The Funniest Thing on TV

Guardian reviewer Tim Jonze has dubbed Flight of the Conchords “the funniest thing on TV” as the cult HBO series goes to air on the BBC. Conchords stars NZ comics Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie as two musicians struggling to make it in New York. “A kind of Mighty Boosh meets Peep Show, the show documents the lives of Bret and Jemaine, two struggling musicians whose manager never seems to get them any gigs and whose fan (yep, they only have the one) makes Mark Chapman look like the definition of stability,” writes Jonze. “It works, not just because it’s so funny, but because the pair are clearly in love with the songs they parody.”