Flight of the concords is quite silly

It was an experience to remember being in the HBO office!

I was invited by Sumin of the PR agency text100 for a preview of HBO’s comedy. Having enjoyed HBO’s shows, notably, Sex and the City, I was happily confirmed.

It was a long ride all the way to the HBO office. We recognized the building when we spotted the large satellites on top of the tall building. When we reached the floor, we were welcomed warmly by Sumin. It was hard not to miss the HBO-ness of the place. There were loads of televisions everywhere. My eyes were attracted by the numerous shows that was playing simultaneously.

Our hosts brought us, as well as the other invited bloggers on a tour around the office where we explored the different departments. There was a green room, where one of the guests acted out and one of the engineers keyed in a background to the footage. There was a sound room where Jerrick’s voice was used as a sample sound for a tv commercial. And we were also brought to the control room where the there was one staff there that was manning the broadcast, LIVE!

Being someone who likes watching as well as editing videos myself, it was fascinating to me to watch the different processes. Unfortunately, due to security reasons, I cant publish any images from the production area. Regardless, there are loads of information on the internet about this.

After the tour, we were seated in a screening room where were previewed an upcoming comedy series called, “Flight of the Concords”. Apparently, the show roused quite an interest in the US.

Thats Jermaine on the left and Bret on the right

It is a little hard to describe how the show is. In a nutshell, its a quirky show where the show revolves around two artists who sings parodies of their day to day situation. The story seems to remind me a little of the gem of a show by MTV called, 2gether which parodies the obsession of boybands during the 90′s.

It was a little hard to get what the actors were saying, due to their New Zealand accent. But once you’ve gotten a hang of it, Flight of the concords was very very silly indeed. There was a scene where Bret refused to play in a gig with Jermaine. Eventually, he got replaced with a cassette tape.

Or this scene where Jermaine wanted some of his money back from his manager :

Jemaine: Murray, we need some money.

Murray: This box cost six.

And there was one actress in particular, that struck me -Kristen Schaal, who also acted in the immensely funny internet series, Horrible People – a parody of soap operas.

I sure am looking forward to just plonk down and zone out in front of the telley to watch the next episodes of Flight of the Concords. Hehehe … with that, I’ll leave you to one of my favourite music clip by Flight of the Concords – Foux da fafa :

And no, foux da fa fa doesnt mean anything!

Related links :

• Flight of the Concords on HBO
• Join the FOTC Video Contest to win a Macbook!
• FOTC Blog