From last night’s Superbowl:
I’m really tempted to re-dub it and see if I can pull off a better Scotch accent ;-)
And I was 100% convinced that this Cash4Gold ad was a spoof until I visited the website, where unfortunately it’s all true:
I thought it couldn’t go much lower. But it does…
Of course there’s some good ads from the breaks too, but being a bitch is so much easier…
I know lots of people know about The Flight of the Conchords, and I know that it’s not new. But there are a few people who’ve either not heard of it, or for some reason resisted. This post is for you.
I’m loving it so much I feel the need to evangelise…
For me FOC takes the slow, dark, slightly depressing humour of The Office, and manages to fuse it with the surreal nutsness of The Mighty Boosh in a spectacularly funny way. And the characters all possess those fundamental human flaws and quirks that we can all relate to, but it’s done a bit more subtly and less painfully than something like Peep Show.
And the songs. I’m not normally a funny song kind of person. But I love the way these guys burst into song with a totally unexpected genre and mutate it into something that’s laugh out loud funny.
Hip hop gets lampooned quite a lot, but this is so superior to most efforts. Hiphopopotamus vs. Rhymenoceros:
And Inner City Pressure bears more than a passing resemblance to someone…
And the songs / sketches make perfect YouTube fodder. Their clips have millions and millions of views which can’t hurt in terms of creating buzz and awareness.
And their websites are funny too.
Copy like this is just good:
The Conchords will be playing there. Here for details. Performance times TBA (that stands for ‘to be arranged’ but it just saves time to write ‘TBA’).