#Flight of the conchords business time pro
Frog failing to sing “Hello My Ragtime Gal.”īut HBO sent me three more episodes of the show–see, there is still an advantage to being a pro TV critic–and they hold up. A lot of pilots from comedians and comedy acts manage to blow through every good idea the performer has had in the first episode, and then the remaining ones sit there limp like Michigan J. In fact, the only thing that worried me about this pilot episode is that it might be too good. It’s a song Prince would have written, if Prince ever had to settle for more-attainable women. (“I want to get with you/ Only you/ And your sister/ I think her name’s Debra”) Like Beck’s song, the Conchords number works because it’s not only funny–“I can’t believe/ That I’m sharing a kebab with the most beautiful girl I have ever seen/ With a kebab”–but it’s actually a pretty great slow-burn funk ballad. But it had me from the first musical number, “Most Beautiful Girl in the Room,” which had me thinking that somebody must have listened to Beck’s Debra once or twice. OK! Funny, or what? Based on the premise and the enigmatic promos, I had absolutely no expectations for this show. Give it a half-hour of your time and then let’s discuss. The premise: “New Zealand’s fourth most-popular folk parody duo” seek success and cheap dates on New York’s Lower East Side. Follow has put the entire first episode of its new comedy series, Flight of the Conchords, online at MySpace.
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