Being funny is not easy. No matter what being drunk may lead you to believe.
There are a couple of approaches on how to attain ‘funny’. Rodney Dangerfield and Don Rickles approached it in the same manner that a sailor might approach a glory hole. Larry David brings the funny in the same way that your 7th grade crush broke your heart and made you laugh all at the same time while telling you they wanted to ‘just be friends’. Woody Allen knows funny like a therapist knows sex hang ups.
The Flight of the Conchords also know funny, but unlike the previously mentioned, are not Jewish.
Not only is it hard to be funny, it’s even harder to be a good comedy duo. Bret and Jemaine have overtaken Abbott and Costello as the best comedy team ever. (Finally! Now we can put to rest the “Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder vs. Morecambe and Wise” debate.)
I can only imagine that it will soon become cool to be a New Zealander. This has been long in coming. Those Auzzies have for too long cornered the market on awesomeness. Australia: Surfer girls.
New Zealand: Waterfalls.
Australia: Wombats.
New Zealand: Waterfalls.
Flight of the Conchords is sure to be a cultural phenomenon that will get our kids saying “Flub” instead of other, more crass ‘f words’. If that isn’t enough to cheer on the funniest comedy duo in years, what is?
Bottom line: Awkward celibacy is back en vogue, and you should watch Flight of the Conchords with your poverty striken roommate after recording an awesome folk song.
Ryan McGivern
