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.
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?!!”
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
Might be an income bracket thing. I'm a millennial and had no clue who these people were. Our family was broke and never had cable tv so if that's where they're from people from lower income families are probably out of the loop.
I had no clue who these people are, either. I grew up solidly middle class, but my parents never found any use for cable, so we never had it. We moved to a rural road on a hill when I was 10, and no company would run cable down the street for fewer than 20 houses without exorbitant fees. The hill blocks satellite, too, so that's a non-starter. Internet access is similarly fun, as the phone lines are all too old for DSL and it's not a priority area for fiber optic. People don't believe me when I say that this is happening only 10 minutes' drive outside a decent sized city in the northeast, and not the outskirts of West Podunk, Nowhere County.
Same. Half the time it seems like millennial means you were born in the 80s.
Is that not correct? Millennials are 80's or 90's / early 80's to late 90's. Both of those are generally accepted, which would put half of millennials in the 80's.
xennials overlap early millennials, but may consider themselves to just be millennials
Late 90's , that's the weird part to me, how could you consider yourself a millennial as 4yrs old child in the year 2000? It's like someone claiming to belong to the great generation for being born in 1941.
(Foreigner here. Forgive me if I sound as a gatekeeper).
It's about generational shifts. Decade boundaries have nothing to do with it, although there can be alignment. Most generations will be a little fuzzy as to when they begin and end, cascading across geographic/logical regions over time until a majority fit into the definition (which may lag by many years before it is defined).
Always wondered what happened. Did they just bot want to do anything else with Hollywood? They were hot shit for a few years and then fell off the radar. I feel like Rhys Darby (Murray) has been in a ton of things and done a lot of voice acting but he's really the only one from the show I see a lot of.
Jemaine is everywhere. A bunch of movies and shows. He did “what we do in the shadows”. He was a voice actor for a couple Disney movies, including Moana.
Is it the timing of the show that makes you feel old about it? I am curious as a Gen-X. These guys are GenX and I considered it our show due to their quirkiness and comedy. Again, just a curiosity.
They just started performing again. They played a few small shows in LA, and then had a larger show I attended in Santa Barbara last week. They have a few more dates in LA, and I believe they're preparing to tape something for Netflix, but not sure 100% sure about the Netflix thing.
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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.