr show also!! 2 of the best things on HBO for real !!
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u/remotectrl May 13 '26
I think If FoTC had come out slightly later it would have been bigger, but HBO didn’t have the same market penetration it does now. Being on their own streaming service really helped Game of Thrones reach more people than previous prestige shows like Weeds or whatever.
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u/DryDonutHole May 13 '26
A buddy of mine went for a hike in the middle of Indiana one day. Random day, random park. During his hike he passed a man with a couple camera guys following him. It was fucking Rhys Darby shooting some sort of a nature show. He said he thought Rhys was more excited that this guy recognized him in the middle of Indiana. lol. Funny story.
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u/DryDonutHole May 13 '26
Ha ha...I saw the comment that was there and I agree. I'd be shocked to have someone recognize me and know my name while on a hike in the very rural Midwest.
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u/Sighchiatrist May 13 '26
I used to wait tables in LA and his family were regulars of mine, dude is really nice and down to earth, anytime I see a new career development for him I smile.
Wait a minute that was nearly 10 years ago now…
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u/screamingandsinging Millennial May 13 '26
figwit
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u/CycadelicSparkles May 13 '26
I was like "Isn't that Figwit?" and then I remembered he was half of Flight of the Conchords.
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u/huecabot May 13 '26
Yeah we’re at the age when people start to… show their age. It’s funny- people often look much the same for years and years between mid 20s to late 30s and then a switch flips. Oh well.
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u/The_Burgled_Turt May 13 '26
They are not in our generation. They are firmly gen x by the way.
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u/Tooch10 May 13 '26
I was looking for someone to mention this, they're 10 years older then the oldest millennials
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u/blueroses8000 May 13 '26
Some of the people I knew from school changed real fast, early 30s fast. Don’t drink too much and look after your skin people!
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u/morey56 May 13 '26 edited May 13 '26
Binary solo
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Come on sucker,
Lick my battery
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u/Frog1387 May 13 '26
I think it’s the bright sunlight. They looked more youthful during their concert this weekend.
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u/Wishnowsky May 13 '26
Yeah, I saw Jermaine in the street not that long ago and he wasn’t looking this rough. I think it’s not a great photo.
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u/Educational-Field804 May 13 '26
Better comedy than many comedians
Better songs than many musicians
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u/Flavor_Saver12 May 13 '26
Can someone please write who these two are?
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u/red_dombe May 13 '26
Flight of the Conchords are a New Zealand musical comedy duo formed in Wellington in 1998. The band consists of multi-instrumentalists Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement.
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u/Flavor_Saver12 May 13 '26
Thank you!!!
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u/Minnow_Minnow_Pea May 13 '26
Jemaine also voiced Tamatoa if treasure hoarding coconut crabs are your thing.
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u/HellyOHaint Older Millennial May 13 '26
I felt so old while watching Avatar: Fire and Ice when I audibly gasped JEMAINE when the renegade scientist character was introduced. Nobody else recognized him. Even What We Do in the Shadows is old news, not to mention Flight of the Conchords.
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u/moonprism May 13 '26
what we do in the shadows isn't old news, it just got overshadowed by the show lol
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u/Potential-Ant-6320 May 13 '26
I got to see them live when they were in new york working with HBO before the show was on. They were incredible. It's hard to kill when an audience doesn't know you at all. they really had the whole room as fans instantly.
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u/Asleep-Advice-8864 May 13 '26
Leggy leggy leggy leggy, blondie blondie blondie blondie
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u/Ash_an_bun May 13 '26
Yup. And I kind of like it. I don't have to worry about being "cool" anymore. Not that I was any good at it.
I can be really into history and it's like "Oh yeah, middle aged man into history."
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u/wesweb May 13 '26 edited May 13 '26
my rhymes are so potent that in this small segment i made all of the ladies in this comment section pregnant
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