McKenzie and Clement rejoined forces at the beginning of the summer for their first Flight of the Conchords tour since 2013 when they headlined the first Oddball Comedy and Curiosity Festival with comedian Dave Chappelle.
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"It's become bigger than we expected and it's really fun." "We both really enjoy playing live and it's funny actually how Jemaine became so busy with film and TV, so it takes a bit of coordination now, but we've managed to line everything up this summer and wanted to do some live shows, and it ended up being a full American tour," McKenzie says in between bites of a cookie as his tour bus pulled out of their latest show in Houston.
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Trying to cram a concert tour into two very busy careers sounds like schedule suicide but McKenzie says that performing live is more like a vacation for them.
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McKenzie has also focused his talent on writing, including screenplays for the upcoming fantasy film Moonlandand songs for movie soundtracks such as 2011's big screen reboot of The Muppets, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Song. Tolkien's Middle-earth sagas, The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit.
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McKenzie, the shorter one with the higher voice range, has done some acting in movies, most notably as various elves in Peter Jackson's retelling of J.R.R. Clement, the tall, baritone half of the duo, scored prime roles in films like Rio, Men in Black 3 and The BFG and turned a comedy short he made in New Zealand about the secret lives of vampires into a critically acclaimed movie, What We Do in the Shadows. Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement, the names that make up the legendary comedy music duo Flight of the Conchords, have reached an unbelievable level of fame and creative freedom as actors, writers and musicians.įollowing the two-season run of the hilarious HBO sitcom that bore their band's name, both became solo comedy stars.